Attunement
Your attunement represents your current capacity to harness available mana for use in magic. It is primarily governed by the Attunement skill. It is easiest to understand it as the raw ability of a magician to perform magic. Increasing ability to manipulate mana largely reflects changes in the magicians nervous system that allow greater sensitivity to mana. Casting spells or harnessing mana is mentally fatiguing and reduces your current attunement, which regenerates in pulses every 6 seconds. [1]
Note: As of Magic 3.2, the below struck-out section is no longer true.
Attunement regeneration is determined by your guild (as a skillset perk, Magic Primes regenerate attunement faster than Magic Secondaries, who regenerate faster than Magic Tertiaries) and by your current attunement -- the less attunement you have remaining, the faster it regenerates. Certain magical feats also affect attunement.
Your current level of attunement can be shown using the MANA or HARNESS command, and appears in the Wrayth mana bar.
GM-Armifer note of misc errata: Many years ago, prior to Magic 3, we introduced both a cap to how bad room (or "room" in Lunar senses) mana can get, and also a secondary system of passive extra mana. It's not possible in natural conditions to have no mana to work with, though unnatural conditions can stop mana dead in its tracks.
Abilities that affect attunement
Boost max attunement
Environmental factors that affect attunement
- Elemental mana is affected by the weather, peaking during storms and at its lowest under clear skies.
- Holy mana is affected by the holy days, peaking during the holiday and at its lowest on the date that is furthest from the two closest ones.
- Life mana is affected by the seasons, peaking during the solstices and at its lowest during the equinoxes.
- Lunar mana is affected by the weather, peaking during clear weather and at its lowest during strong storms.
- Arcane mana sort of cheats (this is a theme), it uses a fraction of available Lunar mana as its modifier, so technically the lay of the moons.
Heal attunement
Boost attunement regeneration
Debuff max attunement
Damage attunement
None
Decrease attunement regeneration
Attunement Levels
| Percent | Message |
|---|---|
| 0 | You have no attunement at all to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have effectively no attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| 5 | You have very nearly no effective attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have a pathetically low strength attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have an extremely low attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| 10 | You have a very low attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| 13 | You have a low attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have a rather low attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| 20 | You have a somewhat low attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have somewhat less than a quarter strength attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| 25 | You have roughly a quarter strength attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have close to a quarter strength attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a bit more than a quarter strength attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have just under a third of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| 33 | You have roughly a third of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have a bit above a third of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have rather more than a third of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| 40 | You have between half and one third of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have considerably less than half your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have somewhat less than half your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a small bit less than half your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have around half your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have slightly more than half your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have more than half your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have rather more than half your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have more than half but under two-thirds your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have just under two-thirds your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have around two-thirds your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have more than two-thirds your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have more than two-thirds but less than three quarters of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have just under three-quarters of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have roughly three quarters of your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have more than three quarters your normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a mostly intact attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a significantly intact attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a good attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a quite good attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a very good attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a high attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a very high attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a nearly complete attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| 100 | You have a complete attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |
| You have a noticeably higher attunement than normal to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a slightly higher attunement than normal to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a somewhat higher than normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have a greater than normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. | |
| You have an abnormally greater than normal attunement to the mana flowing through this area. |