Mana vs Dana - What's the difference?
mana | dana |
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)
of uncertain origin.
(chiefly, US) derived from the surname.
* 1971 J. Anthony Lukas, Don't Shoot — We Are Your Children , Random House, ISBN 0394462874, page 419:
usually interpreted as a form of Daniel, taken to use in the twentieth century; possibly borrowed from eastern Europe.
A village in Illinois
A town in Indiana
A city/town in Iowa
As a noun mana
is (lb) (food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus).As a verb dana is
to damn.mana
English
(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.
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----dana
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Johnie had become a "problem" for the advosers and "baby deans" in University Hall: men with marvelously Puritan names like Dana Cotton and Christopher Wadsworth called him in and asked what the trouble was.