- There are eight schools of magic: Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, and Transmutation.
Each spell belongs to one of these schools, categorizing the different magical effects a spellcaster can produce.
For example, Abjuration spells involve creating barriers, negating harmful effects, harming trespassers, or banishing creatures. Conjuration spells involve transporting creatures or objects.
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Some see the schools as unimportant, but they tell a spell’s story without reading it, letting imagination run wild.
During character creation, wizard characters can specialize in one school, preparing extra spells of that school each day and gaining bonuses to related Spellcraft checks.
They must neglect two other schools, unable to learn or cast spells from them. -
There are also two sources of magic: arcane and divine. Not all magic fits in the eight schools or these sources, but most approaches classify all magic into the eight schools regardless.
- Early theories saw magic as an evolutionary stage contrasting with religion. Some associated it with primitive thinking.
Magic has great complexity and utility. Why else practice it, if not for the power?
What is the most powerful school of magic?
What do schools of magic do?