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Have you read Sergey Tarmashev’s fantasy novel “Darkness”? I think the magic system is very well done. The ranks of magic range from red to violet. Humans can reach the violet circle (i.e., the maximum), while orcs can only reach orange/yellow. I would still give orcs some magic, or rather, something that isn’t quite magic but is a kind of semi-magic. What do I mean? I mean that what they use could be called a “chant,” which in some ways has properties similar to magic…