Glorfindel the high-elf mage was doing so well, made it quite far along on the Mage quest line, and then testing a co-workers fire shield spell to kill undead.
And I neglected to tell Lydia to keep her distance. So she gets hit by J'zargo's fire shield, and then warns me to be careful.
So I move away, so she follows me and get hit by J'zargo's fire shield again, and tells me this is for the last time.
So I move away - the big bad boss is dead by now - and Lydia follows me, gets hit by J'zargo's fire shield again and then pulls out her two handed axe and kills me in two hits.
Thus passes Glorfindel the Highelf, promising mage. I'll figure out the stats later.
I hadn't done the mage quest line before, so there were some surprises. I wanted to find out what happened next so I completed it through to being Arch-mage after reloading. I died a bunch more times that I wouldn't have lived through the first time I encountered it, so I'd about reached the end of my luck levels.