“If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?”

— R. Scott Bakker , book The Darkness That Comes Before

ZARATHINIUS, A DEFENCE OF THE ARCANE ARTS
The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)

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Canadian writer 1967

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