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Sub list of magics

Summoning magics: Magic which draws a creature to a spot of your chooseing, sometimes it is used to bind or manipulate the creature after it is summoned. A summoned creature must go to the one who summoned it or the place the summoner directs it to go.
Only when The person is Summoning something into the physical... Pretty much manifesting a spirit in the form of a candle.

Sheild magics: Creating a defensive sheild to stop attacks protect your self and other defensive things, it can be used offensively to but is less likely to be used that way.
Physical Shields... Shields which can interact with people physically

Candle magic: Any magic having to do with using a candle as a focus. Generally used for summoning or outlining parameters, also can be used for divination and fire based magic?s.

Mirror magic: Any magic having to do with using a mirror as a focus. Scrying, summoning, trapping things in mirrors. In other words using mirrors as a focus for a gateway, also can be used as a shield or a barrier

Bindings: Warding is another term for this, it is blocking certain functions from use except for the specified parameters. It?s like putting a lock on something such as a door or a certain activity. The lock prevents the door to be opened or the activity to be done. This can be an aspect of shielding.

Herbalist magic's: Using the natural abilities of herbs and natural alloys for magical purposes.

Life magic: Magic which utilizes the power of life. This can be creating new life healing and other such things, this can also be sapping the power of life from someone or blocking them from the source of life. There is more it's a complicated and much debated subject.

Death magic: Magic which utilizes the power of death. When something dies it gives off all it's power, all the power that was in the physical body, death magic utilizes this through sacrifices or just channeling the energies of the recently dead. It does not take the power of the soul just the power the soul lost when it lost its body.

Elemental magic's: Magic utilizing the power of the elements and physical world. Also manipulation of the elements

Creation magic's: Using pure energy to create physical structures.

Necromancy sad common definition) Giving a person a new lease on life in exchange for there free will. (other definition) Calling on dead spirits for guidance power.
This is bringing the spiritual into the physical through binding.

Transmutation: Changing one physical or spiritual object into another

Shape shifting: Changing your physical or spiritual form into something else

Channeling: Drawing in energy or influence and passing it through a physical conduit

Illusion: Creating images that don't exist (doesn't take much energy or at least as much as actually creating or changing something. Mostly just bending light)

Levitation: Using energy manipulation to move things and much much more (latter may come a list of creatures and a small description of creatures and magic?s for those who are unaware)