In Lucifer's rebellion against God, one of the archangels declared himself uninvolved. He, and those Angels who sided with his neutrality, were punished for their actions with a banishment to earth. Part of that punishment was to guide mankind in the way of God and teach them how to use God's most powerful gifts. This duty they fulfilled. As such, each of them was evaluated and his punishment ended.
Overtime, however, without the Angel's guidance man corrupted these gifts, debasing them and ignoring the God from whence these abilities came. Those who practiced the gifts used their creative abilities to divide and sort the powers the head been trained in. Over generations a single word emerged to defined the powers that had been corrupted, magic.
