Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5647122-20141109053741

I've been thinking about the lore of magic in the Elder Scrolls. Basically, magic is the art of using magicka to do stuff. It doesn't obey the physical laws, and it's all in all, pretty damn awesome. I was thinking about how the Aedra, the "gods", are the ancestors of men and mer. So obviously, the mortals  retained some of their parent's divine power. Not a lot, but some. And supposedly, magicka leaks into Nirn through the giant hole in the sky that Magnus punched so he could leave. I'm guessing there's some kind of flow, that that power is moving in some direction. Some of that power is left behind in everything it goes through, bodies, souls(non coporeal beings use magic too), plants, etc. That's how magicka regenerates. Robes are like nets, they let less of that power escape, so magicka regenerates faster. But I've been wondering one last thing: if magicka comes from Aetherius, and the Aedra(and Daedra) come from Aetherius, does that mean they generated magicka of their own, independent of their environment? And does that mean that mortals do the same, generate their own power? 