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...ferent sources. Among the common [[English]] words for mages, or types of mages, are "wizard", "sorcerer", and "witch"; slightly less common terms include It could be, especially if mages are rare, that the usual way for mages to learn their discipline is to apprentice to a more experienced mage, in m

Though there are many mages who specialize in a particular type of elemental magic, there are also some ...s through his body, but sometimes visual, auditory, or olfactory instead. Mages proficient in this system are called [[glamourist]]s.

...; though (in most worlds) [[mage]]s usually focus on a particular arcanum, mages who are able to use magic from multiple arcana are far from unknown. ...na from various cosmoi. They may interact in unexpected ways, however, so mages are still well advised to take care with their magics there. Such systatic

...es on their own, without recourse to particular systems or teachers. Most mages on Ym, however, follow particular [[school (Ym)|school]]s, with shared meth

...cal means, and though there are a few tales of [[elemental magic|elemental mages]] creating counterfeit coinstones, no evidence has turned up to verify this Even if it's true that some [[mage (elemental magic)|elemental mages]] have managed to make false coinstones close enough to the real thing to f

...hey do everyone else's. Some resistance cells have managed to arrange for mages among their number to be able to draw on the dream energy of the rebels who Still, even with their relatively limited resources, resistance mages do make some valuable contributions to their cause. Aside from sometimes s

...um|arcana]]—functions because people believe that it does. Some few mages work their wonders by having attained some measure of control over their ow ...own separate celata called [[idiarcanum|idiarcana]]. More often, though, mages work according to arcana that have already been established by the beliefs

...e. Settlers flocked to the wonderful buildings as well, and the scholarly mages found themselves the center of plenty of unwelcome location and the unwitti ...m remain in the city even now), apprentices had learned at their feet, and mages from elsewhere had immigrated to the city, so that it had by now arrived at

...as are easily explicable as the work over many years of many scientists or mages, but the origins of others, such as the [[Orange Corridor]], remain mysteri

...(Plex)|Copper]], who calls himself a [[scaturgist]], and who trains other mages in his invented [[arcanum]] of [[scaturgy]].

Where magic is common, mages may use it as a weapon, and develop a number of offensive spells. Some suc If mages have developed offensive spells to attack their enemies, defensive spells a

...size and population of the country, however; Kahmari's number of elemental mages per capita is still relatively large, but exceeded by [[Gevelo Dar]], [[Lud

...ieved that all darks ''were'' at some point created by mages, or groups of mages; there are no darks that are inherent to dream magic and existed from the m Thanks to a universal dark that makes it possible, dream mages can develop the ability to split off small parts of their own mind and soul

...White Circle]], or Circle of Stars, made up of [[elemental magic|elemental mages]]; the [[Brown Circle]], or Circle of Earth, devoted to [[landworking]]; an The Osrodican military employs a number of mages specialized in [[spell (elemental magic)|spell]]s useful in combat. These

...atters are more complicated. It is the matter of claiming that leads some mages to create abiri in the first place; with proper preparation, they can arran