I must say that I truely do love this story. It has been uninquely different in it's approach to magic, in general as different people or I should say different practises of magic have advantages and disadvantages depending on how you look at things. Templars and their melee approach to fighting compared to the distance that "normal" wizards take to fighting. If the normal wizards just had the templar mentality to killing then I don't believe that any dark wizard would live long enough to become a threat.
Great story.