Left Hand Magic

A talented Battlemage, you are struggling to find work for your type of magic in a post-industrial (Magitek/Magic Punk) world that no longer has much need for battle magic. To be fair, you were warned about this. Your parents, your friends, even your instructors at university all pointed out that Battle Magic, once the most important of all fields, has long lost its purpose. The monsters are all dead or uplifted to being civilized. Dungeons all long since discovered, looted, and destroyed. Even warfare is now dominated by magitek warmachines and tools, all the products of artificers and enchanters.

But...battle magic was what you were good at, a prodigy by any measure. And you had a passion for wielding the elements in destructive ways anyway. Who doesn't want to light things of fire or fry bad guys with lightning?! You ignored them all and mastered your area of expertise, graduating from the most prestigious magical academy on the continent! Too bad that no one needs you now...