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<blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3785310" data-attributes="member: 28553">Not at all.&nbsp; At least opposition is a thematic connection.&nbsp; But I think it's easy to find a logical connection as well: A Wizard might be capable with both fire and ice spells because he's skilled at manipulating temperature.For that matter, I could happily put fire and lightning spells in the same tradition, as they're both associated with summoning up energy.&nbsp; Or cold and darkness, as they're both associated with negating energy.But acid and ice?It'd make as much sense--and would work about as well thematically--for a water-themed caster to be slinging around steam and bases.&nbsp; You can look at acid and ice as expressions of water, sure, but they're two very specific (and otherwise unrelated) subsets of water-related phenomena.&nbsp; And they just sound really dumb as the central themes of a magical tradition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreatLemur, post: 3785310, member: 28553"] Not at all. At least opposition is a thematic connection. But I think it's easy to find a logical connection as well: A Wizard might be capable with both fire and ice spells because he's skilled at manipulating temperature. For that matter, I could happily put fire and lightning spells in the same tradition, as they're both associated with summoning up energy. Or cold and darkness, as they're both associated with [i]negating[/i] energy. But acid and ice? It'd make as much sense--and would work about as well thematically--for a water-themed caster to be slinging around steam and bases. You can look at acid and ice as expressions of water, sure, but they're two very specific (and otherwise unrelated) subsets of water-related phenomena. And they just [i]sound really dumb[/i] as the central themes of a magical tradition. [/QUOTE]

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