73 Competitive Spirit

Mana is by no means a static substance.

Some say mana is a tool for giving form to ideals.

Others say it is like a wheel that carves out its own destiny.

But my way of defining mana was a little different.

It may sound bleaker and more prosaic than their descriptions, but I would like to call mana a thread of probability.

Another word for probability was possibility.

We pluck a single thread from that skein and use it to determine the future.

For example, when clouds gather, it might rain, snow, or lightning might strike.

A farmer whose crops were on the verge of drying up and dying would want a suitable shower of rain.

To draw out such possibilities, we learn mathematics and observe natural phenomena, weaving the fabric of the future with mana as our thread and magic circles as our loom...