Cryptomancer

Cryptomancers are exceptionally rare mages found only in extreme circumstances. They are specialists that deal in cryptic spells and magical puzzles, while fortelling the future using hidden, combined or dead languages and cyphers.
To see one work is baffling to most as they speak in riddles and strange tongues that no-one but the intended recipient can hope to translate. Using griomires ad translations of many different languages they craft spells, formulae & magical items that can take even a well-trained master wizard decades if ever to crack, they are perfect for a number of tasks to those they serve. These usually involve the following:

• Spymasters. Able to make up magical items for carrying & recieving instructions for spies, and cracking enemy codes makes them perfect for this task.
• Predictions. Many cryptomancers can hunt out the truth and scry the present & future from multiple unrelated sources.
• Languages & Mathematics. They are expert liguists in many languages, both dead & living, belonging to multiple different unrelated sources to piece together information. They rely on mathematics to, allowing the use of numbers in the same way.
• Secret keepers. The cryptomancers are perfect for the storage of secrets never allowing any to crack their own codes. Many might not even know or remember the cyphers needed to crack them.

Very few cryptomancers exist. This is for one simple reason, the mind of a cryptomancer is usually splintered into many different paths and ideas. Comstantly thinking of what is to come, and what is happening takes its toll. They will be speaking with the dead one time, creating a new cypher, then sending a coded message to a spy, all these are done in the space of a few minutes.
Most end up with slight deformities for some reason. Some think that the body mirrors the mind, and a few say that the amount of fingers the cryptomancer has represents the plots that they are involved with at any one time.

"Never speak to one. I did once, and only the once. Completely confusing and I couldn't work out half of what he was saying. Constantly skipping between one language and another, even from word to word in a single sentence. Showed me what he was working on. A ring that he was casting as spell on, and carving glyphs on the inside. I didn't recognise half of them or why they were in the particular order they were."
Emon Kanis speaking to a Thieves of Frankia spymaster.