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"Let him be named as soon as may be," said the mage, "for he needs his
name. I have other business now, but I will come back here for the day you
choose. If you see fit I will take him with me when I go thereafter. And if he
prove apt I will keep him as prentice, or see to it that he is schooled as
fits his gifts. For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous
thing."
Very gently Ogion spoke, but with certainty, and even the hardheaded
smith assented to all he said.
On the day the boy was thirteen years old, a day in the early splendor
of autumn while still the bright leaves are on the trees, Ogion returned to
the village from his rovings over Gont Mountain, and the ceremony of Passage
was held. The witch took from the boy his name Duny, the name his mother had
given him as a baby. Nameless and naked he walked into the cold springs of the
Ar where it rises among rocks under the high cliffs. As he entered the water
clouds crossed the sun's face and great shadows slid and mingled over the
water of the pool about him. He crossed to the far bank, shuddering with cold
but walking slow and erect as be should through that icy, living water. As he
came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's
arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.
Thus was he given his name by one very wise in the uses of power.
The feasting was far from over, and all the villagers were making merry
with plenty to eat and beer to drink and a chanter from down the Vale singing
the Deed of the Dragonlords, when the mage spoke in his quiet voice to Ged:
"Come, lad. Bid your people farewell and leave them feasting."
Ged fetched what he had to carry, which was the good bronze knife his
father had forged him, and a leather coat the tanner's widow had cut down to
his size, and an alderstick his aunt had becharmed for him: that was all he
owned besides his shirt and breeches. He said farewell to them, all the people
he knew in all the world, and looked about once at the village that straggled
and huddled there under the cliffs, over the river-springs. Then he set off
with his new master through the steep slanting forests of the mountain isle,
through the leaves and shadows of bright autumn.



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2 The Shadow
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Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at
once into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language
of the beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway
the winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he wished.
Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi over
the mountain on the wings of eagles.
But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and
then gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first