Practitioners 101

The term 'practitioner' refers to people who have the ability to and skill with manipulating the energy fields that surround us all the time, an act commonly called magic. There are a number of different types of classifications for practitioners, most having different practices for how they channel their magic, and some have different powers altogether.

Mages: First among the list of practitioners, and often they consider themselves literally first, are magi. These are often the stereotypes of wizards and magicians. They are the ones who concentrate almost to an obsessive level on their skills with magic. The magi are often at the top of the list in terms of magical firepower and are the most versatile of spellcasters.

Witches: This group of practitioners is composed of people who have some array of other inherent abilities in addition to whatever strength they have with magic. Some of these powers maybe more psychic than magical, such as empathic abilities, though true psychics don't generally fall into this classification, but most of the abilities are somewhat magical in nature. Such 'magical' abilities include the ability to communicate and call up spirits, to tap into and channel a certain type of elemental energy, of even to shapeshift.

Druids: This group of practitioners is somewhat interchangeable with witches, except for the explicitly nature focus of their powers.

Sorcerers: This is a classification somewhat like the magus in the sense that often their main supernatural gift is the ability to work magic. This group, however, does this by either making pacts with powerful beings outside mortal reality or makes such pacts for power. Many of these dangerous spellcasters specialize in a form of magic called Blood Magic, which cannibalizes life energy from other animals or people to use as a power source. This type of magic is not only illegal under the laws of The Covenant, but it is also just incredibly icky as it involves a lot of blood and body parts.

The Others: There are other less well defined or smaller groups of spellcasters, Necromancers foe example, but by and large the above are the big for.