Archetypes

Creative thinking and invention requires an amount of mental plasticity that is difficult to achieve. Some study many different disciplines or engage in rigorous physical activity to make the most out of their minds.

Some sorcerers enjoys the divine blessings of their ancestral past. Their family has been justly blessed by righteous triumph, celestial boon, or perhaps even divine blood. To whom much is given much is expected, however, and only saintly behavior befits the demigod.

The Ichorblooded are the bearers of their progenitors’ sins, though neither the cause nor the manifestation is something as easily defined as “devil” or “demon.” Their blood is cursed by ill intent, fiendish “blessings”, or the touch of undeath itself, but all carry the taint of corruption.

In the heart of some sorcerers there is a spark of magic, an ember that can be fed and grown until it is a blazing flame able to burn even stone down to cinder.

The Magemarked are the legacy of some of the greatest practitioners of magic that have ever lived, or perhaps they are merely the byproducts of their experiments. However it arrived, focused magic runs rampant through their souls, devastating and beautiful power in its purest form.

Some souls are meant for great things—chosen by the gods, imbued by fate, placed upon the pyre of destiny by right of birth—but they reject the grand role they were intended to play, yearning instead to be unseen.

Part of an adept’s personal quest can be the conditioning of the body. To most this means simply staying in peak physical shape, maintaining great personal discipline, and keeping a healthy and nutritious diet—but so much more can be achieved.