Class

All sapient beings considered adults by the System may select a Class. This is how the Startup Message defines Classes:"... [you may select a] Class – an archetype which informs and governs your System-related abilities – and Class Skills, the methods by which you can use Mana to express and grow those abilities..."

Classes work very much like the old concept of "classes" or "jobs" in role-playing games. They give the ability that any sapient being has to absorb and use Mana specific direction and form for that use through Class Skills.

There is an unknown but very large number of predefined Classes in the System. It is unknown whether Classes can be purposefully created by sapient beings, but the System itself will create new ones (e.g. "Mesmerist") when it is introduced to new archetypes which lend themselves to Class formation.