The Wide World around us!

I'm sure you're all excited to finally begin proper schooling at an Ekavarian academy, and this textbook will be the guide to everything you'll need to know for your first year. In it you'll learn about the nature of those pesky spirits that get you in trouble, remove The Wilds veil of mystery, and maybe even do a few magical experiments yourself. The things you'll learn here are only limited by your desire to learn them!
To start, we'll go over the basics for anyone who might have grown up in smaller villages, where your parents might not have taught you the basics beyond what you need to know to live. For you city kids who already know the basics, still read this section! you might have been taught some stories by your parents that aren't completely accurate. The best place to begin is a Simple Question

What is Magic

Magic means many things to many people, some look at sorcerers casting fireballs as magic, while others see the section of the forest always shrouded in twilight as magic, and some even call something as simple as the making of a hammer magical. The truth is that magic is all of these things and more! All things from the ground to the trees and even the air, hold in them a desire for change. Where this desire for change came from is up for debate. It could have been imbued the creator or just be the way things are. but everything has it. objects don't like just staying the way they are, an iron pan might begin to want to be copper, or a rock might want to be something else. Most objects don't change unless acted on by an unbalanced force, held the same by a concept called Order. The presence of people like you or me increases the order of objects around us, and the more people their are, the more orderly objects become. But every non-intelligent thing is inherently chaotic, and when the desire for change becomes fulfilled without the presence of a physical*, unbalanced force we call this Magic. Magic can be categorized in a hundred different ways, but as first years you'll only learn about the most basic for of magical Classification, Wild Magic, and Purposeful Magic

Wild Magic

Wild Magic is when nature takes things into their own hands and performs magic itself. While everything is bounded by Order, eventually the desire for change