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might as well,' Polgara sighed.



PART ONE

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CHAPTER 1

This was not my idea. I want that clearly understood right at the
outset. The notion that any one person can describe 'what really
happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness
an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of
what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends
entirely upon our individual past experience. My mother, however,
has insisted that I undertake this ridiculous chore, and I will, as
always, do as she tells me to do.
The more I've thought about it, though, the more I've come to
realize that when Ce'Nedra first broached the subject to me, and
later to my mother, her obviously specious argument about 'the
well-being of the young' actually had more merit than that devious
little girl realized. One day Geran will be the Rivan King and
the Guardian of the Orb, and over the centuries, I've found that
people with at least a nodding acquaintance with true history
make the best rulers. At least they don't repeat the mistakes of
the past.
If all Geran and his sons really needed to rule the Rivans were
to be a flat recounting of the deeds of assorted rulers of assorted
kingdoms in ages past, the tiresome repetition of the 'and then, and
then, and then' that so delights the stodgy members of the Tolnedran
Historical Society would be more than sufficient.
As my daughter-in-law so cunningly pointed out, however, the
'and thens' of those Tolnedran scholars deal with only a part of the
world. There's another world out there, and things happen in that
other world that Tolnedrans are constitutionally incapable of
comprehending. Ultimately it will be this unseen world that the Rivan
King must know if he is to properly perform his task.