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For some reason all characters start with the "staff of magus" special skill, shouldn't this be for casters only? I doubt rangers or knights will use staves all that much.

If you read the skill's tooltip, it's pretty clear that it was intended that all classes in the game should have it. Pretty sure it's just there to support the way that staves are supposed to work.

But what is it? My Cleric and Ranger have it on the toolbar, but neither are carrying any kind of staff. Is it something I'm supposed to find later on? Some Main Quest item or something? Can I just take it off my toolbar and all's good?

You can remove it, and add it later if you want to try a staff for some reason (from the skill window [k]). It is primarily a weak-ish spell to do ranged elemental damage (based on the type of staff) when a mage's other spells are on cooldown, though it also has other uses.