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In [[Real Life]] combatants naturally seek the high ground and other places on the battlefield with tactically advantageous [[Geo Effects]], and to [[Defensive Feint Trap|maneuver their opponents]] into tactically disadvantageous positions. A related tactic is to affect allied and enemy morale to make the fighting easier. In fiction the [[Field Power Effect]] is a third, supernatural way to make a given set of characters (whether heroes or villains) stronger or weaker.

A Field[[ield Power Effect]] is a spell or environmental condition that affects the fighting ability of one or more characters, strengthening and/or weakening them. [[Weather of War|Weather]] and terrain may play a factor, such as a [[Playing with Fire|pyrokinetic]] being weak during a rainstorm while an [[Making a Splash|aquakinetic]] gains more power. Or a [[The Power of the Sun|solar powered]] hero being strongest at noon and weakest when in pitch black darkness. Terrain like the [[Place of Power]] affect characters atuned to the type of energy it boosts (and it's opposite). You can probably tell that due to [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]], any Field Power Effect that boosts one set of [[Elemental Powers]] will weaken whatever is in its opposition. This is similar to how opposing sides with the ability to use [[Status Buff]] and [[Status Buff Dispel]] can also end up canceling each other out. Other possibilities include things like time of day, year, or even the positions of planets and stars.

The reason [[Field Power EffectsEffect]]s work is they somehow affect the [[Power Source]] of characters, or failing that their [[Soul]]. An area filled with Light energy naturally strengthens characters who [[Light Is Good|are good aligned]], while evil characters who are [[Weakened by the Light]] [[Good Hurts Evil|will suffer]] a [[De-Power|De Powering]]. It'd take a ''very'' strong [[Cross-Melting Aura]] on the part of a villain to overpower that kind of disadvantage. The reverse is also true, an evil wizard who emanates [[The Dark Side|Dark Side]] energy will make heroes quake and those [[Allergic to Evil]] outright faint. In both cases the character will [[I'm Having Soul Pains|feel soul pains]].

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' (manga and second anime), alchemy takes its power from geothermal energy. The [[Big Bad]], Father, can block this energy, rendering alchemy useless in a given area. It does not block the similar magic of alkahestry, however, which has a different power source.