What about witches,(as defined in the RQ Magic Book: people with a lot a spirit magic but no fetch.) Also remember that an independent magician is independent for social reasons: he is not answerable to human masters. RW shamans are often selected by the spirits without any human intervention. A sorceror can learn their art from books. Mystics also don't need huge numbers of worshippers to use their magic either.
Medieval Europe is a RW period when there were plenty of magicians and
most of them weren't didn't gain their powers through a power-structure
(i.e. the church.) Witches, who turned to magic because they were beyond
the pale of normal society, had familiar spirits and behaved like nothing
so much as bad shamans. The Hermetic magus, though possibly a church-man,
gained his magical ability through occult knowledge. Whether a mystic or
wizard he was an independent magician
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Andrew Behan
ajbehan_at_alf2.tcd.ie
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