Mana techniques

Basics: Your baby-bones stuff that you'd all likely put some time into.

Mana Shielding: By applying mana to a certain part of your body, you're capable of sacrificing your mana in exchange for mitigating damage. This is a very important part of training and you'd all very likely receive it, as it essentially makes you guys unkillable until you run out of mana.

Mana Control: Applying mana to the body to augment your abilities. Basically, applying mana to your legs will make you sprint much faster, whereas applying it to your fists will create a solid punch.

Mana Cycling: A helpful ability that allows the user to basically change through several forms of essentia. Like mana shielding, this is essential because it allows you to conduct your Thaumaturgy with just about anything.



Intermediate(Zealot-Bishop): Stuff that you guys may or may not have heard about or even begun training.

Advanced Mana Control: Manipulating the mana in unique ways. You guys may have only heard of these applications, but if you provide a cookie DM Will consider allowing you to begin with one application. An example is applying mana to your feet to run along a vertical, and potentially, upside-down surface, or walk on water.

Artifact Manipulation:  Basically, its fusing your artifact effects with either your Thaumaturgy or another artifact. Somewhat difficult to accomplish.



Higher-up (Bishop+)

Flash Step: Moving in a short burst so fast that you literally wink out of existence and appear on the target area. All Apostles are capable of this technique.


Nigh-immortality: While true immortality is unable to be truly grasped, there is a point where using your mana allows you to essentially stretch your next few years of life. This allows you to surpass normal life expectancy without the use of artifacts, as well as heal yourself from more grievous wounds. If one with this capability were to live an average life with no perils, they'd probably be able to live forever. This is more of a passive thing, but can become very advanced as one learns how to control their mana.