Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
(Tophe)
"We hypothesized as far as magic's concerned clothing is actually a part of the human body which is Pinkie-level bizarre but it explains so much like how Sunset and my counterpart came through the portal in normal human fashions and also you know how animals -"
"Twilight, dear, a little focus wouldn't go amiss." said Rarity, examining the tree, which gave off a gentle crackle of residual magic. A baffled but unworried rabbit glanced down from among the branches.
"Oh! Sorry I have a bit of a high at the moment from the magic surge because I overestimated the mana the spell would need for such a short duration and didn't control it well enough to adjust I'm used to having an external power source like my spectrometer actually have I shown you my spectrometer yet -"
"Twilight!" hissed Rarity. "This is turning into a disaster! We're already late for class, and if you don't figure out a counterspell in the next minute, someone will come out to investigate, and the entire school will know you TURNED FLUTTERSHY INTO A TREE!"
(Masterweaver, even less canonical than usual)
"...Mana is a snackfood," Sunset said, confused.
"Wh...what?"
"Yeah. Snackfood." Seeing the baffled look on Twilight's face, she rolled her eyes. "We'd make, basically, granola bars, but the ingredients were high-thaum-concentration plants--"
"Thaum." Twilight leapt on the word. "Thaum, is that a measure of magical energy?"
"It's a quantitative measure of potential magical energy--wait, is that what you thought mana was?"
"Yes! I mean, all the video games use... mana bars..."
The two of them stared at each other.
"...crrrrrrrap." Sunset buried her head in her hands. "We're going to have to sort out basic terminology ASAP, aren't we?"
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Mana bars...
This chapter was an excuse to make that into a pun.
My solution was to refer to thaum-saturated sugars as "manna," two n's. It also restored mana, 1 n.
Yes, this was entirely an excuse to make desserts mana restoration items. Cupcake?
7085838 Aaand, that's a bad thing?
Delicious mana bars.
When doing anything, get the terminology first.
Yeah...I can see this causing problems rather quickly.
Do I spy an Elder Scrolls reference?
It makes sense, though...
(Wait for it...)
...in a mana of speaking!
8558312 My headcanon:
Quintessence - Magic energy (analogous to electrical charge or water volume)
Mana - Magic energy flow/power (analogous to current or a water flow)
Thaum - Unit quantity of Quintessence
I don't have an analogue for water pressure or voltage, and flow is dependent on the materials it's flowing through and other factors, symbols, conscious interaction by a caster, chanting, somatic gestures, rituals. Quintessence is generated by various mechanisms, flows into a spell, runeset or other effect and is expended creating whatever effect the casting was created for, vanishing.
Or you could think of it being extracted from some substrate underlying reality and returning back to that substrate after use.