That led them onto a tangent of creating rifts that contained monsters with Aura of various types.
Through nearly a year of testing, they discovered a way to semi-reliably create rifts with Aura of the simplest elements.
The first ingredient that the rift needed was mana of a compatible type, and a subtype that could work as a weapon, or some way to attack. The latter was a hard requirement that they found no way to subvert.
Fire mana with a hot subaspect was essential to create fire Aura on monsters like fire aspected salamanders and firebirds. With the proper subaspect, the fire aspected monsters’ back scales and wings, had wisps of fire Aura, more than a quarter of the time.
If things had been simple, they would have discovered the second ingredient to making rifts with Aura in the
