Magic

Magic is a power that exists within every living being in the world. However, very few people are capable of accessing this power. To date, only mages have ever been able to fully tap this power and use it to both heal and destroy.

What is Magic?
Magic is an innate power that every living being is born with. All creatures, great and small, from the tiniest of plants to the largest animal has magic within them. But without knowledge of how to tap this force, it simply exists as another part of life.

Initially, magic use was taught. It is believed that only someone with magic can teach someone else how to draw upon it. And with no mages in existence, this ability to teach has been lost.

What Can Magic Do?
Not much is known relating to magic and what its exact capabilities were. All we have is theory and conjecture and some oral tradition, but much of this could have been exaggerated. Presented here are what we consider a "best guess" and should be taken as such

Control over the elements
While we do not know the exact specifics, we do largely understand that magic has some form of control over the elements. We have, what we consider, reliable testamony from both mage wars that highlights magic's control over all of the 4 elements. Stories persist of mages ripping armor from soldier or melting swords in their hands. Balls of fire being thrown across the field burning people, animals, and buildings alike. Great gusts of wind blowing entire legions off the sides of cliffs. But even more telling, the mages Great Citadel still exists, untouched by time and the ravages of the The Sundering.

Expiditions to the Great Citadel have been carried out by all the great kingdoms - a desperate attempt to pry secrets from its depths. But to this day it remains sealed.

Control over life
This is the aspect of magic that is the most well known as it seems to have re-emerged almost spontaneously within the past two hundred years. This ability was only hinted at from records gathered relating to the mage wars, and would also explain why it was so difficult to kill mages. There are several reports of mages being killed but nobodies were ever found back in the great wars, and being able to heal would certainly explain this control.

But more specifically, during the devastation caused during The Whispering Death, this ability was rediscovered.