Neria nods along, because it's the same with the Fade. It is a physical place, but people aren't meant to go there. Who would, with it being filled with demons trying to escape? And yet it somehow rests on the real world, because -- as she's heard it-- once the Breach in the sky and its smaller rifts were created over southern Thedas, demons came out of the air, straight from the Fade. Lucky then, that Neria had been too far northwest at the time to see it.

"It's not too bad. As soon as you use it, it's coming back, like waves against the shore. But certain spells take certain amounts of mana, and you can feel your magical power is too weak to cast it until you have enough mana. It steadily climbs, and maybe takes ten seconds or so to fully come back. But ten seconds makes a lot of difference in the middle of a battle. There are enchanted belts and rings that can help speed up the process."