Divination
This school includes a variety of spells that reveal information that would otherwise remain hidden or secret. Greater divination spells reveal the existence of specific items, creatures, or conditions, as well as information about the past, present, and future. This school also includes spells that contact creatures from other planes of existence, but do not induce direct action from those creatures.
Specialist Name: Diviner
Lesser Divination
The divination spells listed below are collectively known as the school of lesser divination. Lesser divination is considered to be a minor school of magic; that is, wizards can't become specialists in lesser divination.
The term "minor" is used collectively here for a group of spells that are available to all mages even if they are specialists with an opposition school of Divination.
This list of spells is small and reflects on those spells that all mages need to know to be proficient at their craft:
- Read Magic
- Detect Magic
- Identify
Although all specialists can learn lesser divination spells, they cannot learn them any more easily or effectively than they can learn spells from schools other than their own. All non-diviners learn lesser divination spells at a penalty of -15 percent on the Knowledge Table; for instance, either a conjurer or an illusionist with an Knowledge of 15 has a 50 percent chance of learning any given lesser divination spell.
All lesser divination spells are also considered to be part of the school of greater divination. Therefore, a diviner has a 15 percent bonus on the Knowledge Table to learn lesser divination spells; for instance, a diviner with an Knowledge of 15 has an 80 percent chance of learning any lesser divination spell.
As a practical matter no Mage would go out into the world until she had learned Read Magic as it is critical to being able to write their own spells into a spell book. Any starting character will have read magic in their repertoire.
Note: this list of spells is different than what has appeared in other rule books. These are the only spells that make up the lesser school of divination.
