Esoteric
Esoteric adjective - Difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand.
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If you wanted, you could create something as everyday as an Aquamancer or something as rare and esoteric as Epidermancy, a school of magic useful only useful for removing blemishes with magic.
Source: Whatevermancy -
A common form of magic in the works of Katherine Kurtz, such as the Deryni series, in which it has a dual purpose: to foster the deep concentration needed to use the more demanding Deryni powers, and to draw the esoteric connections of Hermetic Magic.
Source: Ritual Magic - Twilight (who embodies the esoteric "magic", and in this series friendship is magic) loses all faith in her friends and in friendship itself.
Source: Became Their Own Antithesis
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