FORREST
Dan Forrest was only sixteen years old when he became ExtraOrdinary Wizard. He was one of the early ExtraOrdinary Wizards, and in those times it was not so unusual for those in their teens to hold important positions, because people tended not to live so long.
Dan was a popular ExtraOrdinary Wizard and one of the more powerful, being descended from both Witch and Wizard stock. He added many new Spells—one of his longest-lasting was a popular Unseen (once used by Nicko Heap). Dan died at the young age of thirty-six.
LONGEST-SERVING : MYRIAM D. DROMENDURRY
Myriam was ExtraOrdinary Wizard for so long that most people in the Castle at that time could remember no one else. She became ExtraOrdinary Wizard at the age of twenty-two and retired on her ninety-third birthday because, she said, she was becoming a little forgetful. Myriam had thirteen Apprentices who all loved her dearly, and one of them, Julius Pike, became the next ExtraOrdinary Wizard.
OLDEST-SERVING : BRYNNA JACKSON
Brynna Jackson was a mediocre ExtraOrdinary Wizard and knew it, but she wanted something to be remembered for and this was all she could manage. She hung on to office for years longer than she should have. No one can force an ExtraOrdinary Wizard to retire, but they can drop heavy hints. For years the Wizard Tower resounded with the clanging of hints being dropped, but Brynna was deaf to them all—until the day after her ninety-third birthday.
FATTEST : BIG BRIAN BOOM
Brian Boom ate seven meals a day because he thought seven was lucky. But it wasn’t lucky for Brian. He got wedged halfway up the narrow stairs to the Pyramid Library, and for three days no one noticed he was gone. After that, Brian Stopped the Wizard Tower stairs and walked instead. He lost a lot of weight but was not popular with the other Wizards, who also had to walk.
SHORTEST-SERVING : TAM THISTLE
Tam Thistle was ExtraOrdinary Wizard for three hours twenty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. Unfortunately she got her new robes entangled in the spiral stairs and you don’t want to know the rest. No, really you don’t.
THINNEST : TIMOTHY PAU?
No one really knows—it is hard to tell under all those robes. But Timothy Pau was apparently known as Thin Tim. And that, indeed, is all that is known of Timothy Pau.
LEAST TALENTED : BERT THE BASHER
A case of mistaken identity. A few days before his induction as ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Hamilton How was mugged by a footpad known as Bert the Basher. Bert found the Letters of Induction in Hamilton’s pocket and, realizing that he looked a lot like Hamilton, decided to assume his identity and see—as he put it—“what he could get out of those Wizard dummies.”
Bert toughed it out for a few weeks until Hamilton How turned up. Then Bert fled, taking ten gold plates from the dining service and the duty Wizard’s best boots.
MOST TALENTED : _______________________.
The pamphlet would not dare to venture a comment, as we know that this will be read by the current ExtraOrdinary Wizard (see below).
MOST RECENT : MARCIA OVERSTRAND
Not bad, all things considered.
M ARCIA O VERSTRAND
E XTRAORDINARY W IZARD
M ARCIA O VERSTRAND grew up as the only daughter of an ancient Wizard family from the Far Countries. The family arrived at the Castle when Marcia was five years old after some embarrassing difficulty with her father’s job as a minor Wizard and adviser to an Eastern Snow Princess. The young Marcia received little encouragement to take the extra Magyk classes at school, as her parents wished to distance themselves from Magyk , but, being Marcia, she insisted and they—as usual—gave in.
Naturally Marcia excelled at school. She knew that she wanted to be ExtraOrdinary Wizard, but she kept quiet about it until one day as a teenager when she had a huge argument with her mother and told her that she was going to be ExtraOrdinary Wizard, so there .
After the argument, Marcia moved out of the family home—an attic in a