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* ''VideoGame/VermintideII'': "A Treacherous Adventure" has the heroes attack a wizard in their tower. It's an EldritchLocation full of traps, rogue magic, illusory (or not?) [[BiggerOnTheInside chunks of other landscapes]], and remnants of magical experimentation, including an {{alchemy|IsMagic}} lab, astronomy tower, and library. [[spoiler:It was [[MissionControl Oleysa]]'s, but has been stolen by an enemy necromancer.]]

* ''ComicBook/DoctorFate'' lives in the "Tower of Fate" a vanishing building near Salem that was built by Vikings before Columbus reached America. It is full of AlienGeometries and is also a MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusualm, and has NoEntrance - you have to use magic to enter (or use AntiMagic to create your own entrance).

* ''Literature/TowersTrilogy'': The titular Towers are skyscrapers which have been animated by magic and made to float in the sky. Only citizens who are rich in magic are permitted to live in them, with the poor forced to live in the ruined Lower City on the ground below.

*** Elminster the Sage has a tower in Shadowdale. A slightly modified abandoned windmill, really.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': In Campaign 2, TheArchmage Yussa Errenis lives with his assistant in Tidepeak, a 450-foot-tall tower in the port city of Nicodranas. The tower [[NoEntrance has no doors or windows]] unless he wants one to appear, he prefers that select guests visit via Teleportation Circle, and it doesn't appear to follow the same rules of perspective as its surroundings.

** ''TabletopGame/GURPSBanestorm'': Octavius of Tyrvo has a carefully detailed tower. Further, the kingdom of Caithness is predominantly low-mana (weak in magical energy), but there are occasional spots of normal- or high-mana, often only a few dozen feet across. The local wizards, naturally, maximize the useful living space by building towers on them.

** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' has many examples at all levels of grandeur and sophistication.

* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 4'': Kyogoku Maria's stage involves a [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian]]-architectural structure overlooking a lake and she's a [[KungFuWizard Kung-Fu]] [[VainSorceress Sorceress]] fighting with her [[ClothingCombat sashes]].

* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 4'': Kyogoku Maria's stage, of [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian]]-architecture, involves this and she's a [[KungFuWizard Kung-Fu]] [[VainSorceress Sorceress]] fighting with her [[ClothingCombat sashes]].

* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 4'': Kyogoku Maria's stage, since it's [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian Nights]]-esque, involves this and she's a [[KungFuWizard Kung-Fu]] [[VainSorceress Sorceress]] fighting with her [[ClothingCombat sashes]].

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/misakiyu misakiyu]]'s illustrations of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfics, Kyogoku Maria is a sorcerous socialite who resides in a penthouse of a luxury building complex overlooking Basara town, Minato, Tokyo, and that’s almost equivalent to a mage’s tower.

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* ''Manhwa/CielTheLastAutumnStory'': Enforced by the government, as Mages (basically magic users far more powerful than average) are put in towers and kept under watch to keep them under control.

* ''Literature/CityOFNoEnd'': Sci-fi example -- research into and reproduction of advanced ancient technologies is practiced in Fibre Tower, a massive StarScraper {{Arcology}} which is so tall that the upper levels have not even been charted. The scientists of this tower call themselves Sorcerers and once used to trick commoners into worshipping them before this was forbidden by the Church of Ascension. Characters still call their works "magic" or "spells" but it is clearly established to be SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology at play.

* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' is an RPGMechanicsverse where mage towers are standard issue for cities. The bigger the tower, the more of a bonus any caster within the city will receive to their spellcasting.

* ''Literature/OldKingdom'': It's not the standard for Charter Mages, but [[MilitaryMage Master Kargrin]] lives and teaches in a tower that used to be part of the old city wall. Its defensibility suits him, and the tower itself mirrors the Charter Mages' status as an ancient protective institution that's sliding into neglect.

** A RitualMagic spell lets a mage [[ThePowerOfCreation create]] an eighty-foot-tall tower ''ex nihilo''. It's elaborately carved from a single, seamless piece of stone, and therefore both solidly defensible and a good way to show off one's DishingOutDirt powers.

* VideoGame/MightAndMagic: Several through the series. In Might and Magic 4: Clouds of Xeen, you have the Tower of High Sorcery, Witches Tower, and Darzog's Tower. M&M 5 darkside of Xeen has Ellinger's Tower in the first town. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor has a city of mostly towers in Bracada, home of the Wizards. Averted in the first three games, as well as 6, where the resident major spell casters reside in castles and a mansion.

* ''Literature/TheRiftWarCycle'': In the first book, the CourtMage Kulgan has a tower in the duke's castle.

* In the first book of ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'', the magician Kulgan lives in a tower in Crydee Keep. Once Pug becomes his apprentice, he moves into the tower.

* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': Nearly all towers are owned by Wizards. They are located in Waste Areas, standing alone, round, without doors, few windows and built from entirely smooth stones which make climbing them very difficult. A powerful spell, along with a guardian Demon, will protect it against intruders. Black towers are owned by evil Wizards, blue, white or red by Good and neutral ones. The evil ones cause a blight in the surrounding area for miles around, so their presence be detected long before they're seen. At least once on a Tour, one will need to be broken into. Often an Amulet or Talisman is used to open it. However, Tourists may have to force entry from the roof. They are {{bigger on the inside}}, with many spells harrying any intruders that have made it in. One central spell which controls all this can stop the rest, and in most cases be disabled simply through hacking it with swords. A final confrontation against the demon follows, and (if Evil) the Wizard too. If Good or netural, the Wizard will be in apparently enchanted sleep which takes days to wake up from.

* "VideoGame/TheBardsTaleTrilogy" The final dungeon in the first game is a five level tower, inhabited by the evil wizard Mangar. Opposite him in the far corner of the city is the tower of the good wizard Kylerean, though you're only on a single level.