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A Note About A Few Classes

  • Kashira
  • 08/06/2015 01:56 PM
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Dervish

Just about everyone who has played an RPG has, at one point or another, heard mention of one "whirling dervish" or another. However, in Spira Mirabilis, the class is a bit different than what most people may be accustomed to. While they are still light-armored, agile fighters/dancers that hail from the desert, they do not use the traditional scimitars or fans. Each Dervish has their favored weapon, with Kashira favoring daggers. Yes, she dual-wields them, which does mean that she cannot use a shield- however, she will end up making up for the lack of that additional defense. At first, she has no special skills to speak of; however, before the end of the demo, she will learn a few of her own. (It is necessary for a certain plot point to trigger her abilities, rather than her starting out being able to unleash a slew of abilities.) Just as each Dervish has their favored weapons, each has their own particular abilities as well- and no two can call on the same skills.

Blight

A blight is a magic-user. However, they differ from traditional mages by what they do. Rather than harnessing traditional elemental or blood magic, their domain is over poison and disease. Another way that they differ from traditional mages is that they do not use aether to call on their magic; rather, they draw the energy from the plants and vermin around them and channel that to use their sorcery. Of course, the vermin -rats, mice, insects- whose energy they used do die and the plants they drew off of wither. Because of how their magic is used and what they can do, they, of course, are somewhat feared; as it is thought that an extremely powerful Blight can drain another living human to exchange that individual's life for magic- however, that is pure speculation.

Scourge

A scourge is a warrior, of sorts- however, one that uses whips instead of the more traditional swords, spears or axes. While they do not wear heavy armor, their defense does not suffer very much because of it. They can and do learn "tricks" that they can perform with their whips; tricks that can be rather helpful in battle. While many view them as being a "lesser" fighter due to their weapon choice, they are no less formiddable than a normal warrior.