Ancient Magic

Ancient magic refers to various techniques of weaving magic and casting spells that were used throughout the world before the rise of modern magic. In some areas, the use of ancient magic is still common.

While the beliefs about how ancient magic worked were different from culture to culture, religions based it on various forms of animism - the presence of spirits inhabiting the world.

In fact, ancient magic was usually summoning spirits or Ʒaasten from an Anþerwelt and using it to cause certain effects. This was usually done through rituals, chants or talismans. Even though a shaman or sorcerer did not intend to summon spirits, as it was not their belief, this was actually what they did.

In these early times, many people were able to summon spirits. However, most of those people were limited to fairly basic magic. In essence, anything is going to burn if you just make it hot enough. But only some were capable of more delicate magic. To quote Alastor Fitzgerald, famous researcher and expert in all forms of ancient magic, "While any person can cover a canvas in paint, only a master of the craft can make it into an artwork".

It should be noted that the prolific use of ancient magic began to weaken the Veil over time, allowing energies from the other worlds to leak into ours.