Your characters are saved online though - so don't expect to use your highly trained mage professionals to swiftly defeat your new virtual friends. There is a distant land facing a new threat from a demon foe from another world. Brave warriors and brilliant mages have lined up to fight it, but all have been beaten. You, a lowly foreigner, are cast into the midst of this conflict with only your wits and a sword or staff to make your way and save everyone. Men are burly and caucasian unless they are mages, and then they have beards.
Women are more slight and vaguely elfin.
Tall towers hold robed wizards with dusty tomes that contain the secrets to the next level of buttkicking sorcery. Dragons command fearsome magic and scare whole villages packed with helpless idiots begging for your assistance. What's surprising here is how well Rage of Mages holds these elements together. What could have been a dry rehersal of role playing convention is instead a quaint adventure you might find yourself coming back to, if only to see the little surprises. Rage of Mages really shines when you go shopping.