Blind Wizards

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Blind Wizards have a distinct advantage over seeing Wizards when it comes to 'seeing' magical beings around them.
Everything that can use magic has an aura, detectable with the correct concentration and under the right conditions. Sightedness often interferes with the magical sense of the magic of others and can blind a seeing Wizard to the aura, especially if it is being disguised, of other people or creatures. Being blind gives a Wizard an advantage in seeing these auras without the distraction of normal sight.
Blindness in a Wizard is also of great advantage in the dark. A Wizard's magical sight replaces the need for light, instead the Wizard uses the lotret in the air and the flow of magical energy to see with their magical detection. Blind Wizards who have lost their normal sight later in life have described seeing in this manner as a blue or green background against which everything with magic shows up in a color specific to that type of magic, or personality of the magical being or entity. Things of no magic appear as dark shapes outlined by the flow of lotret in and around it. Demons and their ilk appear as black or dark energies that swirl like slow hurricanes.
Of course, in places of low or no lotret, the Blind Wizard's sight does little to no good. Some Wizards have been able to compensate in these conditions by sending waves of magic out from themselves, like a magical sonar.
In the past, some Wizards have intentionally blinded themselves in one eye to increase their use of and sensitivity to the magical spectrum. This behavior is quite frowned upon today.
Blind Wizards with high affinity to magic can even tell before a spell is cast by another Wizard or by a Warlock, what the spell is going to be, or at least what elements a spell will use and its likely manifestation.
Artist rendering of what a blind Wizard sees.

Type

Magical