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In Simon R. Green's world, there were water mages and mist mages. That always stuck with me because I liked the idea that someone could be specialized in a specific form of an element[1] (or reaction[2]) while others were more generic.
That lead into the “original” system (Crystal Spheres Techniques) not making a distinction but then someone inventing something that attempted to create a new system that did.
We've seen this in our world when Carl Linnaeus[3] came up with his taxonomy with genus and species.
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus
Naturally, I decided to go with the faux-Latin of my world, Lojban[4] which has a more relaxed variant in Fedran called Lorban[5] (and the source of most of my naming).
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
I haven't delved too far into the Towler Classification[6], but the basic ideas are there:
Below are various useful links within this site and to related sites (not all have been converted over to Gemini).