enchanter

Time and again, Venice materializes as a dark enchanter that clouds mind and morals alike.

The phrase echoed his resolve to keep in memory his creative forebears: the illusionists and enchanters, the charlatans and cardsharps, the human cannonballs, armless artists, learned animals and practitioners of ancient acts that still amaze.

Taran saw, for the first time, how ancient was the enchanter’s face, and how careworn.

Later, he and Gwydion spent several hours alone, for there were important matters Gwydion would reveal only to the old enchanter.

Many an enchanter and a teller of tales did they discover who could think of many ways that a Voter Fraud might have happened, but by none of them had it been seen.