Talents simply are an innate connection to a plane of magic. Whether it is elemental, inspiration, divinity, temporal, astral, ect...
This is mostly referred to in a broad untrained step. someone who has a talent, isn't necessarily talented in that magic. They only have access to it, with much more ease than someone who doesn't. Then again, there are some with no Talent at all.
Domains
Domains refer to the strongest level of talents. Domains offer the user an absurd amount of access to their plane of magic. One example that is seen inside many of the God's Eye's of the Wayfares Guild, is that of the Domain of Air. Many are more specialized in the aspect that they are unable to fully utilize the plane of magic to the degree that they can. The Domain of Air in this example has the ability to influence anything pertaining to Air, Air movement, Weather, pressure, temprature of all gasses, Humitidity. This can be seen in the story of Becoming one of the Few, Where Sage Emily was gifted a brief access to the Domain of Air during The Battle of Hurion. She was able to pull the clouds and the ambient humity of the air to create a few million icy spears to land down on the enemy army. The Domain level of talent has many blurred lines of tangential realms of magic, as such those with a Domain are rare in the general population. Those born with a Domain of any kind happen in approxamatley 1:2,000,000 people.Greater Talent
This is a midling level of talent that the majority of casters are able to use. While the caster is still limited to whatever planes of magic they are born with, they do have a greater number of these. Talents of Fire, Air, Life and Gravity are common. These allow a basic use of that aspect of reality, they are however not as robust as a Domain. Where as a Domain can manipulate anything even remotely relevent to that aspect of reality, Greater talents can only directly manipulate. That being said, someone trying to manipulate a Parcel of air, would not be ble to effect sound as someone with a Domain could. In this example the caster would not be able to create the sound, but could manipulate it by changing the density of the air. Greater talents typically appear as a set of robust and mutifuntional spells. Though learning new spells is always possible, it is more difficult for this level. Those born with Greater Talents are about 1:150 People.Lesser Talents
This is the least powerful of the talents. There really isn't much to say by the time we get here, a lesser talent very simply means the person can use only a handful of spells. Those born with this amount of access of magic can typically only use 2-3 spells at the most. The vast majority of the population sits at this level of magic, where those born without talents at all are actually exceptionally rare. The general public is typically able to cast useful everyday spells like Candle Shot, or Mend, which is a very weak healing spell typically only able to head bruises and scrapes.
"Magic is a dangerous thing though. Those without the concentration, those who play with reality, those who care not for the god's power they hold in their hands. Well, they can be reminded of just that fact, magic as it exists on the branchs of the Great tree, belongs to the gods. The talents that people are born with are those very gifts. Please be mindful with that power." -Great Sage of Huron-
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