David Eddings - Malloreon 1 Guardians of the West

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DAVID EDDINGS

GUARDIAN OF THE WEST

PROLOGUE

Being an Account those Events came to the Throne of Riva and how he

slew

the Accursed God Torak.

-from the Introduction, Legends of Aloria

After the seven Gods created the world, it is said that they and

those

races of men they had chosen dwelt together in peace and harmony. But

UL,

father of the Gods, remained aloof, until Gorim, leader of those who

had no

God, went up on a high mountain and importuned him mightily. Then the

heart

of UL melted, and he lifted up Gorim and swore to be his God and God

of his

people, the Ulgos.

The God Aldur remained apart, teaching the power of the Will and the

Word

to Belgarath and other disciples. And a time came when Aldur took up

globe-shaped stone no larger than the heart of child. Men named the

stone

the Orb of Aldur, and it was filled with enormous power, for it was

the

embodiment of a Necessity which had existed since the beginning of

time.

Torak, God of the Angarak peoples, coveted lordship and dominion over

all

things, for to him had come an opposing Necessity. When he learned of

the

Orb, he was sorely troubled, fearing that it would counter his

destiny. He

went therefore to Aldur to plead that the stone be set aside. When

Aldur

would not give up the stone, Torak smote him and fled with the Orb.

Then Aldur summoned his other brothers, and they went with a mighty

army of

their followers to confront Torak. But Torak, seeing that his

Angaraks must

be defeated, raised the Orb and used its power to crack the world and

bring

in the Sea of the East to divide him from his enemies.

But the Orb was angered that Torak should use it thus and it lashed

him

with a fire whose agony could not be quenched.

Torak's left hand was burned away, his left cheek was seared in the

arts of

sorcery and charred, and his left eye took flame and was ever after

filled

with the fire of the Orb's wrath.

In agony, Torak led his people into the wastelands of Mallorea, and

his

people built him a city in Cthol Mishrak, which was called the City

Night, for Torak hid it under an endless cloud. There, in a tower of

iron,

Torak contended with the Orb, trying in vain to quell its hatred for

him.

Thus it endured for two thousand years. Then Cherek Bear-Shoulders,

King of

the Alorns, went down to the Vale of Aldur to tell Belgarath the

Sorcerer

that the northern way was clear. Together they left the Vale with

Cherek's

three mighty sons, Dras Bull-neck, Algar Fleet-foot and Riva

Irongrip. They

stole through the marches, with Belgarath taking the form of a wolf

guide them, and they crossed over into Mallorea. By night, they stole

into

Torak's iron tower. And while the maimed God tossed in pain-haunted

slumber, they crept to the room where he kept the Orb locked in an

iron

casket. Riva Iron-grip, whose heart was without ill intent, took up

the

Orb, and they left for the West.

Torak waked to find the Orb gone and he pursued them.

But Riva lifted up the Orb, and its angry flame filled Torak with

fear.

Then the company passed from Mallorea and returned to their own

lands.

Belgarath divides Aloria into four kingdoms. Over three he set

Bear-Shoulders, Dras Bull-neck, and Algar Fleet-foot. To Riva Iron-

grip and

to his line he gave the Orb of Aldur and sent him to the Isle of the

Winds.

Belar, God of the Alorns, sent down two stars, and from them Riva

forged a

mighty sword and placed the Orb on its pommel. And he hung the sword

on the

wall of the throne room of the Citadel, where it might ever guard the

West

from Torak.

When Belgarath returned to his home, he discovered that his wife,

Poledra,

had borne him twin daughters, but then had passed away. In heartsick

sorrow, he named his daughters Polgara and Beldaran. And when they

were of

age, he sent Beldaran to Riva Iron-grip to be his wife and mother of

the

Rivan line. But Polgara he kept with him and instructed in the arts

sorcery.

In rage at the loss of the Orb, Torak destroyed the City of Night and

divided the Angaraks. The Murgos, the Nadraks, and the Thulls he sent

dwell in the wastelands along the western shores of the Sea of the

East.

The Malloreans he kept to subdue all of the continent on which they

dwelt.

Over all, he set his Grolim priests to watch, to scourge any who

faltered,

and to offer human sacrifices to him.

Many centuries passed. Then Zedar the Apostate, who served Torak,

conspired

with Salmissra, Queen of the snake-people, to send emissaries to the

Isle

of the Winds to slay Gorek, Riva's descendant, and all his family.

This was

done, though some claimed that a lone child escaped; but none could

say for

certain.

Emboldened by the death of the guardian of the Orb, Torak gathered

his host

and invaded the West, planning to enslave the peoples and regain the

Orb.

At Vo Mimbre on the plains of Arendia, the hordes of Angaraks met the

armies of the West in dreadful slaughter. And there Brand the Rivan

Warder,

bearing the Orb upon his shield, met Torak in single combat and

struck down

the maimed God. The Angaraks, seeing that, were disheartened and they

were

overthrown and destroyed. But at night, as the Kings of the West

celebrated, Zedar the Apostate took the body of Torak and spirited it

away.

Then the High Priest of the Ulgos, named Gorim as all such High

Priests had

been, revealed that Torak had not been killed, but bound in slumber

until a

king of the line of Riva sat once more on the throne in the Hall of

the

Rivan King.

The Kings of the West believed that meant forever, for it was held

that the

line of Riva had perished utterly. But Belgarath and his daughter

Polgara

knew better. For a child had escaped the slaughter of Gorek's family,

and

they had concealed him and his descendants in obscurity for

generations.

But ancient prophecies revealed to them that the time for the return

of the

Rivan King was not yet come.

Many more centuries passed. Then, in a nameless city on the far side

of the

world, Zedar the Apostate came upon an innocent child and resolved to

take

the child and go secretly with him to the Isle of the Winds. There he

hoped

that the innocence of the child might enable that child to take the

Orb of

Aldur from the pommel of the sword of the Rivan King. It occurred as

wished, and Zedar fled with the child and the Orb toward the East.

Polgara the Sorceress had been living with a young boy, who called

her Aunt

Pol, in obscurity on a farm in Sendaria.

This boy was Garion, the orphaned last descendant of the Rivan line,

but he

was unaware of his parentage.

When Belgarath learned of the theft of the Orb, he hastened to

Sendaria to

urge his daughter to join him in the search for Zedar and the Orb.

Polgara

insisted that the boy must accompany them on the quest, so Garion

accompanied his Aunt Pol and Belgarath, whom he knew as a storyteller

who

sometimes visited the farm and whom he called Grandfather.

Durnik, the farm smith, insisted on going with them. Soon they were

joined

by Barak of Cherek and by Kheldar of Drasnia, whom men called Silk.

time, their quest for the Orb was joined by others: Hettar, horse-

lord of

Algaria; Mandorallen, the Mimbrate knight; and Relg, an Ulgo zealot.

And seemingly by chance, the Princess Ce'Nedra, having quarreled with

her

father, Emperor Ran Borune XXIII of Tolnedra, fled his palace and

became

one of the companions, though she knew nothing of their quest. Thus

was

completed the company foretold by the prophecy of the Mrin Codex.

Their search led them to the Wood of the Dryads, where they were

confronted

by the Murgo Grolim Asharak, who had long spied secretly upon Garion.

Then

the voice of prophecy within Garion's mind spoke to Garion, and he

struck

Asharak with his hand and his Will. And Asharak was utterly consumed

fire. Thus Garion learned that he was possessed of the power of

sorcery.

Polgara rejoiced, telling him that henceforth he should be named

Belgarion,

as was proper for a sorcerer, for she knew then that the centuries of

waiting were over and that Garion should be the one to reclaim the

Rivan

Throne, as foretold.

Zedar the Apostate fled from Belgarath in haste. Unwisely, he entered

the

realms of Ctuchik, High Priest of the western Grolims. Like Zedar,

Ctuchik

was a disciple of Torak, but the two had lived in enmity throughout

the

centuries. As Zedar crossed the barren mountains of Cthol Murgos,

Ctuchik

waited him in ambush and wrested from him the Orb of Aldur and the

child

whose innocence enabled him to touch the Orb and not die.

Belgarath went ahead to seek out the trail of Zedar, but Beltira,

another

disciple of Aldur, gave him the news that Ctuchik now held the child

and

the Orb. The other companions went on to Nyissa, where Salmissra,

Queen of

the snake-loving people, had Garion seized and brought to her palace.

But

Polgara freed him and turned Salmissra into a serpent, to rule over

the

snake-people in that form forever.

When Belgarath rejoined his companions, he led the company on a

difficult

journey to the dark city of Rak Cthol, which was built atop a

mountain in

the desert of Murgos.

They accomplished the difficult climb to confront Ctuchik, who knew

their coming and awaited with the child and the Orb. Then Belgarath

engaged

Ctuchik in a duel of sorcery. But Ctuchik, hard-pressed, tried a

forbidden

spell, and it rebounded on him, destroying him so utterly that no

trace of

him remained.

The shock of his destruction tumbled Rak Cthol from its mountaintop.

While

the city of the Grolims shuddered into rubble, Garion snatched up the

trusting child who bore the Orb and carried him to safety. They fled,

with

the hordes of Taur Urgas, King of the Murgos, pursuing them. But when

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DAVIDEDDINGSGUARDIANOFTHEWESTPROLOGUEBeinganAccountthoseEventscametotheThroneofRivaandhowheslewtheAccursedGodTorak.-fromtheIntroduction,LegendsofAloriaAfterthesevenGodscreatedtheworld,itissaidthattheyandthoseracesofmentheyhadchosendwelttogetherinpeaceandharmony.ButUL,fatheroftheGods,remainedaloof,un...

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