Interesting. I'd figured that the arcane spark would always come along with the elemental one, even if it's weaker and harder to control because the flame can interfere. Is Henry just very lucky to have both?
Yes and no. Arcane Wells (the technical name for the reserve of magic inside a body) are inside everyone, but for most people, those are very, very small. The average Well is a thousandth of what Athagan has. And the MC's is bigger. But his Well is not due to luck, well, not only.
Most people can atually use arcane-based magic, it's just not really useful. Like a car with a fuel tank the size of a thimble, you get what I mean?
Elemental magic is incredibly rare, in Aetas, there are two. The only other known elemental magic users are the high-elves, who are the only rivals of Aetas when it come to magic, and they only have four themselves. None are as strong as the MC.
There are other beings were it's more common, but those beings are generally living in the plane of Fire. In the material plane, the one the story take place so far, Djinn and Dragons are known to have elemental magic as default. Djinns are nearly extinct, and the dragons mostly keep to themselves since a war between them and the humanoid races decimated their numbers. It happenned centuries ago, before the curse.
So yeah, Henri is the exception.
I mean, he IS an orphan MC in a Fantasy genera game, so that's sort of empirically implied?

That's a good one.
I never hid that it was a power fantasy. As for the orphan, I wanted to follow the time-honored tradition of the players choosing to make their characters orphans. And while it was not planned, not having to answer the "When are we going to fuck the Mom?" from incest lover, like a lot of other devs, is appreciated.
Will we ever see them retake the mine ?
Yep. But not soon. Right now they are about Eloise and avenging the biological attack on Wildale, and the murder of the Fishmonger's little girl. And it's going to be a long mission with "side quests", so to speak.
"spark" it's the source of elemental lighting magic. as "flame" is for elemental fire, "shard" for elemental ice and "drop" for elemental water. vander explained in his setting djin are master of all elemental magic types, but the their children with other race it's up to random chance the type and the strength of inherited elemental magic. the MC got very lucky and got a strong flame and a decent spark, in addition his arcane potential, probably inherited from his human lineage.
all fire elemental magic come from a flame. and there are more creature be able to use it not only djinn. at the start of the game are noted most fire elementalist come from dragon or efreet descendance.
in a future, i hope. or i bash personally vander with a ceckov gun.
Very good post, everything in it is factual, except for the arcane potential.