Powers

Powers are the Odenis' magic abilities and spells. Each individual may use and master each power to a different extent depending on their skills and preferences. 

Magical energy

Most Odenis can use two types of powers: active and passive powers. While passive powers are available at all times, active powers require magical energy (also called "qi"). This energy must be drawn from their environment and/or from their own body. 

At a young age, Odenis learn that using energy for magic always has a cost: drawing it from their environment will alter their surroundings, and drawing it from their own beings may exhaust them or even harm them if done to a great extent. Learning to control this balance between power and destruction is mandatory for them, which has led these creatures to be viewed as spirits of harmony and equilibrium.

Potential energy sources from the environment (classified from easier to harder to draw from):

1. elemental matter and energy (fire, water, air, electricity); 

2. physical forces (movement, radiations, gravity);

3. life (vegetation, fauna);

4. souls.

Depleted energy may recover over time, though not necessarily in the same form as it used to be. 

The strength of an Odenis' spells depends on energy usage: 

• the amount of energy available (environment and body);

• their capacity to draw said energy (conditioned by the nature of this energy and their individual skills);

• their energy efficiency (more experienced Odenis may use energy more efficiently, consuming less of it for the same effects).

Common power types

Many Odenis (especially elemental ones) share similar active types of power that manifest according to their aspect:

• invocation = using energy to summon their aspect onto or around their body. The amount that can be summoned and its distance from the caster's body depend on energy usage (e.g. a Flame Odenis creating fire on the ground around them).

• manipulation = controlling their aspect, bending it to their will. Energy usage affects the amount of aspect that can be manipulated and the precision of the manipulation (e.g. a Flame Odenis shaping and controlling a tornado of fire, or flying fire wisps).

• exhalation = a mix of invocation and manipulation where the aspect comes out of the Odenis' mouth (e.g. a Flame Odenis breathing small flames or a large vortex of fire out of its mouth).

• metamorphosis = taking the form of their aspect, making their body become their aspect to a certain extent depending on energy usage (e.g. a Flame Odenis looking entirely or partially made of fire). In this form, Odenis may fuse with their aspect in their surroundings, are more powerful against physical stress, but also more vulnerable to opposing elements or magic.

Passive powers don't require energy to be used, such as underwater breathing for River Odenis. 

Some Odenis, in particular esoteric, use different kinds of powers specific to their affinities or aspects.