[@Haha] sorry i think i wrote the first part bad, but in the lore stuff it said that

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 Before their occupation on the continent their form of magic did not exist on this land, and with each year that passes the land seems to die a little more. The mages, consciously aware of the land withering beneath their very feet care not for the nature that egregiously tap from in order to transmute their marvels of creation or destruction.
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this implies that there was a form of magic there, so i was asking about if the char could use that form of magic, or is that magic aura, and their magic is a different one