Jake
Jake asked Andrew Rowe:

First of all, I really appreciate your concern for the LGBTQ+ community. I think it is really great to have an author I admire so much be so cool and supportive. But, I came to ask a question so anyway, why did early attunements give people mana poisoning? because from my understanding (which obviously is inferior to yours since you wrote it) attunements just let the body use mana on its own.

Andrew Rowe You're welcome.

I'm going to get into more of the details about the internal workings of attunements over the next few books and I'd rather not spoil too much. In brief, though, it's much more complicated than "attunements let the body use mana". You'll get some pieces of that in AA3.

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