A physical shell is made out of frost or arcane energy, then it is filled with power and given sentience. In many recent instances, mage elementals are explained being more like 'constructs'. It depends on what book author or quest writer you're reading content off of. It's that the Frost and Fire magic that Mages use are not the natural, rimal forces of the elements, but rather a kind of 'synthetic' frost and fire made out of Arcane or a result of Arcane manipulation.Īs for elementals, it's not clear. Recent lore suggests what a lot of people on this thread have already repeated.
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In a world plagued with so many threats, you won't be famous for being that mage that became a master at conjuring items or knowing how to turn a chair into a sofa. But if you want to go combat and be good at it fire and frost (and pure arcane damage) are the way. There are combat spells that fit fire and frost and there are utility spells like Polymorph that go into Transmutation and there are defensive spells that go into different schools of arcane. I guess you could look at it differently. Kael'Thas actually used arcane shield in TBC in both encounters, but over the years he was just known as the fire mage. The problem is the way mages are portrayed in game, lore wise mages are capable of far more and they actually apply many schools of magic.
For instance Kael'Thas is the OG fire mage but he is also known for being powerful with Abjuration, he had one of the most powerful mana shields known. Like Abjuration for example, you can form a fire shield or a frost shield or a simple mana shield depending on what you need. The Schools of Arcane Magic gives a broader view of how arcane works and what schools of magic there are.įrom what I gather you combine these schools with something like fire or frost. Doesn't mean that lesser known mages don't specialise in other types of arcane arts. The big names use Fire and Frost because that's just what they went to. And he doesn't affiliate with a certain race or culture so he has the freedom to explore everything for knowledge. This takes a lot of time, study and practice to do. Some go with multiple specialisations like Khadgar, people that pursue the idea of knowledge above all, to learn about everything. So a lot of them specialised in fire instead of other arcane arts. Blood Elves like fire magic because they were all about the sun and they also have a Phoenix as their symbol.
It's also up to the individual and what they specialise in. There is no reason why a mage couldn't conjure arcane lightning or water / earth for example. If you want to go to the root, it's just what mages have been known to dabble in since before Warcraft and they are simple and popular. While other schools of the arcane are considered more complex. There are many schools of arcane magic that have nothing to do with fire or frost.įire and frost are considered to be simple manifestations of arcana.
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