[DF] Placing areas of different mana in Dungeon Fantasy

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Originally Posted by Michael Thayne

I would assume Suspend Mana and Drain Mana effect mana even when cast by a cleric. It seems weird for clerics to directly be lowering sanctity, since high sanctity for Good generally means low sanctity for Evil and vice versa.

Unless you hold that sanctity is a special form of Aspected Mana (as on Roma Arcana) that makes no sense. The default is mana and sanctity don't interact.

In the Roma Arcana mana actually represents the availability of spirits to perform spells for the mage rather than "energy".

Since in Roma Arcana the major numen ("deities") assign duties to the spirits where belief in them is strong Sanctity increases at the cost of mana. (Fantasy p 201)

This puts Isis, who followers use Magery, in an interesting situation. Normally her temples would increase Sanctity at the cost of mana but that would make put her followers at a major disadvantage compared to other numen (the Western equivalent of kami). Exactly how she squares this circle is left up to the GM.