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Aria - sometimes called Arya - is a precious kind of magically-imbued water appearing all across Eo.

Background information[]

While Lenya is said to be more potent than Aria, this liquid is nonetheless extremely valuable when it comes to restoring and enhancing the magical abilities of mages. It is said to broaden the mind and would help any spellcaster to concentrate. Both the light and the dark races alike are using aria in many rituals and it is safe to assume that both their armies are heavily depending on it too.

Appearance[]

1st SpellForce series[]

Aria appeared as small spring like structures in magically potent areas all across the world of Eo during the first SpellForce series. It was used by the human and dark elven rune army to create magically-gifted units such as the Mentalist or the Havoc.

Additionally there were some unique appeareances of Aria mentioned. Shadira Sundancer was looking for crystallized Aria called Ariafrost in Eloni . It was supposed to be mesmerizing to look at and could be found in the possession of a dragon called Fafna. At the Nightwhisper Dale the ghostly Irvish creatures were even capable to amassing Aria in their bodies. When the Norcaine had trouble with keeping up their stockpiles, they even hunted them down to obtain enough aria for their sorcerers.

2nd SpellForce series[]

No appearance as a resource in the Real-Time Strategy part as all races utilized Lenya as a magic resource.

3rd SpellForce series[]

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A pond of Aria next to some Lenya leaves in the jungle of Leafshade

Aria could be gathered from the blueish ponds by gatherers. However it needed to be refined first before usage as undistilled aria was said to have some serious side effects regarding one's psyche.

When Corporal Tahar arrived at the Windwall Foothills during the Purity Wars, he witnessed that the Purity of Light had used said undistilled Aria on captured mages to break their minds and to prepare their souls for extraction. Said extracted souls were then harnessed and used to construct the Iron Ones that reinforced Rondar Lacaine's troops during the Purity Wars.

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