Enochian

Enochian is the written and spoken language of beings of cosmic power. It is the language of the First Gods and the Heavenly Host.

Every letter and sound is a hieroglyph or phoneme of staggering cosmic energy and geometric complexity that taps directly into the Power Cosmic to frame that energy into more specific constructs.

Few creatures are capable of channeling such energy, or even focusing their will sufficiently to establish the framework do so. Those who can, however, use the Enochian language to redefine reality with every word from their mouth. Fortunately, the full knowledge of Enochian is largely guarded by the Archangels and curated by Heaven's record-keeper, Metatron.

Virtually every mortal culture with an affinity for magic has, over time, developed complex workings that grant limited access to Enochian. But even among the Wise, very few understand the connection to Enochian or are even aware of it in a conceptual sense. Beings with access to the Power Cosmic are very loathe to share such information with anyone, particularly mortals.

For an aspiring magus spellwork is going to be in a strange language and possibly require many peculiar components metaphysically related to the task at hand. It is often very idiosyncratic as well, derived from the trappings of culture it originated from. A Taoist monk might write complex calligraphy on sheets of white paper to summon a storm, while a shaman from the First Nations could call rain with a dance and ritual song. Both of these are attempts to emulate Enochian. But compared to the perfect language of the universe, any mortal construct is inherently flawed. Compensating for mortal inadequacies causes the difficulty of spellcasting to increase exponentially with the scope thereof.