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THE BELGARIAD
PART ONE

PAWN OF PROPHECY

QUEEN OF SORCERY

MAGICIAN'S GAMBIT

David Eddings
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
Garden City, New York
CONTENTS

PAWN OF PROPHECY-----------------1
QUEEN OF SORCERY-----------------227
MAGICIAN'S GAMBIT----------------507

PAWN OF PROPHECY

For Theone, who told me stories but could not stay for mine and for
Arthur, who showed me the way to become a man and who shows me still.

PROLOGUE

Being a History of the War of the Gods and the Acts of Belgarath the
Sorcerer -adapted from The Book of Alorn
WHEN THE WORLD was new, the seven Gods dwelt in harmony, and the races
of man were as one people.
Belar, youngest of the Gods, was beloved by the Alorns. He abode with
them and cherished them, and they prospered in his care. The other Gods
also gathered peoples about them, and each God cherished his own people.
But Belar's eldest brother, Aldur, was God over no people. He dwelt
apart from men and Gods, until the day that a vagrant child sought him
out. Aldur accepted the child as his disciple and called him Belgarath.
Belgarath learned the secret of the Will and the Word and became a
sorcerer. In the years that followed, others also sought out the solitary
God. They joined in brotherhood to learn at the feet of Aldur, and time
did not touch them.
Now it happened that Aldur took up a stone in the shape of a globe, no
larger than the heart of a child, and he turned the stone in his hand
until it became a living soul. The power of the living jewel, which men
called the Orb of Aldur, was very great, and Aldur worked wonders with it.
Of all the Gods, Torak was the most beautiful, and his people were the
Angaraks. They burned sacrifices before him, calling him Lord of Lords,
and Torak found the smell of sacrifice and the words of adoration sweet.
The day came, however, when he heard of the Orb of Aldur, and from that
moment he knew no peace.
Finally, in a dissembling guise, he went to Aldur. "My brother," he
said, "it is not fitting that thou shouldst absent thyself from our