Sorcerer

### Skills

Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, and Religion

A **sorcerer** (female: **Sorceress**) is a wielder of powerful arcane magic, limited only by their own willpower. Unlike most other arcane spellcasters, particularly the Wizards they are often compared with, Sorcerers are born with their magical abilities and do not have to study to obtaining such power. And while a wizard focuses on thinning the enemy lines, a sorcerer prefers to unleash their full power on a single unfortunate target. The magic a sorcerer wields, as a result of their unusual magical origin, is intensely powerful though often somewhat unpredictable, resulting in many self inflicted injuries.

## Sorcerous Origins

The powers of a Sorcerer have been known to come from a variety of backgrounds. Some Sorcerers are born with their powers, while others gain them through events in their life. Sorcerers of draconic ancestry are probably among the best known and most common, Sorcerers from other origins exist as well. The origin of their powers greatly determines the abilities and characteristics of the sorcerer himself and most Sorcerers specialise to some degree in the abilities granted by their powers' origin.

### **Awakened Bloodline**

*Main article: Sorcerer: Awakened Bloodline*
Almost every awakened sorcerers can remember what happened their first time. They simply went to sleep in their meagre beds and suddenly they were standing fully awake in a lavish throne room, surrounded by bowing servants. Confused they will run out into the black granite streets. Looking up they see a black featureless sky for the first time and there they realise it: they have entered the dream the Dream. Confused they will walk around the city, talking with the Ghosts, taking in the sights of the gothic houses, sneaking down the narrow streets, and eventually going to sleep. Then they woke up back in their own home again. Each night when they go to sleep in the waking world, they will reawaken on the other side in a palace, and learn that in this world they are royalty. Eventually the exposure to the Dream will also awaken something in the waking world, granting the sorcerer a source of mystical powers.

### **Wild magic**

Born as natural conduits for true mana, the wild magic sorcerer derive his powers from the terrible and wondrous forces of the waves of unrefined mana around them. These sorcerers have learned the art of wild magic, using methods similar to rangers to cast their spells. Extremely impressive founts of power, Wild magic sorcerers are often extremely dexterous as well, using their agility and strong reflexes to slip out of the way of their own, often unpredictable, spells.

From time to time, when a wild magic sorcerers loses his focus, they might draw to much power from the waves of mana and release a surge of wild magic, which often results in unpredictable consequences.Though their magic can be dangerous uncontrolled, wild magic sorcerers gain a number of important benefits, such as the luck of a halfling, though on an unreliable and ever-changing basis. On the whole, a Wild magic sorcerer's magic does far more good than harm to its caster. Experienced Wild magic sorcerers who focus on their use of wild magic might become chaos mages.