
No ancient beings that left over the secrets of the arcane after they went extinct. That’s the most generic explanation you could give for magic existing in any rpg I’ve played. Someone correct me if I’m wrong but people are able to use magic in TES by pulling magicka from a “veil” or something over Tamriel. What does intelligence have to do withmagicka anyway? Was that ever explained or do all the fans have to figure out the lore for the writers?

Mage guilds are literally just colleges in real life. Apparently anybody can just read a spell book and be able to shoot flames forever.

Mages don’t even seem to need tomes to contain all the information they’ve learned over the years. Theres no spell incantations, spell preparation or anything. I don’t know how the writers managed to make something as mysterious and mystical as magic be so boring.
