"Your father's supposed to be the most powerful mage who ever lived," said Smith.

"It would probably take a very powerful mage to get around something like that," Dirk put in.

Unless, of course, she was a truly powerful mage, one able to shield herself against just about anything.

You are the most powerful mage in the world, perhaps the equal of Kirun.

Except that he is, beyond a doubt, the most powerful mage now living.

Could one whom his grandfather had called the most powerful mage in the world have endured that loss?

Flattery is a very powerful mage with a violent temper.

He is a powerful mage, this one who took the Tower.

After all, who was he to claim to have destroyed a powerful mage?