Is thaumogenesis a real word? It is now. Time for some spitballing. (Poor choice of words, perhaps?) We've been given a few clues about meteors, moons, and dragons in the Qartheen legend and elsewhere that may describe the origins of magic and what strikes me most is how... sexual the imagery of a meteor strike can be when a comet, for example, is viewed as a symbolic sperm and the target world an unfertilized egg. Perhaps magic was literally "born" on Westeros from a kind of magical Panspe