**Smokemagic** bears two elemental 
charges — fire and air. Fire-charged 
magic is **mana**, and air-charged magic 
is **aether**.

In the cycle of arcana, water quenches the
roaring flame, bearing billowing steam and
smoldering smoke upward on the wind
to the air. Mana takes on the flavor 
of the Smoke domain as crosses the midpoint 
of its ascent in the cycle. Mana becomes 
aether as a dying fire draws smoke upward
on the wind.

Smokemagic is an emissive magic of 
transaction, exchange, reciprocation, and
reprisal. Its folk and its wielders understand 
mana and aether through paying — or exacting —
the fair price for every boon. [[folk:smoke|Smokefolk]] 
trade cause for effect intuitively, but human 
practitioners must learn methods of 
warlockery, the harnessing of Smokemagic 
through oaths, names, and contracts.

Wielding the power of exchange either by 
innate affinity or through warlockery buys 
and releases the stored power within living 
creatures.