electronic resource
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Published June 1, 2010 by Transworld.
The second bok of the Belgariad.A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLegends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle.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 in the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in sorcery and wanted …
The second bok of the Belgariad.A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLegends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle.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 in the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they travelled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept.THUS CONTINUES BOOK TWO OF THE BELGARIAD
Finally, something is starting to happen - he just needed a few hundred pages to get going. He seems fascinated with the trope "all-woman/woman-dominated culture that (forcibly) uses visiting men for its own (sexual) purposes".
