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BELGARATH THE SORCERER [129-4.9]

By David Eddings

Synopsis:

The wait is over.

Herein lies the life story of Belgarath the Sorcerer, and his account
of the great struggle that went on before The Belgariad and The
Malloreon.

The age-old war was ended at last, and Destiny once again rolled on in
its proper course.

Only a single person remained to tell of the near-forgotten times when
Gods still walked the lands, giving comfort and counsel to their mortal
children. Only one man alive could speak with certain knowledge of how
the Dark God Torak stole the Orb of-Aldur and broke the very world
apart, consigning the Gods themselves to the hell of war, along with
hapless humanity. Only one individual was left who could relate the
whole, fearsome story.

That lone witness to history was known to all the world. He was called
the Ancient One, the Old Wolf--Belgarath the Sorcerer. And he had been
a part of that history from the beginning.

He who would come to be called the Sorcerer was born in the tiny
village of Gara, long before the epic struggle for the Orb ever began.
As a youth he left his home to wander the wide world--and found his way
into the service of a God. Years of study and work would follow that
choice, molding the boy into a man, and forging the man into an
instrument of Prophecy.

Here, then, is his tale in full: the story of the strife that split the
world asunder and of how the God Aldur and his chosen disciples would
toil to set Destiny aright--a monumental undertaking fated to span the
eons. Foremost in the chronicles of that labor would be Belgarath. His
ceaseless devotion was foredoomed to cost him the very thing he held
most dear--and his loyal service would extend on, through the echoing
centuries of loss, of struggle, and of ultimate triumph.

David Eddings joins forces with his wife and longtime collaborator,
Leigh, on a journey to the awesome beginning of the centuries of
conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies. Here is the saga of
the seven thousand-year war of men and Kings and Gods, of a strange
fate and a Prophecy that must be fulfilled.