Seeing as the Disciples of Magic are available to all, one could say that instead of being born with magical abilities, the people of Hydaelyn are born with varying degrees of affinity with Aetheryte and the different elements.
This could play out in how and why they choose their specific magic Discipline and also explain how one can cast magic by simply equipping a wand or stave to use as a focus.
Those who only level their Disciplines of Magic for some abilities to fit ICly could be people born with a low-grade aetheryte affinity and therefore able to cast some magic, but not master it.
This could play out in how and why they choose their specific magic Discipline and also explain how one can cast magic by simply equipping a wand or stave to use as a focus.
Those who only level their Disciplines of Magic for some abilities to fit ICly could be people born with a low-grade aetheryte affinity and therefore able to cast some magic, but not master it.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. - Erich Fromm