Queen of Sorcery
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee 1983.
THE TRAIL OF PROPHECY
Legends told of
how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until
defeated in a final baffle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would
awake and again seek dominance over all the world. Now the Orb had been
stolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was at hand.
The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara
the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain it
before the final disaster. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy
only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He had never
believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league
they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry
he could not accept.
This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,
begun in Pawn of Prophecy, set among strange lands against a background
of a war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand
years – a novel of strange fate and a prophecy that must come true!
David Eddings
David Eddings (1931–2009) was an American author. Eddings' first books were general fiction and sold moderately. He later switched to writing epic fantasy novels and achieved best-selling status. David Eddings' wife, Leigh Eddings (1937–2007), is uncredited as co-author on many of his early books, but he later acknowledged that she contributed to them all.
Born in Spokane, Washington, and raised in the Puget Sound area north of Seattle, he received his bachelor of arts degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1954, and a master of arts degree from the University of Washington in 1961. He served in the United States Army, worked as a buyer for the Boeing Company, and was also a grocery clerk and a college English teacher.
The Belgariad
The Belgariad consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Main series Belgarian Universe
