title: Wizards: A History (Dark Histories)
author:  P. G. Maxwell-Stuart 
description: In an age of scientific certainties, the idea that such scientific absolutes can be breached at will by individuals asserting themselves against such laws is rather attractive. Throughout the ages, the wizard, magician, sorcerer, has claimed to do just this. From Simon Magus to Merlin, Faust to Cornelius Agrippa, the Comte de Saint Germain to Aleister Crowley, the magician has been both fted and feared. An awesome figure in real life and in literature, he has retained his hold on the Western imagination in the teeth of scientific advance.
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  ## 03 The Armies of Daylight
  
  
    
  
  
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  **The Armies of Daylight**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **PROLOGUE**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  When the wizard Ingold crossed the Void between worlds to save the infant
  Prince Tir from the destruction of Gae, Gil Patterson and Rudy Solis tried to
  help him. But one of the monstrous, evil Dark crossed behind him, and they
  were all forced to flee back to the world of magic from which the wizard came.
  
  
  It was a world where magic worked and where the loathsome Dark were destroying
  humanity, after having lain almost forgotten in underground lairs for three
  thousand years. And it was a world where the only hope for mankind lay in the
  distant, ancient stone Keep of Dare, built to resist the previous ravages of
  the Dark.
  
  
  The King had fallen in Gae. Now Chancellor Alwir was the Regent, as brother to
  young Queen Minalde. Vying for power was the Bishop Govannin