Oh for sure, you're absolutely correct and no worries, you didn't come across like that. :)<br/><br/>I dig Mage. It's through the Avatar (that can take whatever form makes sense to the particular Mage's beliefs and their shared personal<em>Essence</em>) that Mages get to do what they can do (do magic) and it basically measures how much<em>quintessence</em>(literally the physical manifestation of belief, though depending on how a Mage does magic it can be called all kinds of things from the banal to the mystic) a Mage can hold and how real it is to percieve and manipulate into aiding their spells. As the Mage grows, it can become more of a second persona within them, kinda like how Zanpakutou spirits work in Bleach.<br/><br/>Also the Avatars are the spirits of the Sidereals from Exalted in the modern age, which is awesome. ^^<br/><br/>I guess me not seeing much of a personification of the Muse means I'm not too high up on the mage totem-pole...  ;D