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%%* Hammered home again and again in Creator/MercedesLackey books, who likes to remind her readers that all mages are basically {{squishy|Wizard}} mortal people who can be killed just like anyone else.
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** In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, mages die to ordinary weapons, mistakes, or accidents. There are also various 'folk remedies' that supposedly cancel out magic, like salt or crossing running water. Even a certain type of mushroom can mess with a Herald's PsychicPowers.
** In ''Literature/TheBlackSwan'', Baron von Rothbart makes himself a MagicKnight and thinks himself safe against any magical or physical threat. He doesn't count on Odile, the daughter he betrayed, using her knowledge of his defenses to stab him in the back.
** In ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'', not only are magic users human and vulnerable, the series' own BackgroundMagicField can be steered like a ship by those with enough GenreSavvy in the basic FairyTaleTropes to get circumstances working in their favor.
