As far as we can tell, it's just always been there. It was dormant for a while until technology gained too much ground and tipped the balance, and magic surged back like a vengeance. It seems the opposite happened before, magic reached too far and snapped back to nothing. And over the centuries, humans forgot about it outside legends and fairy tales.
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[A grin and he adds,] I feel a lot older lately.
[Or maybe he's just exhausted. Hard to say.]
As far as we can tell, it's just always been there. It was dormant for a while until technology gained too much ground and tipped the balance, and magic surged back like a vengeance. It seems the opposite happened before, magic reached too far and snapped back to nothing. And over the centuries, humans forgot about it outside legends and fairy tales.