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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1868649" data-attributes="member: 1210">There are a number of noteworthy famous wizards imc, both pc and npc.Estelias is an extraordinarily powerful grey elven enchantress.  She is one of the architects of the political structure of Tirchond, which is a grey elven and dwarven island that staunchly maintains a studious neutrality in world affairs (although other powers sometimes occupy it and whatnot).  She is of legendary beauty (whenever a pc meets her for the first time, I invariably describe her as 'the most beautiful woman you've ever seen'), and uses this to facilitate her enchantments.  She is well known for being of incredible intellect, and has faked her death to throw assassins off of her trail more than once.  I credit Estelias with dire charm and a number of homebrewed spells I use (including Estelias' body, Estelias' wine, Estelias' extreme sanction, Estelias' eternal compulsion and others).  She is also known as a prodigious maker of magic items and was the head of the enchantment school at the Silver College of Tirchond for years.  (In earlier editions of the game, the term 'enchantment' might well refer to creating magic items with no connection to the school of Enchantment/Charm, and she was mighty in both areas.)Marius the Chronomancer is a master of the forces of time.  He lairs in the Citadel of Eternity.  Though he is very active politically, Marius is most famous- or perhaps infamous- in magical circles for the Simulacrum Wars.  In 3.0, when you could apply Empower Spell to a spell multiple times, and when simulacrum had a variable effect, Marius created simulacra that were more than 100% as powerful as him.  They weren't under his control, but at first they hid this from him, tricking him into showing other mighty wizards and sorcerers how to do the same.  This has ultimately led to a number of interesting situations in the game world, and is building slowly towards even more interesting situations.  Some of these multi-empowered simulacra have embarked upon a campaign of liberation, using a spell that they have developed to free constructs from the control of their creators.Orbius Visionary, a cohort of one of the epic pcs in my high-level game.  Orbius has broadened the scrying capabilities of his party an amazing amount.  He has developed tons of spells- discern strengths and weaknesses, Orbius' mobile scry, Orbius' projected scry, and more- and several feats, including Bestow Spell (turn a personal-range spell into a touch spell), Mass Spell (touch targeted spell instead targets 1/level creatures), and maybe another one.  Very effective- he's a divine oracle/wizard/archmage, and he always has his spidey sense up (foresight), which means he knows ahead of time if something bad's going to happen.The Delphin, wizard-ruler of the Delphinate.  The Delphin's true identity is hidden behind an artifact called the mask of the Delphin, but he or she is always an extremely powerful wizard (never a sorcerer).  The current Delphin is responsible for the creation of the first Warforged in my game world.  Malford the Magnificent, God-King of Dorhaus (though his rulership over much of the continent is disputed).  Malford is a pc- the only survivor from the first game of my 600+ session campaign.  He's taking levels in the Ascendant prc (a 20-level epic class that lets you ascend to deityhood).  He has created many spells, including Malford's hell on earth, Malford's group invisibility, Malford's sticks to squirrels, Malford's tailor, Malford's inconspicuousness, Malford's doppelgangment and more.  He's also created a secret group called the Nyx that serves as his spy force and has its own prestige class.Arion the Archmage, a very powerful wizard who drinks to excess and fires off high-level spells rather capriciously.  It can be very frightening to be in the same establishment as Arion when he's in his cups.  Once when he offered someone another drink and they declined, he replied with "I wish you would."  Arion has a staff of the magi, of which he is (rightfully) very proud.  Arion is a specialist in force- in 2e, under PO:S&M rules he was a force mage.  Now that I have Complete Arcane, I'll prolly rewrite him to include levels in argent savant.  He has written several spells, including Arion's force shape, which is now simply known as force shape in most quarters.  He is also the author of one of the epic spells I've developed imc (Arion's forcefiends).  Most likely he is the first argent savant and it shall be his knowledge trickling out that allows others to take up the prc.There may be more, but that covers the main ones alive at this point... I don't want to go into the ghastly group of Dzaram and his crew (Delilah and Nydroth).</blockquote>

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