Occupational Character Class - Men of Magic

Men of Magic. These are the Ley Line Walker with special abilities when on Ley Lines and normal magic spell casting, the Shifter who is taught their magic by an external supernatural creature and specialize in travel magic, the Mystic who is instinctive and self taught and half psychic, the Techno-Wizard who can install magical properties into technological devices

The Ley Line Walker is more of a traditional spell casting wizard who is especially attuned to ley line energy. The mage is so attuned to ley lines that he can see magic energy emanating from even weak ley lines normally invisible to the human eye. Likewise, he can see invisible magic energy (P.P.E.) radiating from living beings, enchanted/magic objects, techno-wizard devices, and supernatural creatures. This is not a see aura, but an ability to actually see mystic energy waves. Furthermore, the Ley Line Walker can feel the presence of ley lines, pinpoint nexus areas, and tell when a rift has opened nearby.

The pursuit of magic is a means to utilize natural energy and direct it with one's own mental abilities. The ley line walker spends years learning to focus his thoughts and build his will in order to direct and mold mystic energy. He also spends years learning how to let the ley line energy flow into and through him, building his tolerance for magic energy and making the walker a sort of living relay station and energy transformer, as well as a P.P.E. battery. At these moments, the ley line walker becomes part of the energy he is directing and it gives him much greater control and range of magic abilities.

The inquisitive nature of the line walker means that the character is usually open to new ideas, people, and philosophies. They are often literate, may study areas of science and have no aversion to using high-tech weapons, vehicles, and equipment. Lightweight weapons and armor are generally preferred because they are less cumbersome.

A mystic is more of an intuuitive fellow who can sense different aspects and happenings on the physical and metaphysical levels of life. They are often acclaimed advisors and prophets who can glimpse the future. The intuitive nature of the mystic's power means that they simply accept suddenly knowing something and have learned to trust their feelings. This also means that most mystics disregard formal education in favor of following their cosmic path. Most believe that too much education creates walls that block one from the natural psychic emanations and deadens one to the true world around them. They also believe that too much reliance on technology will have the same effect. Consequently, a mystic will avoid cybernetic, bionic, and all forms of human augmentation, but will use tools, energy weapons, and body armor. With this attitude, it is little wonder that many mystics are renowned philosophers and love philosophical and metaphysical debates.
An individual can be taught by a mystic in the ways of mysticism, usually philosophy, meditation, and in opening one's mind and body to the world, but most mystics will tell you that one does not learn to become a mystic, but is born with the "gift."
Their pwoers are a combination of psychic and magic. Psychic powers are limited to the categories of Sensitive and Healing. Magic is limited to the more simple and sense oriented spells.

The Shifter O.C.C. is similar to the Summoner of Medieval Fantasy. Shifters are students of magic whose emphasis is mastery of the rifts, in regard to opening dimensional portals and summoning creatures from the rifts! These mages have a reputation of being irrational and evil. However, it is an undeserved reputation, for there are as many good and kind shifters as there are good wizards of other magic occupations. The differents is that shifters obviously deal with supernatural forces that are terrifying to most people.
The Shifter's focus of mystic study is understanding how ley lines and nexus points work and how to use them for trans-dimensional travel and summoning. Unlike the ley line walker, the shifter is not so much a cessel where magic energy is drawn into him, but instead, the shifter learns to manipulate the energy around him. For example, he will direct and change the nexus point energy to open a rift, but he does not draw the energy inside of him. Likewise, a shifter draw upon the Potential Psychic Energy of those around him to create magic )this can lead to human sacrifice among evil shifters).

The techno-wizard is the most unconventional of the magic occupational character classes. They are men of magic who have learned to combine magic with technology. Although the techno-wizard can cast spells and read scrolls, the focus of their magic is the creation of magic devices. The wizard has learned to direct his potential psychic energies into machines, enabling those devices to do strange and magical things that seem to defy known science.
Many of these devices seem to only emulate existing magic and psionic abilities, however, they offer several advantages. One advantage is that unlike a spoell that can only be spun by a person knowledgeable in magic, or a psionic power that can only be utiilized by the psychic who possesses it, many devices creatures and empowered by techno-wizardry can be used by any one who has sufficieny psychic or magic energy. This means that a fellow practitioner of magic or psychic can use a techo-wizard's machine.
Another advantage is that people who are not psychic or mystically oriented can NOT operate the device at all. Sort of a built-in safety feature. For Example: Somebody who is not a mage or psychic can not fly a wing board or operate a Techno-Wizard Machinegun. In fact, to a normal person, the devices seem like worthless junk without any apparent power source of functioning internal workings. They do not realize that the operator of the device itself is the power source! Techno-wizards have taken the concept of a person being a living battery of potential psychic "energy" to its logical conclusion (or so it seems to them). Thus, they create devices that are powered by the individual's energy and directed by the person's thoughts and desires. The need for other energy sources is greatly reduced (not quite completely eliminiated).
A third advantage to using potential psychic energy as a means to power devices is that the energy is non-polluting, non-toxic, odorless (except to psi-stalkers, mutant dogs, and supernatural creatures), and has no known ill effects on human life.
A fourth advantage is that the devices are usually easy to conceal and do not often appear to be magic. Whenever the device is not in use, it does not radiate magic, because it is not currently empowered by magic. When the device is not in use, it is nothing more than a construct of machine parts and wires.