Mageknight

Class: Mageknight

Trained by the mages of the Black Tower, Mageknights are magically capable soldiers who form the core of the Red Guard, the elite shock troops of the White Army.

Martial Tradition
Mageknights are trained in the armaments of the White Army, but learn a varying array of intimidating tactics to compliment their position as shock troops.

Equipment: Knightly Training, Shield Training

Variable: Choose 2 of the following spheres: Gladiator, Duelist, Lancer

Sphere Drawbacks: Humble Combatant (Gladiator)

Spellcasting Tradition
Mageknights cast using a specialized tradition known as Knight Magic, which is mostly limited to enhancing the user and their equipment. The mage knight practices their words and gestures every morning, drilling them into muscle memory. Although much more limited in scope compared to a wizard, Mage Knights have an easier time conjuring and maintaining magical effects in the thick of battle. The most skilled of Mageknights often learn how to extend their mystical boons to their companions.

Drawbacks: Verbal Casting, Somatic Casting, Prepared Caster, Galvanized

Boons: Easy Focus

Spheres: Divination, Enhancement, Protection, Time, Warp

Sphere Drawbacks: Limited Divination (Divination), Personal Magics (Enhancement), Limited Protection: Ward (Protection), Protected Soul (Protection), Personal Time (Time), Personal Warp (Warp)

Special: Starting at level 10, whenever a Mageknight would learn a new talent they may instead forego it in order to remove either the Personal Magics, Protected Soul, Personal Time or Personal Warp drawbacks. They may only remove one of these drawbacks and once the decision to do so has been made, it may not be changed.

Backgrounds
Mageknights are shock troops in the White Army, serving as an infantry division of the Red Guard. They're trained to assault enemy positions in coordination with magical artillery, however such exercises are seen as obsolete or ridiculous among the majority of recruits and even some officers. They were used occasionally in the Kingdom's past battles with larger barbarian tribes, but the Red Guard's consistent disruption of Barbarian tribes coupled with the lack of strong leadership among the savage peoples in recent years has made even this task less and less necessary.

In modern practice, Mageknights are primarily dispatched as part of small groups meant to investigate reports of monsters and destroy them, relying on their magical abilities to protect themselves from supernatural threats. Some who prove themselves particularly adept go on to join the Black Guard, the elite soldiers tasked with defending the Kingdom from rogue wizards and other magically powerful threats.