Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-30652140-20161201185058/@comment-1255618-20190423212131

@Twilight Despair 5

Honestly, I don't think the answers are mutually exclusive. Magicka is basically a form of energy, and energy exists in our world too (and lots of it comes to Earth from the sun) but we can't use it to bend the laws of nature the way people in 'The Elder Scrolls' universe can. So I think what's left of Magnus on Nirn may be "laws" of magic that allow mortals to bend magicka to their will and overrule less powerful laws of nature (which makes sense since Magnus was one of the most powerful Et'ada), whereas magicka from Aetherius would be the raw fuel that allows people to make use of the powers of magic.

Who mentions magic as being transmuation of dead organisms' life-force? Are you talking about "soul magic"?