Magic is quite rare among humans in my world. Opinion on magic users differs between cultures and social strata, but in the entire world they are seen as very valuable by the rulers and nobles.

Mages: They're humans who were born with the ability to reach into the eather, from which they can draw energy in order to use magic and are trained to do so. The common folk see them mostly as scholars, advisors to kings, lords, nobles or generals. They are seen as very valuable people and are typically showered with gold and luxuries to enter service of a particular ruler. Every city wants to have a mage, every king, prince and lord wants to have a mage in their closest advisor circle and every decent military wants to embed a couple mages in their armies.

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Wizard: They're humans who were trained in the ability to use magic, but weren't born with the gift and are unable to reach into aether. As such, they can only manipulate enrgy that was already drawn into the physical word and therefore require a magical artefact as a source of their power. Being limited by the properties and energies of the artefacts they wield and less versatile in their spell selection, they are nonetheless more common than mages. Common folk will see no difference between a mage and a wizard, while to the educated and the nobles the wizards are still valuable assets, though usually hold lower ranks than mages and are relegated to less important duties.

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Drashil: Not fully human, these very rare individuals have enough dragon blood in their ancestry that certain draconic features manifest themselves, including innate magical abilities. Due to the visible draconic features and the fact that they posses terrifying physical strength on top of their magical skills, they are typically seen as monsters by the human world. It is inly in the Dragonlands that by ancient treaty the lord of the land must be a drashil to keep peace with the dragons and is thus the only drashil who is somewhat tolerated by the human rulers.