And I'm sure there are plenty of wizards who thought they had a great idea for a spell until their atoms were scattered halfway across the continent. I mean, look at the magical objects we keep see popping up. For every success I'm sure there's a possibility of explosive failure. Oh, agreed. Definitely the potential for horrible magical mishaps.

Did Amfortas die in battle? I rewatched that episode recently, and it sure looked like he killed Kieran, did the fancy magic to be sure Kieran's spirit would be trapped, and then stayed in the tomb and died too so that his spirit could obsessively guard Kieran's. Although I suppose he wrote the fake Kieran/Viviane story first, where they die together all romantically.

Whatever happened to Kieran's quest, anyway? Do you think he finished it before Amfortas killed him or not?

Zedd's family seem to be big believers in natural aging. Hmmm. We know both Zedd's mother and Thaddicus didn't have any wizard power, and neither did Taralyn. So the only other person with the power to halt aging would be Carracticus, and Panis kills him while he's presumably still reasonably young...I don't remember how old he looked now. So I'm not sure there's enough evidence to say that.