Thief Redarked - Mages Concept

My free time this year was mainly devoted to this passion project, redesigning characters and creatures of "Thief the Dark Project".
As a great fan of this game and original trilogy I wanted to do Thief justice in a way that the reboot from 2014 didn't.

Mages
The Hand Brotherhood is a foreign sect of mages residing in a compound of tall towers. They are practitioners of elemental magic, and oppose necromancy. Their main sources of magic are the four elemental schools: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. The origin of the Brotherhood is unknown, but they are said to come from somewhere to the east of the City. They live isolated beyond the City in their towers and are quite distant to the city folk or other factions. The mages possess both a wealth of knowledge and of gold, but they are also adept in offensive magic and are formidable foes.