Irenicus V.S Corypheus

[ArlEammon]

Irenicus is a powerful magician who can cast the spells known as Rapture of the Father, or even possibly capable of cloning any Humanoid enemy, especially magicians. His Time Stop Spells make him especially powerful. Corypheus is infamously soul tied to a Red Lyrium Dragon, so yes, Irenicus has to get past that too.

[Keltest]

Going to have to go with Irenicus. Time Stop is such an absurdly powerful spell, there really isn't any excuse for him not winning this fight unless he cant locate the dragon to kill it.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Oh hey a random vs. thread that actually has some thematic reasoning behind it: the immortal yet soulless mage vs. the corrupted ancient magister, the despoiler of the Golden City vs. the destroyer of Suldanessellar, the man who usurped a god just to avoid death vs...what was Corypheus's plan again? Ruling the world?

Anyway they're both functionally immortal (after Jon picks up a Bhaalspawn soul, anyway) so this might take a while, if only because they each have to go out of their way to research how to off the other. There's a pretty solid chance that, if they confronted each other before that, it'd be a double TKO of four meteor swarms vs. Lyrium Beam, followed by Jon taking a trip to Hell and Corypheus taking a trip to a new host body then both hitting the library while grumbling.

Actually, it's been a while since I played BGII. Does Jon have a means to get back out of hell other than a symbolic fight against the dude whose soul he stole, or?

[Keltest]

Oh hey a random vs. thread that actually has some thematic reasoning behind it: the immortal yet soulless mage vs. the corrupted ancient magister, the despoiler of the Golden City vs. the destroyer of Suldanessellar, the man who usurped a god just to avoid death vs...what was Corypheus's plan again? Ruling the world?

Anyway they're both functionally immortal (after Jon picks up a Bhaalspawn soul, anyway) so this might take a while, if only because they each have to go out of their way to research how to off the other. There's a pretty solid chance that, if they confronted each other before that, it'd be a double TKO of four meteor swarms vs. Lyrium Beam, followed by Jon taking a trip to Hell and Corypheus taking a trip to a new host body then both hitting the library while grumbling.

Actually, it's been a while since I played BGII. Does Jon have a means to get back out of hell other than a symbolic fight against the dude whose soul he stole, or?

Its kind of sort of implied that if he beats you in the symbolic fight, he will possess your body and continue being a pseudo-immortal baalspawn wizard, but its never explicitly stated.

[ArlEammon]

Oh hey a random vs. thread that actually has some thematic reasoning behind it: the immortal yet soulless mage vs. the corrupted ancient magister, the despoiler of the Golden City vs. the destroyer of Suldanessellar, the man who usurped a god just to avoid death vs...what was Corypheus's plan again? Ruling the world?

Anyway they're both functionally immortal (after Jon picks up a Bhaalspawn soul, anyway) so this might take a while, if only because they each have to go out of their way to research how to off the other. There's a pretty solid chance that, if they confronted each other before that, it'd be a double TKO of four meteor swarms vs. Lyrium Beam, followed by Jon taking a trip to Hell and Corypheus taking a trip to a new host body then both hitting the library while grumbling.

Actually, it's been a while since I played BGII. Does Jon have a means to get back out of hell other than a symbolic fight against the dude whose soul he stole, or?

He has to DIE before getting out of Hell but if Corypheus kills him he can take him To Hell.

[The Glyphstone]

Oh hey a random vs. thread that actually has some thematic reasoning behind it: the immortal yet soulless mage vs. the corrupted ancient magister, the despoiler of the Golden City vs. the destroyer of Suldanessellar, the man who usurped a god just to avoid death vs...what was Corypheus's plan again? Ruling the world?

Anyway they're both functionally immortal (after Jon picks up a Bhaalspawn soul, anyway) so this might take a while, if only because they each have to go out of their way to research how to off the other. There's a pretty solid chance that, if they confronted each other before that, it'd be a double TKO of four meteor swarms vs. Lyrium Beam, followed by Jon taking a trip to Hell and Corypheus taking a trip to a new host body then both hitting the library while grumbling.

Actually, it's been a while since I played BGII. Does Jon have a means to get back out of hell other than a symbolic fight against the dude whose soul he stole, or?

Can't he just cast Plane Shift? He obviously didn't follow the usual rules for a dead soul dragged into hell - to start with, he both had a physical body and access to his magic. So he could probably just shift right out again.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Honestly, given how the final boss fight in DAI ends, Plane Shift is going to be a pretty good silver bullet for Irenicus in this fight. Corypheus's magic can obliterate things in terms of straight HP damage, but Dragon Age magic in general lacks AD&D's utility and counters to it, even Ancient Tevinter stuff.