(06-11-2015, 02:25 PM)Melkire Wrote:(06-11-2015, 02:18 PM)Gegenji Wrote: I'm of the belief, going by what has been said... that the Chakra IS the mana pool. It doesn't feed into it because it's one and the same. The difference is that it isn't being drained (i.e. using MP) because it's not leaving the body. Instead, it's being used to complement physical exertion (i.e. using TP).
Getting into game mechanics is stepping onto a slippery slope, but for the purposes of this mental exercise, I'll oblige.
Casters can run out of mana. It takes time for the reservoir/pool that they can draw on to replenish. This implies a natural regeneration rate, represented in game as MP Regen. That means either you're getting aether back from nothing (impossible, since having no aether basically means you're dead) or the source is distinct from the reservoir.
The Force from Star Wars is pretty similar in concept. You've energy, and as a living thing you generate and regenerate energy. But ultimately speaking, that energy is on loan to you for as long as you're among the living. Once you're dead, it all flows back to The Greater Web of Life.
And why can't people generate and regenerate their own aether for their Chakra-mana pool? Aether is an all-encompassing factor of Hydaelyn. The only divide I make in personal aether is the life force/soul (i.e. the stuff that keeps you alive - and why Convert hurts and the CNJ quest line is a thing) and the Chakra (so the one Cocobuki brother has a very small/weak Chakra, and could no more be a Monk than he could a THM). One is the aether lifeblood that keeps you going, the other is the aether that is re-purposed continually in the body to do what is needed... or "spent" when it's pulled out to cast spells.
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