Intention is the idea that every action has some form of pre-meditation to it. When you're going to do something, you intend to do it for one reason or another, or else you wouldn't be doing it, right?

Obviously, one sort of action that doesn't hold true to that statement are accidents, like accidentally tripping and falling over a curb, or accidentally bumping into someone and then the string of effects that happen because of that. There is no Intention in those actions because they were created without prior thought or reasoning. They just happen due to uncontrollable and unforseen circumstances.

But other than that, any action that is purposfully done has Intention to it. Even if it's an action that you don't want to do, there is Intention there. Or else you simply wouldn't act. Intention comes just before action occurs *or, in the case of accidents, does not show up at all*. In the Abian world, it is an actual thing that can be felt and experienced by Abians and their environment.

You cannot lie about Intention. It cannot be manipulated or reformed. For example, if you Intend to grab at someone for violent reasons, you can't just play it off as a simple non-threatening gesture because your true Intention of violence is going to be felt in the action. Assuming that the individual you're grabbing is an Abian, mostly. Humans in the Abian world can often pick up on Intention, but it's far more subtle to them, and what an Abian might register as Intention a Human might simply pass off as "gut instinct" or "paranoid feelings" or anything else like that.

Intention doesn't always have to be aggressive, mind you, that was just an example.

The wings that Humans get when visiting the Abian world react solely to Intention. Because they don't really exist. They have no real physical weight or mass, they don't take up any space, they're just visually there and they only respond to Intent. Since Intention is something that requires some sort of mental capacity to exist, inanimate objects do not have any sort of Intent about them and thus angel wings don't interact with inanimate objects such as their clothes, the walls of buildings, or those booths in the Lava Lounge. Marctavious' wire is a little bit different, but we're not going to go into that. Anyway, they only respond to Intention so when an Abian choses to interact with the wings of an angel, what the angel feels always depends on what the Abian's Intention is. If they're just curious and want to feel the feathers, then the Human only really feels pressure, just as if the Abian was touching their arm or shoulder. It's pressure in a weird place, since the Human mind isn't used to registering having something sticking out of their backs and can be quite startling to suddenly realize that there's someone poking at a set of appendages that didn't use to be there, but all they feel is simple, and usually very subtle pressure. If an Abian meant to hurt them, then grabbing their wings would feel painful. If they meant to calm them, then grabbing their wings might feel comforting and nice.

Intention is also the reason why Lava had to word the description of the blessing on the Lounge the way that he did. "No act of violence with intent to harm..." Intent being the keyword here. This means people can still randomly stub their toe or run into the sharp edge of the counter. This also means that violence without intent to harm is totally allowed, so masochists don't have to go away unhappy. But if you're going to attempt to hurt someone for the sake of hurting them, then it's not going to work. And since Intention can't be faked, you can't really pass it off as "Oh, I didn't mean to beat them until they were unconcious, it just kinda happened that way" because there is some point when the mind kicks in and you know that if you don't stop what you're doing, it's going to turn out bad for the other person, and to continue your actions anyway fits into the "intent to harm" category.

Anyway, that is the run-down of Intention, just one of the many things that makes the Abian world very different from the Human world.