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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2313865" data-attributes="member: 7883">One of the Midkemia books, I think Shards of a Broken Crown, actually deals with this matter.  Pug is the immensely powerful magician that can obliterate armies.  But eveyone wants to use him...the King wants him to destroy the Keshians, the Keshians want him to leave them alone, or fight for them, etc.What does he do?  Walk away.  Go into exile.  The secular political structure basically exiles him, but given he could single-handledly destroy their army, he doesn't really care.  I suspect that he really didn't want to be responsible for killing a bunch of lvl 1 guys with a wife and kid on the way back home, and saw it as an abuse of his powers.Similarly, in Troy, (the movie, not the book), Achilles seemed somewhat hesitant to fight at the beginning.  He knew nobody could beat him, and maybe felt a bit guilty about the fact?I'd think that high-level characters would get tired of being asked to slaughter enemy soldiers.  They know they have a distinct advantage because of their skill, but don't want to be reduced to a simple killing machine.Banshee</blockquote>