[@sakurasan]
I don't think you need to change your magic, but you'd have to consider under what condition you'd even be TAUGHT how to use this sort of magic. Cause if magic is something that you learn how to do, it shouldn't exactly come to you easily at all. It's not like math, in which you can eventually figure out the basics by yourself, I'm assuming.

Perhaps the problem here is that I'm thinking that mages are 'wizards with spellbooks', while others are just thinking of mages as 'superhumans with special-snowflake abilities'.