Schools of Magic

I suspect the trees aren't going to be divided by spell school or even by cold/fire/lighning. The warriors 3 skill trees are a apparently defense oriented, weapons oriented, ability oriented with you being able to travel to the specialisations down 2 of 3 trees.

Mages have been stated to burn, shock, freeze, crush, do melee (which since it's there to account for you being some thing like crow presumably is not saved for spec) and healing.

So if the mage also has three skill trees and three specs you can travel to through 2 skill trees they're probably not divided up in the same way as any previous game.

While the inquisition trees did have control, buff, and debuff effects it was strongly weighed towards elemental themeing. I'd like to see the non elemental spells of earlier game's schools back but I'm less worried about them being in trees that named for the schools specifically. If the trees are divided into
1. Buff/heal, 2. Debuff/damage, 3, control. Or 1. short range/melee fighting, 2. Long range fighting, 3. Utility. Or offensive, defensive, etc. Then you could still have spells themed off of all the four schools in there - just not sorted in the trees the same way.

I'm really hoping the magic isn't getting the Inquisition treatment but 3 out of 4 elements mentioned again doesn't inspire confidence.

Why do we call it a spellbook?
Mages are more like Sorcerers than Wizards if I can use D&D as reference. You have to be born with magic and you don't rely on a grimoire/tome/spellbook to cast spells. I don't doubt that most Mages are well educated and taught how to use magic safely but there is no way to make a muggle a mage, aside from certain Dwarves and Titans apparently.

I was hoping for a Force/Rift specialization to return, but I reckon that it'll all be there: Force/Gravity (maybe even Crushing Prison!) along the usual elemental stuff from previous games... Winter's Grasp, Stonefist, Barrier, Mind Blast, Dispel, Chain Lightning, Wall of Fire, Walking Bomb... etc. Just not necessarily as Specializations.

Looking forward to more spell info!