title: Dark Light: A Neo-Templar Time Storm
author:  Alan Richardson 
description: Alan Richardson is the author of numerous books on all aspects of the Western Magical Tradition, including biographies of Dion Fortune, Christine Hartley, and William G. Gray, and several quirky novels. He is also an expert on Earth Mysteries, mythology, Paganism, Celtic lore, Ancient Egypt and above all else Newcastle United Football Club. He does not belong to any occult group, does not take pupils or give lectures, and holds down a full-time job in the real world like any other mortal. He is married with four children and lives as a sort of Happy Hermit in a small town in the southwest of England.
zlib_text: The Chaos Balance
   by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
  Copyright © 1997
  Edited by David G. Hartwell
  A Tor Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
  175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010
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  To Lara, and her mother
  I
  THE ANGELS OF darkness made the Roof of the World their home, and after
  deceiving the followers of light who had eagerly welcomed them, they wielded the
  ancient and dreadful weapons of Heaven and vanquished those who rejoiced in
  the light.
     In those first dark years, there were none at first among the dark ones who
  could descend to the lower lands and bear the heat, and the lords of mankind,
  their true daughters, and their consorts rejoiced that this was so.
     For the angels of temptation bore blades that slashed through armor and loosed
  arrowheads that treated iron bucklers as if they were rotten wood, and they
  raised a mighty stronghold called Westwind, anchored on Tower Black, that
  rivaled Freyja in power. And the followers of li