The Eighth Runelord

[Yakman]

So... and I'm sure I'm missing something, but didn't 'Divination' magic work prior to the death of Aroden?

So... wouldn't there have been an 8th School of Magic, and thus, possibly, an 8th School of Sin Magic... and thus an 8th Runelord?

Are we missing something fun?

A cursory look for an '8th Deadly Sin' came up with 2 popular options: cowardice and despair. I think Cowardice is the better option, but Despair is arguably the better fit for 'Divination'

Thoughts? Is this just silly and already ruled out?

[Kasoh]

Yakman wrote:

So... and I'm sure I'm missing something, but didn't 'Divination' magic work prior to the death of Aroden?

So... wouldn't there have been an 8th School of Magic, and thus, possibly, an 8th School of Sin Magic... and thus an 8th Runelord?

Are we missing something fun?

A cursory look for an '8th Deadly Sin' came up with 2 popular options: cowardice and despair. I think Cowardice is the better option, but Despair is arguably the better fit for 'Divination'

Thoughts? Is this just silly and already ruled out?

I can't recall the source right now, so this might not be correct, but I think its that Divination was considered either universally useful or utterly useless so Xin didn't focus on an aspect of it when he was making his color wheel of magic schools.

[Rysky]

They just didn’t consider Divination to be it’s own school basically.

[Deadmanwalking]

Yeah, they considered Divination foundational, and thus Universal. Remember that each Sin has two schools they can't even cast, having Divination be one of those would mean that some Thassilonian Mages couldn't use it at all, which would be crippling for them.

[The Golux]

Yeah thassilionian magic considered all divination magic to be part of the universal school, mechanically.