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First things first – I thought you were the OP. *facepalm* Woops lol. Most of that really long-ish rant was meant for the OP….

Anyhow, so the differentiation between “common-place” and “special ability” magic to me is just simply how it occurs in the natural world. Common place magic is something everyone can learn, with varying degrees of talent just like anything else. Special ability magic is something that only certain people have the “gift” so to speak to learn it. Think of….. say, magic in HP vs. magic in The Inheritance Cycle. (HP is pretty widely known so I figured it be a decent example.) In HP, only certain people can learn magic through a special ‘ability’. In The Inheritance Cycle, anyone can learn magic spells/etc – but each has different levels of talent. (I do hope I’m remembering The Inheritance Cycle’s magic system right… it’s been a while since I read it.).

If you were to say, separate magic into a ‘natural’ part of the world – as in, it has always been part of the world and was created with the world – and magic that is ‘unnatural’ to the world, that’s what I’d call Natural Order Magic vs. Supernatural Order Magic. Natural Order Magic is like the Deep Magic in Narnia – a part of the world itself, not something brought into it. Supernatural Order Magic is something bestowed upon the world by an outside force – a god, a demon, etc. People can ‘harness’ magic from either one of these, but the source of the magic is vastly different. It’s sort of like Ordained vs. Unordained magic, but Natural Order Magic and Supernatural Order Magic can be both Ordained and Unordained. Think of perhaps, a Supernatural Order Magic that’s a gift from god to man – if it’s from the God, it’s from an ordained source. If it’s from a god, it’s an unordained source.

Long story short, I think there is a clear separation(Or at least I haven’t seen anyone break that separation…. yet.).