Abjurers make sense but why diviners?

"Divination makes it hard to keep your mindset narrow. There are some evil diviners but they aren't evil wizards- if you're a very evil person trying to learn divination, you just can't get very far, I guess. I don't know. Wizards do mostly learn in schools, it's hard to self-study. Maybe diviners are good enough that evil ones can't learn much, but I don't know anything about universities, there weren't so many when my makers lived. -when I say 'evil wizard' I mean somebody who's powerful, not just somebody who's technically a wizard like you're technically a war-gymnast, I mean someone who's gotten really good at it and does lots of bad things with it."

"That makes sense. How does divination prevent narrow mindsets?"

"It doesn't do it directly, it's just like- so you're a blue, right, and blues who go into policy can't be as narrow as greens who go into theoretical mathematics. When you're focused on something that impacts lots of people, versus something that's just theoretically interesting to you, you start thinking more about what they want, and usually you have to care about them getting good things, to actually make it happen. And some people care more and want to do more just by having to see pain and suffering and things like that. Divination makes it hard to only just think about or care about you and what you think is interesting, because you're always seeing so much else. -I don't know, maybe theoretical math affects people somehow, I'm not omniscient, but the point stands."

"Not every blue who goes into policy is a decent person."

"No, but they're mostly not evil. It's hard to be evil if you want to do things for other people. I guess some blues just want to be powerful, maybe those are all evil. But that's exactly the thing with divination- if you just want power, you could learn enchantment or conjuration. So most people who are really very evil won't learn divination to begin with. And then if you learn divination it's hard to stay evil. Maybe they're not all good- I don't know that- but not a lot of evil wizards are diviners."

"I guess that makes sense. What kind of evil wizard had you?"

"He was a conjurer. He liked summoning things to enslave them for things. Sometimes he used enchantment magic to charm people he didn't summon. It was his favorite thing, having people who would just do what the told them to do."

"Ew! He sucks."

"Yeah!!! Some evil wizards just like having power, so they might use evocation to scare people into doing what they want or leaving them alone, and some like getting things they want, so they might use illusion or enchantment to trick people and steal from them- they're all a little different, but none of them care about hurting people to get what they want. That's why I don't like wizards, because any of them could be an evil wizard trying to trick me and I can't check unless someone asks me."

"Are there any wizards you want me to ask you about?"

"I guess the only important ones are the ones working with your project? We could ask about wizards on the Prime but that won't help, and I used to belong to a Prime wizard- I haven't had an owner since then, until you came along."

"I don't really want to own you. If you wanted to go somewhere else - I mean, you can't move but if you wanted to go with someone else - I'd let you."

"That's sweet of you! I don't mind being owned by nice people, and you did buy me. I appreciate the sentiment, though. If I decide I want to be somewhere else, I'll let you know. Did you want to know if any of your wizards are evil?"

"Yes please, are any of my wizards evil?"

"-why is one of your wizards evil! How did she even get onto Arcadia? It's Yllafina Rorsk, the abjurer who's making progress on sending things to Amenta. You have to get her off the project, you can't work with evil wizards. How did she- I don't know that, I just know that most of them are neutral except Yllafina, she's lawful evil, and your little wizard, Daernir, he's lawful neutral but I think he's evil-ish, you should make sure he doesn't grow up wrong."

"Oh no, I have no idea how an evil wizard got here. Can you tell what is evil about her?"

"Hmm, personal stuff is harder but I've got something- she likes controlling things so that she never has to worry, and she does that by- using abjuration to keep people away from any resource she wants to use but not right then, like if she finds components in the wild but doesn't have time to pick them, she makes it impossible for people to walk near them, or she'll sometimes banish people if they start arguing with her, but because everyone's good here they forgive her- stupid, forgiving evil wizards, but they don't know. She wants to be powerful enough to control the trade between your world and ours and not let anyone else control it- just because she wants to have it, she wants people to have to ask her permission. That's all I know, I can't know what's in her head- she hasn't killed anyone but she does things that would kill a prime, to protect her stuff. Maybe that's not evil since no one here can die from evil wizards."

"Well, I maybe could."

"Could you? -That's not a question, I'm not really better at answering questions than a person if you don't ask me questions."

"I'm not already a dead person so I'm not as safe as most people around here. Am I?"

"-oh wow you're really safe from some stuff and not safe at all from other stuff. Your mind is safe from a bunch of different things, I can't even list them all but- charm spells, love potions, the list goes on. You're not safe from almost anything physical, though, and probably not banishment- abjurers love using that on their enemies. That's a problem because it would send you home. You should talk to the non-evil wizards. They can protect you from her, and then you can all do something about her."

"Which wizards should I talk to?"

"Deveth, the mage, he knows mostly abjuration, divination, and enchantment spells. He can protect you and spy on her, and maybe do...something with enchantment, he's not an evil wizard so I don't know what that leaves, enchantment is mostly evil. He can- make animals listen to him and he can make a person stay still. That might be all of his enchantment stuff...Grilbek won't want to help and Friqine won't be able to."

"Okay. I'll ask Deveth. Is there anything else I should know?"