Spellcasters

**Spellcasters** are individuals capable of casting spells or otherwise wielding magic. Spellcasters take on a broad range of forms, and utilize very diverse techniques and practices in order to bring magic about. As such, outside of this basic definition, spellcasters and spellcasting refuse to be further categorized in any satisfactory manner besides the attempt below:

## Full Casters

Full casters are adventurers and other individuals who primarily dedicate themselves to the study of magic rather, and are thus best able to draw upon the power of magic to shape the world around them.

* **Bards:** Bards are able to discover and contribute to the echoes of the music of creation still playing throughout the universe. Through stirring performance--which requires much experience and training to accomplish--it is their musical and oratory talents that allow them to fashion magical effects around them. The strongest bards are the best artists and musicians of the world.
* **Clerics:** Clerics are able to spellcast through rigorous study of religious prayers and incantations, peerless focus and attunement to their surroundings, and the practice of a holy and virtuous life. For these reasons, the most successful clerics are also the wisest.
* **Druids:** Druids draw on the powerful forces inherent in nature itself in order to spellcast. To draw on natural power, they attune to virgin environments and commune with it frequently. For these reasons, the most powerful druids are the ones most attuned and devoted to nature, and are, almost without exception, incredibly wise.
* **Sorcerers:** Sorcerers are born with magic etched into their very soul. Some of the least common spellcasters -- but some of the most dangerous -- Sorcerers are born with the power of spellcasting. The power of their magic relies on their ability to project their will into the world.
* **Wizards:** Wizards are able to cast spells by the careful and dedicated study of the arcane. Thus, many of the most intelligent individuals of the world have become thus by their pursuit of wizardry.

## Half Casters

Half casters are adventurers who dedicate themselves to spellcasting in equal or near-equal fashion than they dedicate themselves to their other pursuits.

* **Artificers:** Artificers focus on magical items and magical artifice rather than spellcasting itself. That said, there is great overlap between artifice and wizardry: Many artificers dabble in spellcasting, and many wizards dabble in artifice.
* **Paladins:** Paladins primarily dedicate themselves to martial prowess. Oathbound Paladins derive spellcasting prowess and potential through the strength of their Oath. Oathbreakers derive this power from the dark will that broke their compact.
* **Rangers:** The sword and shield of nature, Rangers specialize in spellcasting to a smaller degree than they focus on martial prowess.

## Basic Casters

Basic casters are adventurers and other individuals who draw upon spells to support and complement their primary abilities.

* **Arcane Archers:** A subset of fighters,
* **Arcane Knights:** A subset of fighters,
* **Arcane Tricksters:** A subset of rogues,

## Other Casters

Other casters are adventurers and other individuals whose spellcasting prowess arises from sources starkly different to those of conventional spellcasters.

* **Monks:** Monks utilize the power of Ki in combat: the lifeforce latent in their own bodies, as well as that in their foes'. This allows monks to achieve the pinnacle of martial arts and hand-to-hand combat.
* **Warlocks:** Warlocks, also known as witches, derive their spellcasting from pact magic: a strange bond with a being of unfathomable power. Warlocks are rare as adventurers, as most often their patrons are reluctant to give their "servants" or "minions" much freedom or liberty to do what they would.