Magic

When the Architects came to the Endless Ocean, they brought with them their greatest tool in the form of their magical abilities. The First Shattering was the ultimate result of their meddling with these abilities, leading to them taking refuge on the artificial floating continent of Atanui. There, the Architects gradually mixed their bloodlines with the mora, xians, and krek that they brought with them.

With the disappearance of the Architects, their magic lives on in their experiments and their mixed bloodlines.

Talents
Talents are individuals that possess some latent and inherent ability, typically one which manifests during the course of puberty. A talent typically encompasses a single sort of spell; throwing fireballs, teleporting, or speaking with wild beasts. A talent has the benefit of being fairly easy to master and having the potential to become very powerful as an ability, but it comes at the cost of versatility; one can never gain more talents than they began with.

Talents are unique in that they are not directly tied to the Architects' bloodline; the Architects experimented upon many peoples while they inhabited the Endless Ocean, and some of those populations still bear their mark in the form of talents.

Mages
Mages are Architect-blooded individuals which have sought to awaken their magical talents through research and meditation. Not everyone with Architects' blood can become a mage, but those that can are able to learn a multitude of magical abilities through their spellcraft.

As opposed to talents, mages must expend significant time and effort to learn a spell, and still more time and effort to master it. This investment comes at the benefit of them being able to learn as many spells as they are able, whereas talents are restricted to the ones they were born with.

Enchanting
Magic, whether through an appropriate talent or the training of a mage, can be used to imbue physical objects with magical power. Weapons or amulets are often the target of such efforts, though the creation of Noble masks is a well-regarded use of the practice.

Guardians
The process of creating a Guardian is one of the most magically intensive rituals that the Architects shared with the natives of the Endless Ocean, and is undoubtedly one of the most powerful, as it effectively imbues the subject with a number of powerful talents.