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Then I bore my people away to the wastelands of Mallorea and there caused
them to build a mighty city on a sheltered place. They named it Cthol
Mishrak, as a remembrance of the suffering I had undergone for them. And I
concealed their city with a cloud that should ever be above it.

Then I had a cask of iron forged, and in it I bound Cthrag Yaska, that the
evil stone should never again be free to unleash its power to destroy
flesh. For a thousand years and still another thousand years I labored,
contending with the stone that I might release the curse of malice which
Aldur had laid upon it. Great were the enchantments and words of power
which I cast at the obdurate stone, but still its evil fire burned when I
came near to it, and I felt its curse lying ever upon the world.

Then Belar, youngest and most rash of my brothers, conspired against me
with Aldur, who still bore hatred and jealousy within his soul toward me.
And Belar spoke in spirit to his uncouth people, the Alorns, and set them
against me. The spirit of Aldur sent Belgarath, the disciple in whom he had
most wholly instilled his despite, to join with them. And the foul counsel
of Belgarath prevailed upon Cherek, chief of the Alorns, and upon his three
sons.

By evil sorcery, they passed the barrier of the sea I had caused to be and
they came like thieves in the night to the city of Cthol Mishrak. By
stealth and low cunning, they crept through my tower of iron and made their
way to the chest that held the evil stone.

The youngest son of Cherek, whom men called Riva Iron-grip, had been so
woven about with spells and enchantments that he could take up the accursed
stone and not perish. And they fled with it to the west.

With the warriors of my people I pursued them, that the curse of Cthrag
Yaska not again be loosed upon the land. But the one called Riva raised the
stone and loosed its evil fire upon my people. Thus the thieves escaped,
bearing the evil of the stone with them into their lands of the west.

Then I pulled down the mighty city of Cthol Mishrak, that my people must
flee from its ruins. And I divided the Angaraks into tribes. The Nadraks I
set in the north to guard the ways in which the thieves had come. The
Thulls, broad of back for the bearing of burdens, I set in the middle
lands. The Murgos, fiercest of my people, I sent to the south. And the most
numerous I kept with me in Mallorea, to serve me and multiply against a day
when I should have need of an army against the west.

Above all these peoples I set the Grolims and instructed them in
enchantments and wizardry, that they be a priesthood to me and watch over
the zeal of all others. And them I instructed to keep my altars burning and
to be unceasing in their sacrifices to me.