Magical and the Non-Magical Races.

Non-magical races such as Humans, Dwarves and Orcs do no naturally produce mana, in this respect they are barren and are not in tune with the tides of magic. Thus, non-magical races use a different approach to Faye races; using magically infused objects or even creatures as familiars to draw and leach power from. Accumulating magical essence by unnatural means, or drawing it directly from a chosen source. As such, the practice of familiars was the first to grow amongst primitive societies, as did trade between the Dwarin and Elves whom create vast numbers of magical runes, items and trinkets full of residual magical properties. Though the Dwarin are not naturally magical, their discovery of rune craft, enabled them to create their own physical magical power inside items and objects.
Some darker minds however turned to other means of harnessing magical essence. Draining beings and imprisoning their souls in crystals, stones and worse. These trapped souls would eternally generate magic as a source for mortal mages to utilize while the disembodied soul lived on in an unending purgatorial nightmare. The Deep Dwarves are notorious for using the souls of fire elementals to forge elemental weapons and armour of great power and strength that never extinguish.
Despite this being a practice beneficial to non-magical races, some magical races also practice this but for the own more perverse hedonistic reasoning. Dral'azie do such things to increase their own magical prowess and potential, crafting weapons and armour using the same techniques stolen from the Dwarin and Deep Dwarves.
Then there are the Tieflings, whose infernal ancestry fuel's their own sadistic reasons. To Ensnare rivals and collect souls as trinkets and baubles, even doing so to the souls of non-magical races. Famously the sorcerer king had been gifted a mirror by a Tiefling warlock that contained in it the screaming half mad spirit of a Dwarven King, one that had crossed and defied the Warlock. Now he hammers mindlessly on the other side of his prison, mocked and jeered at as an amusing curiosity.

Type

Metaphysical, Arcane