It depends on how dark your story is. If it's not too dark, then you don't need to delve into them. For me, the "darkness" is internal, not external and when things that are quite sensitive happen, they're alluded to or hinted at. For example, one of the characters' mother works as a tea seller...
Yes, I expected to be hard to follow because I made it really dense in the post, but in the novel I plan on making, , these concepts are going to be introduced one by one, rather than dumping info on the readers and characters, who aren't of Tilmun and have no memories for reasons.
The power system is a quasi-elemental magic system that relies on the senses of words—their denotations and connotations.
In this world, Tilmun, people essentially speaking two languages: Arabic and English, basically. Those that speak "Arabic," mainly humans, call it Tamtheel—representation...