1. The Magician

They asked St Germain's manservant if his master was truly a thousand years old, as it was rumoured he had claimed.
'How would I know?' the man replied. 'I have only been in the master's employ for three hundred years.'

Vampire Tarot from Neil Gaiman

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Existe uma quantidade de Magos enorme na literatura mundial que eu adoro.

- O Tio do Aladdin (do Mil e uma noites)
- The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (de L. Frank Baum)
- Merlin (de TANTOS livros e lendas, em especial os de Thomas Malory, T.H. White, Marion Zimmer Bradley e Bernard Cornwell)
- Archelaus (do conto Amandis de Gales)
- Atalante (Orlando Furioso)
- Miriamor Lluagor (The Silver Stallion)
- Doctor Vandermast (Mistress of Mistresses)
- Gandalf The Gray (The Hobbit - Lord of the Rings)

E tantos outros... Mas um dos que eu mais gosto, não podia deixar de ser, é o Prospero, Duque Legítimo de Milão, Mago Branco da Obra Prima A Tempestade, de Shakespeare. Contada numa linguagem rica e luxuosa, a peça é suave, sofisticada, iluminada com brilhantes encantadoras passagens poéticas, em especial Invocação de os espíritos do ar do mago:

Ye Elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
And ye on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him
When he comes back: you demy-Puppets that
By Moon-shine do the green sour riglets make,
Whereof the Ewe not bites: and you , whose pastimes
Is to make Midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
To Hear the solemn Curfew; by whose aid
(Weak Masters thought ye be) I have bedimmed
The Noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutions Winds,
and twixt the green Sea and the azur'd vault
Set roaring War. To the dread rattling Thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout Oak
By my so potent Art. But this rought Magic
I here abjure: and when I have requir'd
Some heavely Music (wich even now I do)
To work mine end upon their Senses, that
Yhis Airy-charm is for, I'll break my staff
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper that did ever Plummet sound
I'll drown my book.

Magia Poética. Um personagem que eu gostaria de fazer.
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