Vaalingrade
Legend
A monk is theoretically not magic. I mean clearly they're magic, but we have to call it ki and say it's internal because 'tradition', that most worthless of parasites hanging from D&D's intestines.Making them proper stabnerds. There's a bit of toe stepping with the Monk though, isn't there?
However, the stabnerd is different because they are taking traditional wizard magic itself and turning it into a martial art in the same way Fighters take traditional weapons and make them into a martial art, or how druids make being a bear and make it into a martial art.
They are taking the wizard's ability to project fire and focusing it through a sword or arrow to deal cauterized wounds, or the classic dimension door and making it a blink step to take their foes off guard. Where the monk is improving their body to make a ki battery, the stabnerd has turned magic into SCIENCE! to hurt people with on a personal level.
An elegant magic for a more civilized age. They don't wreck the landscape with AoEs, they apply spells like a scalpel, calmly excising lives from places that may be looted at a later time.