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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6276873" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Divine magic doesn't require that you know how it works in order to use it. It either works because people believe in it, or because there is an actual deity out there who is granting your requests. It's not science. Nothing can be proven, and for the most part, nobody cares. Analyzing it would require sacrificing your faith, at which point it wouldn't work anymore.Arcane magic is different. You have to know what you're doing, because you're controlling it all yourself. Wizards know exactly how it works, which is why they can invent new spells.As far as anyone else is concerned, the cleric and the wizard both know what they're doing, and that's good enough for them. You might occasionally get a commoner/noble/peasant with knowledge of religion/arcana, and they would know this much, and they would also know that they can't work magic themselves unless they spend some significant time learning all of the details, as represented through class levels or feats or what-have-you.</blockquote>