The gods are fonts of mana. Magic pours off of them into the environment... they can't help it, it's like sweat to them. The more gods active in a given plane, the more magic there is in the environment.
Menagerie has no gods, but it has mana anyway. Many people believe that this means that Menagerie does have a god, just a hidden one. Certainly, something killed the deity Arthalcus when he took over the city.
Undisturbed, sealed areas usually have more mana than the general environment because it piles up there, unused. Thus, it's possible to "mana mine" isolated areas.
Others are sealed against magic in some fashion, creating an area which magic can't get into... without a resident deity, they simply remain dead zones where all magic must be brought in from outside. This is common in pocket dimensions and hidden realms.
Posted by Kiz at November 3, 2004 01:30 PMCommentsPost a comment