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Used Expies/homages

  • (Black List)
    • Slick talking gang-lord using law enforcement to take out enemies
    • Hidden objectives and 15-betrayal-pileups
    • Networks of criminals
  • (13th Age) Icons
    • Archmage: The Nine Towers
      • Currently serving the place of the Archmage because none qualify
      • "the Curse of Excellence": the Queen also locates, assassinates and soul-drains near-Ipsissimus-level wizards
      • Gahdri later (when she rises to Ipsissimus)
      • Potato wizard doesn't fit the niche, but maybe he's a former Age's Archmage?
    • Crusader: Caine
    • Diabolist: The Queen
    • Dwarf King: Thror II Vegdrasill
      • aka Thror Vinblad, successor of Hugstari Eikinskjaldi as dwarven ethnarch, who died after defeating the White
      • Martok expy, taking the fight to the giants
    • Elf Queen: The Queen
    • Emperor: Tsarina
    • Great Gold Wyrm: Simargl
      • Seryy respecs as a paladin of Simargl (in the middle of a battle/after a long meditation)
    • Lich King: Ghastly Ecclesiarch
    • Orc Lord: Ukpik
    • Prince of Shadows: Yarik
      • Does he get/did he just lose "The Coin of Fate"?
      • Does it go next to Seryy (to kill The Queen), and then to Gahdri (to become Archmage)?
    • [The Three](npcs/the three.md)
    • High Druid: Tamacti Jun
    • Priestess: Heleward
  • (Prydian/Black Cauldron) Undead fae as war commander, followed by legion of doom made from a resurrection cauldron
  • (Once Upon A Time) Evil wizard from Polyn guild making her slaves her "sheep", using a shepherd's crook staff to track those she's Arcane Marked
  • (Drizzt Do'Urden) The Urden
  • (Amber) Trump cards - how the Royal Wizards communicate
  • Mongols - Yassa "It is forbidden to make peace with a monarch, a prince or a people who have not submitted."
  • Russian history
  • Russian folklore
  • Slavic-adjacent folklore
  • (Wheel of Time) - warders, mixed gender casting circles
  • (meme) Mushroom: "You cannot kill me in any way that matters"
  • (Stargate)
    • Tok'ra => good-aligned changelings
  • Deep Space 9
    • Converted enemy fortress-town full of assorted species, at front lines of an interplanar war
    • Ferengi - kobolds
    • Cardassia - Japanese lizardfolk
    • Romulans - Athamberingia, convinced to ally with the drow early, but could be swayed back
  • The Witch's Hammer https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-malleus-maleficarum
    • Gave a copy of this to Gahdri from one of the high-level Axe of Perun

TODO

Used, Will Use Again

Stories I Remember

Stories To Learn

Mythology

Real World Witches

Unused Magnificent Bastards

Treasures