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See also ''[[The Elenium]]'', Eddings' third series and [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''The Belgariad'' and ''[[The Malloreon]]'' - albeit with a much stronger focus on over-the-top battles and [[Bond One-Liner|Bond One Liners]].
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* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]:
** Garion succeeds in bringing a horse back to life, simply because he doesn't ''know'' that it's supposed to be impossible.
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:In any case, all the sorcerers encountered in the books get immortality as a package deal with their powers, and witches like Vordai have a few more centuries than the average person in them (magicians' lifespans are never specified, though it's likely few reach their natural span ''anyway'', considering how [[Evil Is Not a Toy|dangerous]] what they do is).
* [[When Trees Attack]]: An unnamed species of a deadly, flesh-eating tree makes a short appearance in ''The King of the Murgos''. It's described as having golden leaves, colorful blossoms, and rich-looking purple fruit. It extrudes a sweet smell that makes one regard the tree with affection. All this to lure prey to the range of its tendrils. According to [[Plant Person|Ce'Nedra]], the tree feeds on the agony of its victims as much as on their flesh.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]:
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** Played very straight with Belgarath. Two of his sorcerer brothers – who he has lived with in the Vale for hundreds of years – take their own lives due to depression. After losing his wife of 500 years, he goes insane and has to be chained to his bed and constantly supervised to make sure he doesn't take his own life. After a year he starts [[Walking the Earth]] and becomes [[Drowning My Sorrows|a drunken beggar]] and eventually ends up [[Sex for Solace|entertaining women in Maragor]].
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Silk's dislike of enclosed spaces is tipped over into a full-blown [[Claustrophobia|phobia]] after a traumatic event in the first series. He also doesn't like snakes. This becomes a major plot point when his love interest in the second series starts to carry a highly venomous snake in her bodice. Some have speculated that she did this strictly to mess with Silk; however this is neither stated nor even strongly implied in the books. She has, however, commented on more than one occasion that Zith was cold and it was a place for her to be warm. Liselle is a pragmatist as well, and it is suggested that (possibly at the unknown prompting of the Prophecy of Light) she began doing so because it might be useful in the future. And it was. She did admit to Silk that the first time she did it it made her skin crawl and it was all she could do to keep from screaming.
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* [[You Killed My Father]]: When Garion finds out that the Grolim Asharak murdered his parents by burning them alive, he swears vengeance, and delivers it in the most [[Karmic Death|karmic]] [[Kill It with Fire|way]] possible.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Erastide, the world's birthday. Winter festival, religious celebrations, gift-giving, big feasts, parties, the whole works. Banned in the [[Big Bad]]'s countries, probably because it involves honoring ''all'' the gods, not just Torak. Torak doesn't like to share. Honoring all the gods might just be a particular variant of the feast celebrated in Sendaria, which is the only kingdom without a state religion. Interestingly enough, they really honor ''all'' the gods, including the [[Big Bad]]. Polgara chokes a bit when a Sendarian priest asks Torak to bless the union of Garion's parents, who will after all give birth to the man destined to kill him.
* [[You Never Did That for Me]]: Played with
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