The Color Mages

[Krilari]

This is an OOC post, mind you.

They were founded

The Idea of the color mages was brought to us by the GameMaster Anski and her guide Being a colormage. It started with the Red Mage Eroci and grew from there.

They Warn

Warning! The Mage guilds are all headed by GameMasters DO NOT claim a guild tag for any of the mage colors that are not taken (Currently Gold and White)

They serve

The purpose of the various <[Color] Mage> guilds is to provide a new way to view mages and their own ideals. Not all mages fall into these classifications but the ones that do are very strict to their own color to the point where they will only dress in their color.

The main reason for these guilds though is to inspire ways to play mages and more importantly to spark RP between mage classes.

The Red Mage

Red Mages are a new idea but a very versatile one. The inspiration draws from the 'scholars' in fantasy lore that were old and weren't able to fling dangerous magic around. Tolkien explored this idea slightly, although not coining the term, with a circle of mages that were all elders and spend their time levitating libraries of books over their heads and doing multiple, small things at once. They teleported everywhere they walked and studied most of the time. The original Final Fantasy game grouped Red Mages as ones that were not good in either defense or offense, but still played in the schools of magic from both Black to White. As multi-classing isn't allowed, we move the Red Mage ideal from the multi-user to the multi-thinker. A Red Mage is one who puts little to no focus on offense and only a self-supporting idea on defense. The rest goes to the 'perks' of being a mage, from blinking to teleporting, shading to invisibility. These mages would put some usage into armor and being elusive. While Red Mages can go off into the offensive schools of magic, defense is first. Red Mages are the type to have things flying around them and hovering mindlessly, reading from one or two books and letting the rest float around their heads lazily. In turn, the Red Mages would make excellent herbalists and alchemists, putting their study to use and their free time on making potions and the such to help themselves or others around them.

Example spells a Red Mage would prefer:
[Blink]
[Invisibility]
[Prismatic Cloak]

Red Mages, in their defenseless ways, would be masters at getting away from trouble, whether just teleporting to a nearby location in an instant, turning invisible and slunking away, or so forth.

Leader: Eroci
Forum name: Anski

The Blue Mage

Blue Mages are a concept that's a hard one to tackle. They live in the school of ice, never straying to arcane or fire. This in turn allows them to control water to an extent, however they cannot summon it, just like any other mage. After all, melted ice is water. However, Blue Mages are excellent at keeping themselves alive. Unlike Red Mages, who teleport and hide themselves from danger, Blue Mages are experts at holding up a physical wall of ice to block incoming attacks. At the same time, they use this ability to create ice armor on their bodies, and ice weapons to handle for a short time. A Blue Mage would be great at copying the style of their attacker. A big, armored orc against a small, gnome Blue Mage would yield the Blue Mage to create a thick armor of ice that raised their height and a large, ice weapon to mirror the Orc and put up an offense. Because of this, Blue Mages are often physically stronger than their other color counterparts just by using physical copy-weapons made of ice to attack. Blue Mages aren't high into studying or book work like Red Mages, they live to survive and wage war, their high defense spells being a counter-balance to their high offensive based life.

Example spells a Blue Mage would prefer:
[Ice Armor]
[Ice Lance]
[Ice Block]

Blue Mages live a hard life, one that's always on the edge of war and despite their cool hands their temper can sometimes be a problem. However there are multiple docile Blue Mages, but taking the Blue Mage path would require a love of Frost arcane and the want to be able to fight with big, ice weapons.

Leader: Kriak
Forum name: Krilari

The Green Mage

Green Mages are master Alchemists and Herbalists, who use their magic to help their work and combat abilities. Because of this, the Green Mages tend to use all three schools of magic, with more focus on fire and arcane. Using the tips of their fingers to boil or cool off a potion instantly, throwing a potion and having it blink a few feet ahead and get double the range, Green Mages can be seen pandering around the entire world with bottles and glasses strung across them. Green Mages are crafty and sneaky, many Forsaken Mages end up being Green Mages. They have potions for helping and hurting, from health to acid in a second. Green Mages have a great throwing arm, and when they can't throw they'll blink close enough to smash the bottle on their target. Green Mages are not something to be trifled with in battle, as it can leave the opponent covered in burns and lacerations, near death. They don't tend to live in Dalaran like many other mages, as it's very restrictive on available herbs and the such, and Green Mages can tend to be loners often enough.

Example spells a Green Mage would prefer:
[Conjure Mana Gem]
[Mixology]
[Lifeblood]

Green Mages, like any other Alchemist, would excel at transmuting things, due to their increased arcane ability and intelligence.

Leader: Wainwright
Forum name: Anski

The Purple Mage

Purple Mages are your base, all around stock mages. Purple Mages consider themselves the first line of defense against threats in the world. They live and breathe the word Dalaran and spend a lot of their time learning about the ways of magic in the world. While Red Mages study everything, Purple Mages would rather learn about the world and how magic affects it. They cast themselves spells of brilliance, spending hours at night studying with their minds magically opened, scouring the world and all around it. Purple Mages are excellent at figuring things out, and put a lot of focus into the base Arcane rather than frost or fire, which are seen as needless things. They walk with an air of regency, and are the basic 'wizard' rather than a mage. Many mages turn to the life of a Purple Mage as they get older, as it's a very high powered use of Arcane. Tapping into Leylines, talking across the world and the such are a Purple Mages daily jobs. A few are a bit loose in the head mostly due to them being older, but many others are rock solid.

Example spells a Purple Mage would prefer:
[Teleport: Dalaran]
[Dalaran Intellect]
[Arcane Explosion]

Most Purple Mages are a part of the Kirin Tor, naturally, and live in Dalaran. The ones that don't are tending to be drifters, looking for magical artifacts and the such to research in their life, or simply help anyone in need with their magic ability.

Leader: Kimee
Forum name: Nexi

The Black Mage

Being a Black Mage is common both in Warcraft and folklore. Deriving from the witches of the early European Christian belief that women who used 'magic' were witches and their form was Witchcraft. This changed once the idea of 'White Witches' were introduced, ones who worked as healers and cunning men and women, the idea of 'Witchcraft' was split into White and Black magic. The White Magic ideal came to be healing in lore, and the Light in Warcraft, whilst the black turned into offensive, damaging magic. This translates into Warcraft as mages who specialize in offensive magic. Although many non-mage players see all mages as offensive, dangerous beings, there's twice as much non-damaging magic spells as there are damaging spells. Common Black Mages in Warcraft Lore would practice in all three schools of magic, but work more in the Fire and Ice area. They don't spend time on frivolous things like teleporting, shields, anything that doesn't hurt.

Example spells a Black Mage would prefer:
[Frostbolt]
[Fireball]
[Arcane Missiles]

Black Mages aren't very good at combining Fire and Ice together, they'd rather blast off each school of magic separately, whether quickly switching between them or not. Black Mages can cast quickly at the hard cost of being mana burned quickly. Their mindset is killing the enemy quickly no matter what the cost.

Leader: Bokta
Forum name: Hawk

The Gold Mage

Gold Mages are ones that live in a fashionable lifestyle. They are more concerned with just living using the Arcane, and they get money through enchantments. Cloth weavers, enchanters, the whole nine yards. The offensive spells they know are basic, the defense the same. Gold Mages are focused on themselves, and making money. The idea behind this drives from player input and the Alchemists in folklore, who would sit and use their magic to spin gold and other valuables, not doing heroic things. These mages weren't always stuck up and snooty, it's just that they work for themselves, no matter how self centered or modest they are. Gold Mages tend to be good at teleporting as well, for their lives take them all over the planet, although the instantaneous teleporting would be only to high-used anchor locations such as Dalaran, SMC or Stormwind. They can take any magical object and scan it over, giving up it's properties, and can rival Red Mages in their ability to research something.

Example spells a Gold Mage would prefer:
[Portal: Dalaran]
[Amplify Magic]
[Dalaran Brilliance]

Gold Mages aren't exactly fighters but livers, however they can defend themselves much like any other mage.

Leader: N/A
Forum name: N/A

The White Mage

Being a White Mage is practically being a healing-focused based Priest. Mages as a class cannot do this job, one must be a priest or a paladin (Or perhaps a healing focused Druid or Shaman!) to call themselves a White Mage. The focus behind this draws from multiple, obvious sources, just like the Black Mage. From Final Fantasy to actual history, White Mages have been portrayed as do-good, anti-narcissistic views and live for other people. However what sets them apart from being just a run of the mill healer is that they focus on healing from a distance. Most priests would rather take the lay-on-hands approach, while White Mage healers would rather be at a distance, this spawning from healing during a battle. The base healing would also be offset by buffing spells, to make another person heal over time or last longer, etc. White Mages are pressed with the want to do good, they are never really any evil or even neutral White Mages.

Example spells a White Mage would prefer:
[Divine Hymn]
[Flash Heal]
[Divine Spirit]

White Mages are healers through and through, something the base Mage class cannot reach. White Mages NEED to be Priests, Shamans or Druids, there is no question about it.

Leader: N/A
Forum name: N/A

[Lynoa06]

It's likely to be just a coincidence, but it vaguely looks like the mages from Final Fantasy. Mainly the Black, Red and White mages, but other classes have a vague shade too. (FF Red Mages would be a mix between Wow Reds and Purples, but meh)

[Xigo]

It would not surprise me if this was inspired by the FF mages.

[Skaar]

It was indeed one of Anski's inspirations.

[Lynoa06]

Don't know. But I do have a white mage..a holy priest rather. Is the white mage guild opened yet?