Mana ranks were a measure of the quality and quantity of mana possessed by an individual. As one went higher up in mana ranks, access to superior quality of mana allowed them to do things even the most skilled at lower ranks could never do.
An example of this was the manifestation of physical aura achieved by Justiciars through their Rank 5 mana refined through the Body aspect bias they naturally held. Between the ranks of Elite and Sentinel, there was a true gap, bigger than any before it. It was the gap between the physical and the mystical.
Before Sentinel, mana behaved according to the laws of physics most of the time. However, after that threshold, it began to break those constraints, albeit limited for now. It followed the laws of magic.
And that was the current state Vane's spear was in right now.
