The Legacy of Kamar-Taj

As everyone knew.

Most of Earth's sorcerers in the Marvel Universe were basically kings of debt. Almost all their power and magic came from borrowing from Dimension Demon Gods, and sorcerers who truly possessed magic of their own were practically as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

Of course.

It wasn't that sorcerers in the Marvel Universe simply wanted something for nothing.

This was a profound issue that touched on the core mechanics of Marvel's magic system.

Most sorcerers in the Marvel Universe were not "born with magic." Instead, they cast spells by establishing contracts with higher-dimensional beings and borrowing their energy.

This setup came from Marvel's unique worldbuilding for "magic"—magic was not a superpower, but a kind of "cross-dimensional lending system."

At the same time, this setup also showed that sorcerers within this system could be people who did not originally have any talent for magic, which was why there were so many sorcerers in the Marvel Universe.

Even if they had no magic of their own, borrowing a little power from a Dimension Demon God naturally allowed them to be called sorcerers. This system effectively lowered the threshold for becoming a sorcerer.

It was completely different from the DC Universe, where one needed specific talent to become a sorcerer.

How should one put it?

In truth, each had its own merits and drawbacks. In the Marvel Universe, magic power did not belong to oneself, and magic itself might not belong to oneself either, while in the DC Universe...

In practice, it was more or less the same.

Although DC sorcerers had their own magic power, magic had a source, and magic power had a source as well. How was this magic power that seemed to belong to oneself not also a form of borrowing?

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