For wizards (also known as "runemages"), the spells you know are inscribed on your body as runes. To cast a spell ("slow-cast"), you spend one full round per spell level tracing the rune in the air, but pay no vitality. Alternately, you can touch the rune on your body to invoke it as a standard action ("quick-cast," useful during combat), but it costs vitality, and will then disappear from your body until you meditate upon your centering rune for 15 minutes.

A specialist runemage has a +1 effective caster level for spells of their chosen school. In addition, when slow-casting, a specialist runemage spends one less round tracing the rune, with first level slow-casted spells taking a full-round action rather than one full round to cast. Generalist runemages select one spell at each level of spell they know as their "mastered" spells, which receive the same benefits.

Runemage spells known and vitality costs