Mage

The mage class is reserved for those people that show significant abilities with channeling the various forms of energy which exist within the world of Tirradyn. While other classes may be able to touch upon those energies in smaller and weaker ways, mages excel in manipulating them, resulting in a wide array of spells.

As mages learn and grow in power, they tend to specialize in one form of magic or another, resulting in the various mage classes which exist. In combat, mages do fairly well with daggers and such, however they excel with staves, and if they are lucky enough to find one, some staves are able to have energies channeled through them to help focus a mages casting abilities for better effect. All of the mage classes have generally the same abilities in combat, since their focus is mainly on honing their magical abilities. Though mages certainly may be either good or evil, or anywhere in between, the mage classes themselves aren't aligned in this fashion, so you'll be just as likely to run into an evil enchanter as you would a good psionic.

As indicated, there are various elemental and ephemeral spheres of energy which a mage can draw upon. The different elemental energy spheres available are: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Shadow, Soul, Death, and Void. These are the only energies which may be channeled and manipulated by the normal mortals of Tirradyn. Most mages can use any or all of these either alone, or in conjunction with each other, though some are more difficult to work with without specializing in such fields. All mage spells use one or more of these energies to power them, and these spheres may be meditated upon to raise or lower them so that specialization is possible.