Mage
- Most Eiflans who are born with magical talent are enrolled in a Magical Academy and trained to become Mages. Mages have a wide variety of spells and incantations at their disposal. They can call up fireballs to incinerate their enemies or send down lighting from the clear blue sky. However this magical talent comes at a cost and they are quite a bit more frail than Swordsmen or other warrior-esque classes. They need freedom of movement for the hand gestures used in casting and so cannot protect themselves with armor. This is why they often travel with a Swordsman or other melee class to keep themselves protected.
While the Magical Academy is the most common form of Magical Training, there are other ways to learn the art. If one has the books, they can be self-taught, or, if they cannot afford to be schooled, a student might be sent off to be an apprentice to an accomplished Mage. There is also the occasional instance of Mages kidnapping children to be their apprentices, but these are usually done by those who practice the darker side of magic, the tabooed arts of manipulating both the living and the dead for their own gain. Mages use magical artifacts (Similar to a summoners artifacts), to cast their spells. Most spells require a physical component (a series of hand gestures) and a vocal component (the spells name suffices for advanced mages, novices need to recite the entire chant). For this reason, Mages cannot use swords or other melee weapons for, as with priests and priestesses, they have to have both their hands and sometimes even their entire body free. They have no weapons because for a Mage, their spells are their weapons.