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Mana is used for casting spells. You start with no spells, and must find the spell glyphs in the dungeon.

Mana and Spells

• In order to learn a spell after you've found it, you must click it in the "on ground" slot, and it will appear in your spell slots.
• Casting a spell on a monster does NOT trigger a melee combat exchange.
  • Glyphs that aren't very useful to you should be converted by dragging them into the conversion icon. This will give you a benefit depending upon your race. Humans get more attack power, for example.
    • Some gods may praise or take swift retribution for conversion of some glyphs once you've chosen them as your diety. Taurog will give +5 peity for each conversion while The Glowing Guardian will renounce you for destroying HALPMEH.

Mana Gain

Mana is regenerated as you explore the dungeon at a rate of 1 MP / 1 tile. This can be affected by several means:

• Some Monsters (Vampire, Bandit) and even gods (Taurog) can inflict Mana Burn. Mana Burn prevents you from regenerating your mana whilst uncovering unexplored areas but can be cured by using a mana potion, the "Sign of the spirits" item, or by leveling (Research info required: will buying a mana burn immunity charm (Soul Orb) cure it?
  • The Crusader and Vampire classes begin with Mana Burn Immunity (the "Soul orb" item will grant Immunity as well). Though this can still be removed by worshipping some gods.
• The BLUDTUPOWA glyph increases mana gain to 2 MP / 1 tile while active.

Mana Capacity

Most classes start with a 10 mana point pool, this can be increased or decreased by several factors:

• Gods can increase or decrease your mana capacity.
• Picking up Mana Powerups will increase the explorer's capacity by one, there exists 3 of these in each dungeon (4 for the Thief)
• Converting Glyphs as the Elf race will increase MP capacity by 2.
• Items can play a large role in increasing or decreasing the explorer's capacity as well. The high level "Magician's moonstrike" will increase it by 15 but renders melee combat useless.

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