![]() "A graceful, fluid style of storytelling rare in fantasy writing. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." Each Voice/Spirit works through its representative. The natural progress of the universe was disrupted by the EVENT, splitting the future into two distinct possibilities, and creating two sentient beings referred to in the story as the Voice or the Spirit of the Light or Dark Prophecy. "Eddings' BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. 1: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit (The Belgariad, 1-3) from the world’s largest community o. The Prophecy is the underlying force that drives the story throughout The Belgariad and The Mallorean. ![]() exceedingly well portrayed and complex people." Life is going well until one evening, the old storyteller arrives and turns Garions world upside down. Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Garion is a young boy living on a farm with his Aunt Pol. ![]() ![]() In the process, as Garion grows into his early teens, he learns to defend himself, grapples with a wild boar, uncovers spies at a king's palace, learns about sorceryand starts to gain a sense of what his own destiny may be. Young Garion, with his "Aunt Pol" and an elderly man calling himself Wolf -a father and daughter granted near-immortality by one of the Gods - set out on a complex mission. ![]() A fierce dispute among the Gods and the theft of a powerful Orb leaves the World divided into five kingdoms. ![]()
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