Guild Wars 2

I’m curious because I was linked to this one, http://esprits-dorr.fr/node/261 , and in it you have Angel McCoy making a comment that basically everybody, as toddlers, could start showing minor use of magic and EVERYBODY learns their first spells from their parents.

Yet the world as I’ve seen it and understood it… this doesn’t happen. We don’t see almost everybody using magic is some form, or hear about it. You have those that use it in the ‘schools’ of magic (Necromancer, Mesmer, Elementalist), but it doesn’t come across as if children know or use it. Closest I can think would be the random dialogue of children or adult humans mentioning asking an Asura to teach them a spell and being told “you’d get a headache” and refused.

It seems to be conflicting information Magic is hard to master (as the statement of somebody swapping schools of magic and having to ignore the decades of learning they’ve had), yet literally everybody uses magic at home? Unless said spells learned at home as a child fall into the “Literally meaningless and have zero effect on life, much less combat.”

I know I’ve heard of other interviews having details that got retconned or simply ignored, so curious about this one.

if i understood it right every skill is some kind of magic.
Warriors buffs an shouts, are amplified by magic for example.

i guess it is more along the line: Everyone is potentialy able to wield magic, but not everyone chooses to master it

The best example would be our PC in relation to other NPC, who have chosen the same direction.

We express our abilities mostly on the battlefield and all our abilities and knowledge are based around combat.
Sometimes the writers use our profession to show off that there is more to it (like engineers, who can work or explain cerain machinery)

We see other NPC who can fly thanks to their air magic, or call upon the dead with Rituals with necromancy.

That everyone is able to use magic, doesn`t mean they might have a choice.

Let`s say you grow up as the son of a farmer and you want to be a farmer. However you are only adapt in using nacromancy.
While you could learn to summon minions, other skills are maybe more usefull for your profession.
You are a farmer. Educating yourself in another direction might not be beneficial.

Adding to that the dialog you mentioned: Being able to use it and being able to learn and wield are two different things.
You might be really strong, however without the right technique you won´t be able to throw a ball as far, as if you have learned how to do it properly.

Same might go for magic. You might have to learn how to channel it.
It might just not be for everyone.