The Dark Wizard uses powerful black magic spells capable of hitting the entire party and/or inflicting instant death. It is particularly dangerous in the NES release, where Death is always the first spell it casts at a time when the party does not have access to protection from Instant Death. However, the Wizard is also frail and will quickly go down to any attack.
[view·edit·purge]Wizard is another name for a Magician. Wizards in fantasy literature and RPGs often draw from the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose Wizards of Middle-earth are a group of beings outwardly resembling Men but possessing much greater physical and mental power. Each Wizard has robes of a characteristic color, Gandalf the Grey being a quintessential example.
