Q: "My character has affinity with the Lifestream but can not do druid magic. Why ?"
A: Having affinity with the Lifestream through means like Harmonic Attunement, Spirit sight, Radiancy, Nature attunement, Wordly Healer, and so on, is not enough. The character needs to find a way to manipulate the Vitae in its raw form without any degradation and be able to store it intact. There are different methods to acquire this condition.
Here is a narrative explaination, in the perspective of an anonymous researcher in medecine, publishing some medical informations in regards of the return of druidic magic and how it affect people :
Quote:"To whom this question raises their curiosity : Why people can use druid's magics now ?
As many of you know, those who practices the arts of magic source themselves from mana, or also known as Ether. Ether is this source of energy that can be weaved into other elements and manifest them physically in our reality. This Ether is transported within our "Mana Circuits", another anatomical system that runs through our body. Similar to blood veins, and nerves.
Yet, there are other sources of magic, that our human body can use. Aether is another prime example of alternative source of energy.
But when I heard that druids were able to manipulate raw Vitae extracted directly from the Lifestream, I was concerned at their wellness.
Vitae is another source of energy, a direct combinaison of Ether with "Life". It is said to be the source of creating all living matter, and sustaining it. But such energy is volatile to control and needs refinement to properly use. It decays quickly if it leaves its source in a raw state, and it easily melds with any biological matter. This is why it was very rare to directly manipulate the Vitae, as touching physically it meant absorbing it and touching it magically would imbue with.
Some of our curative magics can carry traces of Vitae. Be it like holy magic, biological magic, the blessed springs and winds, and so on. These elements were able to contain the Vitae and then deliver on the patient, similar to how one pill contains the medecine inside. Thus why, whenever our magi wanted to manipulate Vitae, they would use their other magics as transporters before applying it directly on a target.
Indeed, in these past weeks, many labourers came to my clinic, sharing they were feeling unwell. Their immune system was weakened, their blood could be clotted, and some even had tumorous growths showing up. All of these were often symptoms of excess 'vitalic energies' within an organism when, for example, an apprentice accidentally overdozes someones with these curative magics. We often call this as "Vitae poisoning". But with the current's season symptoms, I have an impression that his is more ambiant now : Excess Vitae in the environnement that imbues on the living, delivered by our air, our land, our waters, and so on. The numbers are still low for now, but could this situation worsen ?
But when I auscultated one of those druids, I have found a strange discovery : traces of Vitae kept intact in their organism. Either in their blood, or as thin layers stuck in their respiratory canals and lungs. For some reason, these people have found a way for Vitae to not be absorbed by their organism, allowing them to create these pockets of raw energies to be stored and be used as sources of magic through their circuits for later.
I know that trained Magi have usually better immune system than lesser ones, yet not all of them have this feature. Some of trained magi can still fall sick from "Vitae poisoning".
If we go on the hypothesis that this raise of "Vitae poisoning" may be due to the environement, could this be that their bodies have tried to adapt ? After all, compared to previous centuries, the number of magis have risen through the populace in concord with the increase of nowadays potential. The masters of Magic nowaday are more common and in the same power of some legends of previous century. So, could these two events together can lead to drastic change to the human anatomy and adapt ? Is it a voluntary change, or a random occurence of nature ?
There are still many questions to answer alas."
