'A more proper explanation would require teaching them covalent bonds as well as ionic bonds, but I don't have the means to prove their existence to the class nor the time to deal with the consequences that such revelation would cause.
'I can't explain to them that earth generates a magnetic field while air creates an electric one and that is by manipulating the resulting electromagnetic field that you use Void Magic.
'If I drown them in complex, foreign notions I'd just make things even more confusing. I only need to push the academies toward developing technology alongside magic and sooner or later they'll get there on their own.
'Their talent for magic gives Mogarians an instinctive understanding of the natural forces, they just put them all together under the word magic. Once they start asking themselves the right questions, the rest will come easy.' Lith actually thought.