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* Tayschrenn in the [[Malazan Book of the Fallen]].

* Skeeve becomes one early in the [[Myth Adventures]] series. His mentor Aahz insists it's a cushy job, where all you have to do is show some parlor tricks and be a status symbol. As it turns out, the king expects Skeeve to single-handedly face down an invading army...

** Confirmed at least for Egypt in historical sources: a Pharaoh always had a court mage and a physician on the payroll - the latter was expected to perform mystical healing arts as well as mundane, thus overlapping the role somewhat. It's believed that the death of at least one Pharaoh was indirectly caused by a treacherous court mage removing the divine protection from him, and getting caught in the act - placebo can work in both ways.

* In ''Chronicles Of The Black Moon'', Ghorgor Bey's sworn enemy keeps a mage by his side. Quite hilariously, when Ghorgor slaughters the entire castle guard and advances on the two, the lord orders the mage to kill him, at which point he says "I'd love to, your lordship, but I've got a teleport on the boil!" and teleports away.

* Many [[Witch Species|Qirsi]] have this as a profession in ''The Winds of the Forelands''.

* Flagg from [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Eyes Of The Dragon]]'' is the King's magician and also an [[Evil Chancellor]].

* Cimorene, from ''[[The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'', learned some magic from her father's court mage before she was told that magic wasn't a proper pursuit for princesses.

* Several examples in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s books, with probably the straightest being Ishabal Ladyhammer of ''The Will of the Empress''. The plot of the book is the four leads trying to escape becoming this themselves.

* The Imperial Saik from the [[Prince of Nothing]] books are an entire order of [[Court Mage|Court Mages]].

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' Melisandre serves as a combination of court mage/religious adviser/oracle to Stannis. In later books, {{spoiler|Qyburn}} becomes this to {{spoiler|Cersei}}. Danaerys briefly has Mirri Maz Duur, but it ends badly for both of them.

* A popular profession among the titular Magisters of the [[Magister Trilogy]]. Kings consider these immortal, nigh omnipotent sorcerers indispensable to their reigns.

** The Imperial Battlemage is this for the Emperor. The first known, Zurin Arctus, [[Evil Chancellor|betrayed]] or [[The Good Chancellor|was betrayed]] by his Emperor, while the second known, Jagar Tharn, [[Evil Chancellor|used magic to exile the Emperor]] [[Sorcerous Overlord|and assume his appearance and rule]]. High Chancellor Ocato may have been this, or may have been a leading advisor that just happened to be an Imperial Battlemage<ref>the term 'Imperial Battlemage' has multiple meanings in [[The Elder Scrolls]]</ref> as well.

* Rone from ''Avernum'' counts for the titular kingdom of that game, whereas Garzhad is the court mage for the Empire.

 

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* Hotep and Huy from ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', though it's unclear if they really have powers beyond clever sleight-of-hand.