Magick - the basics

Don't think you're gonna gain magickal powers by reading this. Those with Magick were born with it. They don't just wake up one morning like "Hey! I can breathe fire and heal the dying and summon Shoggoths and break away from my physical body to shack up with the goddess of sexual desire! I can somehow hear the whispering of Azazoth, murmuring in the chaos that is the center of the universe! Rad!"

No.

Now, there are a few schools of magic (no, not like D&D and Pathfinder, and not like fucking Harry Potter.)

Ignamancy - the magick of fire. Creating heat and fire, some degree of healing, and the stirring of anger and lust are all Ignamancy.

Aquamancy - the magick of water. "waterbending," the creation of cold, and control over weather is all Aquamancy.

Terramancy - the magick of earth. healing, alchemy, growing and killing plants, and the creation of poisons are all Terramancy.

Ventamancy - the magick of wind. The creation of cold and heat, the control over weather, and "force magick" are all Ventamancy.

Illuminomancy - the magick of light. The creation of heat, healing, and the powers of the sun are all Illuminomancy.

Tenebromancy - the magick of darkness. The creation of cold, death magic, and the powers of the moon are all Tenebromancy.

Glaciemancy - the magick of snow and ice. The creation of cold, control over weather, death magic, and some degree of healing are all Glaciemancy.

Fulgamancy - the magick of thunder and lightning. The control over weather, creation of heat, control over static electricity, and some degree of healing are all Fulgamancy.

Summoning - the act of summoning creatures and forces. Always allied with one of the other schools, e.g. summoning a phoenix is a summoning school spell, but is allied with the Ignamancy school.

Magick is the force behind all things. The creation of our universe (and the destruction) was magick. When God created all the minor gods (and all of the creatures and planets) he used the oldest of magick, something called Antuquumancy, or Old Magick.

That's the basics.