Schools of Affinity

The spell schools are not only academic labels. They are currents of intent. When a character declares a School of Affinity, they are identifying the kind of magic that answers them most naturally.

• Abjuration is the assertion of limits: protection, refusal, containment, and warding.
• Conjuration is the art of presence: calling, anchoring, summoning, and making distance negotiable.
• Divination is the pursuit of hidden knowledge: memory, possibility, truth, and pattern.
• Elemental is raw force: fire, frost, lightning, pressure, weather, and violent change.
• Illusion is the architecture of perception: image, belief, fear, concealment, and misdirection.
• Necromancy is the boundary of life and death: remains, spirits, endings, hunger, and return.
• Restoration is renewal: healing, cleansing, repair, resilience, and the refusal to let damage have the final word.
• Transmutation is transformation: matter, body, form, motion, and the belief that no state is final.

A School of Affinity is not a school uniform. It is the shape of a caster's inner gravity. Changing it should require a major story event: conversion, trauma, revelation, oath-breaking, divine contact, abyssal rewriting, or another transformation deep enough to change how the character reaches for power.