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I'm vaguely familiar with Hermetic magic in the "medieval Græco-Egyptian esotericism" sense. Does "Hermetic Mage" refer to something specific in an RPG?
In Mage: the Ascension, one of 9 Mystic Traditions is the Order of Hermes, which is exactly what you are imagining. They conform very tightly to what you immediately think of when you hear the word "wizard".
There are other kinds of Awakened you can play as, sorted into 3 factions. Here's a very far from complete list of traditions, with their corresponding factions:
The game's about, at least in theory, winning over hearts and minds so that you can shape consensus reality in your image. For example, the big AI push we've been enduring recently was a push by Iteration X (another faction in the Technocracy) to force AGI into the consensus reality.
See? This timeline gets the shit from our beloved sci-fi, but can't seem to wrap its damn head around Star Trek's burgeoning universal peace (nor hoverboards, telepathy, collaborative aliens, et al) 🥲