Masks 2

"Oh, when you're magic manifests? No idea. When I asked Demon back in the day she called it magic puberty, which is funny when it happens in your twenties." he said shrugging. "Manifests differently for every mage, no rhyme or reason to it, different ages, different ways. Some get it from having dreams, some on the spur of the moment life or death thing, sometimes they're just fucking around and they start speaking magetongue and summon a fireball in their bath tub. That actually happened to someone once."

"The long and short of it is its random, its human specific, we're kind of mutants but a stable recurring variant in our species going back thousands of years, its not entirely genetic, it can skip generations or never appear in a bloodline ever again. You're probably going to get weird dreams for the rest of your life, some even prophetic or revelatory, as a mage you'll have some weird primordial gift you are especially good at, some form of magic you can just do without much training or understanding, my mother could teleport, which is an insanely high tier magic spell only the highest archmages could pull off normally, just as an example. I know I can't, neither can Nick or Demon, and we're among the highest tier mortal human mages left alive at this point to give you an idea of how out of the park this ability can get."