I would also prefer the slavery explanation. While individual cultures in our land have varied rates of belief in magic in our world, the collective of our society we shouldn't use it for lore that affects the entire server. Perhaps we could say in the lore that the people who were being used as slaves for the mass construction were brought up in isolation and taught to believe that their overseers had occult powers, a sort of mass hypnosis/indoctrination, and that might have gone on for a while until some of the officials started to believe it as well. or something. That way preserving part of the reason we were given afterwards, while still giving it an explanation we can use in our actual lore
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-Erastil
-King of Pyrencia
-The Hydra
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