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The last traditionally trained British wizard and current head of London's magical police division, Thomas Nightingale appears to be in his forties despite being born in 1900. A powerful practitioner of Newtonian magic and veteran of supernatural warfare, he now trains the next generation of police wizards while protecting London from magical threats.

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