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DEMON LORD OF KARANDA

Book 2 of the Malloreon





By DAVID EDDINGS



PROLOGUE



Being a brief history of Mallorea and the races that dwell there.



-Digested from The Chronicles of Angarak

University of Melcene Press





Tradition places the ancestral home of the Angaraks
somewhere off the south coast of present-day Dalasia. Then
Torak, Dragon God of Angarak, used the power of the Stone,
Cthrag Yaska, in what has come to be called "the cracking of
the world." The crust of the earth split, releasing liquid magma
from below and letting the waters of the southern ocean in to
form the Sea of the East.

This cataclysmic process continued for decades before the
world gradually assumed its present form.

As a result of this upheaval, the Alorns and their allies were
forced to retreat into the unexplored reaches of the western
continent, while the Angaraks fled into the wilderness of
Mallorea.

Torak had been maimed and disfigured by the Stone, which
rebelled at the use to which the God put it, and the Grolim
priests were demoralized. Thus leadership fell by default to the
military; by the time the Grolims recovered, the military had