Hugh, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a Seer something different from a Diviner? Divining means predicting the future I think, but more in a charlatanish sort of way, whereas a Seer is more like a Prophet. But of course an AD&D diviner is neither of these two.
It could just be that my idiom is flawed somehow, though, a native speaker would know this better. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Personally I think they just wanted nice similar terms ending
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They used some existing names and stretched their meaning for a bit, and thought up new names for the rest, based on the sort of spells that class cast. So spells that make things or people change into different things would be called transmutations, and concomitantly, the class was named Transmuter. [img]smile.gif[/img]