All intelligent life has access to the system which breaks down powers into a few key ways.
First we have Aspecs. These are the fundamental parts of a person and can be broken down into:
Mind - ability to think, adapt and utilise mana
Body - your physical abilities from strength, agility and so on.
Soul - this is more ephemeral but encapsulates your mental resilience and the interaction between you body and mind
A creature can level up their aspect in 2 distinct ways. First they can practice with them I.e. exercising to increase you body aspect or studying to increase you mind aspect. However the second and most common way is through fighting and killing other creatures. Through combat you will acceue experience which can be manually channeled into any aspect.
All aspects are ranked from 1 at the low end to 10 being the max with that aspect being ready to rank up when the other two reach the same level.
Next we have Ranks. These are split into several ranks:
Mortal
Copper
Iron
Silver
Gold
Azure
Diamond