Magic

Overview
Magic, in short, is the bending of pure attributes into effect, taking descriptors and making them into things. These attributes and properties (called spirits or essences) can be any adjective you can think of: pungent, distant, coarse, intuitive, beautiful, etc.. Proper wizards even learn to distinguish more spirits that the common person would never perceive and utilise them to create truly amazing things. The limits of magic are virtually boundless, but the process of discovering magics is difficult and time consuming and more difficult the more impactful it is. It is for that reason that big, powerful magics are few and far between and often well-guarded secrets.

Magic is also a word to describe any action done in a magical way be it curses, enchanting, spells, fortune telling, telekinesis, potion-making or anything else. Healing a wound with song is 'a magic', so is imbuing an object with power, turning invisible and casting a thunderbolt from your eyes.

Schools of Magic
Wizards are concentrated in regional institutions, schools where they learn to understand and handle magic. These schools are generally a single building or organised like a campus. There are usually no more than a handful of schools per realm as the foundation of these institutions are most often linked to a powerful ruler, usually a king or emperor, and sometimes even a particularly influential duke. Due to the distance and general lack of contact between these schools they have all developed their own unique regional styles of magic. Because of this you can tell where a wizard comes from based of the magic they use.

List if Schools of Magic

 * smithing school
 * hands school
 * voice school
 * unique wand/staff for every spell school
 * several warfare schools with different doctrines
 * chronicler school (holocrons, elder scrolls, etc.)
 * archaeological/exploration school
 * nature/animal school (hide in the forest as animals who live there in peace, nearly impossible to find)
 * conjured/artificial limbs school
 * use their own souls/minds as channels school, slowly deteriorating their own selves