Aura vs Mana - What's the difference?
aura | mana |
Distinctive atmosphere or associated with something.
(parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
(medicine) Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
(medicine) Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a .
Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 193:
(gaming, chiefly, role-playing games) Magical power.
* 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
* 2010 , Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of Game Design (page 580)
As nouns the difference between aura and mana
is that aura is distinctive atmosphere or {{l/en|quality}} associated with something while mana is power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.As a proper noun Aura
is {{given name|female|from=Latin}} shortened from Aurelia.aura
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Noun
Synonyms
* air * feeling * mood * spirit * vibeDerived terms
* auraticExternal links
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(wikipedia mana)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mana, ultimately from Proto-Polynesian .Noun
(-)- But in popular estimation their essential virtue derived from the personal mana of the sovereign.
- Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn!
- Mana often grows in exponential proportion to population size, so as the population increases the player acquires vastly greater powers—a progression that god games share with spellcaster characters in role-playing games.
