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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 5028075" data-attributes="member: 31898">The Irish Hero/God Lugh was a wizard (in addition to being a warrior, poet, smith, musician, and scholor).The Paladin Malagigi (from the legends of Charlamagne) was a wizard who was also a knight.The actual medieval stories about Merlin are very well developed, and he goes through his own hero's journey, from his youthful prophesies, to his service to the King, to his eventual imprisonment by his lover.Of course, there is also Dr. Faustus, though he's an anti-hero.As for an entire myth/legend where the protagonist is a magic user, there is Apollonius of Tyana, a Pythagorean philosopher who was ascribed tremendous magical powers and whose legends were current in antiquity. Of course, Apollonius was supposed to be Theurgist, meaning he would perform the same kind of miracles as a wizard but did so through invoking the gods.</blockquote>