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Did you think I'd forgotten our last battle? Well, I'm no longer that weakling. I could destroy you with a word. (Goliath: Then why don't you?) Because I'm having too much fun.
~ The Archmage during his second battle with Goliath.

The Archmage is a recurring antagonist in Gargoyles. He was a powerful but arrogant magician who taught both the Magus and Demona how to use magic, having once been a courtier at Castle Wyvern and he was the first person known to possess the spellbook called the Grimorum Arcanorum.

He was voiced by the late David Warner.

History[]

Hudson enlists the young Goliath and Demona to go with him to the Archmage's cave. The three gargoyles battle with the Archmage, resulting in Hudson's scarred eye. Goliath saves the book before it falls into a chasm, and the Archmage tries to put up a final resistance but fails and seemingly falls to his death in the chasm.

In truth, he was saved by his future self saved him from his fall in a perpetual time paradox — as his future self-existed in the 1990s, and rescued his past self, without any explanation for how the loop began.

The Archmage continues to live through this loop, despite his later defeat, after rescuing himself in the past. By manipulating events and coercing the Weird Sisters to do his bidding, he managed to obtain the Grimorum Arcanorum, the Phoenix Gate and the Eye of Odin, granting him ultimate power as he had long wished. Using the gate, the Archmages are brought to 1020 A.D. Meeting with the Sisters, the older Archmage tells them to guide the destinies of both Demona and Macbeth. In order to do so, they need to bend Oberon's law. He also advises that they watch for the Grimorum, the Eye and the Gate, which perplexes them, as he already has the last two objects. Archmage laughs, for he didn't acquire them until the three of them brought them to him. He instructs them to meet him in 975 years in the waters before Avalon.

The Archmage proceeded to instruct his younger self to seek world domination and clear out the inhabitants of Avalon to claim it as a base. They then meet with the sisters and his past self is given the eye of Odin, before saying the Grimorum will help fill in his magical knowledge. However, the sisters reveal they cannot give him, the Grimorum for outside magic cannot enter Avalon. This causes his younger self to become enraged that they went to such perils and that now that he has the book, he can't bring it on the island with him. He sarcastically asked if he was supposed to eat it, causing his older self to remark that he is learning, and the younger self realizes what he is meant to do. Upon eating the book, its magic fuses with the eye, granting him extreme knowledge and power. He is then given the Phoenix Gate to travel anywhere, though the Sisters warn him about the sleeping king, who the younger Archmage was shocked to learn was real, but the Future Archmage says that they'll ensure he is dealt with.

With this, he goes to terrorize the inhabitants on the island, while giving them a day to prepare for the end. He explained to the Sisters that by the day's end, the Gargoyles will be statues and only three humans will be left. He goes on by revealing this was a ploy for him to draw in and finally get revenge on Goliath. The younger self proceeds to travel back in time to make sure everything goes the way it should go to Journey.

However, he refused to destroy them immediately because he wanted revenge on Goliath and believed that he was invincible. His hubris allowed the Avalon Clan, with Goliath's help, to mount a counterattack. Goliath managed to steal the Eye of Odin away from him, and without the Eye, he was unable to control the power of the Grimorum Arcanorum, having previously swallowed it in order to circumvent the law that the book could never enter Avalon, and it destroyed him, turning him to a pile of dust.

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