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 ====== Magic (Chosen) ======
-The term **magic** ([[language:imperial:start|Imperial]] //zerethem//), when used in the context of [[avishraa:|Avishraa]], has a more restricted meaning than might be prevalent in other settings.
+The term **magic** ([[language:imperial:start|Imperial]] //zerethem//), when used in the context of [[universe:mikurmiya:avishraa|Avishraa]], has a more restricted meaning than might be prevalent in other settings.
 There are available to the [[species:#enenkalar|inhabitants]] of Avishraa a number of methods of interacting with their world which, in ours, would be considered supernatural. Most of them, however, are not considered magic per se, either because - as with the [[concept:empathic_sense|empathic faculty]] - it is ubiquitous enough to be part of daily life, or - as with [[concept:enchantment|enchanting]] - it is a skill than can, in theory, be learned and used by anyone, despite its marvelous capabilities.
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 Only the last two are greatly rarer than the others. Most Chosen have the capability to use only one magic type, though approximately a fifth of them are able to use two (there have never been any documented cases in which anyone has had three or more).
-It has never been clear why a Chosen might have one magic type and not another; it has long been known that, while being Chosen //at all// is a heritable condition, the magic type one has is not. Over the last two generations, however, the savants of the [[geopolitical:citadel:]] have made a certain amount of progress in understanding the nature of the magical gift and how it is determined. It has been found that although there is no physical organ or bodily system possessed by Chosen that their unmagical counterparts lack, there is a form of mystical field or resonance, called mana, within their tissues, and that the particular tissues this mana most strongly resides in in an individual is what predisposes them to a certain type of magic. Mana departs the body at death as the tissues of the body die, but likewise lives as the tissue lives, and tissues transplanted from one takma into another transfer some measure of their associated mana. Because medical science among the takmar in general is not advanced, this rarely has a chance to be practiced; the main exception is blood transfusion, and it is well known by healers of the Citadel that a takma receiving a transfusion of blood from a Spark-attuned Chosen will temporarily manifest Spark powers themselves.
+It has never been clear why a Chosen might have one magic type and not another; it has long been known that, while being Chosen //at all// is a heritable condition, the magic type one has is not. Over the last two generations, however, the savants of the [[geopolitical:Citadel:]] have made a certain amount of progress in understanding the nature of the magical gift and how it is determined. It has been found that although there is no physical organ or bodily system possessed by Chosen that their unmagical counterparts lack, there is a form of mystical field or resonance, called mana, within their tissues, and that the particular tissues this mana most strongly resides in in an individual is what predisposes them to a certain type of magic. Mana departs the body at death as the tissues of the body die, but likewise lives as the tissue lives, and tissues transplanted from one takma into another transfer some measure of their associated mana. Because medical science among the takmar in general is not advanced, this rarely has a chance to be practiced; the main exception is blood transfusion, and it is well known by healers of the Citadel that a takma receiving a transfusion of blood from a Spark-attuned Chosen will temporarily manifest Spark powers themselves.
 It is unknown whether one's magic type is present from birth or is determined at the time of manifestation, since the latter occurs around one turn of age and a child is not able to perform magic before then; nonetheless, once the magic type has been established, it does not change thereafter. That said, most magic types involve a range of powers in which an individual may have varying aptitudes, or one power which might be able to affect various subjects to different degrees. Individuals may develop some powers of their type and not others, or be able to affect different subjects and not others, or may unlock a narrower or wider spectrum and development of each, and the reasons why are still a subject of study. It is thought that the process may be linked in varying proportions to the individual's personality, upbringing, and training.