User blog comment:Detective SkullWolf/Character Critique Requests/@comment-2221250-20140403020237/@comment-2221250-20140403020915

Alright:

For probably a few settings that never get around to explaining it, Magic is like Kinesis; It's and energy just there to do things with.

My Setting: Magic is divided into flavors, the most common being Arcane Magic; This is energy used to enforce your will on reality, and thus perform magic. Arcane Magic requires Mana to function, an ambient energy found about the planet.

(Insert many D&D-esque rules about magic here)

Something like that.