What is a mage?
A mage is one who has discovered how to bend the world to his will. He has, as the mages say, been “Awakened” to the fact that he can change the reality around him. The most-used and perhaps most apt metaphor for this is to think of the world as a tapestry (in fact, sometimes the universe is referred to as the Tapestry) and to assign the title of “mage” to one who knows how to pull and reweave the threads into a pattern they desire. Of course, the extent of the changes one can do depends on one’s magical knowledge, power, and experience (measured in a quantity known as Arete).
