Manarian

The Manarian are an ancient race of Humans. They were the only humans to ever be granted the ability to use mana. Unlike the Elves, Humans were not given the ability to control the natural force of Mana. Aera had brought together the humans to grant them the power; at a cost. Those that were chosen were brought to a new island the Aera made; Advinia. Here, two individuals were given the full power over Mana. They were called Manarians. They were altered physically and became different from humans.

The child of the Manarian's went on to become a Pure Manarian. Her child would become a pure Manarian, and so on. The blood of this family was unable to be tainted by Humankind's. However, alongside the Pureblood Manarian's, other generation's of Manarian's grew alongside them. These Manarian's weren't as powerful as the Pureblood. As generations of children past, their power become more and more diluted until it either vanished or became unusable.

'''The modern children of the Manarian are Mages, a simple term for people able to use Mana. Anyone who has the ability to control mana has a Manarian ancestor. The only exception it those with elvish ancestors, who can use mana through them.'''

In Advinia, the Pureblood family was treated as royalty and it was law for them to only have one child, to prevent the creation of more Pureblood families. The mates of the family did not matter, because the families bloodline was unable to be diluted. The rest of the population at this point were all mages, all ancestors of the Manarian.

It was only 5,000 years ago, when the Aera had no control over the Mages, when they first left Advinia to go West. After 5,000 years the Manarian's started inhabiting all of the Western world and Mages were often born across the world. Mage orders were created as Magic was outlawed, and the War of Magic began.