Orinna

One of the five different elemental applications of Anima, Orinna is the name commonly used to refer to the manipulation of energies and forces innate to life and existence itself. As with the other elemental applications, this can look vastly different from one individual to the next: where one person might see portents of the future in the casting of bones, the reception of psychic visions, or the arrangement of heavenly bodies in the sky, another might mold energy itself, creating art, tool, or weapon out of psychic energy, the energy of souls, the energy of light and darkness, life energy, necromantic energy, temporal energy, or the energy of the cosmos. In academic contexts, particular utilizations of Orinna bear particular names to denote their purpose and function. For example, some of the most common include:

• Divination, the gleaning of insight and/or reception of visions through using an energetic focus
• Animancy, the mystical manipulation of life energy, life-force, and souls
• Necromancy, the mystical manipulation of death energy, the deceased, and souls
• Asterokinesis, the mystical manipulation of the cosmos, heavenly bodies, and cosmic energies
• Chronokinesis, the mystical manipulation of time and temporal energy
• Hemokinesis, the mystical manipulation of blood, often utilized by those also proficient in Undague 
• Lumokinesis, the mystical manipulation of light and light energy
• Psionics, the mystical manipulation of mental or psychic energy
• Umbrakinesis, the mystical manipulation of darkness and dark energy