Covenants and schools of magic

[Darktides-maelstrom]

Kyrian - Arcane
Night Fae - Nature
Venthyr - Shadow
Necrolords - Shadow

Why not all Shadow in the Shadowlands?

Any idea where the source of each school of magic resides?

[Lenastus-zuljin (Lenastus)]

Still feel like Ardenweal should be more drust since drust is the ‘’ death ‘’ part of nature and we are in the death realm…

[Darktides-maelstrom]

Is there any Lore regarding any of this that the Lore nerds are aware of?

[Nightlighter-quelthalas (Nightlighter)]

As much as I love Ardenweald for me in the end it felt like it took too many things from the Emerald Dream.
Ardenweald should have been a part of a Nature Realm. Anyway here we are.

[Lenastus-zuljin (Lenastus)]

Yup. Even if i love the zone and consider it as one if not the most beautiful zone ever, it really feet out of place in the death realm.

[Darktides-maelstrom]

I guess this means the Lore Nerds dont know

[Mellow-alexstrasza (Mellow)]

Well, when it comes to the schools of magic, we have the cosmology chart; which may or may not be perfectly accurate.
Shadow is shadow/void, which is separate from death and decay (which is the energy of the shadowlands… so the name is a little misleading)

There’s a good chance that the covenants’ magic schools are just for mechanics purposes.

[Darktides-maelstrom]

@Mellow-alexstrasza

There’s a good chance that the covenants’ magic schools are just for mechanics purposes.

Probably the case.

[Murphio-moon-guard (Murphio)]

All of the “Schools” in-game aren’t representative of the Lore anymore,… if it ever was at all.
I would say all of them are forms of Death magic (aka Necromancy), some more than others. Venthyr and Maldraxxi magics seem more in tune with what we’re familiar with, whereas the Fae and Kyrian magics are very different.

[Asana-moon-guard (Asana)]

It’s actually none of those. All magic in the SL is Death soul magic. There’s no arcane or life energy being used here, or Void either. Or any of the others. Even Ardenweald is still entirely Death magic. Anima is the lifeblood behind everything, it just comes in different colors and flavors depending on the covenant.

But at heart it’s all the same magic whether it’s being used to draw out sins from the condemned or to revive nature spirits or create plague constructs.

[Benedikt-emerald-dream]

Spell damage type hasn’t mattered since you could hurt fire elementals with pyroblast. I’m only aware Mind Games does Shadow damage because that’s the school I can’t cast from for a sec if it’s interrupted.

Don’t think about it harder than the people paid to do.