lol.

As an aspiring writer, I take great offense at the fact all wizards are evil!
I'll just send a giant construct your way, and some undead, and perhaps even an orc or two.

zileas, thank you. i'm honestly in such a great mood right now just from these little back-and-forths. cheers everyone!

"If it's over 5000 years old, it's probably evil." -Can't remember who, but probably the writer of Oglaf (genius, but NSFW, comic writer)
^ With the one exception of immortal creatures deprived of moral freedom, such as Angels. Poor bastards forced to live Lawful Good with no say in the matter.

Time jades, and personally I am of the belief that Link from Majora's Mask would be the scariest being of all time. Days, weeks, months, MILLENIA for a child honing his skills, learning, repeatedly dulled to killing everything over and over again faster and faster to achieve his goals. Eventually, in searching for new ways to achieve the end of his time loop, he'd experiment with new methods. Get sick of talking to the same simple villager who says the same thing hundreds of thousands of times. Is it patience, or impatience? Or both, for different things? In his decline into madness, he may even artificially extend his time loop to simply learn more and more and perfect his arts after he's capable of ending it all.
When he emerges, he is old. He is powerful. He is the Master, and the young little maggots of Hyrule, like Ganon for instance, are powerless to stop him from whatever he so desires.

But what spells have you prepped for today? Or did you forget to fill out your spellbook this morning...

Typical noob move.

I think when you get to that high of a point for power, the imagination wanders and can make people seem less significant to you. The world is your play thing idea carried too far.

;_;

I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

Lol, seems better than what a DM in one of my games did.
I got hit in the shoulder by a half-ogre with an aluminium baseball bat (present-ish world with high fantasy lore), which hospitalized my characters for months in a corrupt system basically putting the campaign at a halt and forcing the rest of the party to focus on paying the hospital bills for my character.

I disagree. I believe that the villainous wizard trope grew from the fallacy that basically goes as follows:

1) I cannot be smart.
2) Anyone can fight.
3) I can fight.
4) I can be a warrior.
5) I cannot improve my smarts, but I can improve my strength
6) Therefore, few people can be smart and powerful, but anyone can kill a smart powerful guy

Thus leading to the self-heroification of those who slew the cunning, clever and unpopular. When in truth, they were luddites who attacked that which they didn't understand.