Greatest Fantasy Wizards?

[billd91]

Both of these show up in multiple stories in the Thieves World anthology, and so serve as movers and shakers of that wizarding world:
Enas Yorl
Lythande

 

[Deset Gled]

Schmendrick the Magician, from The Last Unicorn.

Okay, I'll bite. The more I think about this, the less sense it makes. Schmendrick isn't the greatest anything, that's kinda the whole point of his character.

 

[Scottius]

Not the nicest bunch but certainly great in terms of power include The Dominator, The Lady, & the Taken/ten who were taken from The Black Company.

 

[Cadence]

Mary Poppins.

(I imagine an animated scene where Thanos's snap takes out the kids she's watching, and Mary looks at him through a mirror angrily, taps her foot, and he apologizes and brings them back).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Mary Poppins.

(I imagine an animated scene where Thanos's snap takes out the kids she's watching, and Mary looks at him through a mirror angrily, taps her foot, and he apologizes and brings them back).

Surely by D&D standards she's at least a quasi-deity or something, and not merely a spellcaster.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Greatness is not a function of level, Gandalf is a fully invested Role player in a low magic world

That's higher than Rincewind.

I guess you didn't get the reference

 

[Cadence]

Surely by D&D standards she's at least a quasi-deity or something, and not merely a spellcaster.

"Any sufficiently powerful magic is indistinguishable from divinity."?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Now that I think about it, a Mary Poppins style domestic urban deity would be a pretty neat inclusion into a D&D world. No one would expect the prim nanny to be an epic level threat, since she's mostly focused on the kids being clean, well-behaved and taking their lessons seriously.

If gods spring from the power of belief (in many settings), surely parents could will someone like Mary into existence.

 

[Muso]

Uhm... no one cited Vecna or Acererak or Fistandantilus.
But Gandalf and Raistlin are in my personal top list, while Ged from Earthsea and Miyazaki's Howl are some of my favourites.

 

[Cadence]

Now that I think about it, a Mary Poppins style domestic urban deity would be a pretty neat inclusion into a D&D world. No one would expect the prim nanny to be an epic level threat, since she's mostly focused on the kids being clean, well-behaved and taking their lessons seriously.

If gods spring from the power of belief (in many settings), surely parents could will someone like Mary into existence.

I wonder what their failure to do so would say about children (or relationships) on such a world