For those who keep asking "where is death magic", consider this.

When MoM came out, you might have noticed that there was another, much bigger game out at the time. One that used a suspiciously similar set of 5 "elements", that suspiciously used the same 5 colors and basic concepts. That game, of course, is Magic: the Gathering.

Indeed, when I first saw MoM, I thought it was some kind of poor-rippoff of M:tG. I mean, "Master of Magic", "Magic: the Gathering"? The names do have a connection.

Basically, I'd say it's a good thing that StarDock did not take the obvious path and draw the attention of our "friends" at Wizards of the Coast. It's better for all involved.

Life and Death Magic are drawn from the same source in Elemental, but how they are used, and what spells are available to you are determined by your sovereign nature. If you are "Good" you get Life magic spells, if you are "evil" you get death magic spells.

There's nothing really new with grouping life and death magic into one field.  Hell BG2 classified all those types of spells as necromancy.  Didn't matter if you were raising skeletons or bringing a party member back to life.

Heh, I'm not criticizing or claiming it's unoriginal.  So many commented about a lack of death magic though, I thought I'd add that bit that life/death has been treated as one thing many times before.