When our story begins, wizards are not very nice. Carrying the final remains of one of their number, the eight heads of the orders of wizardry have demonstratedgreat powers of survival, because behind every wizard of the eighth rank,there is at least one seventh rank wizard trying to bump him off. Old Rumlat.
He never saw it coming, you know, Trymon.
You know what they say, Arch Chancellor,
when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner,