Essence of theRed Mage

This steaming sip of crimson seems to give the impression of movement, but it's impossible to tell if it's just the play of shadows and light, or if it's actually moving. Upon drinking it, energy fills your body, like the biggest rush you've ever felt.

• The formless force charges your body, like the biggest sugar rush imaginable, combined with speed. You have more energy than you've ever had before in your life, and it doesn't abate.

• Despite this, it's an undemanding energy. You wake up filled with it, but it never gets in the way of being still, or sleeping. It can let you ignore tiredness indefinitely, but but won't actually remove the need for sleeps. You just aren't tired.

• This surge of energy helps with... pretty much everything. You recover from injuries faster, you build muscle faster, you sleep less (but generally better due to your better physical state).

• You don't get energy from your food, the rush providing all the energy you'll ever need. But all your other nutritional needs are still there. Likewise, your physical condition won't degrade from passivity, though it can suffer for other reason.

• This surge that fills you is the energy of action, and it further surges when you're performing dynamic actions, and rises in response to assaults upon you.

  • You will quickly come to understand how to harness these surges, and call them forth as externalized action. You can use it to bolster yourself or others in a more direct fashion, casting 'buffs' and 'heals', or to lash out with twisted version of the same, 'debuffing' others or damaging their 'buffs.' and wielding other.

  • Alternatively, you can pour your action into the world, manifest forces that dynamically act in place of your body. Fire, lighting, and bitter cold will come instantly, but with practice you'll find many more ways of effecting the world.

• Smarts and Will will empower your magic, and this is a broad kind of magic that can work towards constructive or destructive purposes, but it isn't a ritual power or one that builds upon preparation. It is the energy of action, and esoteric, deep, high, and obscure magics and forces... won't be impossible, but with just this, are probably impractical and not worth the effort. It's good for immediate solutions, but outside of basic earth magic or healing struggles to have a lasting impact on the world.