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Mage: A balanced spellcaster, able to cast all types of spells. However, the spells are of a lesser potency than a specialized class, and they are almost useless in a melee or bow-to-bow fight. However, they can cast quickly and a wider range of spells than the others as well. They are capable of casting any spell from any school. They must research their spells (though they do not need to prepare them, usually knowing how to cast it is enough), making them unique among the other classes, who usually need no research. The reward, however, is power second only to a Realitician.
DnD Terms: Sorcerer/Wizard

Demiurgist: (Purely theoretical) Also called Breakers. Would be a being capable of using Ley lines to change recent events, and occasionally the very laws of physics, even beyond what other classes can achieve. For instance, he could erase that your parents ever met, if he was powerful enough. He would be the only one who retains any memory of your existence. Could not cast any other kind of spell, though he could alter reality to achieve the same effect, ie, making a wall where there used to be none. Demiurgists also could get glimpses of the future due to their ties with reality, though they would only be able to directly act upon it rarely. However, their visions also help them remember things they should do, such as searching that one last treasure chest or checking a tower to make sure the emergency beacon is still there. As a result, they are rarely surprised, and when they do, it usually means another Demiurgist is involved. This is all pure speculation, however, and is deemed highly unlikely that any being would be able to break reality on a whim.
EX: Red Mage from 8-bit theatre, Wyoming from Red VS Blue.
DnD Terms: Cheaters, Players, Griefers

Shadowbenders: Also called Shadowdancers. A spellcaster whose power is comprised completely of destruction. Shadowbenders, while unable to do much else with their power, are able to spawn shadowy tendrils from their bodies that obey their beck and call. The tendrils are capable of doing virtually anything that does not stray into another school of magic. One of their other few powers is the ability to warp from shadow to shadow over short distances, usually about twenty feet from edge to edge of a shadow, though occasionally a Shadowbender is powerful enough to traverse miles.
EX: Black Mage from 8-bit theatre right before the big battle they're currently in, only not neccesarily evil.
DnD Terms: None

The Lifeshades: Also called Necromancers or Druids. Spellcasters whose power comes from the ability to create life. Depending on their tendencies, they can be called either druids or necromancers, but as a collective are referred to as The Lifeshades. Necromancers gear their power towards those once dead, making them walk again. Druids gear their strength towards creating new life from scratch. While Necromancy is far easier to perform and under the user's complete control, Druid techniques create stronger beings that are harder to take apart.
Dnd Terms: Druids/Necromancers

Clerics: Also called Paladins or priests. Clerics gain their power from pure faith in their gods. They can heal, smite evil or good (depends on the god), turn back the magic of others, and depending on the deity they serve, perform miracles such as healing or even creating storms. Each deity has their own specific miracle, and the cleric can never turn from their path or risk losing their power. They are the only type of magic user who are as adept in battle as they are with spells, hence, they are also call Paladins. However, they can cast few spells aside from healing and they must have a focus blessed at least twenty fours hours ahead of time to use their power, including physical, and they must follow the path of their religion to the letter or risk losing power.
DnD Terms: Paladins, Clerics

Illusionist: Also called enchanters. A being who alters the minds of others to perceive what they wish them to perceive. Can alter everything a person sees, from a door to their dead parents. Illusionists can also suggest things to you that would then perceive as real. For instance, an Illusionist could not make you walk into a pit of acid on a freezing day, but he could convince you the acid is actually a jacuzzi.
DnD Term: Wizard (Specializes in Enchantment/Illusions)

Conjurer: Also called shamans or evokers. Specializes in summoning, creating objects, teleporting, and controlling creatures from other planes of existence. A conjurer is the riskiest type of spellcaster, since most spirits called are irritable and don't want to be wrested to the mortal coil. Occasionally a conjurer gets possessed by one of his own spirits and he becomes a Lich.
DnD Terms: Wizard (Specializes in Conjuring/Evocation)

Oracles: Also called seers. These beings are the only kind of Manaborn whose power cannot be geared towards combat. Oracles are capable of knowing everything that is to come, as long as they seek it out. They need merely delve into their power, ask a question aloud, and their own body will provide an answer, albeit usually a very cryptic one. Oracles can focus their power towards a more precise answer by sitting on a large amount of valuable items, such as jewels and gold. (People insist this is an urban myth they use to make money, but it's true) In a battlefield, their only real function is to detect invisible enemies. Their power is a lot like a realitician's to detect the future, but the main difference is that Oracles can act on it. Whether that changes the outcome, however, depends.
DnD Terms: Really gay-ass cleric.
EX: The Oracle of the Sunken Valley from the order of the stick

Mindbreakers: Also called telepaths. Mindbreakers specialize in mind magic, similar to illusionists, but unlike illusionists, they use direct assaults on the person's mind. They can rip apart sanity, manipulate memories, disconnect the senses, and induce brain-splitting headaches at the drop of a hat. They are usually useless in a hand to hand fight, but that doesn't really matter because they can fight purely with their minds. They can move objects with pure thought, or simply batter against the opponent's mind. Some, at the peak of their power, can even form objects out of pure will. The power of the individual mindbreaker is generally focused in some way on a specific emotion or function of the brain, such as fear or pain, but they are the only kind of manaborn who can use the focus of fellow Mindbreakers, assuming the Mindbreakers in question trust each other enough to let them into each other's minds.
EX: Scarecrow from Batman
DnD Term: Mindflayer

Assassins:
Masters of the darkness, the instant-kill, and deception, assassins strike from the shadows, ending their enemy in a single blow. The downside is that unless they are recruited from another clan they generally are weak if the enemy actually gets them into hand-to-hand. Assassin clans are always secretive, and generally kill off deserters. Assassins are completely unaware of any damage to their body, only concerned with ending the target's life. An assassin clan bases it's creed - it's code of laws - on what they wish to accomplish. Some wish to end corruption, some wish to simply make a quick buck, others wish to instill as much anarchy as possible. It just depends on the individual clan. Assassins prefer to work alone, though apprentices are often used for information gathering. All assassin clans are wary of each other, but each one shares a common practice: before granting an assassin a place within the clan, the assassin must make an offering of his or her own flesh. Usually it's just a finger, but some clans want you to remove your tounge.

Rouges:
Also called thieves. Rouges are masters of stealth, trickery, and of course, stealing. They are the most adaptable of the non-manaborn, able to use a variety of weaponry, though they tend to favor ranged to melee. Rouges have only one collective, which they call the Thieve's guild. This guild is similar to the assassins, but there are several differences: One: rouges work for themselves, and themselves alone. The only reason they have a group identity is that they often request favors from rouges in exchange for other favors, or even cold hard cash. Rouges pay twenty percent of their earnings to fund the guild, and aid each other in making sure this gets into the guild's coffers. The biggest weakness of the rouge's guild is that there is no orderly chain of command: the stronger you are, or the higher you can pay, the more influence you have with the guild. Leavers are killed only if they steal from a city under guild control.


Mercenaries:
Also called warriors or bandits. Mercenaries comprise people who have devoted their lives to the mastery of weapons and combat, and will sell their services to those who need it or can afford it. They are the most varied of the warrior groups, comprising knights, foot soldiers, petty criminals, and often previous members of other guilds. Mercenaries, like monks, specialize in combat, but unlike monks, they use weapons rather than forge their bodies into one. Mercenaries never camp within a pre-existing city, although some become so large that calling them a town wouldn't be too inaccurate. Mercenaries each recieve a mark, usually a tattoo, that identifies them as a member of the camp. At least one person in a group must have the camp's tattoo to enter. The only other way into a camp without fighting or sneaking is to hold out a large sum of gold and lay down your weaponry.

Monks:
Monks are warriors that forsake weaponry and instead hone their physical form and senses to their peak. Monks obviously cannot fight ranged, but the strength of their limbs, including their jumping abilities, more than makes up for it. Monks generally are raised from a very young age, often even right after birth, and are taught to fight for only for peace, and even then only when it was needed. Monks generally live in monasteries or temples, which is how they are known. For example, a monk from the Eagleeye temple would be known as James Eagleeye, or The Eagle Eye Monk, depending on who you ask.

Dragon Knights:
Also called Dragoons or Dragon Slayers. Dragon knights train for the express purpose of killing large monsters, especially dragons. They are required to kill at least one of these monstrous creatures before joining the Order of Dragoon. Dragon Knights possess an intimate knowledge of monsters so thorough they can slay any of these monsters in a single blow. The single greatest weakness of a dragoon is that they cannot actually do any blows after making the first one for about thirty seconds, so usually they just attack normally. Dragon knights also have a strict code of honor and chivalry that extends to all sentient races, including dragons. Members of the Order cannot leave until the day they die, even if they wish to. The order can call on their services anytime they wish.