• Wizards and Godmothers counter curses.
• Wizards and Godmothers test and guide Questers dispensing punishment to those who fail.
  • The little old lady in the woods who dispenses clues after being treated kindly is often a Fairy Godmother in disguise.
  • The ferryman who has answers to puzzles, riddles, and questions is either a Godmother or Wizard.
  • Other forms include the hag at the bridge or the watcher at the door, etc.
• Wizards are fewer than Godmothers and are usually solitary people. They are away from the dwellings of men often living in caves or in the wild as hermits.
• Because Godmothers often act as local White Wizards, they learn a lot of Witchery. 
• Witches and Hedge-Witches work in subtle ways at the lowest level of magic. They try to make it less obvious that magic is being used, but they also create potions for use by members of local villages.
  • They live in town but apart from others.
  • They cannot take sides and are not allowed to judge others.
  • They have to help those that come to them.
• Sorcerers and Sorceresses only intervene when something has gone wrong and enormous magic is needed to save the day.
  • They help heroes on quests.
  • Watch children that will become heroes.
  • Assist Godmothers to create trials for Questers. 
  • They are often in the thick of the magical battles.
  • They live in distant, lofty towers and don't usually venture out unless something is horribly wrong and their powers are needed.

It was the passion to set things right that defined the Godmother and the Wizard; and this was also why they did not live among the people. To be a Godmother meant that you did become involved, and you used your strong emotions to help you focus. But Godmothers and Wizards did not remain so utterly apart from people as the Sorcerers and Sorcerers did--they needed to have some contact with people, to remain anchored in humanity and keep their own emotions alive. It was a difficult balance to maintain--but it wasn't boring. (134)

     The Tradition wanted this young woman for something. It bent its power towards making her into that something. It was like an enormous, blind, insensate beast, pushing her towards that end, and it did not want to let her go down some other path.

     But Rosalie did not want to go there. She was happy with her little cottage, her gentle, simple husband, happy to be ordinary and fit in with the rest of the village as a pea fits among its neighbors in a pod. The more The Tradition pushed her, the more she pushed back, and that was what made it painless for her to give up the power that was collecting around her. (138-39)

1. Duel Direct: One magician throws powerful magical attacks at their foe and vice versus.
2. Transformation Duel: Each magician keeps changing forms until one or the other is able to devour or incapacitate their opponent.
3. Duel by Avatar: Each magician transforms into a magical monster and physical and magical combat takes place (reminds me of the Disney move The Sword in the Stone).