Rather, they are looked at with skepticism. Many major religious sects see them as cultists, madmen, and heretics, but they are rarely overtly persecuted. To a gnostic math is both philosophy and religion, transcending human comprehension and becoming the language of the divine. Many of their spells deal with the manipulation of the raw, primal building blocks of the cosmos, and other more “refined” casters look down on their art for its simplicity. However, ultimately, their spells are categorized as arcane, and they allow the gnostics to warp and distend reality to their whims. Gnostics are very “cosmic” in their power source, and as such their power blurs the line between divine and arcane magics. This practice gives them insight into the underpinnings of reality and allows them to predict and manipulate reality to their will. How many steps did they take? How many men are sitting at the bar? How many teeth are left in the mouth of that troll? They ask themselves all these questions and are able to draw meaning from them. Gnostics are obsessed with numbers and can discern divine meanings from things in their surroundings. Gnostics perceive relationships between the laws of geometry, magic, and the quantum mechanical rules that all things in the universe seem to abide by. This might be as simple as adding up the alphanumeric values of all characters on a line and discovering an apparent divine message in them, or as esoteric as calculating the letter of the name deities and holy words while consulting apocryphal religious texts to divine meanings from it. They study the occurrence of various numbers, patterns, and formulae within divine works to discern sacred secrets. They achieve their power not through ary sort of special connection to a deity, but though the study of divine numerology and the study of sacred geometry.
Gnostics are arcane casters with a divine inspiration. A Base Class for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
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