Arcane Magic

The world was dreamed with some specific rules governing existence, the elements, and life. For a long time these rules were inflexible to any without the powers of the Gods backing them. Certain creatures were born with a connection to the Dream that granted them specific powers but for the humanoid races control over the world was a fantasy. That was until some scholar somewhere realized that our dreams acted as a sort of portal into the very building blocks of the Dreamer's mind. These were fragments of our world built of pure energy, fragments of fire and earth and water and air. And buy studying our dreams, by looking into these fragments and seeing how the aspects of our world worked on the most fundamental levels we could learn how to manipulate it. Thus the study of Arcane Magic was born.

Magic has become fairly commonplace since then, and has had a large effect on the development of society as a whole. Most arcane magic users still come by it the old fashioned way, through dedicated study and practice, but some are born with it through bloodlines touched by more magically inclined creatures.

Any magic not drawn from the Gods or nature is categorized as 'arcane', although this classification also includes various forms of witchcraft and voodoo magic which operate on a completely different set of rules and are often used more to change and corrupt the rules of the Dream rather than control them.