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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6078986" data-attributes="member: 52734">Personally, the big influences I've had over the years for the wizard archetype are:Gandalf:  For the longest time, this was the archtype of the wizard in my mind.  Though with the latest Peter Jackson film, he seems more of a charlatan than a real wizard.  Gandalf seems only to use magic when the mundane fails him.  He certainly does not use it for every little thing (well, except perhaps, to light a pipe, and that may be more a use of Nenya (?), the fire ring he possesses).Merlin (from the movie Excalibur):  This version (and others incarnations of Merlin I've seen) is interesting in that he seems almost more of a genie than a mage.  It's as if he can't use magic until he gets someone's permission or command to use it, and there is a cost to using it - the cost of which he often tries to defer to others.  Likewise, his magic is that of subtle persuasion and deception; he is certainly not a blaster mage.Ulrich (from Dragonslayer):  Definately a powerful wizard with clear uses of Magic Jar, Hold Portal, Control Weather and strangely enough, Implosion.Raistlin turned the archtype on it's ear for me; previously mages had been *elderly*, helpful sages.  Raistlin was still fragile, but young and selfish.Another archtype that changed my outlook on wizards was the Harry Potter series.  Previously, I had always seen magic as a jealously guarded resource that was used with care and great danger to its wielder.  Harry's world made magic easy to use (hey, we're talking 8-9 year olds casting stuff) and rather ubiquitous - in a good way.</blockquote>

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