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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8449288" data-attributes="member: 7025997">The opposition goes back to the Romantic period (19th century), when Romantic poets, novelists, etc. wanted to oppose the Enlightenment's overemphasis on reason. It's pretty post-medieval; medieval 'scientists' would have called themselves natural philosophers, and would be trying to understand God's world to better understand His plan.Ironically you can more or less do cleric=priest and druid=shaman, with whatever term you prefer standing in for 'shaman' for religious specialists in tribal societies.Wizards have a view of the supernatural probably closest to the modern scientific view than anything historical--it's a bunch of defined regular patterns (spells) you can study and master. They study in wizards' colleges and do research like modern scientists, brew potions like chemists, and make magical items like engineers.</blockquote>