Types of mages

 

Physics mage

Equipment:

A sextant, a pocket watch, a compass, an astrolabe, a telescope, a box of differently shaped crystal lenses, mirrors, glass prisms, and a spell book

Your spell book is filled with:

star charts, field diagrams, vector diagrams, complex mathematical formulae and demonic lore.

Peasants don’t like your lot because:

You keep summoning demons, surely it can’t be an accident the hundredth time you do it and even if it is so what.

 

chemistry mage

Equipment:

A portable chemistry set with retorts, racks and a very nice Bunsen burner. phials filled with all sorts of elements and compounds; quick-silver, nitro-glycerine, polonium, etc. a spell book

Your spell book is filled with:

The periodic table, reactivity series, chemical equations, notes on the physical properties of countless obscure compounds.

Peasants don’t like your lot because:

You keep blowing things up and making needlessly awful poisons.

 

biology mage

Equipment:

Petri dishes with unpleasant things growing in them, a small jar with a fleshy cadaver fragment reeking of formaldehyde, a doctors bag full of scalpels, bone saws, sutures and other things, a spell book

Your spell book is filled with:

Anatomical drawings, cell diagrams, DNA sequences, the codon table, obscenely complex Punnett squares, and cladistic charts. Accompanying essays of explanatory information.

Peasants don’t like your lot because:

You cause plagues raise the dead and make monsters.

 

psychology mage

Equipment:

A Trephine for trepanation, an orbitoclast and hammer for lobotomies, a pendulum, enough hard drugs to make a priest of Hermathoth blush and a spell book

Your spell book is filled with:

Noosphere diagrams, brain charts, coding sheets, hypnotic spiral patterns, regression analysis tables, philosophical musings on such topics as psychodynamics, identity and the nature of free will.

Peasants don’t like your lot because:

You pry into their most intimate secrets, and brainwash people to do your bidding.