Fiction:Cosmos of Nahiarus/Magic

"In the new age, technology is the new god we all worship - mindlessly staring at our phones, giving our lives away to social media. It's also the driving force behind every mass bit of bloodshed over the past six hundred years. Governments creating weapons that could wipe cities straight off the face of the earth in a ball of fire. Whatever faith we put into technology will always be insignificant in the face of the power of the old gods."

Magic is a phenomenon that permeates the boundaries of the universe and is intrinsically linked to the world of Nahiarus. A myriad of cultures over the course of history have utilised magic coinciding with cultural advancement, and was the driving force behind several civilisations for thousands of years.

History
If any of the eldest myths known to mortalkind are to be believed, magic was the birthing force of the first Primordial Ones. The powers which the Primordial Ones possessed were said to shape Nahiarus and the outer worlds, including all life that spawned upon it. It was also the key force in which the Primordial Ones used to war with each other.

The first known civilisations, such as the Aurelians used magic through speech and devised the first logogrpahic language used to manipulate magic, which over the course of time developed into dwarven runic magic, sigils, and in modern times the so-called M-Code. The first languages that utilised magic discovered the almost infinite variety in which magic could be manifested, and the first scholars of magic began to stratify these manifestations into groupings. These became the first known schools of magical thought.

Characteristics
Magic is generally characterised by those who best understand it as an amorphous, intangible substance in which only the Primordial Ones had the capacity of understanding. Through this substance, all living things are believed to exist.