User blog comment:Njalm2/Nanja's Grimoire: Conjuration/@comment-18812574-20160105155527/@comment-3403804-20160106061444

The Coven will in all likelihood be very diverse in their mastery of the Eight Schools of Magic, the battlemages of the organization though will most likely be skilled within the arts of either Evocation, Conjuration, Illusion or Necromancy. Although any of the eight schools can have direct applications for combat, those four are by far the most effective.

Evocation: Deals with raw insubstantial energy in it's purest form, shaped into powerful and spectacular spells of destruction.

Conjuration: Deals with summoning forth entities, objects or other matters of substance for a longer period of time.

Abjuration: The School of Prevention, whose primary purpose is to prevent something, whether that be a spell, an attack, action or concept.

Enchantment: Deals with spells that manipulate thoughts, emotions, the mind and in spiritual creatures, the very soul.

Illusion: Creates false impressions and imprints that seek to change a targets very way of thinking by either showing them terrible sights, or hiding something of importance.

Divination: Spells that deal with the concept of truth, whether that be in knowledge, destroying illusions or discovering weaknesses in an opponents abilities.

Necromancy: Spells that deal with the duality of Life and Death, they can kill as easily as they can heal even the most gruesome injuries. They're also infamous for the creation of undead.

Transmutation: These spells center on change, whether that be in improving somethings properties, or changing a concept, phenomenon or even a person.