Gift of Life

The Gift of Life and seeds is a phrase used by Obenist scholars to describe the supernatural ability to manipulate the forces of life and death. People who possess this Gift are often called Lifebearers. Like other Giftbearers, people with this ability do not experience the usual physical harm associated with direct use of magic.

Mechanics
Like elemental gifts, the gift of Life allows its bearer to forge a connection to its associated plane of existence, in this case Tuloré-Ortyeng. Whereas other gifts work by pulling associated elements directly from the plane (e.g. manifesting physical fire that originates in Relayoré), a Lifebearer instead has access to the waters of Creation found in Tuloré. This water is then spend to create "positive" effects - heal, promote regrowth, strengthen vital functions and so on.

However, due to the severely limited availability of the water, such use of the Gift is also extremely confined. To balance the forces and replenish the reserves of the waters of Creation, a Lifebearer can create "negative" effects - slow down metabolism or terminate life - to withdraw some water from the target and send it back to Tuloré. Consequently, only using positive effects is unsustainable.

Perhaps due to the same limitation of the waters, the Gift of Life is by far the rarest of the Gifts.

Abilities
This gift allows a Lifebearer to influence the vital forces of living beings:


 * decrease and increase metabolism;
 * manipulate growth rates of organism;
 * encourage organisms to grow and develop in specific ways;
 * terminate such processes.