Life Energy

Life energy exists in all living things, and is produced by them. If a living thing is deprived of all its life energy, it will no longer be capable of living. At lesser extremes, the reduction of life energy from within a living being will result in general weakness and fatigue, and will simply take time, special spells or potions to recover.

Most living beings are perfect containers of life energy - they will not emit life energy in any way. There are a few exceptions, generally beings who produce excessive quantities of life energy. These beings are often coveted, as most living beings can also absorb life energy to revitalise and to some extent heal themselves. Just being near one would make you healthier.

Those exceptions that bleed more life energy than they produce are generally doomed to short lives.

As a living being ages, their production of life energy usually slows until it stops. As it decays, the body will then start producing death energy, life energy's opposite.

When life and death energies collide, they will cancel each other out.