Ice Magic

Ice Magic is a meta-elemental magic that focuses on creating and manipulating ice, and lowering temperature. Well balanced in terms of defense and offense, capable of both firing ice needles at the enemy and lightning-fast erecting of ice barriers. It even has a few spells that allow creation of short-term creatures from snow or ice, which can be used to direct enemy attention away from the caster.
Ice Magic is decent in everything, but great in nothing. This is slightly different on the northern edges of Imperium, since the lower the temperature, the lower the mana requirement which makes it much more efficient and useful. Considered a fusion of Water Magic and Air Magic, requiring great level of control to keep the ice from dissolving (nearly immediately, since magical ice works slightly different). It is extremely often encountered especially in the north.