Could anyone tell me the different between an archmage and a mage?

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Think of an archmage as a older (wiser) mage who knows tons of kick-ass spells and isn't afraid to use them

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That is right.
I believe I also heard/read somewhere that an archmage is usually about 100yrs. old...being that they have used spells to slow down the aging process.
I do not know the origin of this claim, though.
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IN AD&D terms a Archmage is a mage past a certain level, I think it is somewhere beyond 12th but I need to verify that with my old Players Handbook.

thats pretty much it

the mage school of ... (shit, forgot the name, it is a country on east coast of Faerun, it had a similar name to elven nation, and its ended with "thyr")

anyway, archmages are the ones past most of the tests, and became school masters. lvl 12 is a very close guess

So if archmages are mages past level 12. Than technically everyone who's played through TOB had an archmage. Cool!

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BGII is not AD&D, in sense of its structure and interactions
it is screwed up version of CRPG

The reason I asked is:
*SPOILER*

In ToB, Imoen had a conversation with the NEW NPC, where he calls her weak or something. And then she treatening him, saying "I am an archmage now" or something.

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The level that dictates a mage becoming an archmage is different for each campaign world.

For example, in Dragonlance there can be only one archmage of each order (orders = good, neutral, evil.) I believe the Good archmage must reach level 18, Neutral must reach level 16 and evil must reach level 13 (evil gains power faster.)

In most other campaigns, unless specified differently, a mage is definetely an archmage by level 18. You will never see a young archmage as it takes many, many years to gain such power.

I consider any mage 16th level or above an archmage, and only if their intelligence is 18 or higher.

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a bunch of long hairs.
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