All Esotericists

Aetherial Esotericists

Astrologer
Those who study the zodiac and use communal meditation, star reading, astrological analysis of birthdates, and positional arts to evoke the powers of the constellations via qeernariji. They usually have star charts and telescopes.

Blue Mage - primary conflueverant user
Users of conflueverant who soak themselves in aetherial waters. In doing so, they absorb aether int othemselves and are able to make themselves metaphorically fluid, giving them the power to control water and absorn energies.

Cosmologer
Those who study the depths of the universe and wield the cosmic aethers of qeernariji, temporal aether, ma'dhahabi, and lunar aether. Many also use bailaohu jinghua and hvittdogg.

Earth Mage - primary kazaddarean user
Wearers of robes made of soil and dirt who connect to the earth itself and draw up the kazaddarean, which they channel through staves and use to control stone and loam. They are usually covered in dirt.

Elementalist
Those who wield the four western ordinal elementals: lahab al'qalb, conflueverant, kiiric yihi, and kazaddarean.

Hydrocastald
Wielder of all the water-aethers: conflueverant, bijalee, parfum de marais, hvittdogg, and ikehua lyua pele. They also sometimes use lunar aether, nzwara murazvo, and ashar.

Incendium - primary lahab al'qalb user
Special mages who store fire in bottles to breathe in and out, controlling it through lahab al'qalb.

Lawaiʻa - primary ikehua lyua pele user
Hook wielders who can draw lava out of the ground by casting special hooks into the soil and drawing it out like an ikehua lyua pele fish.

Luminaire - primary the bright user
The same glass used to create the Lesedian Mirror can be shaped into lanterns and lamps that generate, direct, and control the bright.

Magonian - primary kiiric yihi user
Mages who carry the winds in satchels imbued with kiiric yihi that allows them to unleash and sometimes control them.

Nightwyrder
Wielders of ancient lore that commands the powers of lunar aether and true shadow. Many also use poarta, ashar, hasken fure, prasinofos, TykvaVlast, conflueverant, and hvittdogg.

Ohapitu - primary Tmakikan user
A form of farming that allows the user of Tmakikan to draw that energy from the tilled earth and imbue either sown seeds, livestock, or people with it as an act of fortifying, healing, or protecting.

Petrologer
Those who can find the kazaddarean in any rock, stone, or gem, and draw it forth with a small rockhammer or special throw.

Prospero
A kind of weather mage who can draw weather toward them with special staves and vanes. They wield bijalee, kiiric yihi, and conflueverant. Some also use hvittdogg, ma'dhahabi, hamsaat al-sahra, ikehua lyua pele, and lunar aether.

Rogalian
Wielders of very powerful fire magic, combining lahab al'qalb, ma'dhahabi, ikehua lyua pele, qeernariji, bijalee, and the bright. Many also use draconic power, infernum, d'qiarsea, natural forces, Tenyocan, and/or baleblood.

Tempestarii - primary bijalee user
Seekers of weather who can commune with it and channel bijalee through special staves called vanes. They sometimes ride clouds.

Topiraq
Those who sleep in the soil and earth in order to draw its power. They wield kazaddarean, nourishment, bailaohu jinghua, livadi, Genesis, and sometimes ikehua lyua pele.

Yuansu
Those who use the five eastern ordinal elementals: lahab al'qalb, bailaohu jinghua, prasinofos, conflueverant, and kazaddarean.

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Celestial Esotericists

Clan Mage - primary banaru user
A user of banaru who uses emotional bonds to draw people together to create magical protections that connect "families" (literal or metaphorical). They do this through special marks and symbols of their clan (chosen or not).

Kaleidon
Those who wield all radiant energies with magical kaleidoscopes.

Kamatuuran - primary waarheid user
One who uses the power of waarheid to carve True Names into statues and other figures, animating them to protect others.

Miracleworker - primary Elysian essence user
Those who travel the world helping people in need, often in ways that those in need don't even notice, giving the impression of miracles being performed. In doing so, they encourage belief in miracles, increasing the Elysian essence in the world, thereby increasing chances of actual miracles occurring.

Mu Ayo - primary euphoria user
Ones who create euphoria by sharing joy with those around them, then using it to uplift them metaphysically.

Prismatic Mage - primary radiance user
Users of radiance who carry prisms that can split radiance into its seven component parts. These energies can then be redirected to empower others or create other radiant energies.

Uninetsv - primary yahas user
Those who speak the words of yahas in order to build bonds with others and create communities that protect one another and share powers.

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Infernal Esotericists

Afulianist
A wielder of brown aether who uses industrial machinery to generate the energy and spread it. Only done on a mass scale, poisoning lakes, rivers, land, and air, to weaken the aether in the area and kill the people.

Siphoner - primary quaestus user
A mage who uses blood as their primary medium for casting magic. Though neutral variations of this exist, most use quaestus in order to gain power from stealing, using, or draining the blood of others.

Bonecaster
One who uses Raesian energy by snapping, crumbling, disintegrating, and otherwise breaking dried bones, which they use for making predictions, calling up phantasms, and creating powders that corrupt the living flesh. See also Necromancer.

Demonologer - primary infernum user
One who gains infernal powers by making a deal with a demon. Demons require payment in souls, which can be taken from the user or from a murder victim of the user. Depending on the demon and their power, what is gained from such a deal varies, but usually a contract is involved.

Desecrator
One who wields desperation in a moment of absolute hopelessness to desolate the world around them, making it a haunted, unlivable landscape.

Engourdissant - primary stravomenos user
A user of the psionic energy stravomenos, which drains knowledge from the minds of others and destroys it. Learned through painful meditative arts, the use of this power also empties the mind of the user.

Gemmarius - primary feirua user
The concept of "race" was invented by the gemmariuses. They believe in and use purity of blood and body, mind and soul, to create gems called feirua, which reflect the hearts of mortals and allow them to control them.

Gyroxene - primary entropy user
Unpredictable, violent dancers who spin and twist and contort themselves wildly in order to capture entropy and fling it about dangerously, altering reality around them.

Hexologer - primary rending user
A numerological art, hexology requires the use of a special cube. Reconfiguring its six sides leads to different effects that unleash the power of rending, which destroys all.

Hollow Mage - primary hollow energy user
Cruel, petty tyrants who torture a victim until their soul breaks, then use the hollow energy that provides to cast evil magic. Their insides slowly dissolve, to be replaced by vermin.

Illusionist - primary Bedrog user
One whose Name is False. From this, they derive Bedrog, which they an use to create alternate versions of reality in the form of believable illusions. Their Name is made False through ancient rituals or accident, and their powers are channeled through __.

Infernalist
Those who wield the infernal energies of infernum, razdavit', quaestus, gossamer light, imperium, thorn energy, hollow energy, Bedrog, and Peccatum. Usually acquired through deals with demons.

Maleficer
One who can use all infernal essences to some degree, usually acquired through esoteric means such as stealing powers or demonic contract.

Necromancer - primary msawhat user
Those fell magic users who wield pure msawhat to corrupt mind, body, soul, and heart in order to create, control, summon, channel, gain power from, or otherwise interact with the undead. They wear funeral shrouds, keep bones as tools, and stink of decay.

Persecutor
Those who use all of the arnic energies, usually as a means of torture.

Ponomancer - primary arnum user
Cruel users of arnum who generate the power from acts of torture and self-flagellation, ponomancers wield their evil energies to make predictions and inflict more pain. They carry meat hooks and wear the skin of their victims.

Puppeteer
Rather than the innocuous mundane entertainers, puppeteers use gossamer light to create puppets and dolls that allow them to control others.

Satsujin-sha - primary fusei user
A form of onmyoji who intentionally imbalances spaces in order to maximize the amount of fusei, which they use to inflict punishments on others.

Smogcaster
An afulianist who specializes in corrupting bijalee to create gouts of foul smog.

Velikiy - primary razdavit' user
The use of razdavit' means drawing power at the expense of others. The velikiye do this by means of ancient script and brands.

Vlasnyk
A mercantile user of a combination of Drenante, quaestus, Bedrog, imperium, and razdavit' who creates a matrix of exploitation to drain thousands at once.

Warlock - primary blasphemy user
An oathbreaker who takes their state of rejection and turns it into a weapon, wielding curses from the blasphemy created by their betrayals. They place their powers into sticks, which they break in order to unleash a curse.

Whisperer - primary Mollesse user
Those who use Mollesse do so vocally, whispering into fans and using them to toss the whispers like a ventriloquist, placing them in the ears of their victims and driving them to acts of self harm.

Yozlashtiriczi
One who wields all forms of msawhat, usually as an undead being.

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Nommic Esotericists

Bloodcaster - primary blood energy user
A user of blood energy, rather than quaestus or some other aligned form of blood.

Cerebral
A user of all forms of psionic energy, including dream energy, vonzot, stravomenos, Aemoa, and euskepsia.

Ennead - primary emotional resonance user
Sometimes called stringers, enneads use string figures (like a cat's cradle) to invoke different emotions that they then wield to influence emotional resonance.

Haruspex - primary aifaellam user
Those who interpret aifaellam to read the future.

Heartcaster
Those who use all forms of heart magic, including emotional resonance, banaru, desperation, and euphoria. They are also known to wield dumaqu, feirua, baleblood, iremia, thorn energy, Peccatum, Tenyocan, uafas, hollow energy, unfugl, hegnh, and yahas. It is not possible to wield Elysian essence, but they study it.

Namecaster - primary True Names user
Wielders of True Names, those who invoke the raw power of nommos to command reality.

Menstriae - primary psionic energy user
One who, unlike a psionist, learns to use psionic energy through special metallic headbands and concentration.

Sage
Those who wield all forms of soul energy, including ujjval aatma and Peccatum.

Somandricist
Those who use all forms of body magic: mijjit, mansam, blood energy, aifaellam, Raesian energy, and humors, including all of the subcategories that include other kinds of energies (all forms of ashar, Sterisi, euergasia, curacion, vile energy, baleblood, quaestus, and sometimes pravum).

Sorcerer - primary soul energy user
Users of soul energy to channel their own immortal being into powerful magic via special rods.

Wisin - primary mijjit and mansam user
Those who practice esoteric exercises to invoke mijjit and mansam, the energies of the body and muscles, that allow them to control their own bodily growth and transformations.

Paradoxical Esotericists

Alteror - primary flux user
The users of flux carry special floating orbs that allow them to control the flow of the paradoxical power of change.

Azo Ato
Those who wield all forms of paradoxical energy.

Catalyst
A powerful esotericist who can use a small amount of flux to set off a chain of events.

Turogzot - primary vonzot user
Psionic users of vonzot, the psionic variation of complexity, complex mages bind to computers with their minds.

Poioumenonic Esotericists

Archmage
Those who wield every kind of poioumenonic power.

Bondsmage - primary ethereal essence user
Wielders of ethereal essence who control it through feathered whips, bonding with objects, organisms, places, etc. to draw magical abilities or improve themselves or others.

Onmyoji - primary kor user
Users of special lenses that allow them to view history, dialecticians wield kor, the energy of what came before. They can view the past and draw from it.

Grinning Mage - primary unfugl user
Prankster mages who wield unfugl, the paradoxical/poioumenonic energy that allows them to make changes to reality for very specific purposes. They wear masks with distorted grinning faces on them.

Imager - primary dream energy user
Mages who use mirrors to capture dream energy and images that they then use to create dreams and illusions.

Mage - primary mana user / definitive esotericists
Wielders of mana, the energy of esoteric energies, that use wands and robes to help them sense, control, and influence magic.

Seer - primary fate user
Weavers of fate who have special needle and thread that allows them to understand what is to come. They wear blindfolds.

Symbologer - primary symbolism user
The use of symbolism requires, plainly, the use of symbols. Symbologers take symbols in the form of charms that they invoke to create myriad effects.

Wizard
A kind of mage who uses spells that have been recorded and tested, rather than channeling magic and creating new spells. They have grimoires full of spells.

Wyrder - primary fey energy user
Users of the lore that invokes fey energy, whose flow controls the narrative of the world.

Polyesoteric Esotericists

Polyesotericism means using energies across categories. For example, one who uses both a shebvic and a poioumenonic energy. There are many examples of this, especially of those who start with unaligned energies. Some energies are antithetical and cannot be used together (mana and void energy), while others have limitations (Cacophony and Euphony can only be used together by someone who uses sonic aether). See below for a full chart of limitations.

Universal Esoterica

There are several energies that can be invoked that an combine with, control, or otherwise interact with every other kind of energy. Because all things have a True Name, a True Name can contain any or all energies. Furthermore, the nominal energies of blood energy, emotional resonance, soul energy, and psionic energy can all be tapped into to engage with any other kind of energy. Paradox, which by nature is capable of anything; ambrosia, which reflects Divine Will; shebv heya, which will alway revert to the status quo; draconic power, which absorbs all energies; spirit energy, which is an variation of ambrosia; the Law, which commands Divine Will; and poioumenon, which reflects the energies in a given narrative, all also have the potential to interact with every other kind of energy.

Nigh Universal Esoterica

Some esoteric energies can combine, control, or otherwise interact with almost all energies, usually with the exception of their antithetical energy. Aemoa, yahas, imperium, razdavit', mana, Genesis, sonic aether, ethereal essence, msawhat, radiance, flux, and kor.

Isolate Esoterica

A few energies resist any kind of mixing except with the universal esoterica. These are void, rending, hegnh, shavev mashkalran, temporal aether, and recursion.

Antithetical Esoterica

See antithetical esoterica.

Occupations

Archetagonist
One who wields poioumenonic and nommic energies by letting the flows of narrative entwine with the fabric of their selves.

Autodevinctus
One who wields all nommic and shebvic energies by being in conflict with one's own True Name.

Beneficer
A wielder of celestial and shebvic powers to defend the SupernalRealm.

Causaloger
One who wields both shebvic and poioumenonic energies such that they can gain power from narrative conflicts.

Greulon
One who wields infernal and shebvic energies in order to enslave, control, maim, and torment for power. Evil war mages.

Hidalgaje
One who wields shebvic and paradoxical energies to fight the impossible. A quixotic.

Komela
One who absorbs esoteric energies and releases them in controlled bursts by drawing them into their soul and then discharging them.

Ontologer
One who wields all paradoxical and nommic energies by becoming one with all that isn't.

Plaything
One who exists at the intersection of paradoxical and poioumenonic energies and therefore has no agency, but great power.

Summoner
One who wields infernal powers along with a mix of other powers to enslave beings and force them to wield their powers in combat.

Wild Mage
One who senses esoteric energies of all kinds and triggers them as raw, wild, uncontrolled spells.

Shebvic Esotericists

Buyuku ("Dragon Mage")
A very rare mage who channels discipline and accumulation into magical spells.

Lasar - primary shebv heya user
"Those who allow". Users of shebv heya who use a mixture of martial arts, dance, and positional magic to let the energy flow around them and maintain the status quo.

Marchand
Those who can use every kind of shebvic essence.

Sodaagar
Users of mashoaab and menab'e who combine the two arts through use of special gemstones.

Vermilionist
Those who use every kind of Damaskian power.

War Mage
Mages who wield d'qiarsea through ritual conflict, channeling their magic through swords.

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