>>95888237
>>95908554
Pictomancer in this context is largely thought to be a sort of parallel evolution to summoning. Summoning itself is based off of ancient creation magics and was reintroduced to by a secretive cabal who sabotaged them even as they did so in order to forment chaos. Thus the actual summoning spells used by summoners within the game are actually even more gimped because the summons are actively hostile to the summoner and the summoner needs keep them in line with sheer force of will and magic and generally they can only summon extremely weak versions of the full, very malevolent summons. Pictomancy thus instead seems to be a sort of parallel evolution that discards the original basis of the ancient creation magics and instead of using the summons as a loci, it uses the paintings and paint as a loci and the paint itself is what gathers and patterns the aether in the form of the spell guided by the caster itself.