Mutually Exclusive Magic: Most of the masteries have one or more toggleable skills tagged as exclusive, meaning only one of them can be active at any given time.

It is also possible to cast spells and wield guns at the same time.

Mage Marksman: Many of the Masteries have attack replacers which add different types of magical damage to your attacks, including firearms.

If they don't, there are several constellations and weapons that grant fire damage and skills.

Kill It with Fire: If they choose the Demolitionist class, which has many incendiary skills.

All skills can be upgraded and developed with skill points.

These are cheap and grow in power over the course of the game.

Some masteries have skills that do bonus damage when used as the left mouse button skill.

Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Constantly through the game, the Taken manages to kill abomination after abomination and might be able of killing manifestations of gods and semi-gods.

Deadpan Snarker: Some dialogue options available to the taken are this, usually towards the most unpleasant or weird NPCs.

Dark Is Not Evil: The Nightblade, the Occultist and the Necromancer classes.

However, some people will try to take advantage of him or deceive him into doing their dirty work.

Chronic Hero Syndrome: The Taken will occasionally take a break from his main quest to help those in need.

In additional, most of the Inquisitor's skills come from dangerous artifacts used by various evil or insane mages which were reverse-engineered and repurposed into safer and more controlled forms by the Luminari. Many of the artifacts that they can pick up are associated with witches and monsters.

Bad Powers, Good People: The Taken can wield various types of magic or weapons that the villains also possess, most notably necromancy and occult sorceries.

It is implied that the Masteries are less about the Taken learning new abilities and more about them relearning things that they already knew before their mind was wiped or finding new applications of old knowledge.

Amnesiac Hero: A side-effect of the aetherial possession.

The Taken can pick two out of nine (six from the base game, two from Ashes of Malmouth, one from Forgotten Gods) classes called 'Masteries' as they level up, with many different skills and affinities. This experience left them with no recollection of his/her past and newfound abilities and power. A human formerly possessed by an Aetherial.

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