Sage (job)



The Sage (賢者 Kenjya lit. Sage or セージ Sēji) is a job class that has appeared in a number of games in the Final Fantasy series. The sage could be considered the ultimate Red Mage, being able to cast both Black Magic and White magic. However, the sage cannot equip swords and is physically very weak. The drawback of sages is that they usually have much lower MP than the other upgraded mage classes, like Magus and Devout, and their speed is the lowest out of all the other job classes.

One notable sage is Tellah from Final Fantasy IV. Fusoya of Final Fantasy IV is also reminiscent of a sage, but he is officially classified as a "Lunarian". Leonora of Final Fantasy IV the After: Tsuki no Kikan is also a Sage.

Final Fantasy IV
Tellah was a sage in Final Fantasy IV. He had weak physical power, but could cast several spells from both the White and Black charts. In the SNES version, Tellah could only cast magic, but in updated versions, he was given "Recall", where he could cast one of the spells he's forgotten at random, until later in the game.