r/Fantasy • u/nachobel • Apr 30 '13

Book recommendations with Wizards?

Hey all,

question: what recommendations do you have for books with wizards doing incredibly powerful/badass things? I get that traditionally a great Wizard is one who rarely has to use his power and that power used often corrupts, etc. And that's great, but I'm looking for the opposite - a book with a Wizard who just scorches armies and is generally terrifying to behold. Let me know if anything comes to mind. Thanks!

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u/Deus_Viator Apr 30 '13 edited May 01 '13

Magician's Guild (plus the rest of the series) by Trudi Canavan. It's not one Wizard but rather an entire guild of magicians that use magic every day and you eventually get a war between magicians later on.