Defiler Arcane Schools

The following descriptions detail each arcane school and its corresponding powers.

Focused Arcane Schools

Wizards that specialize in one of the schools of magic can instead chose to focus their studies still further. Wizards who choose a focused arcane school retain the bonus spells from their school and must select two prohibited schools as normal, but the focused school changes one or more of the powers granted by their arcane school. A wizard must take all of the replacement powers associated with his focused arcane school. Once a focused arcane school is chosen, it cannot be changed.

School	Focused Arcane Schools
Abjuration	Banishment, Counterspell
Conjuration	Creation, Extradimension, Teleportation
Divination	Foresight, Prophecy, Scryer
Evocation	Admixture, Generation
Necromancy	Life, Undead
Transmutation	Enhancement, Shapechange
Universalist

Elemental Arcane Schools

Instead of specializing in one of the standard eight schools of magic, a wizard can choose to specialize in one of the four elemental schools of magic. Like a normal arcane school, an elemental school grants a number of school powers and one bonus spell slot of each level the wizard can cast, from 1st on up. This bonus spell slot must be used to prepare a spell from the elemental school’s spell list (see Chapter 5). Unlike a normal arcane school, each elemental school requires the wizard to select his opposed element as his opposition school (air opposes earth, fire opposes water). He does not need to select a second opposition school. He must expend two spell slots to prepare a spell from his opposed elemental school as normal.

School
Aether
Metal
Void
Wood