profecys of a tomorrow
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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...