The disappearance of magic

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Through a largely unknown process the soul generates a renewable energy within it. Humans under the direction of God-like Angelic beings have come to call this substance 'Mana'. A life force with near infinite potential, it is the hallmark of all known creation. Every living thing radiates it, to be alive is to produce the blood of miracles. Even the simple world around us resonates with it, as the lifestream is woven into the fabric that we all reside on. It can be theorized that whatever process it is that grants consciousness may well create this substance as a simple byproduct.

One need not look any further than to the legends of first creation to see it.

When all souls in existence were new they had shone brightly. The potential for magic was beyond our basic understandings of what is possible today. Each human was imbued with the powers of Angels, with the might to create reality from dreams and their own aspirations. A simple flaw in the Angelic design was avoided with humanity, the need to harm the soul in order to use what was hidden inside. It is known that where an Angel must rupture their very being in order to cast a spell, humans utilize a self-contained system.

Their souls did not need to be harmed to create magic.

But as the aeons have passed a noticeable change in the world was beginning to occur. Where humanity once had the power to change its surroundings with but an involuntary thought, they now needed to think hard about what they wished to accomplish. The Arch-Angel Kraus applauded the humans for their curiosity, implored us to continue to learn magic and to explore its potential. But the more we did so, the weaker we began to grow.

As though he knew something we could not have known.

By the time recorded history was upon us, few humans were born with an innate ability to modify the world around them. It became a case where those who were learned could manipulate specific elements, but only ever the limited few their leylines could contain the memory of. Most of the population on Eternia were considered 'non-magi' by this point. Few and far between, mages became the dominant figures in societies across the world. Much of their past had been lost by now or simply turned into legend and myth. Impossible figures with power beyond even the strongest mages wildest dreams, it was thought a fantasy.

One thing could be certain by now. Magic was dying.

Certain scholars have come to believe that the process that generates mana within the soul is beginning to wear out. With each passing generation magic becomes more difficult to control and the creatures of the dark are growing lesser in number. Demons once ruled from the nightmares of man. Now they are but beasts found in the darkest corners, a dying breed ill-forged, now wasting away with the world around us.

From the illusive creatures known as Fae, to the endangered species known as Dragons; Magic was growing weary and it was becoming ever more apparent that the souls in all living things were slowly becoming unable to fuel the processes that govern miracles. Creatures sustained entirely by magic and mana may soon grow too weary to survive this eventual transition the world is heading into. Some day the Magi of today who find old schools of magic to be lost arts unable to be replicated, may too become lost to history as myth and legend.

As technology blooms and the world advances we may find the beauty of the strange and the wonderful to be more precious than we could possibly appreciate at this time.