Spellcaster

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Any practitioner of magic (wizard, sorcerer, mage, necromancer, etc.) who casts spells. Even unlearned scholars can throw a mean magic missile every now and then.

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Types of spellcaster

Depending on their area of expertise, spellcasters are often referred to by many different names and have various powers. Commonly, spellcasters with no area of expertise are called 'generalists', wizards / magi or sorcerers.  

Traditional magic specialists

 

Title	School of expertise	Abilities
Abjurer	Abjuration (Concept)	Magical shielding, dispelling other spells, spells that protect against the elements.
Conjurer / summoner	Conjuration (Concept)	Summoning creatures of various types, creation of objects, teleportation
Illusionist	Illusion (Concept)	Invisibility, creating illusionary objects and creatures, false sensual perceptions
Diviner	Divination (Concept)	Scrying a location remotely, foretelling the future, acquiring information about a person or object
Enchanter	Enchantment (Concept)	Charm enemies to turn them friendly, magical sleep, mind manipulation that confuses the target
Transmuter (Concept)	Transmutation / alteration	Buff spells, altering the properties and size of materials/objects, transformation spells
Evoker / Invoker	Evocation (Concept) / invocation	Manipulation elemental energy, common offensive spells like fireball, chain lightning, cone of cold etc.
Necromancer	Necromancy (Concept)	Raising the dead as zombies/skeletons, syphoning life energy from another creature to himself, talking with the dead

  Some settings simply have black mages and white mages, reflecting a tighter classification of magic in general.

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Concept details

Name

Spellcaster

Aliases

Mage,Magic-User,Warlock,Magician,Mystic,Wizard,Druid,Battlemage,Pyromancer,Necromancer,Conjurer,Summoner,Caster,Enchanter

Games

• 4 in 1 vol. 11 (Game)
• Albion (Game)
• Alisia Dragoon (Game)
• An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire (Game)
• Angband (Game)
• Archmage Rises (Game)
• Astlibra Revision (Game)
• Astonia 3 (Game)
• AstralAir no Shiroki Towa (Game)
• Avernum (Game)
• Avernum 2 (Game)
• Avernum 3 (Game)
• Avernum 4 (Game)
• Avernum 5 (Game)
• Avernum: Escape from the Pit (Game)
• Avowed (Game)
• Bard's Tale (Game)
• Battle of the Immortals (Game)
• Black Moon Chronicles (Game)
• Black Tiger (Game)
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Objects

• Has objects: Fireball (Object), Robe (Object), Homing Projectile (Object), Lightning Bolt (Object), Magic Staff (Object), Wand (Object), Chain Lightning (Object), Craft Keepers Armor (Object), Stein of Moggok (Object), Science Vessel (Object)

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Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Fire Manipulation (Concept), Blunt Weapons (Concept), See Invisible (Concept), Magic (Concept), Black Magic (Concept), Air Element (Concept), Human (Concept), Silence (Concept), Necromancy (Concept), Wizards (Concept), Warlock (Concept), Necromancers (Concept), Elf (Concept), Witch (Concept), Summoners (Concept), Halflings (Concept), Night Elves (Concept), Magic Points (Concept), Fire Element (Concept), Fairy (Concept), High Elves (Concept), Wood Elves (Concept), Druids (Concept), Damage Shield (Concept), Aludran Reptiloid (Concept), Clerics (Concept), Dark Elves (Concept), Conjuration (Concept), Breton (Concept), Pyromancer (Concept), Enchantment (Concept), Magikoopa (Concept), Gnomes (Concept), Lord of Change of Tzeentch (Concept), Thousand Sons (Concept), Nathrezim (Concept), Yukes (Concept), Illusion (Concept), Enchanters (Concept), Erudites (Concept), Shissar (Concept), Kerrans (Concept), Hematomancy (Concept), Battle Mage (Concept), Abjuration (Concept), Channeling (Concept), Divination (Concept), Evocation (Concept), Soulbinders (Concept), Boxx Wizard (Concept), Hive (Concept), Assembly (Concept), Geomancer (Concept), Haste (Concept), Mana Drain (Concept), Casting Time (Concept), Kiting (Concept), Sarnaks (Concept), Incantation (Concept), High Templar (Concept), Bonelord (Concept), Ashenbone Drakes (Concept), Soul Carriers (Concept), Spinechillers (Concept), Sprited Harpies (Concept), Thought Bleeders (Concept), Watchful Guards (Concept), Infestor (Concept), Bright Wizard (Concept), Genome Engine (Concept), Acolyte (Concept), Transmuter (Concept)