What Tradition is Clone?

[KingTreyIII]

Pretty simple question: If several casters perform the clone ritual, what would the ritual's tradition be? The ritual rules say that the primary skill check determines the tradition, but...uh...the primary check is Crafting in this case. And there's two "tradition skills" among the secondary checks, so we can't base it off of that. This is the one ritual that does not have Arcana, Occultism, Nature, or Religion as one of the primary skills, so it seems like a strange oversight.

[Cordell Kintner]

It looks like this ritual is non-magical. You're growing a clone in an alchemy lab, there's nothing inherently magical about that.

[Sibelius Eos Owm]

I want to say it's definitely magical. Not only is it a ritual but it has a spell school trait. This is a very good question, actually. I feel like obviously it's going to be either Occult or Arcane but nothing particularly recommends itself to one or the other necessarily. Perhaps pick one? The base ritual rules don't cover what happens when the primary check is not a magic skill.

The Magical trait does exist for things which are imbued with magic but do not belong to any one tradition--perhaps that is the case here, too.

[Cordell Kintner]

Having a school trait doesn't mean it has to be magical. Take Life Leap for example.

In the end it really doesn't matter which tradition it is, or if it's even magical. Unless you want to make a clone in the Mana Wastes.

[Captain Morgan]

If I had to pick a tradition, I'd say Arcane, which is the closest match for alchemy in terms of pseudo science.

[demon321x2]

Rules wise I'm not sure it matters, but looking at what it does which is grow a lump of flesh into a body that seems to fit most with either Divine which focuses on spells related to life or Occult which still has life based spells but with a more weird tilt to them. Arcane really doesn't do the necromancy/life thing well anymore. Though class wise it's definitely much more of a wizard spell than a bard or cleric spell.