Magician Titles
These titles serve as an official classification to a magician’s gifts in one or more magical circles. E.g. Restorative Sorceress, Psychic Mage, etc… Their tutors must officially recognize the titles before a magician can adapt it to their name. The term Magician is not an official title itself but generally used to describe a practitioner of magic with unidentifiable abilities and knowledge, or a practitioner that has not yet obtained an official magician title.
Novice – Practitioners of magic that have only just come into their magical talents, or have just discovered their potential for another aspect of their magical circle. They will not have had any formal education in magic and will know very little spells, potentially even none at all.
Mage – Magicians who have just begun undertaking formal education in magic by a tutor and can cast a handful of minor spells. They may also start to develop their gifts in a certain magical circle.
Sorcerer/Sorceress – These are Magicians are currently in the middle of their magical studies. They will be accustomed to at least 4 or more magical circles and will know a variety of strong and weak spells.
Wizard – Powerful Magicians that have just finished their tutoring in the magical arts. Though their talents may run primarily to a specific magical circle, they are able to cast a number of major and minor spells of other magical circles with ease. They can also take on Mages of their own to educate in magic.
Magister/Magistress – Only the smartest and strongest of Magicians can be recognized as Magisters/Magistresses of the Realm. They are renowned as Magicians of all the magical circles, who are clever and potent enough to cast many powerful magic with relatively little ease. Such practitioners of magic are very rarely established as Magister/Magistress as one must dedicate their entire life to the study of magic and possess an enormous reserve of magical energy.
Other Magician terms:
Necromancer – A psychic magician that has the innate ability to perceive and communicate with the deceased, usually for divination purposes. Although not deliberately evil, their magic is typically seen as strange and unethical and so the majority of the magical community frowns upon them. They may also be talented in restorative magic.
Warlock/Witch – An evil magician that focuses their powerful magic on harming and hindering others. They are quite secretive bunch and they are usually conspiring against others and even their own to gain what they want. Also they do not dress specifically to identify their ill intentions so it is very hard to distinguish who is a warlock/witch and who isn’t.
Alchemist – They are experimental magicians that fancy themselves as ‘Junior Archons’. These magicians try to mix magic with all manner of things in order to aid and benefit society with their unusual results. Their restorative magic has been enhanced due to their numerous experiments and they are proficient with ailment spells.
Fighter Ranks
These titles serve as an official classification to a fighter’s capability with one or more weapons. Their tutors must officially recognize the titles before a fighter can adapt it to their name. The term Fighter is not an official title itself but generally used to describe an individual with unspecified expertise with one or more weapons and is trained in a number of skills and techniques, or has not yet obtained an official fighter rank.
Trainee – A person who is undertaken and trained by a master fighter in the basics of combating and survival in the wild. Trainees start out with the fundamental principle of hand-to-hand fighting and because they are very weak, they are coached using wooden weaponry.
Guard – These are intermediate fighters who have been trained by their masters for a number of years and are familiar in the utility of one or more weapons and fighting techniques. After a few years of exercising and working out, these fighters are physically strong enough to handle their weapon with ease.
Warrior – They are expert fighters specializing in the practice and skills of three or more weapons, though they usually have a favourite weapon that they like to fight with. After finishing their training with their masters, they may set out and become freemen where they use their fighting skills to protect the Realm. They can be employed by a village, town or city and protect the people or they can travel independently, helping out those who cannot protect themselves, or using their skills to earn a living, or they may undertake a Trainee of their own to pass on and teach them how to fight.
Knight – Skilled warriors that compete to become part of a royal military force. If they succeed, they are recognized and rewarded as professional fighters, who use their expertise in fighting and weaponry to protect and fight for their Kingdom and the Realm.
Captain/Champion – After a number of years of their services as a Knight, they maybe promoted as a Captain of their own small personal force of fighters. Captains are brilliant fighters who can lead his men effectively into a battle. Champions are warriors that have made a successful career of being a fighter and they have obtained a reputation as being formidable fighters, with a number of victorious contests and matches to their name.
Other Fighter terms:
Ninja – A hired fighter that specializes in espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination and unorthodox methods to eliminate their target(s). They don dark clothing and lighter armoury and weaponry than most other fighters so they can use speed and stealth to their advantages.
Ranger – A fighter that talented in the use of long-ranged weapons and possesses a brilliant accuracy to attack their foes at a distance. Rangers tend to be excellent hunters as they are familiar with the terrain they hunt on and they are experts in surviving the wild landscapes. Like Ninjas and Thieves, they wear camouflage and lighter armoury and weaponry as to be discreet and quick in hunting down their preys.
Thief – Not necessarily a fighter, but more known as a criminal. However, along with their usually talents of stealing, stealth, creating or disarming traps and detecting hidden paths and routes, they are skilled with close contact fighting, either with their bare hands or with a dagger. Their light armoury and weaponry serves to make them swift opponents and their dark clothing conceals their visibility among the shadows. Though they may appear similar to Ninjas, there is a noticeable difference in their fighting techniques and their motives.
