Occultist

After neurotically scribbling perfectly symetrical runes in a circle on the floor with chalk, the gray-bearded halfling beckons his friends to step inside, and to not talk to not attract the dozens of demons hidden in the dungeon.

Eyes glazed like mirrors, the elven woman runs her fair hands across the polished crystal orb silently. After some time, she blinks, eyes returning to normal, and smiles wildly as she informs her friends that their journey should be without much effort.

Sneaking silently through the woods, shadows clinging to him like a cloak, the dwarf approaches the tall troll from behind and tosses a dagger that pierces its neck, causing its very mind to throb with painful injury.

Occultists see their minds as vessels to be filled and emptied with secrets, being able to bear the weight of insights that most mortals cannot dream of understanding without their minds breaking. Hidden and feared, occultists are spellcasters that borrow lost secrets like books from a library, to be used as weapons against the more strange monsters that haunt the lands.

Unknowable Magic Wizards see magic as a science, something to be experimented with, broken down, and understood; Occultists have the opposite approach. An occultist sees magic as something much more powerful and supernatural than wizards "pretend" it is, and thus an occultist never bothers to memorize or understand the complicated nuance of their spells. Rather, occult magic relies on opening the mind up to the powerful and strange magic that radiates the background of the multiverse, and releasing this magic from their minds once it has found its use. This allows an occultist to make use of more eldritch spells than wizards use, magic that others can make use of only by being granted it through otherworldy sources.

Enemies of the Alien While an occultist is known for dabbling in eldritch powers, they are more often than not fierce enemies of otherworldly foes. Equipped with a variety of wards and spells to be used against creatures of extraplanar origin, an occultist might see oneself as a custodian of the multiverse.