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Department Of Belated Realmslore, Latest:
June 9, this year:
Cogitans @MundoSociedade
My dear Master @TheEdVerse, is there any sword-wielding warrior in the Realms capable of causing trouble and a headache for Elminster, assuming they can employ mystical artifacts to do so?
Jun 24, 2026 · 6:46 PM UTC
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I then replied:
There are a great many of them, which is one of the reasons he (and the other Chosen) are always so busy.
Cogitans @MundoSociedade responded:
Could you give me an example? I was running an epic campaign where he appears, but my players wanted to use him as a...
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...deus ex machina. It was a bit weird, and it sparked a debate about how warriors, even legendary ones, wouldn't stand a chance against legendary mages.
Herewith, my followup:
The only way a warrior can have a chance is that they are protected by magical means...
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..of spell reflection, so they can send hostile magic right back at its source, or deflect it at third parties (and not themselves be affected by it). This doesn’t usually work for long against a Weavemaster (like Elminster or one of the Chosen), because they...
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...“fold the Weave around” the warrior to in turn protect themselves, so the reflected magic ricochets around a confined space containing the warrior. The question is: can the warrior, employing an an artifact that’s a weapon, get in a sufficiently good shot...
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..against Elminster (or another legendary mage) before they recognize the threat and do the folding?
I’d say the most dangerous, currently, is Amratha Verendrue of Tsurlagol, a very lithe and acrobatic half-elf warrior, because an adventuring mishap caused her...
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..body to be inhabited by a living spell rooted in an enchanted dagger. The knife is embedded inside her body, lacerating her and causing her constant agony, but to protect itself, the living spell will “yank” her body (without any say-so on her part) into the..
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..dagger, so she suddenly disappears and the dagger, hovering or flying thanks to the living spell, is all that remains—until the living spell spits her back out into physical solidity.
So (in theory) she could attack, involuntarily avoid most of the damage from...
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..his counterattack (or more likely, attempt to immobilize her for questioning) by vanishing into the dagger, then reappear and attack when he’s very close and vulnerable. In theory.
In the debate you mention, I would say this: unless surprised (ambushed, ...
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..usually) or caught in a situation where their main intent is to do something else (like protect a princess) or a situation wherein they can be harmed by something else (like an avalanche or collapsing castle falling atop them), the legendary mage will, yes, ...
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...mop the floor with your average legendary warrior.
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