re: Lana, what is the 'energy between energies'? That sounds super interesting.
Hi there ! So, to explain roughly, in my head world there's 3 kinds of energies :
White Echo : the most known and used of the Echoes. Most living beings on the planet use it to exist. It is also mostly ruled by 'logical rules' that are studied and learned by people who wanna use this energy for magic. When manipulated, it manifests most often and easily as 'physical reactions' and 'physical phenomenons' like fire, wind, wood/trees, light, etc. .
Black Echo : Much less known. This is the Echo that created and is used by the Eadras, who live on the planet's moon. This energy is more flexible as it is governed by emotions (a lil bit like Dynamis in FFXIV if you're familiar). It tends to manifest outside of Eadras' bodies either as sporadic bouts of raw energy (lasers, explosions), or in invisible & abstract phenomenons (Rena uses hers to 'eat' other people's emotions sometimes :) ) . These two Echoes are communicating vessels! If you empty one it will fill the other, and vice versa (Things Happen if there is too much of an imbalance between the two). .
Blue Echo : The 'energy between energies'. It's the state that Black/White Echo takes when it transitions into the other one after being used. It also acts as an isolating layer between the two energies (who cancel & destroy each other out if put in direct contact)! Barely known by anyone save a few people (some are keeping the knowledge, some die by experimenting with it, some study it but keep a very small Knowing Circle). It is also sometimes refereed to as 'Entropy' ! Blue Echo is very unstable and tends to quickly grow exponentially in intensity and consequences (think a little flame that would suddenly touch an open barrel of gasoline). There are (complicated) ways to 'manage' it and finding it is one of Lana's main challenge while learning to use her powers (after first learning what the fuck is going on with her). Blue Echo is the only one (so far, because tbh I haven't given proper thought to all of this in like a decade) of the Echoes that can physically manifest as pure stable energy. You can give it shape and have it take up space etc! It's the most flexible Echo but also the most unruly. Most of its users use it sporadically (preferring to convert it to either white or black echo before using it to stabilize it) because really no one actually found a way to use it continuously without fucking dying. But Lana is very stubborn and her out-of-the-box thinking and inquisitive mind help her experiment with ways to manage Blue Echo (which is a whole other thing in itself). Out of all my characters, she's the one with the slowest start and a very hyperbolic power spike. But watch out :)
And here you go ! It's nothing really new under the sun, but I hope it was interesting to you \o/ ! Don't hesitate if you have more questions :>
