Life Mages, almost all of them are healers, paladins, clerics, priests and many other noble professions. Ferox though, Ferox is a monster, and not in the literal sense, Life Mages have the potential to be amazing combatants, better than any other kind of mage some would even say.

Because it's not Death Mages that create the flesh horrors, control blood and bone, or suck the life out of living beings. No, the true monsters are the Life Mages.

Magic is a tool, no magic is inherently evil, it's how we use it.