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The companions encountered kings, wizards, dryads, politics and treachery, but they ultimately succeeded in returning the Orb to its rightful place. There, Garion's true identity and destiny were revealed. And so Garion took up the massive [[BFS|Sword of the Rivan King]] and met the dark god Torak in [[Duel to the Death|personal combat]]. |
The companions encountered kings, wizards, dryads, politics and treachery, but they ultimately succeeded in returning the Orb to its rightful place. There, Garion's true identity and destiny were revealed. And so Garion took up the massive [[BFS|Sword of the Rivan King]] and met the dark god Torak in [[Duel to the Death|personal combat]]. |
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That's the plot of [[David Eddings]]'s ''Belgariad''. [[Hero's Journey|And a whole lot of]] other things, too. The series is [[Strictly Formula]], but that was Eddings' intention from the start. He wrote the series after taking a course on literary criticism, [[ |
That's the plot of [[David Eddings]]'s ''Belgariad''. [[Hero's Journey|And a whole lot of]] other things, too. The series is [[Strictly Formula]], but that was Eddings' intention from the start. He wrote the series after taking a course on literary criticism, [[Troperiffic|digging out all the tropes he could find, and deciding to actually build a good story with them]]. He also deliberately focuses on the characters rather than the tropes, injecting liveliness and sardonic humor into stock situations -- and the end result is a series that's incredibly popular and well-loved by fantasy fans the world over. |
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The original books were followed up with a sequel series, ''The Malloreon'' (which is basically "''The Belgariad'' all over again but everyone is older", as the characters themselves quickly notice) and then much later by two standalone [[Prequel|prequels]], ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'' and ''Polgara the Sorceress'', which tell the life stories of the titular characters. All of Eddings's works are likely [[Spiritual Successor|Spiritual Successors]] of this one. |
The original books were followed up with a sequel series, ''The Malloreon'' (which is basically "''The Belgariad'' all over again but everyone is older", as the characters themselves quickly notice) and then much later by two standalone [[Prequel|prequels]], ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'' and ''Polgara the Sorceress'', which tell the life stories of the titular characters. All of Eddings's works are likely [[Spiritual Successor|Spiritual Successors]] of this one. |