The Forbidden Spells are called as they are because using any one of them causes one of two things to happen--either an enormous surge of mana is drained from the Mana Tree or the target's soul is afflicted so heavily that the Goddess, the Elementals, and in turn the Wisdoms respond to it the way a normal person might respond to a migraine.  As ( Read more... )

Set place between Generations 5 and 6, not actual "Heroes of Mana" themselves, their goal was different.  JEM stands for Jumi Elite Militiamen, and refers to the fact that Jumi all bear semblance to gemstones and in fact evolved from minerals of some sort.  Of the Jumi military, these were the elite of the elite, and only sixteen were active at any ( Read more... )

Oldwyne:  an Onion Knight who was known primarily for his spherical vision that could see for miles on end.  He was rumored in life to, under intense strain and prior heavy meditation, be able to see the world and view into the darkest corners of the farthest and deepest caverns (though obviously he couldn't do all this at once since he has to ( Read more... )

Where Humans and Humanoids need their heart and brain to live (and most of them lungs or gills or some other breathing mechanism), Jumi need only their Cores, large, globular, solidified mana that bears striking resemblances in both color and crystalline structure to various gemstones ( Read more... )

Primary Elementals and Oriental Suffixes

Fire - Salamander - Ka
Water - Undine - Sui
Wind - Jinn - Fuu
Earth - Gnome - Do
Light - Wisp - Yuu
Dark - Shade - Mei
Wood - Dryad - Moku
Metal - Aura - Ko
Moon - Lumina - Getsu

Subelementals and Oriental Suffixes

Sun - Amaterasu - Hi
Ice - Celsius - Hyo
Lightning - Rai - Volt
Sand - Sutekh - Sa
Heaven - Aska - Sei
Hell - ( Read more... )

The Whisper ( Read more... )