"David Eddings - Belgariad 5 Enchanter's End Game" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

The peoples who were mine called themselves the Angaraks. I was well pleased
with them and I led them to the high places of Korim, which are no more, and to
them I revealed the nature of the Purpose for which I had caused the world to
be.
Then they worshipped me with prayers and offered burnt offerings unto me. And I
blessed them, and they prospered and grew numerous. In their gratitude they
raised up an altar to me and there made sacrifice to me of their fairest maidens
and a portion of their bravest youths. And I was well pleased with them and
again I blessed them, so that they prospered above all other men and multiplied
exceedingly.
Now the heart of Aldur was filled with envy for the worship that was given to
me, and he was driven with despite for me. Then did he conspire against me
within the secret places of his soul, and he took up a stone and breathed life
into it, that it might thwart my Purpose. And in that stone he sought to gain
dominion over me. Thus Cthrag Yaska came to be. And there was eternal enmity
sealed within Cthrag Yaska against me. And Aldur sat apart with those whom he
called his disciples and plotted how the stone should give him dominion.
I saw that the accursed stone had divided Aldur from me and from his other
brothers. And I went to Aldur and remonstrated with him, begging that he lift
the wicked enchantment from the stone and take back the life he had breathed
into it. This I did that Aldur might no longer be divided from his brothers.
Yea, I did even weep and abase myself before him.
But already the evil stone had gained possession over the soul of Aldur, and he
had hardened his heart against me. And I saw then that the stone which Aldur had
created would forever hold my brother in thralldom. And he spoke slightingly to
me and would have driven me forth.
Then for the love I bore him and to save him from the evil course which my
Vision revealed, I struck my brother Aldur down and took from him the accursed
rock. And I bore Cthrag Yaska away to bend my will upon it and to still the
malice within it and quell the wickedness for which it was created. So it was
that I took the burden of the thing which Aldur had created upon myself.
Aldur was wroth with me. He went to our brothers and spoke to them falsely
against me. And each of them came to me and spoke slightingly to me, commanding
that I return to Aldur that which had twisted his soul and which I had taken to
free him from the enchantment of it. But I resisted.
Then they girded for war. The sky was blackened with the smoke of their forges
as their peoples beat out weapons of iron to spill the blood of my Angaraks upon
the ground. When the year turned, their hosts marched forth and onto the lands
of the Angaraks. And my brothers loomed tall in the forefront of the hosts.
Now was I greatly loath to lift my hand against them. Yet I could not permit
that they should despoil the lands of my people or loose the blood of those who
worshipped me. And I knew that from such war between my brothers and me could
come only evil. In that struggle, the Destinies I had seen might be sent against
each other before it was time, and the universe be shaken apart in that meeting.
And so I chose that which I feared, but which was less evil than the danger I
foresaw. I took up the accursed Cthrag Yaska and raised it against the earth
itself. And in me lay the Purpose of one Destiny, while the Purpose of the other
was affixed within the stone Aldur had created. The weight of all that was or
will be was upon us, and the earth could not bear our weight. Then did her
mantle rend asunder before me, and the sea rushed in to drown the dry land. Thus