Reach heaven through violence
astutemural
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I know this is a meme but I am cursed with taking things too seriously so here's what I would rule in a game I would run:
Artificer is on a flying dragon golem/homonculus.
Sorcerer is manifesting wings of pure magicka and/or levitating and/or doing air bending etc.
Wizard is probably on a broom, yah. After researching a multitude of flying rituals from a variety of traditions, performing occult experimentation, and finally gathering the reagents needed for the enchantment. But crucially it works by invoking the God of Hearth's protection from the Wind Elemental in a wierd niche way or something.
Artificers combine smaller magical effects into larger ones, Sorcerers are running off that high-octane Type Green Reality Bender fuel, and Wizards are occult hackers.
Clerics sneer at them all and call up God directly to ask them if they wouldn't mind bending space-time for them, pretty please with a cherry on top.
This is getting out of hand. Now there are ~~two~~ five of them!
Fun fact: we know that the keeping of domesticated cats spread to England at least by the time of the Roman occupation, because we found a 2000 yr old roof tile there with a cat's pawprint in it. It's funny to imagine a clayworker 2000 yrs ago yelling at the cat to stay off his tiles lol.
This really gets into the foundational expectations of the setting.
In a reality structured to allow for Heroes, a leader must be one, or else be replaced by the next one to stroll through.