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By the way, I initially wanted to name Beata Beatrice, but I decided that she wouldn't fit the name considering her background and backstory.

When I find a new job

ideas for the aura mechanic

I did something similar once, and I still sometimes think about it. I think that maybe someday I'll post not just one, but two posts a day in the gaming thread.

Another problem that I mentioned to Heroist and Revan some time ago is that sometimes our ideas overlap. Of course, the implementation isn't exactly the same, but there are still some doubts due to the potential for it to be seen as derivative. As I was writing this, I remembered another similar case. This also creates certain problems.

Perhaps I'll elaborate a little more, so there's some kind of illustration. In total, there are 7 colors of auras planned, each of which (possibly) will increase certain parameters, and 6 of which will unlock the corresponding type of "magic". The white aura will have a different, more modest bonus, so that people who want to play as ordinary guys won't be too upset. In fact, most people in the lore will be white-aura users, while mages will be relatively rare. Players are special snowflakes and will be given the opportunity to choose.

Magical auras will be divided into two conditional groups: pure and hybrid. The pure ones include red, blue, and yellow, while the hybrid ones, as you can guess, include purple, orange, and green. As for the concepts of the directions:
Red - physical and destructive aura, directed outwards.
Blue - "spiritual-mental" aura, directed at internal control.
Yellow - pure healing aura, without any special frills.
Purple - partly antimagic, partly influencing the mind.
Orange - an aura for those who heal and maim. Probably the least interesting of all on paper, being the most direct of the hybrids.
Green - an aura of people of culture. First of all, all sorts of health transfer, creation of chimeras, and creation of homunculi. In other words, more complex and less direct manipulations than the other two healing auras.

But I believe that good ideas can and should be a source of inspiration, we should adopt them and use them as a guide.

So, at the start, a player is assigned a specific school of magic, and they can no longer learn other magic?

Can characters with hybrid auras be given access to schools of pure auras?

Hybrid auras reminded me a bit of my concept from a magical setting (Salidera, if anyone remembers), where you can combine schools of magic. For example, if you take Air (mind control) and Fate (which includes manipulation of the soul and body), you can get a necromancer, etc.

That's how it is with me – it's a coincidence, not inspiration. There was a concept that I had about five years ago, but I didn't develop it or use it, and then I saw something similar much later. It's roughly the same as you described with Voyager.

I had the idea to give a similar ability to non-elves. Initially, it sounded exactly as you described, with the caveat that pure auras would have their own bonuses, but then I decided that it would be better if it simply opened access to related areas. That is, red could use purple or orange abilities. This is balanced by the fact that I planned to use a skill slot system, where you have to "memorize" them (and this applies not only to magic), so only a strictly defined set can be active on a quest. That is, the choice for non-elves becomes wider, but the total number of spells is roughly the same. In fact, the original bonus for pure auras was precisely an expansion of the number of slots.