[Viktor nods, as if to say yes, really. It's not so different than the New Magic practiced in the Free Cities, but he can imagine even the thought of it might be impressive to someone unaccustomed to magic at all. He's more than willing to talk about his own experience in the matter.]

Those that naturally occur in the environment.

[Everything is magic, apparently.]

Where I'm from, we developed a way to harness it via a conduit. From there, we could give it instructions--using a runic system--to execute all manner of tasks.

[What he doesn't say is that the government stymied any tasks that weren't considered beneficial to the economy. So they'd made it to teleportation for trading purposes, and not much further.]