The seven Schools of Magic represent the main categorizations of magic as elaborated by the archmages of the Magical Academy of Ximax (note that categorizations of magic are always dependent on the point of view of the magicians designing these categorizations and therefore cannot be seen as a "general truth"). Each School is divided further into two spheres of the School (one physical representation and one spiritual), and these spheres are further split up into various spell classes. Finally each spell class contains a group of spells. Inititates in Ximax have to focus on one of the basic spell classes first and level up before they can move to any of the advanced spell classes, where they can further improve what they have learned. Since the 3rd century the 4 Elemental Schools and the 2 Archschools are taught in the current form at the Academy. Though the arcane School of Weaving is not officially taught in Ximax, the magicians at the Academy try to analyze and put this school as well into the general scheme, though knowledge about it is mostly scarce and from second hand.

Concept. According to the canon of the Magical Academy of Ximax and thus the famous guidebook of Xeuátan Khaelvan III. (9th century a.S.) all known kinds of magic are part of the 7 Schools of Magic, six official schools and one arcane. The schools can be seen as a pyramide on three levels, which we'd like to describe as follows:

• The 4 Elemental Schools (Wind, Earth, Fire and Water)
• The 2 Archschools (Xeuá, the Connecting Principle, and Ecuá, the Disconnecting Principle)
• The School of Weaving (the arcane art of magic)

In order to be able to cast spells of the two Archschools of Xeuá and Ecuá one usually has to go through the basic schools of one or two of the Elemental Schools, at least this is the way magic is dealt with at the Ximaxian Academy. Exceptions which are also reported throughout the lands of exceptionally gifted persons in the art of magic only confirm the common rule.

The School of Weaving (casting "raw magic") on the other hand is not officially taught at the Ximaxian Academy, though it is recognized as an official "School". You might still find masters of this art in Ximax, but Weaving in general is more seen as a gift than something you can learn through other kinds of magic.

A Magical School is a general categorization, which deals with all kinds of spells this School stands for, e.g. a Wind School obviously deals with all kinds of wind spells. Wind spells for example are defined as spells, where the spells' focus lies on the Element of Wind, which means in particular, on dealing with an element/principle in exactly 3 ways:

• intensifying or removing wind (earth, water, xeuá etc.) energies
• applying or initiating wind (earth, water, xeuá etc.) energies
• creating or re-creating of wind (earth, water, xeuá etc.) energies

At the diagram above you can see a general example of the splitting up of a School of Magic into 3 spheres, each sphere with a physical and a spiritual representation, thus making a complete amount of 6 spell classes. The central icons represent the flow of the elemental cár'áll the School stands for.

School Example. Let's take a look at a specific Elemental School to see how the system works in detail. We use the Wind School for the following example. In the following example we try to represent the qualities of the cár'áll by expressing the cár'áll through quantifications: Let's take an object, whose cár'áll can be divided into 40% wind, 30% earth, 20% water and 10% fire and see how the spheres change these proportions:

• SPHERE I - Intension/Removal of Elemental Energies (Mirage)

  In this case the first spell sphere's focus means: intensify/remove wind cár'áll at the target, make target more or less wind dominated. An example, mathematically spoken: the 40% of the wind cár'áll may be expanded to 60% or decreased to 20% (depending on the orientation of the spell), replacing or freeing room for other qualities, however without adding new quality (like you can stretch rubber for example). The other elemental components are diminished or increased proportionally.
  
  a) Physical Representation: Illusion
  Increasing/decreasing wind in the physical sense means: to make an object lighter or more transparent for example, or even invisible, without actually changing the object physically: The object only appears to be different. Therefore the spell class is named "Illusion". Note that an object appears as well differently e.g. at the Fire School, which would make it an "illusion", however, spell classes are not named for what they have in common, but for their main focus related to the element, which in the Flame School example is Pyrification.
  
  b) Spiritual Representation: Wind Enchantment
  Increasing/decreasing wind in the spirtual sense means: to fill a person's (mind) or a spirit with more of the already inherent wind (or to reduce the amount), to expand or diminish it, e.g. to make a person see things or not, to trick the mind with the presence of things which aren't there, or to make a person temporarilly more intelligent. Note again that cár'áll is only shifted in this spell class, not added or completely removed.
   

• SPHERE II - Application/Initiation of Elemental Energies (Movement)

  Application or initiation means to actually align wind within the target or guide the target (through) the element to something. In both cases quality (cár'áll) isn't added or changed at all.
  
  The first case means: Wind cár'áll is put in confrontation to the target and a reaction in the target is triggered caused by the wind "initiation" process.
  
  The second case means: You only give the target a direction or take the initial direction away. Mathematically spoken: If you have a complex structure which consists of 20% wind, 10% earth, then again 30% wind (at another place) and again 40% earth, focussing would result in a desired order/priority: 20% wind, 30% wind, 10% earth, 40% earth or, more precise then: 50% wind, 10% earth, 40% earth. Removing the direction is e.g. very typical for fire spells, which are more of chaotic nature.
  
  a) Physical Representation: Motion
  Physical wind being applied to items may cause them to move or may destroy them, or - like in the Clap of Thunder spell - to clash two clouds against each other, thus producing a lightning as an indirect affect.
  
  b) Spiritual Representation: Guidance
  The spirtual representation of this sphere usually focusses on the realignment of the elemental energies and thus - in the case of wind spells - often restores the equilibrum of the mind.
   

• SPHERE III - Creation/Re-creation of Elemental Energies (Clarity)

  Spiritually creating wind means getting the knowlegde of something, and applying it means to restore something that was lost (adding wind from the outside). Note that there's a major difference between Enchantment and Restoration. Enchantment means to make a quality predominant in an object (e.g. wind), restoration means adding a quality (again or anew). An example, mathematically spoken: 20% wind + 30% wind new = 50%. This third sphere is the most powerful of all as it actually forms something new and this happens directly.
  
  a) Physical Representation: Restoration
  Physical creation in the wind sense means to re-construct something new (to add wind, spirit or purpose), mainly from damaged material (living or life-less) and is therefore a good precursor in respect of xeuá magic where actually creation instead of re-creation takes place.
  
  b) Spiritual Representation: Perception
  The equivalent to the physical re-creation (by adding wind) is the understanding lying behind the re-creation, the wind needed to re-create. Therefore spiritual representation spells often deal with identifying, remembering or sensing.