Archetype/Specialization Document

Writer: The Master of language. It is the writer who forges worlds, masters emotions, and imparts idea.
   Storyteller: Teller of stories, folk or otherwise. They create worlds from their imaginations, and people from whole cloth. Reality is there's to design.
	Themes: Imagination, Creation, Journeys
   Poet: Language is theirs, emotion is theirs, rhythm is theirs. They are the lords of the abstract, be it emotion, idea, or motivation.
	Themes: Emotions, Ideas, Language
   Orator: They compel people to action, sway hearts with their discourse, and batter down lesser ideas. The Orator shall crush all you love with words alone, and an army at his back.
	Themes: Motivations, Understanding, Manipulation

Gamer: The player of games is the player of man and machine. They are strategists, gamblers, and risk takers.
   Video Games: This kung-fu is masked as new, but its lessons are indeed much older. To recognize patterns, to think faster and further, to have your hands move as your eyes command, this is the kung-fu of those who master video games.
	Themes: Cognition, Kinesis, Patterns

   Card Games: The playing of cards is an old art. It is not old due to the tools, but the lessons. To read people, to make nothing out of something, and to lay down plans that might take gross amounts of time to come together.
	Themes: Strategy, Reading People, Cheating

   Dice games: Rolling the dice, taking chances, it's all in the gambler's nature. To play probability and goad fate. It is only the gambler who can come back from the edge of utter defeat with victory in hand. At at the rolling of a die.
	Themes: Probability, Temptation, Survival

Martial Artist: What people more commonly think of when one says Kung-Fu, and yes martial arts are such. They who go about this path walk the path of a warrior, and in one way or another will most likely meet the end of a warrior.
   Pugilist: The pugilist needs nothing more than herself. Their fists rain like hammers, and their kicks come like a scythe ready to reap. Thus, a pugilist is never unarmed.
	Themes: Resilience, Hand-to-Hand, Crippling
   Fencer: A blade, a stick, a ruler, all can be made into the sword. The Sword, the tool of any Fencer, exists to cut, to pierce, and to cleave. Be it a body or the truth the Fencer's sword touches all that she wishes, and nothing can stop her cold steel.
	Themes: Cutting, Piercing, Finality

   Archer: The Archer stands tall, with gun or bow, and mark their prey. It runs, it hides, but nothing will save them. For the death an Archer deals flies upon invisible wings. Now, is it man or beast they hunt, or is there no difference.
	Themes: hunting, Ranged Death, Serenity

Performer: They are entertainers, enchanters, and liars in motion. They pull crowds to watch them, and hold them in rapture while they put on their shows. Performers are the most masterful of liars the world has ever seen.
   Actor: The actor, the role-player, the face changer. They are emotional chameleons, compulsive liars, and the craftiest of face changers. Beware an actor, for there is madness behind those eyes. The only wonder is, what face will it take next.
	Themes: Role Playing, Lying, Shapechanging

   Musician: She sits beside the fire, and brings the flute to her lips. As she plays you slowly become sucked in, absored into the sound alone. You imagine the fluttering of wings, the shrill cry of the wind, the crack of trees, fear. Before you give yourself over to the spine tingling sensation it is all over, and the musician is gone.
	Themes: Enchantment, Sound, Illusion

   Dancer: They move like snakes, spin like tops, and flip like monkeys. The dancer moves fluidly or harshly. They are reflect nature or machinery. They are the lords of their flesh, and masters of their body.
	Themes: Motion, Kinesis, Emulation

Magician: The Magician is whimsical, fantastical, and above all creative. They inspire wonder back into the hearts of even the most jaded of man. Their performances astound and startle. Though above all else the Magician is enigmatic, thus preserving the magic.
    Mentalist: Guessing a name, estimating a date, and even waiting for the tug of a facial muscle to guess the correct name of a dead relative. This is the purview of amateurs and wannabes. The true Mentalist makes the mind his home, his temple, and his playground.
	Themes: Hypnotism, Psychology, Mind Reading

    Escape Artist: The Escape Artist is the most daring of magicians. They consistently defy death and other situations through escaping the confines of rope, cloth, even steel. Be it knots or locks nothing can imprison the Escape Artist.
	Themes: Escape, Death Defying, Freedom

    Pickpocket: A base art, but a masterful one. The basis of magic lies in it, misdirection, sleight of hand, and trickery all come from the art of the sneak thief. What's up their sleeve may be a card, but who knows, it just might be your wallet.
	Themes: Sleight of hand, Stealth, Trickery

Artist: The artist is often the one who gifts immortality. Through capturing their subject in canvas, sculpture, or photography the master artist creates with visuals rather than sound, motion, or word.
    Painter: The painter is a master of creation rendering mankind, life, and alien things with only a few brushes and a colors. Whether the painter is using a spray can, a brush, or even a drawing tablet does not matter. A painter is a painter, and color is in their blood.
	Themes: Rendition, Iconography, Creation

    Photographer: Cameras are ubiquitous, and they are oppressive. However, it is the Photographer who shall take back their art. They shall capture video, stills, and with the skills at their disposal shall reveal who is behind those soulless cameras and show them a true artist.
	Themes: Truth, Setting, Immortalization

    Sculptor: Clay or metal, glass or wood, the sculptor takes the primordial elements of life and makes them into something wonderful. Industrious, and hardy they work with their hands creating beauty out of toil, and refinement out of sweat.
	Themes: Refinement, Structure, Shaping

Scientist: These brave and sometimes foolhardy folks are those who delve into the nature of the world, the innards of reality, and lay the map down for all lay folk to follow. Whether they stare into the void of space or examine the minute bonds that hold together matter these folk carry the light of knowledge into anywhere the shadows of ignorance make their home.
	Chemist: The interaction of matter, of the structures and bonds that whole our world together, this is the noble study of chemistry. With their tubes and flasks, flames and tongs, they break down, put together, and purify all that the world has to offer.
	Themes: Transmutation, Combination, Separation

	Biologist: Life is a web that binds all things together. The trees, the animals, and mankind. Biologists are the scholars of this web, the analysts who look at what vibrates when you pull what strand. Theirs is the study of life, and thus, they are the masters of it.
	Themes: Life, Death, Animals

	Physicists: Architects of the universe, and seers into the motions of the heavens the physicist's realm is that of a grander and more noble scale. They care about the effects of primordial powers: gravity, light, sound, time, space, radiation. They care about the motions of heavenly lords such as planets and stars, galaxies and nebulae. Physicists see the grand picture, the whole tapestry.
	Themes: Space, Fundamental Laws, Quantum