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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8935391" data-attributes="member: 6779196">To me, the existence of spells with names that connect them to specific inventors implies that spells not named this way don’t have known inventors, which certainly could be because they’re old and the inventor’s name is lost to history. But there could be many other reasons. Maybe some spells are basic enough it doesn’t make sense to attribute their “invention” to anyone. I’m pretty sure anyone who can do magic could pretty easily come up with the idea of summoning a ball of fire, and whatever Arcane formulae are involved have probably been arrived at independently by countless mages from across the world. I’m sure there must be plenty of spells that were invented by anonymous mages as well. Maybe some mages prefer to keep their spells “open source” as it were. There are all sorts of reasons a spell might not have an inventor mentioned in its name, being old is just one of them.</blockquote>