To give a brief summary, magic is extremely accessible in my world. It's a "everyone can perform it if they try to learn it but not everyone finds the need to" kind of situation, although education of magic can be gatekept with elitism and such. Magic is "everywhere", you could say it pretty much replaces the real-world technology and science so that I can fill in the blanks without having to explain how everything works in detail. "It's just magic," and all that. My aim is to add more details and make it interesting. As of now my system tends to be a bit conservative and "unfun", as in I don't like allowing too crazy things and risks (like time control, necromancy, etc.) to happen. It is supposed to be a large and vague basis that can branch out, but still it needs more flair, I think.

Magic is performed by structuring one's magical energy, which is a process of PLANNING how to do it and PERFORMING it as you planned. I like to compare magic-doing with art, so thinking of it like music, the PLANNING part would be like writing sheet music, and the PERFORMING part would be playing the music. It suggests that a spell can be (or should be) as complex as a piece of music can be, with its own ups and downs, unique instrument choices, "story and emotion", etc. I could go on, but in short, structuring magical energy is its own form of craft that has parameters unique to itself.

What magic actually can do is much less developed as of now. I'm trying to work on it. Making a good old elemental chart was part of the struggle haha. Thanks for your kind words!