"That’s my guess. I don’t know. Nobody knows. Another theory is that people have been subconsciously using magic since it
rose in power. The mages know how to use it on purpose, but the rest of us just 
sometimes tap into it without much control. Maybe parents back in 2011 made 
their kids into elves and dwarfs, then later, people transformed themselves into 
orks and trolls. The idea is that it’s kind of like..." He searched his head
for the magic terms he’d recently reviewed. "A kind of physical manifestation of
a person’s true nature, just like a mage in astral space has a true nature."