They later name the boy "Errand" after the only word he seems to know to speak.
After a battle between Belgarath and Ctuchik that destroys the city Rak Cthol, Garion is instructed by Polgara to rescue the small boy that has acted as bearer of the Orb. Garion and friends go after Ctuchik, the evil Angarak sorcerer who has the Orb. He is later kidnapped by Queen Salmissra of Nyssia, and Barak's "Doom" is revealed. In an encounter in the Wood of the Dryads, it is revealed that Garion also has the power of the Will and the Word. Garion and friends chase after the stolen Orb of Aldur, meeting the Imperial Princess Ce'Nedra of Tolnedra along the way. Garion also begins to have doubts about his relation to "Aunt Pol," especially when he discovers that "Aunt Pol" is known alternatively as Polgara the Sorceress and calls "Mr Wolf," who is known likewise as Belgarath the Sorcerer. Garion proves himself uniquely useful through all of this and shows the great potential which the following books, and, indeed series follows through. Eventually he and his companions are arrested and taken to a meeting of monarchs. He visits several cities as "Mr Wolf" follows this invisible trail.
It introduces his contact with "The Storyteller" who, of course, is Belgarath himself, his vision of a man robed in black who cast no shadow, and a "dry voice" which would circumstantially talk to him and advise him.Ĭalled out of Faldor's Farm by an emergency, a "thief" who had stolen something of great value and whom "Mr Wolf" and "Aunt Pol" had to chase down, Garion finds himself in diverse and mysterious companionship.
It tells something of the romance between himself and a "little minx maturing much too rapidly for my comfort," (-Pol) named Zubrette. The story then tells of "the boy Garion's" earliest experiences of the kitchen and the smells and "Aunt Pol," how he met Durnik the blacksmith, his early games and friends. The story begins with a brief prologue concerning all that had transpired from the creation of the world by the seven gods through the recovery of the Orb of Aldur by Belgarath the Sorcerer and the careful watching of the family by Polgara and Belgarath. On the journey they are joined by Silk (Otherwise known as Prince Kheldar, and is a Drasnian thief) and Barak (a Cherek Warrior and Earl of Trellheim). The farmboy Garion, his guardian Polgara (known to Garion as Aunt Pol), the sorcerer Belgarath disguised as an old storyteller (called Mister Wolf by Garion and Old Wolf by Polgara) and the blacksmith Durnik set out from Faldor's farm to pursue a mysterious stolen object.
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