These abilities are confined to specific characters such as mages, spellcasters, or magic-users. Players can choose between classes, including knights, barbarians, thieves, and mages. Players can transform the Mages into Sages. Others have been depicted as mages and cyborgs. Etherkin Mages, using an Umbrella as their weapon. The Bloodlines all have a higher concentration of strong Charter mages than the general populace. The black ka'kari allows the bearer to become perfectly invisible to everyone except mages. Generally, those who manipulate order are called (black) mages. Places include the City of Khorinis, the monastery of the fire mages, farms and woods. There were initially seven of mages in the group. Games was a division of Mages, which dealt with video game development. This location was also used for the conclave of the Northern Mages. The Black Mages, along with Square Enix colleagues Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito. The Water Mages played an important role in the expansion. Before embarking on his journey, he is joined by the twin mages, Palom and Porom.