#mage boy

and then utter rage of the ocean as well

SO RECENTLY I'VE BEEN COMPLEATLY OBSESSED WITH THIS MANHAW CALLED WHO MADE ME A PRINCESS AND SKJNDFKJDSF THIS GUY IF FINALLY MAKING A MOVE!!!

NO MORE ROUND-ABOUNT HINTS

Patience, friend. Villads, for instance, seems to be pretty close to learning the Sky Arcanum himself, and would probably need only a minor nudge from Callum or someone else to do it.

Like much of everything else originating from Xadia, Primal Magic splices together many Eastern and Western concepts. Primal Mages, for instance, combine Western depictions of wizards with Eastern depictions of monks.

That is, they cast spells and draw runes much like wizards do, but Ibis and Lujanne also have the contemplative mysticism and monastic/ascetic lifestyle more commonly associated with monks. The source of their power is the Arcanum, and it’s through enlightenment and meditation, not just study and practice, that a mage is able to hone their magic. 

For this reason, Callum is able to learn magic without books, tomes, or mentors. When he learns about the Moon Arcanum, it’s really from Rayla and not Lujanne that he starts to piece it together.

Rayla: The secret of stealth is that you don’t have to be invisible. You just have to be invisible to your enemies’ senses.

Similarly, when he’s piecing together the Sky Arcanum he’s either learning it himself by “meditating upon the meaning of Sky,” reflecting on the meaning of specific concepts (like freedom and destiny), or learning it from, of all people, Villads.

Villads. The blind narcoleptic pirate-sailor once ambushed by mutinous seagulls. He was on to something when he demonstrated how sailing works with little more than a willow melon seed.

So, the point is that you don’t have to be a spellcaster to learn Primal Magic. Humans won’t have to learn magic through years of intensive study, like Viren or Claudia. Some might end up being wizard-monks like Callum, or they might end up realizing how close they are to realizing the secret of a Primal like Villads, and take that extra step.

Before you know it, you might have human communities all throughout the Five Kingdoms that look an awful lot like elven towns, all centered around a specific Primal Source with cultures and rituals that emphasize specific forms of magic.