More battles for the Battle Mage!

BATTLE MAGE (#14/31, #74/365) [POT]

SKILL: 7

STAMINA: 14

ATTACKS: 1

WEAPON: Dagger or Staff

ARMOUR: None

DAMAGE MODIFIER: None

HABITAT: Towns, Dungeons, Ruins, Plains, Anywhere their employer is

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1

TYPE: Humanoid

REACTION: Neutral

INTELLIGENCE: High

The BATTLE MAGE is a rare but powerful wizard, skilled in the art of using Battle Magic when engaged in mass combat. They may be a hired mercenary, sharing their arcane skills with whoever can afford their services, or a court spellcaster, engaged by a king or lord to defend their domain against invaders. The Battle Mage has a MAGIC score of 10, a Magic-Wizardry Special Skill of 5 (with 30 Magic Points worth of Wizardry spells), and a Magic-Battle Magic Special Skill of 1-3 (with 22-26 Magic Points worth of Battle Magic spells). These eldritch warrior-magi are often accompanied by 0-5 assistant wizards to help them cast their spells (and hopefully learn some Battle Magic on the side); each assistant counts as a SPELL-FOR-HIRE (SKILL 6 STAMINA 9 MAGIC 5 Magic Wizardry 2, and 14 Magic Points worth of Wizardry spells).

Battle Magic originated in the Old World, developed by rival kingdoms such as Gallantaria and Brice as they each attempted to gain an advantage over the other nation in their long and interminable wars. Since then its use has spread haphazardly across Titan, for it is powerful if exhausting magic to employ, and its practitioners guard their arcane secrets jealously. Balthus Dire, for example, continually pestered his resident Ganjees with requests to learn the secret of Battle Magic but to no avail. One well-known Battle Mage was the evil sorcerer Manadrax, who employed Orcs of the Bone Breaker Tribe against the Dwarfs of Grey Rock, in a bid to obtain access to a seam of magical Truestone. Manadrax allegedly lost both the Battle of Grey Rock and his life however, and it is not known what happened to his spellbook full of Battle Magic rituals...