Wizardry

From Codex Vocrotha

Wizards are one of two direct descendants of the early researchers of Psychometry, and make up the “majority” of spell users outside of the Faith. Eager to learn new ways of replenishing their internal magical energy, early Psychics embarked upon a strenuous scientific, philosophical, and highly logical line of experimentation to discover the nature of that energy, which they called Motes. While the exact results of that exhaustive study is no longer available, the end result was a new breed of spellcaster -- a Wizard, whose means of replenishing the Motes within them were non-harmful and meditative in nature.

The Path to Wizardry is the most complex of all the Paths, and it takes a Wizard’s apprentice many years of training and study to perfect the techniques required of them, complete their first transcendental meditation and earn their Staff from their mentor. There are texts and tomes to study, case histories, philosophical treatises -- in short, any attempt to learning the arts of Wizardry without a teacher is almost categorically doomed to failure. As a result, there is a strong custom of apprenticeship (and no small measure of snobbery and elitism) among Wizards. Most difficult of all to learn is the height of a Wizard’s knowledge, the meditative trance that absorbs energy from the world around them and transforms that energy into Motes. Since this technique often takes years to perfect, many Wizard’s apprentices never finish their training, choosing instead another Path to power or another vocation entirely. As a result of the necessary learning and study, the Wizards are the most like the popular preconception of a spellcaster -- older, uncomfortably well educated people with strange senses of humor and bizarre pieces of trivia at their beck and call.