Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26041522-20150127014159/@comment-4511886-20150127072743

I want to point out that the game implies that Primevial Man is an ancestor to humans, rather than a human itself. The Pygmy wasn't human, but the creator, or oldest ancestor, of them. And similarly, Manus wasn't human, he was from before humans were truly human.

It's possible Manus was the Pygmy, but then he would've likely been able to adapt to the growth of his Lord Soul. Instead, his humanity goes wild, and he becomes corrupted into what he is in-game.

My take on the Dark Magic is that his soul is so corrupted by humanity that when he uses sorceries, which are normally powered by souls, they are powered by his humanity instead. Then some sorcerer(s) discovered a way to choose to use humanity to power sorceries, and that's how Dark Magic became a sub-category of sorceries.