Among these was a malformed child whom Aldur named Beldin. Then in time others came, and Aldur taught them and made them also his disciples. And when the boy showed promise, Aldur named him Belgarath and made him a disciple. The God Aldur, however, took none, choosing to live apart in his tower and study the creation which they had made.īut a time came when a hungry child arrived at Aldur's tower, and Aldur took the child in and taught him the Will and the Word, by which all power may be used, in the manner that men call sorcery. Men also they created, and each God chose from among the races of men those whom they would guide and over whom they would rule.
Now, as has been told, in the earliest of days the Gods created the world and filled it with all manner of beasts and fowls and plants.
Being an account of how Belgarion's Son was stolen and how he learned the Abductor was that Zandramas against whom the puissant Orb of Aldur had warned.-from The Lives of Belgarion the Great (Introduction, Vol.
