The Torchlight Society categorizes spells into six forms of magic, and further into a total of eighteen Schools. Each school of magic describes the ways in which its spells and enchantments affect reality.
Any school of magic can be gained as a specialty skill.
Elemental magic invokes the destructive forces of nature.
Divine magic involves the forces of life and protection.
Physical magic interacts with the states and chemical compositions of matter.
Psionic magic interacts with the human mind and its perceptions of reality.
Spectral magic deals with the forces of death and the afterlife.
Temporal magic manipulates the fabric of spacetime.