Thread:Ursuul/@comment-37950665-20181228152231/@comment-28083312-20181228211952

I know, I tried to say “section in a page” implying that we don’t have one yet. I say that earth magic is most appropriate not because I want to categorize things as air, earth, water, & fire, but rather because Harry specifically mentions earth magic numerous times throughout the series. Vulcanomancy is also considered a subset of earth magic in White Night when Harry says that the beauty of earth magic is momentum, referring to how his act of vulcanomancy just kept going on its own, & he differentiates the difference between earth magic & raw will when with Odin implying that earth magic is its own area of magic. It even exists on its own naturally, as energy, with certain ley lines consisting entirely of natural earth magic. I daresay that earth magic is the most well-established “school” of magic that we have been exposed to, other than evocation vs thaumaturgy. Earth magic is all to do with magnetism, raw power, & momentum. Different wizards can produce certain types of magic with more proficiency than others, but Molly is capable of unloading power if she needs to, just not very good at it. That’s not to say there aren’t schools, or perhaps areas is a better word, of magic, just that some wizards are better at certain parts than others. Subject to another pair of eyes scrutiny, I'd favor slightly different layout of the magic group of pages. I would merge Alchemy, Anthropomancy, Holomancy, Kinetomancy, Necromancy, Phonoturgy, Psychomancy, Verisimilomancy and Vulcanomancy with Magic, while keeping Black magic, Ectomancy, Evocation, Summoning, and Thaumaturgy as indipendent pages. I don’t know if I definitively agree. I agree that Magic is overarching, with all of those arts being a part of magic, but I disagree that all of them ought to be centralized in one page. These are pretty distinct arts, forming a nice tree: These are all distinct fields of magic. Ectomancy is something that Dresden, as a wizard, can do, but Mortimer Lindquist is just better at it because that’s the only thing he can do, & thus he gets in a lot more practice than Dresden (like how many small talents only have access to one small area of magic). It is an area of magic just like earth magic is. I personally think that readers will be better served if we display magic in the compartmentalized fashion that it is in the books. That different people have different aptitudes for different areas of magic (& some people can’t even use some areas of magic) says to me that magic itself is broad enough to merit discriminating documentation. I just think that Vulcanomancy & Holomancy specifically are so small & specific that they can be included as a small subsection of earth magic & verisimilomancy, respectively.
 * Magic
 * Alchemy (imbuing things with magic that acts on its own, much like enchantment)
 * Psychomancy (not an application of power but rather of will)
 * Evocation (direct applications of magical power)
 * Earth Magic
 * Vulcanomancy
 * Phonoturgy
 * Kinetomancy
 * Verisimilomancy
 * Holomancy
 * Thaumaturgy (indirect applications of magical power)
 * Anthropomancy
 * Ectomancy
 * Summoning