Magic is from the land just as biology and alchemy is

Magic is used for what science cant do and used as a matter of greater convenience

There’s PaleoMagic and then there’s NeoMagic

But overall,

Limitations

• Going for a high endurance spell will kill you (lvl 4 shouldnt cast a lvl 83 spell)
• No magic can truly bring back the dead (possession, and reanimating a corpse isn’t the same)
• The source needs to come from somewhere. Youre either magically inclined with organs to filter the source from the environment or a human that cant use it without NeoMagic and gathered materials
• You must snap/clap at the end to activate it

Weaknesses

• Too much magic use from one area could destroy that area’s ecosystem(s) and it wont recover/heal the same/right
• If youre bound to a chair youre most likely fucked :/

Cost

• Physically + Mentally taxing just as studying and lifting weights is, even your eyes and feet need a break, just as your liver and magic organ do too. With that break you gain endurance and strength for next time

Only The Divine Can Use

• Death/Life Magic
• Time Magic (teleportation, seeing the future)
• Mind reading

Cursed Magic

• Binding Contract (a pact)

Stray Facts

• Creatures like cat people or shadow people use magic as a discipline (knowledge + training)
• Humans use magic as a science (knowledge  and how to use creatively)
• Divine use magic as a mystery (those that train in Death’s Home kind of vibe through it, teleportation and time magic are complete mystery and ineffable to mortals)
• PaleoMagic takes years of hard work to master just like any profession, but it’s very dangerous and many die trying to progress faster or because they can’t handle their own power and it kills them
• no matter the creature if the source isnt coming from outside then itll start to take from within (no more water in the cup? itll start to thin your blood and take water from it) it just so happens that since humans dont have a magic organ/artery they dont get the option to use the environment
• It’s recommended you clap for more complex spells
• you can draw symbols on a kitchen floor and slap it to create a spell
• With NeoMagic, with enough years of experience, training, and natural talent its possible to recreate things like chloride. who knows maybe you could even make a bomb