Mana vs Ki - What's the difference?
mana | ki |
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)
(sometimes called ch'i,) A term indicating intrinsic energy; usually associated with martial art - karate, judo, aikido, etc- practitioners who consider ki important to performing at the highest level.
As nouns the difference between mana and ki
is that mana is power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people while kI is (sometimes called ch'i,) A term indicating intrinsic energy; usually associated with martial art - karate, judo, aikido, etc- practitioners who consider ki important to performing at the highest level.As a proper noun Ki is
name of the earth goddess in Sumerian mythology, the chief consort of Anu, the sky god.As an abbreviation Ki is
kibi- (binary kilo-), as in KiB kibibyte (kilobyte.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.