Callings¶

Phoenix Sagas has eleven playable callings. Familiar fantasy names make their broad promise readable, but each calling is defined here by its own aptitudes, training profile, magical access, and signature play. There is no public three-tier class ladder.

Your choice is permanent. It does not lock ordinary disciplines: any calling may learn weapons, stealth, survival, Lockwork, Field Medicine, item magic, and other shared skills when it can afford the training. A calling makes some careers natural and others costly; a few signature arts remain exclusive.

The eleven at a glance¶

Calling	Aptitudes	Magic	Signature
Warrior	Might, Resolve	foundational circles at foreign cost	arms mastery, battlefield techniques, Warriors' Guild
Rogue	Finesse, Insight	foundational circles at foreign cost	stealth, boxwork, theft, Rogues' Guild
Monk	Grace, Resolve	Lesser Coal; other foundations familiar	unarmed combat, footwork, willed defenses
Ranger	Grace, Resolve	foundations familiar; Ranger's Wheel	tracking, fieldcraft, companions, Verderers
Bard	Presence, Finesse	foundations favored; Bard's Wheel	held songs and `LORESING`
Paladin	Might, Resolve	foundations favored; Paladin's Wheel	heavy defense, consecrated arms, patron magic
Wizard	Attunement, Insight	foundations, Greater Vein, Wizard's Wheel	bolts, familiar magic, enchantment
Cleric	Resolve, Attunement	foundations, Greater Breath, Cleric's Wheel	wards, resurrection, Hearthwardens
Empath	Resolve, Vigor	foundations, Greater Breath, Empath's Wheel	`BEAR`, burden, self-mending
Sorcerer	Attunement, Presence	foundations and Sorcerer's Wheel	disruption, curses, bound entities
Savant	Insight, Attunement	elemental Wordcraft; no circles	live form-and-element composition

The two aptitudes alternate a one-point increase every four levels. They are a nudge, not a free creation block or a prohibition. See Character Creation.

Training profiles¶

Every calling names favored and familiar discipline families. Favored study is cheaper and deeper, familiar study uses the base rules, and foreign study is expensive and shallow. Every level supplies the same 60 Training.

Use the live trainer before committing points:

CHECK IN
TRAIN
TRAIN DODGING
TRAIN LESSER BREATH

The guides describe good directions, while TRAIN remains authoritative for your character's current price, fit, ranks, depth, and available Training.

Circle access¶

Lesser Breath, Lesser Vein, and Lesser Coal form a common foundation. Every non-Savant calling can study them, with its Circle Studies affinity determining price and depth. Greater Breath and Greater Vein are advanced traditions; each named Wheel is a calling's signature tradition. The Deep Wheel is found magic rather than ordinary training.

A Savant uses no circle catalogue. Its form-and-element Wordcraft is a separate magical grammar, mutually exclusive with circle study. See Magic.

Catalogue codes are addresses, not rank requirements or mana prices. SPELLS prints every known working with its actual requirements and cost.

Signature gates¶

Most actions are skill-gated, but these calling identities are deliberately protected:

Art	Calling	What it does
`ENCHANT` and deep enchantment	Wizard	permanently improves equipment
`LORESING`	Bard	reveals an item's worth, weight, make, and history
`BEAR` and clinic patients	Empath	removes another's injury as personal burden
elemental wordcraft	Savant	composes magic from learned words
calling guild lessons	Warrior, Rogue, Cleric, Ranger	opens the hall's authored craft track

Resurrection is a Cleric circle specialty, but ordinary Field Medicine, remedies, shrine offerings, item use, foraging, skinning, Lockwork, and pets are open to every calling with the required training.

Guilds¶

Four callings currently have a dedicated hall:

Warriors' Guild — weapon and battlefield drills in Lanternwatch.
Rogues' Guild — Lowwork, Wardcraft, and Misdirection in Emberford.
Hearthwardens — service and sacred-fire offices behind the Coldhollow chapel.
Verderers — trails, signs, and field duties north of Emberford.

The other callings train normally at an inn. Guild membership, dues, lessons, and rank are separate from ordinary skill training.

Choosing a first calling¶

Choose Warrior to learn posture, stance, weapons, and techniques with a durable body.
Choose Rogue if stealth, locks, traps, and opportunistic combat sound like the game you want.
Choose Ranger for a mixed trail life with weapons, fieldcraft, and a dedicated circle.
Choose Wizard for the broadest introduction to circle magic and enchantment.
Choose Empath if healing other players should be active resource management, not a button press.
Choose Savant if you want to build each cast from a grammar instead of selecting a catalogue entry.