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The Belgariad

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The Belgariad	comment	Before we get into this entry, I'd like to tell a story. A story of swords and sorcery.Once upon a time, a stone which possessed the power to change destiny was stolen. If this Orb, belonging to the benevolent god Aldur, ever fell into the hands of the evil, maimed god Torak, the peaceful kingdoms of the west would fall to his might. In pursuit of the Orb followed the legendary sorcerer Belgarath, his gorgeous and powerful daughter Polgara, and the humble farmboy Garion, along with many other colorful allies: a simple blacksmith, a notorious thief, a berserker, a princely horseman, a paladin, a noble outlaw, a snotty princess, and so on. The companions encountered kings, wizards, dryads, politics and treachery. Ultimately, Garion's true identity was revealed. And so Garion took up the massive sword of his destiny to save the world...That's the plot of David Eddings's The Belgariad... and a whole lot of other stories as well.David Eddings wrote the series after taking a course on literary criticism, digging out all the tropes he could find, and deciding to build a world that was simultaneously Strictly Formula and really, really good — because Tropes Are Not Bad. He also deliberately focused on the characters rather than the tropes, injecting liveliness and sardonic humor into stock situations.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). Much later, the series was followed by two standalone prequels, Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress, which tell the life stories of the title characters. All of Eddings' works can be seen as Spiritual Successors of this one. Books in the series: The Belgariad Pawn of Prophecy (April 1982) Queen of Sorcery (November 1982) Magician's Gambit (June 1983) Castle of Wizardry (May 1984) Enchanter's End Game (December 1984) The Malloreon Guardians of the West (April 1987) King of the Murgos (April 1988) Demon Lord of Karanda (September 1988) Sorceress of Darshiva (December 1989) Seeress of Kell (May 1991) Prequels and companion works Belgarath the Sorcerer (a prequel from Belgarath's perspective) (1995) Polgara the Sorceress (another prequel from Polgara's perspective) (1997) The Rivan Codex (a commentary and analysis) (1998)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-Liners.
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The Belgariad / int_10aef86b	type	Dashed Plot Line
The Belgariad / int_10aef86b	comment	Dashed Plot Line: The prequels can skip centuries between chapters. Having main characters who are immortal makes this almost essential — a biography of Polgara that tried to cover everything would make the Oxford English Dictionary look small, and her father's more than twice as old as her.
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The Belgariad / int_10e6a6a9	type	Pregnant Reptile
The Belgariad / int_10e6a6a9	comment	Pregnant Reptile: At one point, Sadi's pet snake gives birth. This puzzles some of the others, until Sadi explains that while most snakes lay eggs, his pet's species is a live-birth one.
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The Belgariad / int_11236451	type	Farm Boy
The Belgariad / int_11236451	comment	Farmboy: Garion is one, but only technically. He lived on a farm, but mostly worked in his aunt's kitchen... as a dishwasher.
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The Belgariad / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
The Belgariad / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: The former punishment for sloppy work by students of the Drasnian intelligence service's academy. Silk refers to it as "a very effective teaching tool", though he doesn't comment on whether or not he knows this from personal experience.
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The Belgariad / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
The Belgariad / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Downplayed; Relg was on the verge of becoming a Sinister Minister to a genuinely good Physical God named UL. UL had no plans or even desire to kill Relg, but he did find Relg's actions annoying and disappointing and told Relg as much. Then he commanded Relg to travel with The Hero and his True Companions. Relg was terrified of this journey, but told UL he'd go, even if it killed him. UL responded that he had plans for Relg after the journey, so it wouldn't kill him.
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The Belgariad / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Belgariad / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Zandramas. Half the action in The Malloreon derives from her desperate attempts at avoiding the CHOICE. She never confronts the heroes directly either, and inevitably runs whenever they start catching up with her.
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The Belgariad / int_1245fea7	type	Divided Deity
The Belgariad / int_1245fea7	comment	Divided Deity: Two opposed Sentient Cosmic Forces of Prophecy exist Above the Gods and drive the main conflict. They were created when an ancient cataclysm divided the consciousness of the Universe itself, and each is competing to defeat the other and become the Universe's guiding force.
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The Belgariad / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The Belgariad / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: The series has many examples of this. It's implied that at least in the West, magic of any kind is very rare and that while religion and superstitious beliefs are commonplace, many people will regard actual displays of magic with either indignant annoyance or an outright refusal to believe their eyes. While a common attitude everywhere in the West, especially stubborn skepticism is presented as a cultural trait of the Tolnedrans and to a much lesser degree the Sendars and Alorns. In the case of the former, their refusal to believe in anything "unnatural" can verge on suicidal, and even after being presented with ironclad proof they still like to pretend magic doesn't exist so they don't have to change their deeply rooted cultural (dis)belief.
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The Belgariad / int_1448b7bc	type	Serrated Blade of Pain
The Belgariad / int_1448b7bc	comment	Serrated Blade of Pain: Ulgos use knives with all sorts of nasty hooks to do more damage.
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The Belgariad / int_1456c9df	type	Foul Medicine
The Belgariad / int_1456c9df	comment	Foul Medicine: Polgara invokes this with her herbal medicines, claiming that the terrible flavour motivates people to recover faster.
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The Belgariad / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
The Belgariad / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Discussed in Polgara the Sorceress. The members of Duke Kathandrion's court exasperate Polgara with requests for such a potion, which she notes is a literary device prevalent in Arendish epics. She repeatedly states, 'no, they don't exist'. On the other hand, there are substances that can induce serious lust.
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The Belgariad / int_14b85a5f	type	Fat Idiot
The Belgariad / int_14b85a5f	comment	Fat Idiot: Rhodar isn't one. In fact, he is fat because he loves to sit and read, and is one of the best educated people in the world.
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The Belgariad / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
The Belgariad / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Mandorallen, and most of the Mimbrate knights.
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The Belgariad / int_16b7dccd	type	You Never Did That for Me
The Belgariad / int_16b7dccd	comment	You Never Did That for Me: Played with early in The Belgariad, before Garion gets his big reveal. Garion and Ce'Nedra are talking about the girl Garion probably would have married had things gone another way, and Garion says it's for the best because she's not someone you can ask to sleep on the ground. Ce'Nedra points out that the group had never hesitated to ask her to sleep on the ground. Garion manages to give what may be the only good answer possible at that point: "I guess you're stronger." Played again later with the same characters, after they've been married a while. Talking about how some acquaintances recently got betrothed and married, Ce'Nedra complains about how Garion never asked for her hand in marriage, leading to him getting on his knee to make a proper belated proposal. (Ce'Nedra replies that she will think about it.)
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The Belgariad / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
The Belgariad / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy Ce'Nedra, in The Malloreon, due to Zandramas's sorcery. And Harakan's. She's kind of a magnet for this stuff. Ce'Nedra's is apparently innately vulnerable to this stuff. Ctuchik was explicitly banking on it in book three, and Belgarath had already figured this out and didn't bring her along for that one. Seeing as all "Monsters" went mad when Torak broke the world — except (mysteriously) the dryads recovered, it might well be that dryads indeed have a bit less sanity to go around, making her more susceptible to mind-affecting meddling. Garion gets hit with a mild version of this early on, suddenly seeing his allies as malicious strangers that he must escape from. In a later book Zandramas manages to make him go berserk and attack her Grolim rivals subtly influencing his mind over a considerable length of time before triggering his rampage.
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The Belgariad / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Belgariad / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Belgarath. Being the first disciple, he's the designated "old" one, even though Beldin and the twins are also several thousand years old.
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The Belgariad / int_178d1ea1	type	Cosmic Flaw
The Belgariad / int_178d1ea1	comment	Cosmic Flaw: Basically, a star died in the wrong place. This caused a chain reaction that destroyed an entire galactic cluster outside of schedule. The result was that the purpose of the universe, the force of destiny, was divided into two opposing awarenesses. The contention between them causes everything that happens in the series.
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The Belgariad / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Belgariad / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The Rivan Codex serves as additional content composed of background information, inspiration, and lore for the series.
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The Belgariad / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Belgariad / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: The Grolims lead one worshiping Torak, which it seems is centered entirely around human sacrifices to him, along with conquering everyone else in his name.
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The Belgariad / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
The Belgariad / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Zakath is one of the rare pre-emptive examples of this trope, in that after finally dawning after Garion remarks how hideous it would be to have his name literally written in the night sky, and Garion then scolds the Orb that it was an example, not a request! to just how thoroughly the odds are against him he decides to just skip the "defeat" and go straight to the "friendship".
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The Belgariad / int_198bef8	type	ManBehindTheMan
The Belgariad / int_198bef8	comment	Man Behind the Man: From a cosmic standpoint, Torak isn't really the Big Bad; the spirit that embodies the Dark Prophecy is, and it uses both Torak and later Zandramas to accomplish its purposes. The reader only really "meets" it twice, both times at the Final Battle for each iteration of the Light vs. Dark struggle.
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The Belgariad / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Belgariad / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Belgarath severely underestimates Ctutchik's ability to handle a magical duel. He all but calls Ctutchik a two-penny warlock with delusions of adequacy, when in fact the two are about as close to evenly matched as is possible.
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The Belgariad / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
The Belgariad / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: In the second series, Polgara gets turned on just by Durnik insisting that they shouldn't kill guards unless absolutely necessary. In general, this is heavily implied to be one of the reasons she loves him. Similarly, Ce'Nedra for Garion.
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The Belgariad / int_1af921a3	type	Either/Or Prophecy
The Belgariad / int_1af921a3	comment	Either/Or Prophecy: Technically, two prophecies that are actually divided halves of the original Purpose of the Universe.
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The Belgariad / int_1b40fc16	type	Extreme Libido
The Belgariad / int_1b40fc16	comment	Extreme Libido: The Nyissan queens suffer this as a side effect of their youth-enhancing drugs (themselves taken to prolong the Queen's resemblance to the original Salmissra, who was the lover of the Nyissan god Issa), to the extent that the palace has to be staffed by eunuchs. After the last Queen Salmissra is turned into a serpent by Polgara, she's quite relieved to be free of the mess of hormones.
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The Belgariad / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
The Belgariad / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Garion is this within the Brotherhood of sorcerers. Not yet jaded by aeons of duty, he constantly wants to go out of his way to help people even when it hurts his cause, is extremely reluctant to kill people, and feels ashamed about using sorcery for malicious purposes. The other sorcerers are often irritated by his idealism, but sometimes grudgingly admit that doing something just because it's right is necessary from time to time.
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The Belgariad / int_1c45d4d7	type	Our Nudity Is Different
The Belgariad / int_1c45d4d7	comment	Our Nudity Is Different: Relg rants about how Ulgo women tries to entice him by showing their calves and forearms. Relg's idea of nudity isn't different so much as it is extreme. The cave-dwelling Ulgos naturally wear a lot of clothing to keep out the cold, but even their high (if conventional) standard of modesty isn't enough for him. Any glimpse of female flesh is a temptation.
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The Belgariad / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Belgariad / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Polgara's mother, Poledra, hasn't shown visibly strong emotions in seven thousand years. She's never needed to. The only exception is her general irritation at all the wenching Belgarath did after her death. She also broke down at the death of her daughter, and when the Prophecy called on her to leave. Another notable Stoic is the Voice of the Prophecy, which usually speaks with a certain dry amusement. Every now than then — usually when the rules it and its opposite have laid down are being ignored or things are about to go completely out the window — it can get very angry or very excited.
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The Belgariad / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
The Belgariad / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball In the Final Battle of The Belgariad, Torak craves domination above all else and seeks to make Garion yield even when he has the boy dead to rights. Also, Torak's followers have several opportunities to kill Garion but instead focus on trying to capture The Only One who can kill Torak and present him to Torak in chains.
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The Belgariad / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Belgariad / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: An interesting prevention tactic employed by Arendish tax collectors is mentioned in The Rivan Codex: a thick, well-fitting wooden plank under the chainmail to protect the back from arrows. Apparently it's not unusual for a tax collector to just ignore the arrows stuck in his back.
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The Belgariad / int_1ddf1158	type	Sweeping the Table
The Belgariad / int_1ddf1158	comment	Sweeping the Table: In a prequel of the series, Polgara the Sorceress, Polgara decides she is going to do the cooking for her father, Belgarath, and sister, Beldaran, and immediately sweeps all of the scrolls/pens/etcetera off the kitchen benches, much to Belgarath's annoyance.
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The Belgariad / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Belgariad / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Garion is quite the protective dad, prone to going berserk when Geran is threatened. Fully inherited from Belgarath, who is a Papa Wolf to, more or less, the entire world.
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The Belgariad / int_1e6ca414	type	Burning the Ships
The Belgariad / int_1e6ca414	comment	Burning the Ships: In Belgarath the Sorcerer, a very drunk Riva orders the ships that carried the settlers to the Isle of the Winds burned. His logic being that it will take a lot of hard work to build the fortress-city, and he doesn't want anyone deciding it's too much work and leaving. Belgarath, who was planning to leave, is not pleased.
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The Belgariad / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Belgariad / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Garion literally revives a dead horse.
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The Belgariad / int_1ea7d12a	type	MST3K Mantra
The Belgariad / int_1ea7d12a	comment	Belgarath and Poledra — she's a wolf shapeshifted into human form. No, you shouldn't think about it. When called out on this by a rather disturbed Garion, Belgarath points out that the change of form is absolute. It helps, somewhat, that wolves are depicted as sentient beings, and according to Belgarath, don't tend to die of old age unless they want to — something he realized after he noticed that Poledra had been hanging around him for a millennium. Also, Poledra had her own part to play in the prophecy besides simply being Garion's ultimate grandmother.
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The Belgariad / int_1f65a008	type	Multiple-Choice Chosen
The Belgariad / int_1f65a008	comment	Multiple-Choice Chosen: Thanks to an ancient catastrophe that divided the universe, there are two Prophecies, each a Sentient Cosmic Force with a long chain of Chosen Ones to champion it, and the final victory of one Prophecy over the other is decided by a mortal third party.
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The Belgariad / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
The Belgariad / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: Belgarath vs. Ctuchik in Book 3 is an awesome scene, as is Belgarath versus the unnamed Morindim shaman. Belgarath vs. Zedar in the fifth book is an aversion; Belgarath is too angry and Zedar too frightened to be able to summon up any magic, so they settle their score through a combination of shouting and fisticuffs.
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The Belgariad / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
The Belgariad / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: A power of sorcerers; most develop a fondness for a particular animal form. Wolf for Garion and Belgarath, owl for Polgara, human for Poledra (who started out a wolf), and dragon for Zandramas. We also see Beldin take the form of a hawk and Ctuchik (or maybe Urvon) use the form of a Hound of Torak in Belgarath.
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The Belgariad / int_1fffdf05	comment	Advantage Ball: How Garion's fight with Torak ends up: Garion manages to secure victory by the mere fact of his own continued defiance.
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The Belgariad / int_203f069d	type	Tongue-Tied
The Belgariad / int_203f069d	comment	Tongue-Tied: Asharak places a magical compulsion on Garion to prevent him from ratting Asharak out.
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The Belgariad / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
The Belgariad / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Silk is a prime example.
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The Belgariad / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Belgariad / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Bear-Cult, and many, many factions of the Grolim Priesthood, which includes: Evil Sorcerers galore, The Hounds of Torak, the Chandim (Hounds who've changed back into humans) and the Temple Guardsmen (evil knights sworn to Torak and Urvon).
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The Belgariad / int_214d3bf2	type	Dye or Die
The Belgariad / int_214d3bf2	comment	Dye or Die: Zakath grows a beard after joining the heroes in The Malloreon to avoid being recognized as Emperor. Ce'Nedra also dyes her hair temporarily after running away. Played with in the prequel novels. Polgara has a distinctive white lock in her dark hair that will not take dye. At one point while she's in hiding protecting the Rivan heirs, Belgarath breaks out his "wandering storyteller" persona and assures women across several kingdoms that the very latest fashion at court is for dark-haired women to bleach/dye a white streak into their hair. At a different period during the in-hiding centuries, Polgara invents a style of braiding that conceals the white lock.
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The Belgariad / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
The Belgariad / int_216ff5ed	comment	Moses in the Bulrushes: Garion is raised in obscurity by his aunt Polgara after his parents' murder.
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The Belgariad / int_21e3e4d6	type	Panacea
The Belgariad / int_21e3e4d6	comment	Panacea: The "sovereign specific", i.e. Adara's Rose, created by Garion to make her happy (he has absolutely no idea that it does anything other than look pretty). It's used to purge Zakath's poisoning.
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The Belgariad / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Belgariad / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The Marags' cultural practice of cannibalism (according to Belgarath, it was fairly harmless, based on an unfortunate misinterpretation of a religious text, and was generally blown well out proportion) was used by the Tolnedrans as justification to exterminate them. They were really after the Marags' gold.
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The Belgariad / int_2244daca	type	Death Before Dishonor
The Belgariad / int_2244daca	comment	Death Before Dishonor: Relg and Taiba debate this topic several times in Castle of Wizardry. Taiba is a rescued slave woman who had been raped on multiple occasions. Relg, a morally strict religious zealot, insists that she should have fought to the death or even killed herself instead of submitting to her attackers because giving herself up to it was sinful. She pointedly tells him she wasn't ready to die yet, and that while she believes cruelty and lack of compassion are sins, doing something you've been forced into when there's no possible way to avoid it is not.
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The Belgariad / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Belgariad / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Sprinkled liberally throughout the series, but most obviously in The Malloreon. Examples include Zith, Sadi's pet snake, whom Velvet uses to kill Harakan; the whole business with the Grolims being afraid to go near Kell; the subtle cannon at the beginning, where Garion says 'Fortune tellers are never right — one of them once predicted Durnik will live twice. How silly is that?'; and most especially the frequent references to the Turim reef, which ends up being The Place Which Is No More, but nobody noticed due to language drift.
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The Belgariad / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
The Belgariad / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: In The Malloreon, the message from Torak to Belgarion they find in an uncorrupted copy of the Ashabine Oracles is one of these.
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The Belgariad / int_231c34d2	type	Suddenly Significant Rule
The Belgariad / int_231c34d2	comment	Suddenly Significant Rule: The Accords of Vo Mimbre say that the Tolnedran Princess must go to Riva on her 16th birthday and await the return of the Rivan King—but the Royal Family was wiped out years ago. except for one member. Guess who Garion's descended from? In the backstory, the Accords of Val Alorn say "...but Aloria shall maintain Riva and keep it whole." When the accords were signed, Aloria hadn't existed as a nation for centuries; it was now Riva, Cherekh, Drasnia, and Algaria. When an Emperor's attempt to force Riva to trade ends in disaster, he calls for an invasion — and discovers that while Aloria isn't officially a single nation anymore, but it is an unofficial confederation. When the Rivan King is assassinated, it's made clear that, yes, Aloria does exist.
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The Belgariad / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Belgariad / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Silk and Liselle (approximately a twenty-year difference in their ages. He played dolls with her when he was a student at the Spy Academy and she was the Top Spy's young niece); 'Zakath and Cyradis (Somewhere around thirty years difference). Rhodar and Porenn were this, as was the Baron of Vo Ebor and Nerina. Both husbands long predeceased their wives.
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The Belgariad / int_239a1ada	type	DivineChessboard
The Belgariad / int_239a1ada	comment	Divine Chessboard: Everyone is guided by one of two opposing Purposes of the Universe.
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The Belgariad / int_239e52c1	type	DiminishingVillainThreat
The Belgariad / int_239e52c1	comment	Diminishing Villain Threat: Inverted with respect to Ctuchik, who is portrayed by Belgarath as barely competent until the two actually meet face to face, and it turns out that they are nearly equal.note Belgarath doesn't actually defeat Ctuchik in their duel, Ctuchik obliterates himself when he catches the Villain Ball by panicking and attempting to unmake the Orb of Aldur — which, as with all attempts to unmake something, rebounds on him. Belgarath is possibly an Unreliable Narrator in this case. The prequels also invert this with Zedar. Beyond stealing the Orb and killing Durnik, he doesn't do a whole lot in the main series, but the prequels show why this guy was considered bad news and deserved a Fate Worse than Death.
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The Belgariad / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
The Belgariad / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: The protagonists don't want to attract attention to themselves, so they disguise themselves as commoners driving a few wagons. One of their number, who goes by the name Silk, actually makes a point of making money by using these wagons to transport common goods like turnips and wool, even though the group doesn't really need the money, and they're mostly taking the goods on to avert suspicion.
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The Belgariad / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
The Belgariad / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Well, not babies as such. Barak and Merel already had several daughters. It's only when she has a son that their marriage gets better.
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The Belgariad / int_242b7b18	type	First Time in the Sun
The Belgariad / int_242b7b18	comment	First Time in the Sun: Relg. He doesn't take it well.
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The Belgariad / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
The Belgariad / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: This is Polgara's frank assessment of Duke Oldoran of Asturia's character in her prequel novel, describing him as, "A petty, self-pitying drunkard with very little intelligence and with that sublime belief so common among the truly stupid that he was the most clever man in all the world."
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The Belgariad / int_24b88e85	type	Unwanted Assistance
The Belgariad / int_24b88e85	comment	Unwanted Assistance: The Orb tries so hard to be helpful. To the point that it has to be told that its help is not required. It thought that rearranging the stars to spell "Belgarion" was a request rather than an example.
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The Belgariad / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
The Belgariad / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: The Rivan Pasturelands and The Vale of Aldur count as one.
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The Belgariad / int_25220e5d	type	Archetypal Character
The Belgariad / int_25220e5d	comment	Archetypal Characters: Ubiquitously and deliberately, as noted above.
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The Belgariad / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
The Belgariad / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Garion was raised by his "aunt" Polgara, who in actuality is his great-great-great-etc-aunt about 3000 years removed.
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The Belgariad / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
The Belgariad / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Torak's not called the Maimed God for nothing. Also Urvon (piebald) and Naradas (white-eyes) in The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_268ab6c5	type	An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost
The Belgariad / int_268ab6c5	comment	An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost: Poledra appears occasionally as a ghost to aid the main characters, having died in childbirth some three thousand years previously. At the end of The Malloreon, she reveals she never really died at all, but faked it in order to carry out a vague plan to help uphold The Prophecy. Belgarath, it has to be said, was not especially pleased (though his mood was somewhat attenuated by the fact that he had his wife back). It was even more complicated in that Poledra, despite not actually being dead seems to think she will be when her task is completed. Belgarath, on hearing this, seems determined to die with her this time. The God Eriond intervenes, using some pretty impressive Bunny-Ears Lawyer logic to justify why he's not bound to obey UL's will, since UL didn't consult him, what with him not being a god at the time. And then of course it turns out that's exactly what UL intended with this plan all along: to force Eriond to make unilateral decisions. Belgarath, hearing his three thousand years of grief were a test, is a bit put out.
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The Belgariad / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
The Belgariad / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Polgara in the prequels. Actually quite intentional on her part; once her sister Beldaran was married to Riva, she decided she had to play the role of the pretty one instead of the Wild Child she'd been up until then. Vella, as well, who comes under the firm but kindly tutelage of Queen Porenn and discovers that silks and satins can be just as effective at making men drool as skin-tight leathers are.
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The Belgariad / int_27636a1	type	Hellish Horse
The Belgariad / int_27636a1	comment	Hellish Horse: The Hrulgin: carnivorous, horse-like beasts that the party has a brief encounter with. Hettar, true to his Horse-Lord nature, takes a stab at riding one. He regretfully kills it after he makes mind contact with it and realizes how utterly insane it is. At one point he muses that if he could raise one from a colt, he might be able to train and ride it, but relents after being reminded by Durnik that it would look at the Algars' prized cattle as food.
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The Belgariad / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
The Belgariad / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Errand/Eriond. Justified in that Zedar raised him like that so that he would have a pure enough heart to take the Stone. This is also the reason why Garion ultimately chooses him to become a god.
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The Belgariad / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
The Belgariad / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: Used a bit disturbingly on Ce'Nedra in the fourth book by Errand, to convince her to go to Riva.
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The Belgariad / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
The Belgariad / int_29292e6d	comment	Played very straight with Belgarath. Two of his sorcerer brothers — whom 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 (who had been a companion for over a thousand before that), 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 a drunken beggar for two years (Beldin explicitly states that he was "a legend" in Camaar, because they've never seen anybody get that drunk before) and eventually ends up entertaining women in Maragor until Beldin finally intervenes.
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The Belgariad / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Belgariad / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero Prince Kheldar, a.k.a. Silk (nickname bestowed by his classmates at the school for spies, in honor of how smooth he was). Silk almost always has a way to make a chance meeting or bad situation either work for Team Good or hurt Team Evil (usually both at once). Examples are too numerous to mention. Also Queen Porenn, who helps the inexperienced Queen Islena deal with an a usurping priest and get away with it by letting everyone think it was an Achievement in Ignorance. Not to mention the fact she uses the times she feeds her baby (the only time when the spies who watch her don't) to meet with her chief spy. It stands to reason, really, since she's the woman Silk's in love with early in the first series. And surprisingly, Queen Layla, while she's ruling because the King is off with the army. Never underestimate the wiles of a mother. Note also that Silk's father clearly donated his share of Magnificent Bastard genes to Silk. One of his exploits was infiltrating the Murgo King's harem and seducing one of the Murgo Queens. For extra style points his bastard child ascends the Murgo throne.
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The Belgariad / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Belgariad / int_2a090d00	comment	And, of course, "Why me?" It eventually gets a Lampshade Hanging (several, in fact).
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The Belgariad / int_2a729dd9	type	Artifact Alias
The Belgariad / int_2a729dd9	comment	Artifact Alias: We first meet a certain Drasnian as "Silk", and he's called Silk for ten novels even though we've learned long ago that his birth name is Kheldar. This is justified since it's from Garion's POV we talk to him most of the time and Garion tends to stick with the name he first uses with a person (he calls Belgarath "Mister Wolf" and "Grandfather" for a long time) unless given a good reason otherwise.
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The Belgariad / int_2c1871ee	type	Shining City
The Belgariad / int_2c1871ee	comment	Shining City: The City of Kell in The Malloreon. Vo Wacune in Polgara the Sorceress.
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The Belgariad / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
The Belgariad / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: 'Zakath misses this trope by milimetres during The Belgariad and the start of The Malloreon. The prophecy outright refers to him as "The Empty One".
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The Belgariad / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
The Belgariad / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Velvet, in The Malloreon, as Silk is quick to notice.
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The Belgariad / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
The Belgariad / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know Silk's remarks regarding knowing a man is a spy for Brador. In fact, nearly all of Silk's political and mercantile gamesmanship can be seen as an escalating series of these, with him on top. It's also In the Blood, as the one and only time he meets his match across the negotiating table, it turns out to be his hitherto unknown half-brother. Comes up literally in Queen of Sorcery during a conversation with (naturally) a Drasnian stationed in Nyissa:
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The Belgariad / int_2df3589	type	Same Plot Sequel
The Belgariad / int_2df3589	comment	Same Plot Sequel: The Malloreon is a champion example. It even becomes a plot point, with the characters themselves recognizing and lampshading it! Both series are in the form of a travelogue: Garion and company visit every land on the map as they follow the villain and a MacGuffin to a final confrontation at a prearranged place, with their quest guided by prophecy and marked at intervals by encounters with individuals who meet very specific descriptions. Belgarath speculates and Cyradis eventually confirms that this isn't just their imagination: when the EVENT that split the Universe and created the Light and Dark Prophecies occurred, it put the future "on hold" in a mystical sort of way. Until the conflict between the Spirit of Light and the Spirit of Dark is resolved, they'll just keep going round the same (or a similar) sequence of events over and over again.
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The Belgariad / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
The Belgariad / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: After witnessing his first lethal fight, Garion takes a very thorough bath.
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The Belgariad / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
The Belgariad / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Eddings uses this a great deal, most notably with Beldin. Only missed in a couple instances, but in referring to female dogs. Usually played for entertainment purposes. The descriptions of (and reactions to) people swearing can be as or more entertaining than the swearing itself. Garion: (in response to Ce'Nedra) Why dear, I didn't even think you knew what half of those words meant! After the party having fled town due to there being a reward on Silk's head: "Silk was swearing as they entered the forest on the far side of the river, spitting out oaths like melon seeds. His profanity was colorful and wide-ranging, reflecting on the birth, parentage, and uncleanly habits of not only those pursuing them, but of those responsible for circulating the reward notice as well."
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The Belgariad / int_30849c3e	type	Ruling Couple
The Belgariad / int_30849c3e	comment	Ruling Couple: Belgarion and Ce'Nedra of Riva, and Korodullin and Mayaserana of Arendia.
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The Belgariad / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
The Belgariad / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome Barak's "curse" is to turn into a bear when Garion (heir to the long-empty throne of Riva and Overlord of the West by treaty) is threatened. A rampaging, unstoppable bear. At first he thinks it's just a progressive ailment and attempts suicide, but once he gets filled in on the trigger conditions (i.e., his family is now the hereditary protector's of Garion's), he contemplates tasteful ways to work it into his coat of arms. Who wouldn't want to advertise that? The second series shows that it's hereditary when Barak's son turns into a bear during the final EVENT. A shame it did nobody any good at all since he wasn't actually present at the time.
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The Belgariad / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
The Belgariad / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: Taur Urgas' response to his guards' inability to prevent the unavoidable. Also a favoured method by Silk, alongside boiling, for implied past events upon which he didn't elaborate.
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The Belgariad / int_30f7df9d	type	Rummage Sale Reject
The Belgariad / int_30f7df9d	comment	Rummage Sale Reject: Belgarath, intentionally — he dresses for comfort and practicality (his outfit is nowhere near as rubbish as it looks), and wants to look as unobtrusive as possible. Ditto Beldin.
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The Belgariad / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
The Belgariad / int_319e101e	comment	When Belgarion leads an assault on a fortified city that's been taken over by Bear-Cult rebels, he uses sorcery to break down the city gates. He forgets that he's holding the Orb of Aldur, a tremendously powerful Amplifier Artifact that's quite enthusiastic about helping him, so the spell instead vaporizes the gates and sends chunks of gate tower flying miles away.
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The Belgariad / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Belgariad / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards The Malloreon has a deeply chilling example in the fourth book, where Garion finds a prophecy written by Torak in which the Dark God begs his archenemy to prevent the horror that will come if Zandramas succeeds in elevating the Dark Prophecy. Belgarath remarks that it may have been Torak's one moment of sanity. After Sadi joins the party, it becomes a plot point that the Murgos consider Nyissan drugs illegal, despite gleefully participating in the slave trade. Sadi himself is an example, as he regarded many aspects of the slave trade to be repulsive. Although Silk isn't evil, there's a hilarious Lampshading when Sadi points out that Silk has no qualms against swindling people or murdering them in cold blood but baulks at dealing in drugs.
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The Belgariad / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Belgariad / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Comes up several times, most notably when Silk fights Brill at Rak Cthol, and then again in The Malloreon when Senji relates to Belgarath and Garion how the Melcene University tried to "test" his immortality.
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The Belgariad / int_32c96ed3	type	Magical Nanny
The Belgariad / int_32c96ed3	comment	Magical Nanny: Polgara plays this role as caretaker of the Rivan line for two thousand years. And her cooking... divine!
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The Belgariad / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Belgariad / int_32da548d	comment	Most obviously Zedar (and to a lesser degree, Ctuchik) to Belgarath (Garion even briefly mistakes Zedar for Belgarath, they look that much alike).
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The Belgariad / int_3311abfd	type	Unconventional Wedding Dress
The Belgariad / int_3311abfd	comment	Unconventional Wedding Dress: In the first book of The Malloreon, Garion quickly resolves the crisis in Arendia between Mandorallen, and a rival knight who is the heir to the land of Mandorallen's recently deceased noble mentor, and was about to offer the nobleman's widow to one of his friends (Noted as being technically legal, but very bad form, socially speaking), which pissed Mandorallen off. Mandorallen had been pining for the said widow, Nerina, for roughly twenty years, but they mutually kept their romance platonic even after her husband fell into a years-long decline from battlefield wounds, and died. Garion then orders his friend Mandorallen to quit pining and just marry Nerina already. And, because he was thoroughly annoyed with the sheer stupidity of it all, after a quick negotiation about the dowry and other wedding formalities, he ensured that Mandorallen married Nerina while he was still in his armor and she was wearing widow's black and a doily from the nearby table for a veil note He literally points his sword at them and orders, "Now march!" . With Garion standing over the two of them, sword in hand (the Orb coating it in blue arcane fire!), to prevent any last minute screw-ups.
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The Belgariad / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
The Belgariad / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Belgarath buries the traitorous Zedar alive because of the astonishing number of atrocities he'd committed over the past, oh, four thousand years, including causing the death of Durnik (in self-defense). Let's also not forget Beldin's long standing grudge against Urvon, which causes the latter to erect Wanted Posters across half of Mallorea in a desperate attempt to keep him at bay. In fact, Urvon's terror is so strong that it snaps him briefly back to reality when he's Brainwashed and Crazy.
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The Belgariad / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
The Belgariad / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: Ctuchik says there's no such thing as justice, only the strong doing what they want while the weak submit in reply to Pol saying that they're bringing justice for his victims.
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The Belgariad / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
The Belgariad / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Played straight with Ce'Nedra in The Belgariad and taken even further in The Malloreon. In the first series she's prone to hysterics, often throws tantrums, and at one point almost gets her friend and Garion's cousin Adara killed because she was bored. In The Malloreon she becomes even more unstable with the theft of Geran, and her major contributions to the party are unreasonable demands that someone get her baby back that very second followed by crying fits when it's pointed out that she's asking for the impossible.
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The Belgariad / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
The Belgariad / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: It's never mentioned in the story itself, but according Word of God, since most Nyissan men (the ones that aren't eunuchs) spend about 90% of their time completely stoned out of their minds, lesbianism is commonplace in Nyissa. It's also mentioned by Silk that the clientele of the high-class brothels of Tol Honeth are not entirely male.
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The Belgariad / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
The Belgariad / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Nyissan women wear sheer, see-through gowns (deeply embarrassing Durnik).
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The Belgariad / int_34e095ed	type	Beat Still, My Heart
The Belgariad / int_34e095ed	comment	Beat Still, My Heart: The standard form of sacrifice to Torak involves cutting out the victim's heart and burning it.
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The Belgariad / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
The Belgariad / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef Ce'Nedra's cooking is only edible by a very loose definition of the term. Silk, too. Instantly burning bacon! We can only assume Garion (who in the mentioned incident warned Silk repeatedly that he was about to burn the bacon) had to take over without Polgara around.
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The Belgariad / int_3656caaa	type	Universe Bible
The Belgariad / int_3656caaa	comment	Universe Bible: The Rivan Codex, Eddings's notes that he put together on all of the nations and their influences before he wrote the books.
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The Belgariad / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
The Belgariad / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: The Arends come up with these (and act on them) on a disturbingly regular basis. This is a large part of their collective reputation for being a bit thick - though Garion, being a little kinder, considers it to be less 'thick', more 'absurdly impulsive' (with the exception of Lelldorin, who really isn't all that bright).
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The Belgariad / int_3765da01	type	PowerOfHate
The Belgariad / int_3765da01	comment	Hettar's murderous attitude to Murgos following his parents being killed in a Murgo raid when he was a child, which is mostly presented in the first series as a personal quirk/product of his backstory/occasional inconvenience, save for when Garion wonders at the Power Of Hate that could drive a seven year old boy to survive being left for dead and result in, well, Hettar. Considering that most of the Murgos encountered are soldiers or spies/assassins, the protagonists are Alorns, big on vengeance, and hating Murgos, it's not surprising that most of them don't really think it's worth mentioning. That said, in Belgarath's prequel, Polgara grimly remarks that she's afraid that a young Hettar could be growing into "a proper monster", so it's not completely overlooked.
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The Belgariad / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
The Belgariad / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Beldaran. Despite being the Girly Girl to the adolescent Polgara's Tomboy her name has the masculine "Bel" prefix and Daran is used as a name with no comment by several of her male descendents.
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The Belgariad / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
The Belgariad / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: Justified — in the final battle of The Belgariad, Garion delivers one of these to Torak, after he comes to realize that the true reason for their confrontation is not to fight Torak, but to reject him.
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The Belgariad / int_38b2491d	type	The Fog of Ages
The Belgariad / int_38b2491d	comment	The Fog of Ages: Played with, especially in the banter between Beldin and Belgarath.
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The Belgariad / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
The Belgariad / int_38f3321	comment	Polgara is famous in history for having rejected Torak's command to come marry him during the battle of Vo Mimbre. The prequel eventually reveals how she resisted: She didn't. Her secretly-not-dead mother was possessing her at the time, specifically to protect her from mind control, and did the rejecting for her.
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The Belgariad / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
The Belgariad / int_3946634e	comment	Garion isn't bad either, demonstrating an analytical mind that impresses Beldin (The Smart Guy) and political smoothness that impresses Brador, the Good Chancellor to 'Zakath. The latter works all the better since, as Garion drily points out, he looks like "an unlettered country oaf."
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The Belgariad / int_39afa76b	type	"Awkward Silence" Entrance
The Belgariad / int_39afa76b	comment	"Awkward Silence" Entrance: In The Malloreon, Belgarath the Sorcerer, the Dreaded Time Abyss Archmage, fiercest opponent of Mallorea's patron God of Evil for five millennia, grandfather (several dozen generations removed) of the slayer of said God of Evil, walks into a Mallorean royal banquet... and takes advantage of the horrified silence to eye up a young lady, smirk, and compliment her dress.
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The Belgariad / int_39c443f0	type	DemonLordsAndArchDevils
The Belgariad / int_39c443f0	comment	Demon Lords And Arch Devils: In The Malloreon, it's revealed that Demons/Devil-Spirits, have rank the same way that people do. Nahaz and Mordja are the two that Garion and co. encounter.
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The Belgariad / int_3b4185fb	type	Stalker without a Crush
The Belgariad / int_3b4185fb	comment	The same was true of UL, until the Gorim came along.
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The Belgariad / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
The Belgariad / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The Sardion. The Orb of Aldur shares some of this as well; anyone not expressly permitted to touch it will be obliterated, since it rebelled against Torak's misuse.
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The Belgariad / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Belgariad / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Silk gets several, including but not limited to: interfering with a ploy of Bethra's involving the Nadrak ambassador, causing her to attempt to have him killed; being smuggled out of Cthol Murgos by a Thullish lady of high station, possibly for reasons related to the also-never-clearly-explained incident which led to the death of the Murgo crown prince; and fleeing Tol Honeth "posing as an acrobat in a travelling circus, and about one jump ahead of the police".
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The Belgariad / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Belgariad / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Zandramas, Torak, reportedly Ctuchik, Taur Urgas, heck, the Dark Prophecy in and of itself, which tends to discard its pawns once it doesn't need them anymore.
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The Belgariad / int_3cbb451b	type	Unrequited Love Lasts Forever
The Belgariad / int_3cbb451b	comment	Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: This is what makes Mandorallan's Courtly Love with Nerina so tragic. Belgarath says himself that if they had followed their urges, they could have got it out of their systems and moved on with their lives. Instead, the two spend years mooning after each other hopelessly. Ultimately, this is subverted when Nerina's husband dies thanks to the long-term effects of his injuries, and the two, thanks to Garion's timely intervention against their instinct of noble suffering, are married. Also averted when Silk eventually gets over his unrequited love for Porenn.
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The Belgariad / int_3e427255	type	Multistage Teleport
The Belgariad / int_3e427255	comment	Multistage Teleport: Discussed — teleportation is draining and is incredibly unsafe if you try it anywhere but line of sight, making it impractical for long trips thanks to this trope. Belgarath tries it once, then gives up and turns into a falcon for the journey instead.
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The Belgariad / int_3ee690ca	type	Terminal Transformation
The Belgariad / int_3ee690ca	comment	Terminal Transformation: Referenced when Garion learns Voluntary Shapeshifting. He's warned to form a perfectly clear mental image of the new shape, because if he forgets to include a heart, he probably won't have time to correct the mistake.
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The Belgariad / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The Belgariad / int_3f70415	comment	Ce'Nedra's is apparently innately vulnerable to this stuff. Ctuchik was explicitly banking on it in book three, and Belgarath had already figured this out and didn't bring her along for that one. Seeing as all "Monsters" went mad when Torak broke the world — except (mysteriously) the dryads recovered, it might well be that dryads indeed have a bit less sanity to go around, making her more susceptible to mind-affecting meddling.
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The Belgariad / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Belgariad / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: In the Final Battle of The Belgariad. Garion realizes that defeating Torak isn't about killing him, but rejecting him utterly. Another happens after the final confrontation in The Malloreon. It turns out that the main reason for Poledra being fated/geased to die after fulfilling her purpose at the final confrontation is to make Eriond stop it and so encourage him to be more assertive — so when UL arrives he congratulates Eriond on having done it.
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The Belgariad / int_3ff156fa	type	Nay-Theist
The Belgariad / int_3ff156fa	comment	Nay-Theist: At the age of nine, Belsambar, after being forced to witness a religious ritual involving his parents, rejected not just Torak but all the gods.
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The Belgariad / int_408ba21c	type	Womb Horror
The Belgariad / int_408ba21c	comment	Womb Horror: One of The Malloreon's darker moments has the protagonists find a demonic cult waiting for a grotesquely, impossibly pregnant woman to deliver. Whatever Team Mom Polgara the Sorceress does with them isn't described, but is strongly implied to involve Mercy Killing the mother and offing the unborn Demon Lord.
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The Belgariad / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Belgariad / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Liselle, Sadi once he loses the worst of his Smug Snake tendencies, and even Anheg are all very good at getting what they want and making you think it was your own idea. Asharak, Nachak, Harakan and Naradas are villainous examples.
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The Belgariad / int_40fec5b4	type	Default to Good
The Belgariad / int_40fec5b4	comment	Default to Good: Cyradis at the end of The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_4162ff7c	type	Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication
The Belgariad / int_4162ff7c	comment	Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication: Since it's a medieval fantasy world with very traditional gender roles, this trope is evoked often. It's not just society's expectations, however; some of the special powers of the main characters conform to this trope. The male characters do the fighting and even have their weapons of choice, while Polgara can converse with birds and Ce'Nedra can understand trees. The latter even gathers an army using the power of speech. However, it should be noted that Polgara does use violence on a fairly frequent basis (and even smashes her way into Salmissra's palace and stares down a god to get Belgarion back), it just tends to be non-lethal... which tends to be somehow worse (except for what she did to Salmissra - turning her into a giant snake actually left everyone a great deal happier). Or she just cuts straight to a very effective form of Mind Rape.
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The Belgariad / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Belgariad / int_424c9a9b	comment	Polgara employs a variant of this technique as an alternative to Cold-Blooded Torture; she conjures up an illusion of something so horrible that people spill their guts rather than face it. It fails rather hilariously in King of the Murgos when she tries it on a prepared Sadi—he's so stoned out of his mind he thinks the projection is pretty and asks if it can do tricks.
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The Belgariad / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
The Belgariad / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Ctuchik, Zedar, Urvon, Chamdar, Zandramas, Naradas, the vast majority of unnamed Grolims, and pretty much every single Morind magician and Karandese wizard.
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The Belgariad / int_439a64d3	type	Our Witches Are Different
The Belgariad / int_439a64d3	comment	Our Witches Are Different: Witchcraft and Sorcery are separate Functional Magic systems with no relationship to gender. Witches summon and negotiate with invisible nature spirits to do their bidding, while Sorcerers have purely Thought-Controlled Power with broader applications.
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The Belgariad / int_43b6fb56	type	Vain Sorceress
The Belgariad / int_43b6fb56	comment	Vain Sorceress Zandramas definitely has some traits of this. Polgara too. Belgarath notes that once she stops ignoring her appearance Polgara becomes quite vain, especially concerning her hair. Salmissra. Vanity was virtually a qualification requirement for the successors of the original (with one exception who was intelligent enough to hide her own intelligence) until the most recent. And the current Salmissra, even as a snake, spends most of her waking time simply looking at herself in a mirror permanently stationed next to her throne.
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The Belgariad / int_43d9dc6a	type	Ridiculously Long-lived Family Name
The Belgariad / int_43d9dc6a	comment	Ridiculously Long-lived Family Name: In Polgara the Sorceress, The Ageless title character strikes up an Odd Friendship with a workman named Killane and hires him as her estate manager. His descendants, the Killanesons, work for her for the next 600 years.
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The Belgariad / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
The Belgariad / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Played With. In the second book, an arrow shatters on Barak's mail shirt, but on other occasions, major characters are nearly killed by well-aimed arrows, and Asturian archers — especially Lelldorin — are depicted as being absolutely lethal, even against the heavily armoured Mimbrate knights.
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The Belgariad / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
The Belgariad / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: For the first half of Pawn of Prophecy, almost every member of the party is this to Garion. Of course, Garion stays incognito from himself for three-and-a-half books. All the main characters do their best to maintain anonymity whenever they're traveling, which is pretty much always.
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The Belgariad / int_44c55e9d	type	Teleportation with Drawbacks
The Belgariad / int_44c55e9d	comment	Teleportation with Drawbacks: Teleportation is tremendously draining for a sorcerer, limited to line of sight, and very noisy to anyone with Supernatural Sensitivity. Sorcerers usually use Travel Transformation as a hawk or wolf instead.
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The Belgariad / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Belgariad / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Arends To give just one example, Arendia has been involved in a simmering sort of conflict for approximately five hundred years between the two Duchies comprising it due to what amounts to semantics: the nobles of Asturia do not have their titles recognized by the court because they've never sworn fealty to the Arendish crown, and they cannot swear fealty to the Arendish crown because their families' pre-existing oath to the Duchess of Asturia prevents it. When someone finally points out that the Duchess of Asturia and the Queen of Arendia are one and the same person, she releases them from their earlier oath so they can swear fealty to her in her capacity as Queen and her husband in his capacity as King of Arendia (which they do quite willingly, though they state that they will never swear fealty to him in his other legal persona as Duke of Mimbre). It's clearly pointed out that the hereditary Duchess of Asturia has always also been the Queen of Arendia by tradition throughout the entire centuries-long civil war, and nobody ever noticed before.
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The Belgariad / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Belgariad / int_469e3e2f	comment	However, even by In-Universe standards, it sometimes veers into this, with it even being discussed by the heroes at a few points, and acknowledged that, while it may not necessarily be a good thing, it's absolutely necessary to fulfil the Prophecy. Belgarath performed assassinations as well as coerced marriages to create the families of the True Companions, and is quite unapologetic about it. Yes, it was wrong, but he doesn't really care. At one point, he Lampshades this:
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The Belgariad / int_46f464b	type	Well, Excuse Me, Princess!
The Belgariad / int_46f464b	comment	Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Garion and Ce'Nedra's relationship in a nutshell.
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The Belgariad / int_47804320	type	Holy Ground
The Belgariad / int_47804320	comment	Holy Ground: From The Malloreon, there is a place called Korim, where Torak argued with UL. It is described as one of the holiest places on earth (just not the nicest). On the other side of the world is the mountain of Prolgu, where the original Gorim shamed the god UL into taking in and caring for the outcast people and monsters of the world, and it's also reckoned to be one of the most sacred sites on the planet.
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The Belgariad / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Belgariad / int_4832a3bb	comment	The demons are Always Chaotic Evil in both series, but justified because, well, demons.
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The Belgariad / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
The Belgariad / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Garion. Everyone's response: You're not. Get over it.
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The Belgariad / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Belgariad / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Generally restricted to minor characters; the two most prominent examples are the juggler Feldegast, who has a thick brogue, and Th' Ol' Farmer I' Th' Tavern Wit' Th' Peg. (that's "pig", by the way.) Garion imitates the Old Farmer's accent at times when he's trying to amuse Ce'Nedra or irritate Belgarath.
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The Belgariad / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Belgariad / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist Silk, Liselle, and Sadi do not believe in a fair fight. Garion and 'Zakath aren't much better, cheating their way to victory in a joust. Zakath is a minor subversion in that instance. Garion magically cheats, Zakath refuses to... only a minor subversion, because he does improvise an unusual jousting technique that works to perfection.
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The Belgariad / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
The Belgariad / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Attempting to use the Will and the Word to erase something from existence massively offends the universe, such that the power inevitably backfires and erases you instead. Cthucik ends up confirming this, much to their detriment. Notably, this means that technically you can erase yourself with no interference, which some sorcerers use as a suicide method.
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The Belgariad / int_4a84e5be	type	Wandering Culture
The Belgariad / int_4a84e5be	comment	Wandering Culture: The Algars are Born in the Saddle to the extent that they follow their horse herds and refuse to domesticate them. They have one city, but no one lives there and it was built as a distraction, to give their enemies something to attack other than the wandering tribes.
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The Belgariad / int_4a852053	type	The Hero's Journey
The Belgariad / int_4a852053	comment	The Hero's Journey: Used straight, very intentionally, and with great attention to detail.
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The Belgariad / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Belgariad / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: The Prophecy of Light. It can defeat Gods, and alter the fabric of reality, but is restrained by the rules that it and its counterpart the Dark Prophecy laid out. If they ever fought directly it would destroy the Universe (or at least pose a very large risk of causing a third Prophecy to arise just as the Accident caused the original Purpose of the Universe to split into the Light and Dark Prophecies).
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The Belgariad / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
The Belgariad / int_4a9c731e	comment	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. The fruit? Lethally poisonous. The bark? Loaded with neurotoxins that leave you completely paralyzed but fully conscious. According to Ce'Nedra, the tree feeds on the agony of its victims as much as on their flesh.
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The Belgariad / int_4c275e42	type	Distressed Woodchopping
The Belgariad / int_4c275e42	comment	Distressed Woodchopping: Invoked in the Malloreon sequel series. When Ce'Nedra goes into labour, Polgara takes one look at her Panicky Expectant Father Garion and tells him to go chop some wood to keep his wife warm. His fugue state ends sometime after he's collected two cords of firewood and Ce'Nedra has safely delivered.
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The Belgariad / int_4d0372b	type	Everybody Knew Already
The Belgariad / int_4d0372b	comment	Everybody Knew Already: Much of the Drasnian spy network's doings. Nobody is surprised whenever a lowly Drasnian merchant turns out to be a top spy, and it seems everyone and his brother knows the secret sign language. However, the Drasnian leadership's attitude toward this situation suggests that this may all be part of their operational procedure, allowing some secrets to slip out in order to better spread disinformation, or that it's simply an indication of just how widespread the Drasnian intelligence network is. By the end of the series, the reader is left wondering if there are any Drasnians outside the country who don't report back to to the Intelligence Service, or at least, to someone who does. They even weaponize this during Torak's invasion in the backstory. Rather than try to get the notoriously skeptical Tolnedrans to believe that they could get actionable intelligence from prophecies (which, to be fair, were the barely coherent ramblings of assorted madmen who had been dead for twenty-five centuries at this point), they just turned the information they wanted the General Staff to have into a plausible-sounding report and presented it to them as a recent dispatch from Drasnian Intelligence.
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The Belgariad / int_4f659cba	type	Nature Is Not a Toy
The Belgariad / int_4f659cba	comment	Nature Is Not a Toy: Garion once magically summons up a lightning storm against an army. Two years later, he gets a furious dressing-down from Belgarath the Sorcerer, who's spent all the intervening time smoothing out the meteorological Disaster Dominoes Garion's weather manipulation caused.
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The Belgariad / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Belgariad / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Sadi, before a boatload of Character Development in The Malloreon. By the end he's just a straight up Manipulative Bastard. Most Nyissans (and all Nyissan eunuchs) seem to have this as their hat. Harakan is another good example, and even Ctuchik has his moments.
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The Belgariad / int_4f9ba3e2	type	Single Line of Descent
The Belgariad / int_4f9ba3e2	comment	Single Line of Descent: Garion's family is this, and it's intentional on the part of the Prophecy of Light. The prequels mention that there are other male children in the line (and quite a few girls, especially in the years Polgara hides the heir in Cherek, where huge families are the norm and Cherek girls are said to be especially fertile) but only the firstborn male can be the heir which fits the hints given in the main books: at the start of The Mallorean, the first prophecy information they get about what's going to happen mentions that the "seed" of the Rivan King has to be protected at all costs from falling to the hands of the Child of Dark because there will never be another. The "seed" is Garion's first-born child, a son. It's revealed at the very end of The Mallorean that Garion will only ever have a single son, but thanks to Ce'Nedra's Dryad heritage he'll end up with many daughters, none of which matter to the Prophecy because only Garion's son is the Orb's inheritor.
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The Belgariad / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Belgariad / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Several characters in the (slightly more than)-five-man Band could qualify, but the standouts are Mandorallen in The Belgariad and Toth in The Malloreon. When the Big Band (Barak, Hettar, Mandorallen, Relg, and Lelldorin) get together, Mandorallen is the only one who doesn't assume another role in the group. That's right: he's The Big Guys' Big Guy.
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The Belgariad / int_503ad269	type	Malfunction Malady
The Belgariad / int_503ad269	comment	Malfunction Malady: After Belgarath collapses from overexertion, Polgara worries that he could find his powers greatly reduced or even completely gone. While this ultimately turns out not to be the case, Belgarath acknowledges it was a definite possibility.
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The Belgariad / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Belgariad / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The woman carrying Nahaz's offspring.
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The Belgariad / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Belgariad / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Belgarath's punishment of Zedar is viewed by several of the heroes as this, as the majority of his villainy was conducted offscreen, until the release of the prequels. Belgarath, however, was a firsthand witness to it and Zedar's protestations of I Did What I Had to Do fall on deaf ears. Belgarath briefly muses on whether the punishment was indeed too harsh later on, only for Beldin (who was also a first-hand witness) to state that if Belgarath ever released Zedar, Beldin would put him straight back.
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The Belgariad / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
The Belgariad / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Polgara has one. As noted in Belgarath the Sorcerer, the snow-white lock appeared when Belgarath laid his hand on her head in an ancient ritual of benediction from his homeland. Polgara's hair was raven black through and through when she was born. Since the stripe resists any attempt to remove it or dye it for more than a moment, the sorcerers sometimes takes steps to encourage skunk stripes being a fashionable trend so Polgara can't be quite as easily identified when she's moving around.
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The Belgariad / int_519be2fc	type	Sacred Scripture
The Belgariad / int_519be2fc	comment	Sacred Scripture: The prophecies may count. Also, religious scriptures belonging to the various races are mentioned.
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The Belgariad / int_52388345	type	Elective Monarchy
The Belgariad / int_52388345	comment	Elective Monarchy: Sendaria chose its first king like this, and everyone could vote. Also, the winning candidate had to have a majority of the votes rather than simply the most votes. It took six years and twenty-two ballots to winnow the 724 candidates down to a single winner, a rutabaga farmer named Fundor. As a result, nobody takes the monarchy all that seriously—not even the monarch. Also, the Empire of Tolnedra elects a new Emperor if the old one dies without an heir.
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The Belgariad / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
The Belgariad / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Part of Taiba's traumatic life as a slave in the mines until she escapes.
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The Belgariad / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Belgariad / int_537dd8fe	comment	Angaraks are portrayed this way in The Belgariad at first, but they get a less black and white treatment as time goes on — the Thulls are portrayed from the beginning as victims of Angarak society more than anything else and in The Belgariad the Nadraks are presented as the Angarak counterpart of the Drasnians — with the similarity between the two peoples noted on a number of occasions by both Drasnians and Nadraks. Additionally, they play a pivotal role in preventing the armies of the West from being massacred at Thull Mardu. The Malloreans, meanwhile, are portrayed as generally polite and Affably Evil at worst... with the exception of Zakath, and even he mellows eventually. Even the Murgos, who're almost universally depicted as this trope get a makeover in The Malloreon — in large part because we actually get to see Murgos who aren't Grolims or their agents, outside of wartime. In general, the main problem seems to be the fact their god was a narcissistic megalomaniac obsessed with human sacrifice, allowing the Grolims, the somewhat deranged priesthood, to gain an iron grip over the population.
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The Belgariad / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Belgariad / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The hierarchy of evil's leadership across both series goes, roughly, Disciple (Ctuchik, Zedar, and Urvon for Torak; Naradas for Zandramas), Child of Dark (Torak, Zandramas), Dark Prophecy. In The Belgariad Ctuchik and Zedar play Dragon to Torak (not that he especially needs protecting), while Asharak and Brill are Ctuchik's Co-Dragons; Brill may have been Asharak's Dragon as well, although he was strangely absent during the latter's final moments; the details of the relationship are never fully explored. In The Malloreon Zandramas has Naradas, Mordja, and an actual Dragon, while Urvon has Nahaz and Harakan. Most of those in The Malloreon have their own agendas.
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The Belgariad / int_54bdd7a1	type	Phlebotinum du Jour
The Belgariad / int_54bdd7a1	comment	Phlebotinum du Jour/Science Marches On: A section of The Rivan Codex discusses an interesting point on how the popular understanding of the Law of Conservation of Energy did this for magic systems. Before it, magic could do pretty much what the plot required, whereas after it a magic system needed to have an answer for "where does the energy come from?"
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The Belgariad / int_55289c62	type	InfanticideBackfire
The Belgariad / int_55289c62	comment	Infanticide Backfire: Asharak tried to kill Garion (and did succeed in killing his parents). That didn't work out so well for him.
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The Belgariad / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Belgariad / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation Each and every damn prophecy. In the case of the Mrin Codex, this turns out to be only because the oracle was stark raving mad; the Voice of the Universe tells Garion that unfortunately, this nutcase was all he had to work with. That and the reader will eventually get the feeling that the Voice did it that way because it annoys Belgarath so very, very much. Two other reasons are eventually raised. One is that it's part of the balance between the two Prophecies (it would be possible for one Prophecy to give much clearer, understandable prophecies to its side, but that would allow the other Prophecy to do the same for its side). The other is that it is a safety measure of sorts — prophecies aren't meant to be really understood by anyone at any time, and the cryptic phrasing makes it easier to keep understanding to the right people at the right time.
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The Belgariad / int_55c8bdbc	type	Death Wail
The Belgariad / int_55c8bdbc	comment	Death Wail: Polgara lets one loose when Durnik is killed.
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The Belgariad / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
The Belgariad / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The Gods and Arends love to speak in this manner. Especially when waxing eloquent. However, the "butcherede" part is averted because Eddings actually does it correctly, except in a few cases where he deliberately gets it wrong to show that a character is trying (and failing) to be "fancy".
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The Belgariad / int_561b252d	type	Single-Precept Religion
The Belgariad / int_561b252d	comment	Single-Precept Religion: Surprisingly common, given that the main characters are in regular contact with the deity Aldur and are opposing another deity with the covert support of another five. The worship of Nedra, for example, seems to boil down to a few rules involving money. The Bear-Cult's core beliefs are, in most cases, tied to overt racism and the grand plan of whichever villain is manipulating them that week. Torak's religion is heavy on ritualised gestures of devotion but no real philosophical substance beyond reflecting Torak's own arrogance. There are some references to a field of theology,note Such as the mention that great piles of educated theological treatises were disproven and made obsolete when UL was confirmed to be the father of the gods. but we are not given any details. Part of this is due to the fact that most of the protagonists are pretty irreligious, and the impression given is that the gods themselves don't care very much about the finer points of how they are worshipped.
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The Belgariad / int_566e0367	type	Bodyguard Legacy
The Belgariad / int_566e0367	comment	Bodyguard Legacy: Barak is already a mighty Alorn warrior, but he is also the Mighty Bear of prophecy who will physically turn into a bear when Garion's life is in danger. His son Unrak turns out to have inherited this trait, making him the protector of Garion's son, Geran.
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The Belgariad / int_577a2e15	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Belgariad / int_577a2e15	comment	Inverted by Brador, the chief of the Mallorean Empire's Bureau of Internal Affairs. He is a Melcene, who, like the Tolnedrans, don't believe in anything supernatural. Along comes Book 3 of the Malloreon, at which point demons start butchering whole cities under the command of a Grolim priest. Brador not only doesn't seem to have any trouble believing demons exist, but he begs Belgarath and Belgarion to help him convince his even more skeptical emperor to call off his Roaring Rampageof Revenge so they can go back and deal with the situation.
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The Belgariad / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
The Belgariad / int_57b74bd4	comment	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. Deconstructed later in the same novel when Belgarath explains, in detail, why it was so dangerous and stupid to attempt. He then proceeds to lecture Garion a bit on the rules of using the series' magic, including the requirement that the person has to fully understand the mechanics of what he or she is doing. The deconstruction gets reconstructed itself later on, when it is discussed how one of Garion's skills is "being able to visualize highly complicated concepts reduced to very simple terms" — which means he is actually able to "gloss over" most of the finer points of the more complicated things when working his magic and still get the desired effect. Neat subversion with Queen Islena, when she makes her High Priest choose between joining the army or getting thrown into the dungeon. The king could never have made that threat to a priest because there's specific laws about evidence and proper treatment regarding priests, which would be politically scandalous for the king to ignore. Islena got away with it because everyone thought her too stupid to know better. The subversion is that the whole thing was planned by her smarter advisors, taking advantage of both her ignorant reputation and her actual ignorance. Had anyone else tried that, it would have been only an ineffective bluff. But coming from Islena, the threat was believable, since she really was unaware that she wasn't allowed to do what she threatened when she made the threat; she really would have had the priest chained to the wall in the deepest dungeon she could find before anyone got around to telling her it was illegal. Lampshaded by Polgara in Polgara the Sorceress as she muses over the idea that simply being ignorant of a task's impossibility might, however improbably, let someone perform impossible feats.
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The Belgariad / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Belgariad / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Torak is a narcissistic, literal God of Evil whose Religion of Evil demands sacrifice in the form of still-beating human hearts freshly carved out of people's chests. Torak also believes himself superior to all the other gods and encourages his people — the Angaraks — to feel the same about themselves in relation to the other peoples of the world. Torak also attempted to conquer the world 500 years before the events of Pawn of Prophecy and wasn't that far from achieving his goals. In addition, the Angaraks have a history of stirring up shit in the western kingdoms, the destruction of Vo Wacune and the assassination of the Rivan royal family being some of the major events they had a hand in. Due to the aforementioned reasons and the almost complete lack of cultural exchange with the isolationist Angarak society, anti-Angarak sentiment is quite strong in many of the western kingdoms. Any Angarak in the west, of course, will deny everything and claim everyone's just prejudiced towards them.
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The Belgariad / int_57bfb2c5	type	Sand Bridge at Low Tide
The Belgariad / int_57bfb2c5	comment	Sand Bridge at Low Tide: An island chain was used twice. Played straight once in the main series, with the path between islands revealed at low tide. Subverted in the prequels, when it's first discovered, but the protagonists skirt it in favor of inconspicuously crossing the frozen northern sea.
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The Belgariad / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Belgariad / int_57d43e40	comment	Each of the nations of the world, overlaid on their Fantasy Counterpart Culture. Drasnians are devious, Tolnedrans are greedy, Arends take Honor Before Reason to truly ridiculous levels, Nyissans are decadent hedonists, Alorns are sailors and party animals.
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The Belgariad / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
The Belgariad / int_57dda60c	comment	In The Malloreon, 'Zakath doesn't so much take a level in badass, as he does regain one, regaining the fencing and riding skills that he'd let go rusty during his time as The Emperor.
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The Belgariad / int_58075ef2	type	Stumbling in the New Form
The Belgariad / int_58075ef2	comment	Stumbling in the New Form: In Guardians of the West, Garion needs to get back to Riva as soon as possible. Belgarath gives him flying lessons, which start with multiple attempts to get the falcon transformation good enough to actually fly. Once he's got the form (mostly) right, Garion beak-plants into several things trying to get into the air.
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The Belgariad / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
The Belgariad / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Garion, who becomes frighteningly proficient with both weaponry and sorcery. It helps that he's tutored by some of the most skilled swordsmen in the world, as well as the most powerful sorcerer and sorceress (with occasional tips from the Prophecy) in history.
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The Belgariad / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
The Belgariad / int_582564f5	comment	When Polgara gets angry, even Belgarath keeps his head down. Polgara's explosion of rage in Castle of Wizardry (upon finding out that her father and Belgarion had sneaked out to face Torak without her) shook the entire royal palace of Riva and altered weather patterns for miles around. They go to some effort in The Malloreon to avoid a similar catastrophe. Of course, Belgarath takes a perverse amusement in inspiring said rage, when it suits him.
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The Belgariad / int_5889ca1d	type	Mineral MacGuffin
The Belgariad / int_5889ca1d	comment	Mineral MacGuffin: The Orb of Aldur and the Sardion — both halves of the original stone at the center of the universe and the embodiment of the power of the Prophecies of Light and Dark, respectively.
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The Belgariad / int_59275ef7	type	Chromatic Arrangement
The Belgariad / int_59275ef7	comment	Chromatic Arrangement: Each of the Seven Gods is associated with a colour, while their father, the Top God UL, manifests as pure white.
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The Belgariad / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
The Belgariad / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: Zandramas vs Urvon vs Agachak vs Mengha vs (pre-Heelâ€“Face Turn) 'Zakath. Also, Nahaz vs Mordja for the favour of The King of Hell. See Enemy Civil War above.
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The Belgariad / int_59e20134	type	Immortal Breaker
The Belgariad / int_59e20134	comment	Immortal Breaker: The Orb of Aldur's power surpasses the gods, and dealt Torak a Wound That Will Not Heal. Later, it is set into the Sword of Riva's pommel, which is used to kill Torak once and for all.
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The Belgariad / int_5a75677c	type	He's Just Hiding
The Belgariad / int_5a75677c	comment	He's Just Hiding: Invoked in-universe in The Malloreon. Not even the death of their god can dissuade the Grolims from their orgy of Human Sacrifice. They believe he will one day return to take revenge on his killer and take his rightful place as ruler of the world. Only replacing Torak with a more benevolent god stops them.
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The Belgariad / int_5a8df8c5	type	Our Nymphs Are Different
The Belgariad / int_5a8df8c5	comment	Our Nymphs Are Different: Dryads live in southern Tolnedra, within the Wood of the Dryads. They're all female and reproduce with human males, and are bonded for life to a tree and live as long as it does.. Ce'Nedra is the daughter of a man and a dryad, and is often described as very pretty due to her exotic looks.
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The Belgariad / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
The Belgariad / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Lots of it, in the various written prophecies both sides are using. Also, deliberately used on Polgara by Aldur, when he says that the Gods will bring Durnik back to life so they can marrynote he's been obviously in love with her for years, if she'll agree to live the rest of her life with no more magical power than he has. She assumes they mean that she'll be stripped of her power. In actuality, he is given equivalent magical power to her though he uses it much less often.
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The Belgariad / int_5aa60027	type	Tell Me About My Father
The Belgariad / int_5aa60027	comment	Tell Me About My Father: In Pawn of Phrophecy, a young Garion asks his Aunt Pol about his mother. A few years later he asks Mister Wolf to tell him about his parents.
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The Belgariad / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
The Belgariad / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: When you use magic to move an object, the resulting force is the same as if you had physically touched the object — so you have to brace yourself with equal force, similar to tightening up your muscles, or some such. The main character learns this the hard way the first time he tries to move a giant stone, as he ends up buried up to his armpits in the ground (he tried to push it up instead of merely sideways). The protagonist's mentor scolds him and comments that if he HAD tried to push it sideways, he'd likely have been thrown across the continent by now. This is also used as an explanation for why certain magical effects are not used very often. For instance, changing the weather is not a normal effect, because it requires moving vast amounts of atmosphere around.
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The Belgariad / int_5bb56da	type	Justified
The Belgariad / int_5bb56da	comment	Justified by the woman who is giving birth to Nahaz's offspring. Garion gets a look at her and realizes there is no way she'd survive the birth.
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The Belgariad / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Belgariad / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did it Have to be Caves?: Silk's dislike of enclosed spaces is tipped over into a full-blown 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. This theory is supported by her telling 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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The Belgariad / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
The Belgariad / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Barak's an unwilling heroic example. Apparently this kind of thing is common in Cherek warriors, even the ones who don't turn into bears. Taur Urgas is an evil example.
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The Belgariad / int_5c3471bb	type	Giving the Sword to a Noob
The Belgariad / int_5c3471bb	comment	Giving the Sword to a Noob: This was actually a joke in The Malloreon: Garion's son had been kidnapped as an infant, and Garion and co. had spent about two years searching for him and his abductors. When they were approaching the final showdown, one of the heroes' scouts came back to tell them what was going on, and the scout told them that the toddler was unharmed, but clearly didn't like the abductors he was with or their minions, and speculated that they could simply give Garion's enchanted sword to his son, then sit back and watch the toddler wreck the villains. They weren't seriously considering this as an option; it was a fairly typical joke, given the setting.
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The Belgariad / int_5c53c410	type	Scry vs. Scry
The Belgariad / int_5c53c410	comment	Scry vs. Scry: The two competing Prophecies. There's also a version of this when Belgarath confronts Ctuchik — see Disposable Woman, above.
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The Belgariad / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
The Belgariad / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really Seven Thousand Years Old Most of the sorcerers are several thousand years old. Except for Polgara, who looks to be in her mid-late twenties, they all look like old men. Polgara falls for Durnik, who's in his thirties — bit of an age gap. Belgarath is so old that he shows up as an aged mentor in the three-thousand-year-old "Bible" of the series, and is basically considered to be Satan by the Big Bad's followers. It doesn't help that when the sorcerers get caught up in research in their towers, they flat out seem to forget that time is flowing. Belgarath managed to not notice that the wolf which had been staring at him while he puttered around his tower had been doing so for a thousand years until one day he stopped and actually did the math to realize it. Belgarath himself doesn't even seem to notice how old he is until he's over three hundred years old, when he finally asks his god why he doesn't seem to be ageing. The god replies that he's always found it inconvenient. Theories as to how this works are more or less confirmed in the prequel books, when Belgarath speculates that it's tied to the will to live. He also theorizes regarding ageing something to the effect of, "Old and distinguished on a man is perfectly natural and accepted. Old and distinguished on a woman equals crone," and there's no way Polgara would have put up with something like that. Inverted in the case of Salmissra, Queen of Nyissa and consort of the slumbering snake god Issa. She takes a potion to maintain her outer youth but she's really a mortal woman like all of her predecessors, chosen for their resemblance to the original Salmissra, who died ages ago. Polgara "remedies" the situation by turning her into an immortal giant serpent. More deconstructed than averted, because part of Polgara's rationalization for what she does to Salmissra is that Issa forgot to make the original Salmissra immortal in the first place.
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The Belgariad / int_5d162996	type	Extended Disarming
The Belgariad / int_5d162996	comment	Extended Disarming: Silk, numerous times, pulls daggers out of every conceivable hiding place. Plus a few that could only be explained by Hammerspace.
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The Belgariad / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
The Belgariad / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: Several, with Garion vs Torak, and Cho-Hag vs Taur Urgas being two of the best. The last one in particular is a great duel between a Fragile Speedster Handicapped Badass and an insane loon who relies on madness and physical power.
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The Belgariad / int_5d3d67d9	type	Gender Scoff
The Belgariad / int_5d3d67d9	comment	Gender Scoff: Considering that this is a fantasy World of Snark, it's not surprising that Polgara often rolls her eyes and howls "MEN!"
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The Belgariad / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
The Belgariad / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License The Prophecies, more or less by definition, since their objective is nothing less than the patching up of the universe itself; what matter individual lives or happiness as long as that goal is achieved? It's worth noting that the Prophecy of Light does its best to reward its pawns for their service. The Prophecy (and in the Retcon prequel, Poledra and Ul) really screwed around with Belgarath. Letting him suffer for four thousand years because he was lied to about his wife dying while he had — as he saw it — abandoned her? Harsh, man. Also, Aldur's decision not to choose a race of people for his own, leaving them to wander godless forevermore, except for those very few who found UL. No one even remotely calls him on this. It is possible, however, that Aldur was instructed in his decision to stand apart from his brothers by the Prophecy Of Light (the Prophecies having existed since before the younger Gods came into being). The Melcenes, Dals, and Karands did pretty well for themselves, as did the Ulgos who followed Gorim (the ones who didn't were cursed specifically by Gorim and UL). No one calls Aldur on being partly responsible for the state of the Morindim, however.
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The Belgariad / int_5e04ab60	type	No Mercy for Murderers
The Belgariad / int_5e04ab60	comment	No Mercy for Murderers: Zedar was doomed by fate to Durnik as part of the complicated prophetic interplay between the forces of good and evil, and explicitly said that he didn't want to do it, and because of this, he suffers a truly horrifying fate, even though Durnik is later resurrected.
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The Belgariad / int_5e9cddcc	type	Fake Wizardry
The Belgariad / int_5e9cddcc	comment	Fake Wizardry: Not stage magic proper, but at one point in The Malloreon a Grolim sorcerer uses a fake demon invocation plus an illusion spell as Step One in taking over a Karand kingdom. Belgarath counters with a fake invocation of his own and a far scarier illusion that sends the Karands fleeing for their lives.
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The Belgariad / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
The Belgariad / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: The Pig-Pen Beldin isn't impressed by the seductive Queen of the Snake People, Salmissra.
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The Belgariad / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
The Belgariad / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door Emphasis on the was part. Sorcerers seldom need to bother with knocking, and Garion takes this to ridiculous extremes in The Malloreon, at one point making a city gate burst with such force that pieces of it are later found five miles away (the Orb helped him). The force blew in the entire city wall on that side of the city as a side effect. Even without the Orb, though, Garion's capable of blowing out the entire wall of one room if he's feeling irritated enough. Garion makes a point of threatening the pre Heelâ€“Face Turn Zakath with a broken city when he finally decides he's been delayed long enough... and blows out a wall while going to make this threat. When Zakath is still being uncooperative, he proposes to blast through the whole house to get to the library.
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The Belgariad / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Belgariad / int_60194b82	comment	Really, you can fight Fate... Fate just has many more resources at its disposal, all the time in the universe to prepare, the reaction time to deal with things personally, a roving squad of sorcerers enforcing its plans, and a twisted sense of humor to boot. When something happens to screw with the plan, expect Fate to panic.
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The Belgariad / int_607da09f	type	Summon Binding
The Belgariad / int_607da09f	comment	Summon Binding: Demons are summoned through complicated incantations that force them into a corporeal form and put them under the summoner's mental control. If the summoner's concentration ever lapses, the demon is free to take revenge before returning to Hell.
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The Belgariad / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
The Belgariad / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Durnik to Garion, and Beldin to Belgarath. In The Malloreon 'Zakath also plays Lancer to Garion, post Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Belgariad / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
The Belgariad / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Zandramas' efforts to sway events to her favour ultimately hasten the Event she is trying to avoid. And, probably, bias the Choice against her. This gets repeatedly pointed out to her, by several people.
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The Belgariad / int_613ca729	type	Request for Privacy
The Belgariad / int_613ca729	comment	Request for Privacy: Belgarath the Sorcerer has an example where the people asked to leave are offended. When Salmissra tells the palace eunuchs to go away so she can have a private conversation with Belgarath, one of them complains. Salmissra tells him he's welcome to stay—but then he'll have to be Killed to Uphold the Masquerade.
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The Belgariad / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Belgariad / int_617f0563	comment	Garion makes a point of threatening the pre Heelâ€“Face Turn Zakath with a broken city when he finally decides he's been delayed long enough... and blows out a wall while going to make this threat. When Zakath is still being uncooperative, he proposes to blast through the whole house to get to the library.
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The Belgariad / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Belgariad / int_61a12ee2	comment	Belgarath, when forced into formal garb, always wears a white robe, rather like a certain other Eccentric Mentor wizard who usually prefers shabbier garb from another fantasy series.
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The Belgariad / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Belgariad / int_61b8f9e2	comment	It was even more complicated in that Poledra, despite not actually being dead seems to think she will be when her task is completed. Belgarath, on hearing this, seems determined to die with her this time. The God Eriond intervenes, using some pretty impressive Bunny-Ears Lawyer logic to justify why he's not bound to obey UL's will, since UL didn't consult him, what with him not being a god at the time. And then of course it turns out that's exactly what UL intended with this plan all along: to force Eriond to make unilateral decisions. Belgarath, hearing his three thousand years of grief were a test, is a bit put out.
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The Belgariad / int_6205f4e5	type	Courtly Love
The Belgariad / int_6205f4e5	comment	This is what makes Mandorallan's Courtly Love with Nerina so tragic. Belgarath says himself that if they had followed their urges, they could have got it out of their systems and moved on with their lives. Instead, the two spend years mooning after each other hopelessly. Ultimately, this is subverted when Nerina's husband dies thanks to the long-term effects of his injuries, and the two, thanks to Garion's timely intervention against their instinct of noble suffering, are married.
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The Belgariad / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
The Belgariad / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Garion and Ce'Nedra.
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The Belgariad / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Belgariad / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Silk, frequently. The best example is when, as the party is escaping from Rak Cthol after Ctuchik's death, he gets them past several Grolim search parties by pretending to be a higher ranking Grolim and ordering them to move their search elsewhere.
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The Belgariad / int_63267b15	type	Theseus' Ship Paradox
The Belgariad / int_63267b15	comment	Theseus' Ship Paradox: Alluded to in the Malloreon series. Poledra tells Beldin that she's surprised he hasn't changed his tunic during the thousands of years since she last saw him. Beldin says that he patches it, and replaces the patches as they wear out, to the point that the original tunic "is only a memory".
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The Belgariad / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
The Belgariad / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Zig-Zagged. Armour is portrayed somewhat realistically, in that it is very useful for protecting people but it doesn't make them invincible. For instance, Mandorallean's plate armour deflects swords and arrows, but a heavy blow from a club caves in his breastplate and injures his ribs, similarly, chain mail deflects blades pretty well, but a determined thrust or a razor-sharp throwing knife can cut through.
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The Belgariad / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
The Belgariad / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Torak was one, before the whole burning thing. He was often described as "over-pretty".
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The Belgariad / int_63cbd757	type	Binding Ancient Treaty
The Belgariad / int_63cbd757	comment	Binding Ancient Treaty: The Treaty of Vo Mimbre
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The Belgariad / int_63ee8101	type	Reclaimed by Nature
The Belgariad / int_63ee8101	comment	Reclaimed by Nature: Polgara revisits the site of the former city of Vo Wacune and laments that the trees have overrun the site "so soon"- the trees in question being full-grown redwoods.
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The Belgariad / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Belgariad / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal Mandorallen, Lelldorin, Silk, Liselle, Sadi and Durnik pre-resurrection are among the few characters who aren't using magic, turning into bears, talking to horses, or at least making use of magically enhanced weaponry. It's worth mentioning that Sadi can likely be said to have a knowledge of poisons and pharmacology which surpasses even Polgara, who spent centuries in study of medicine, and has millennia of generalised medical experience. Much of this would come, of course, both from his native culture and that he is a specialist in the field rather than general medicine. (Though in The Malloreon, he still intelligently often defers to Polgara in her decisions of what drugs to administer, while she, sensibly, takes his advice, even if she does make the final decision.) And Ce'Nedra may be a Non-Action Guy, but she did raise a truly vast army and has proven a highly capable manipulator and political player.
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The Belgariad / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Belgariad / int_643618e5	comment	At one point it's mentioned the reason for the endless stream of Eternal Salmissras is that it simply didn't occur to Issa to make his original beloved handmaiden immortal the way other gods did for their disciples, and hasn't noticed the changes. This suggests Aldur and Torak may have actively done something to give their disciples live longer. (Aldur at least finds the notion of aging and dying inconveient.)
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The Belgariad / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
The Belgariad / int_650a309b	comment	Forgot About His Powers: The Orb's basically infinite power is sometimes forgotten when Garion and/or other members of the party need to do something strenuous with sorcery, causing them to tire themselves out when it's not really necessary. On the other hand, it's possible they've conditioned themselves to think that way, given the Orb's tendency to greatly overpower things in an effort to be helpful. It's one thing to cause a rockslide, quite another to slice off a quarter of the mountain - and it takes an idle thought like, say, how to undo the breaking of the world or how to write 'Belgarion' in stars and immediately starts showing the bearer how to do it. Most of the time, though, the main reason seems to be that it's incredibly noisy.
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The Belgariad / int_65163c3a	type	Evil Tower of Ominousness
The Belgariad / int_65163c3a	comment	Evil Tower of Ominousness: Ctuchik's tower atop Rak Cthol, and Torak's giant iron tower in Cthol Mishrak. Torak's tower was so tall that a noticeable chunk of a 24-hour day can be spent going up the stairs to the top, doing something which takes maybe five minutes, and then going back down. When he invades the West, he has a giant wheeled iron tower pulled about by his army for him to live in. Lampshaded by Belgarath, who mentions that all sorcerers seem to have a pathological drive to live in towers.
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The Belgariad / int_6587a846	type	Fantastic Time Management
The Belgariad / int_6587a846	comment	Fantastic Time Management: When Garion says he'll "make time" to do something, Belgarath warns him against using his sorcery to create time, because there's no way to predict what the results would be if he tries.
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The Belgariad / int_65e33518	type	Lethal Harmless Powers
The Belgariad / int_65e33518	comment	Lethal Harmless Powers: Relg can use his ability to move through solid rock for combat purposes, by pushing enemies into the rock and leaving them to suffocate.
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The Belgariad / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
The Belgariad / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: The possibility of this happening is enough to keep Belgarath Locked Out of the Loop in the fourth book after his nearly fatal duel with Ctuchik. Later, Polgara is threatened with this as a condition of having Durnik brought back to life — fortunately, the Gods have a sense of humour and were testing her. Cyradis in the final book of The Malloreon must be stripped of her powers of prophecy into order to make the final choice between Light and Dark. However, the Light Prophecy explicitly tells Garion that while she is no longer a seer... she ha looked into the future, and she has a very good memory.
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The Belgariad / int_67c0ef1a	type	Hidden Backup Prince
The Belgariad / int_67c0ef1a	comment	Hidden Backup Prince: Geran
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The Belgariad / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
The Belgariad / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats Each of the nations of the world, overlaid on their Fantasy Counterpart Culture. Drasnians are devious, Tolnedrans are greedy, Arends take Honor Before Reason to truly ridiculous levels, Nyissans are decadent hedonists, Alorns are sailors and party animals. Again, justified. The gods chose people who had traits that appealed to them to follow them, and have spent umpteen-thousand years cultivating those traits. Extra justified in the case of the Angaraks, who were split into nations based on physical characteristics after Torak returned from a few thousand years of doing god-stuff. Too bad those characteristics were caste-related and not tribal, like he thought. With the Murgos, as stated by Belgarath in Belgarath the Sorcerer, they were split based not on their physical characteristics, but on their cultural roles. Nadrak is Old Angarak for "merchant", Thull means "worker", and Murgo means "soldier". Their physical characteristics were already present because of natural trends for these roles to attract people with certain body and mind types. They simply became more and more pronounced over the hundreds of years due to their comparative isolation from one another.
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The Belgariad / int_67f2c837	type	The Pig-Pen
The Belgariad / int_67f2c837	comment	The Pig-Pen: Beldin, deliberately. He's so physically ugly that he sees no point in trying to appear neat.
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The Belgariad / int_6844f0d5	type	Undressing the Unconscious
The Belgariad / int_6844f0d5	comment	Undressing the Unconscious: In the second book, Garion is kidnapped and drugged by Queen Salmissra and awakens wearing a short Loincloth while her servants are putting make-up on him.
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The Belgariad / int_686083e8	type	Ethnic God
The Belgariad / int_686083e8	comment	Ethnic God: Seven of the eight gods are associated with a race and vice-versa. Both also have associated Animal Motifs. Aldur refused to choose a people, as initially did UL, the father of the other gods. The remaining peoples, who called themselves Dals, divided into several groups and left to search for gods to worship while some remained behind as Dals. Only one group, the Ulgo, found a god, while the others mostly became demon worshippers.
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The Belgariad / int_686c9ad7	type	Only the Pure of Heart
The Belgariad / int_686c9ad7	comment	Only the Pure of Heart After its misuse by Torak, the Orb refused to bear the touch of any except one with a pure heart. This turned out to be Riva, and his descendants bear the mark of their bond with the Orb. Subverted in Belgarath the Sorcerer, when Belgarath reveals that the "pure of heart" part of the legend is just embellishment. Anyone could have touched the orb at the start, but they needed to decide who would guard it, and the main criteria were that they wouldn't feel tempted to use the orb, and they could devote their life to being a guardian. Riva's older brother Dras even admits that he could probably resist the temptation to use the orb, but that he wasn't the smartest guy in the world, and that his brothers were more qualified. Ironically, it's Riva's use of the orb in the escape that bonds it to him (before that, even the sly and somewhat-corrupt Belgarath could have picked up and used the orb... which the Prophecy explicitly warns him not to do). Later Eriond, in The Malloreon. His demonstration of this during Zandramas' first attack on the heroes nearly gives Polgara a heart attack.
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The Belgariad / int_697e3ecb	type	Involuntary Shapeshifting
The Belgariad / int_697e3ecb	comment	Involuntary Shapeshifting: Barak's hereditary "curse" is to turn into a bear when Garion is threatened. He passes the trait to his son, with respect to Garion's son.
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The Belgariad / int_6a61050e	type	The Only One
The Belgariad / int_6a61050e	comment	Also, Torak's followers have several opportunities to kill Garion but instead focus on trying to capture The Only One who can kill Torak and present him to Torak in chains.
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The Belgariad / int_6a643799	type	Expressive Mask
The Belgariad / int_6a643799	comment	Expressive Mask: After Torak becomes maimed, he takes to wearing a steel mask which covers his face and moves as his unburned face would.
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The Belgariad / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Belgariad / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Torak isn't able to take over the world because Polgara loves Durnik (and knows he loved her), and holds on to that while he's trying to bend her will to his.
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The Belgariad / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
The Belgariad / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: The characters' banter about this is practically a Running Gag, especially in The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
The Belgariad / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Subverted and later deconstructed by King Rhodar of Drasnia. He is extremely obese, yes, but subverts the trope by being the best-read king in the West, and the best strategist, along with being a compassionate and competent ruler, with a little help from his loving and similarly-clever wife. Deconstruction rears its ugly head when his girth ultimately shortens his life.
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The Belgariad / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Belgariad / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: When Polgara gets angry, even Belgarath keeps his head down. Polgara's explosion of rage in Castle of Wizardry (upon finding out that her father and Belgarion had sneaked out to face Torak without her) shook the entire royal palace of Riva and altered weather patterns for miles around. They go to some effort in The Malloreon to avoid a similar catastrophe. Of course, Belgarath takes a perverse amusement in inspiring said rage, when it suits him. Barak, when Garion is in trouble - he literally turns into a giant bear. Garion himself is goaded into this by Zandramas in The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_6bdf39ae	type	Master Actor
The Belgariad / int_6bdf39ae	comment	Master Actor: As a spy, Silk has developed multiple personas for the purpose of getting around anonymously. Really only two of them are seen as Silk likes them the best: Radek of Boktor and Ambar of Kotu, both of them merchants.
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The Belgariad / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
The Belgariad / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: Attempted as an in-universe explanation in The Malloreon: a sailor has a leg that is painfully sensitive to changes in the weather to the point where he's employed as a storm-predictor. When he fails to predict a squall and his employers complains, he literally suggests that a wizard might've conjured the storm. His boss thinks it's a lame excuse. It's implied that actually something much more powerful than a wizard that's conjured the storm.
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The Belgariad / int_6c019508	type	Demanding Their Head
The Belgariad / int_6c019508	comment	Demanding Their Head: In The Seeress of Kell, when Queen Salmissra's then-Chief Eunuch Adiss informs her of a problem with a minor government official called The Satrap, Salmissra dismisses it as a completely unimportant matter and tells Adiss to solve the problem by hiring an assassin to cut off The Satrap's head. When Adiss protests, she repeats her order and also tells him to bring her the head afterward as proof of his obedience.
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The Belgariad / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
The Belgariad / int_6c3d1777	comment	Mostly averted — the local rules of magic mean that learning sorcery instantly conveys immortality. Sorcerers never bitch about it, and instead find ways to stay busy for all of those years. This is explored further in The Malloreon and the supplemental novels. Sorcerers do spontaneously pop up from time to time, but there's some attrition due to accidentally (or deliberately) unmaking themselves. The ones that survive this process are the ones who learn how to handle immortality. Belgarath even admits that part of the sorcerer aloofness and tendency to hole up in their towers in study and ignore the passing of a few centuries, every now and then, is a vital coping technique, lest grief drive them insane. It also makes Polgara that much more incredible, as she was forced to forgo this tactic for a thousand years... living with a family line whose every member (every member, from birth to death) she was intimately involved with.
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The Belgariad / int_6c46615c	type	Talking through Technique
The Belgariad / int_6c46615c	comment	Talking through Technique: The Drasnian sign language.
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The Belgariad / int_6c953892	type	Henotheistic Society
The Belgariad / int_6c953892	comment	Henotheistic Society: Each race has its own patron god. The Alorns have Belar the bear, the Arends have Chaldan the bull, the Nyissans have Issa the snake, the Murgos have Torak the dragon, the Marags had Mara the bat, the Tolnedrans have Nedra the lion, and the Ulgos have UL the albatross. There's also Aldur the owl, but he adopts one disciple from each race, rather than being a patron god to a single race. The later books also introduce Eriond the Horse, the new god of the Angaraks, who may end up becoming the god of all other races.
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The Belgariad / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Belgariad / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Belsambar and Belmakor. In the prequel, Belgarath expresses a suspicion that Zedar had somehow played a part in the latter (though he never explains how), and goes on to say that if he ever discovers proof, he'll go back and put Zedar somewhere even worse. a Played for Laughs version (for the readers, anyway) in the early stages of Guardians of the West. During That Mess in Arendia, Nerina comes up with the perfect idea to stop the war - all she has to do is "cast myself from the window of this tower". Belgarion is about to tell her what a breathtakingly stupid idea this is, then rolls his eyes and basically says, "Fine. It'll take you about two days to reach the ground, so you can think it over. You'll look pretty silly though." It takes Nerina a moment to realize - "Thou wouldst not use sorcery to foil my most excellent solution!" After their Roaring Rampageof Rescue of Garion in Nyssa, Barak threatens to commit suicide, thinking he's a dangerous monster and will eventually be trapped as a bear forever. Polgara (who knows why he's transforming, but can't say yet because Garion's identity is still a secret) stops him with a combination of reverse psychology and by revealing that Barak's wife back home is pregnant with his first son.
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The Belgariad / int_6d53c60c	type	Diversionary Foreign Policy
The Belgariad / int_6d53c60c	comment	Diversionary Foreign Policy: Discussed in Polgara the Sorceress. During the time when Nerasin is consolidating his power in Asturia, Polgara points out at a conference between the other Arendish dukes that rulers with a shaky grasp on power at home often try to start wars with their neighbors to redirect their subjectsâ€™ hatreds, and that the rest of them need to present a united front to discourage Nerasin from doing the same.
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The Belgariad / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
The Belgariad / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanter's End Game. Averted in the sequel series. The motifs weren't Eddings' idea — he'd originally conceived a trilogy titled Garion, Ce'Nedra and Torak but was overridden by his publisher who explained that (at the time) books in the genre had a maximum page limit that meant he couldn't cram the story into three volumes. The titles came afterwards. Occasionally, Garion is given glimpses of a chess-like game being played by the rival Destinies.
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The Belgariad / int_6d57a234	comment	Even the impartial, third person narration (that usually averts Lemony Narrator very hard) becomes this when talking about Garion's first shave.
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The Belgariad / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Belgariad / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: For, with the exception of Sadi the eunuch, everyone. Even the snake has babies in the end. Even the couples who do not explicitly have children by the end of the story (Cyradis and Zakath, and Liselle and Kheldar) are clearly going to (And Liselle and Kheldar are expecting their first in the epilogue of Polgara the Sorceress). Apparently, it's the Purpose's way of saying "thank you". And possibly "sorry for screwing you over."
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The Belgariad / int_6e0206c	type	Fake Town
The Belgariad / int_6e0206c	comment	Fake Town: The Citadel of Algaria is a huge, imposing Citadel City and the Born in the Saddle Algars' only permanent settlement. In fact, it's Schmuck Bait for the enemy Murgos that invade from time to time; the entire city is nothing but a death-trap maze that's optimized for Urban Warfare. The Murgos keep attacking it because they can't believe that there's nothing of value inside, which saves the Algars the trouble of hunting them down in their vast prairies.
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The Belgariad / int_6e8a4791	type	Heroic Comedic Sociopath
The Belgariad / int_6e8a4791	comment	Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Silk really shows this... He finds out that someone he's worked alongside (and against) numerous times has been casually, and viciously, murdered by a group of nobles. His response to this is a series of murders which epitomizes the Roaring Rampage of Revenge trope quite nicely... Especially since he manages to fit about a dozen murders into the day or two he has in the city while the rest of the party is hung up waiting for the quest to continue. And he made most of the deaths look like accidents — until he got rushed. Really, most of the characters count as this, due to extreme Protagonist-Centered Morality, which is occasionally lampshaded.
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The Belgariad / int_6fd3c176	type	Shapeshifting Squick
The Belgariad / int_6fd3c176	comment	Shapeshifting Squick: Garion's first reaction to Belgarath marrying Poledra.
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The Belgariad / int_6ff54932	type	Hereditary Twinhood
The Belgariad / int_6ff54932	comment	Hereditary Twinhood: Polgara (who had a twin sister) has twins at the end of the series.
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The Belgariad / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
The Belgariad / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: Belgarath at one point notes that Alorns "take a childish delight in gross understatement", and this does indeed underline a lot of the humor in the regular banter that goes on between characters.
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The Belgariad / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Belgariad / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate Lampshaded. The majority of the conflict in the books comes from the truly ridiculous amount of effort spent by the Child of Dark in attempting to suborn the Prophecies. This always turns out to be its ultimate downfall. In The Malloreon, the Big Guy Band from the first series spends some time trying to subvert the Prophecy's instructions that they stay out of things, only to have it gleefully send them in circles until they "coincidentally" meet up with the heroes post-climax. Really, you can fight Fate... Fate just has many more resources at its disposal, all the time in the universe to prepare, the reaction time to deal with things personally, a roving squad of sorcerers enforcing its plans, and a twisted sense of humor to boot. When something happens to screw with the plan, expect Fate to panic.
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The Belgariad / int_72778cf	type	Luxurious Liquor
The Belgariad / int_72778cf	comment	Luxurious Liquor: In The Malloreon, the protagonists meet a tipsy noblewoman in a remote manor, and soon realize that her isolation and boredom have led her to become a Lady Drunk.
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The Belgariad / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Belgariad / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In Guardians of the West, neither Garion, Porenn, or Silk pick up on the the extremely obvious hints General Haldar drops about his involvement with the bear cult. Even Silk, the Guile Hero of the group, doesn't put two and two together.
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The Belgariad / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
The Belgariad / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Garion and Ce'Nedra are betrothed by a five-hundred-year-old treaty between their countries, not to mention that prophecy thing. True to the trope, they engage in quite a bit of Slap-Slap-Kiss, but also played with in that neither knew about the arrangementnote Ce'Nedra knew she had to be presented as the bride of the Rivan King on her sixteenth birthday, but not that said King would actually show up or that Garion was he. Garion, for his part, knew absolutely nothing, which was quite intentional. until after they'd gotten acquainted and fallen in love anyway. This also happens for some background characters like Barak and his wife, but that's what you get when most of the characters belong to the aristocratic class in a medieval fantasy book.
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The Belgariad / int_72f992e4	type	No Loves Intersect
The Belgariad / int_72f992e4	comment	No Loves Intersect: Yep, no love triangles here. Except for one (Mandorallen and two minor characters), and Garion cleans that up quite handily. Technically, Silk's Unrequited Love for Queen Porenn would also count, except he basically gets over it in The Malloreon. Literally everyone gets married to their ideal counterpart in the end with no serious griping from anybody else. Justified in that the Purpose that guides the Child of Light likes to reward the people working in its favor (even the small roles, such as the Darine prophet's daughter) by giving them extremely happy marriages. Possibly as an apology for the stuff it puts them through in the process.
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The Belgariad / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Belgariad / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Averted, at least for the paperbacks; you can match the cover images to exact moments in the books. That said, some covers depict Belgarath as a "stock" sorcerer with long, flowing hair and beard — the text makes it clear that he keeps both his hair and beard short.
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The Belgariad / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Belgariad / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Aldur and anything associated with him, including his disciples (the various sorcerers) and his Orb, is blue. Torak is fond of black and red.
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The Belgariad / int_75111e3e	type	The Tourney
The Belgariad / int_75111e3e	comment	The Tourney: Arends are fond of them.
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The Belgariad / int_7539e04	type	Love Hungry
The Belgariad / int_7539e04	comment	Love Hungry: Torak, which guides much of his motivation.
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The Belgariad / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Belgariad / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Garion and Ce'Nedra practically spit this trope at each other in the first few books. They settle down eventually though, to no-one's surprise. While they wait outside the door to make their entrance in their formal betrothal ceremony, Ce'Nedra even laments how many chances to fool around they had on the journey, if they hadn't been so adversarial with each other.
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The Belgariad / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Belgariad / int_762b9223	comment	a Played for Laughs version (for the readers, anyway) in the early stages of Guardians of the West. During That Mess in Arendia, Nerina comes up with the perfect idea to stop the war - all she has to do is "cast myself from the window of this tower". Belgarion is about to tell her what a breathtakingly stupid idea this is, then rolls his eyes and basically says, "Fine. It'll take you about two days to reach the ground, so you can think it over. You'll look pretty silly though." It takes Nerina a moment to realize - "Thou wouldst not use sorcery to foil my most excellent solution!"
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The Belgariad / int_769dd1e3	type	Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
The Belgariad / int_769dd1e3	comment	Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt: Anyone who owns Murgo red gold has probably been bribed by them. Justified in that red gold has addictive qualities to it.
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The Belgariad / int_769f241d	type	Magical Sensory Effect
The Belgariad / int_769f241d	comment	Magical Sensory Effect: Sorcery produces a distinctive "noise" to people with Supernatural Sensitivity. Sorcerer characters often have to work around this, such as by avoiding "louder" spells like Teleportation to avoid alerting their enemies from miles away or by concentrating to release a spell slowly to muffle its sound. Used in a stroke of brilliance in the Malloreon: The heroes are being chased by all manner of people, and they're pursued into mountains where someone summoned a powerful demon. The Orb can drive demons away, but makes a spectacular amount of noise and would give away their location when they used it. Eriond has the idea of telling the Orb to be louder and make the noise and light general through the region—the demon goes away, everyone 'listening' gets their teeth rattled by the noise, and they don't learn anything they didn't know already—that Belgarion was somewhere within a few thousand square miles of mountain range.
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The Belgariad / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Belgariad / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember The New Bad Guy: Urvon, the third Disciple of Torak, is introduced suspiciously early and spoken of often in The Malloreon, despite never meriting so much as a mention in The Belgariad.
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The Belgariad / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Belgariad / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Garion vs. Torak.
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The Belgariad / int_7958175	type	Unequal Rites
The Belgariad / int_7958175	comment	Unequal Rites: Calling a sorcerer a magician turns out to be a deadly insult among them (later shown as being because magicians get their ability from controlling demons).
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The Belgariad / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
The Belgariad / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: The sorcerers. Their appearance ages up to the point that matches what they think they should look like then they stop, but they remain physically in the prime of life. So Belgarath looks like an old man, but Polgara stays a young and beautiful woman as she has no desire to look like an old crone.
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The Belgariad / int_7a570c0	type	The Good Chancellor
The Belgariad / int_7a570c0	comment	The Good Chancellor: Brand is the latest in a line of Rivan Warders who govern Riva until the king returns.
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The Belgariad / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
The Belgariad / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Asharak the Murgo's favourite trick, pulled liberally on Garion practically since birth. He stops when Garion decides to set him on fire.
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The Belgariad / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
The Belgariad / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever Garion and Torak both become enormous for the final battle. In Queen of Sorcery, Polgara becomes a giant when she's facing down Salmissra and the animated statue of Issa the Snake Goddoes it herself earlier. Also Durnik when he banishes the Demon Lord Nahaz and Poledra when she fights as a wolf against Zandramas who is in the form of a dragon, both in The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_7d3da681	type	The Legions of Hell
The Belgariad / int_7d3da681	comment	The Legions of Hell: Alluded to in The Belgariad and introduced in more detail in The Malloreon as one of several competing evil factions. Even the Grolims prefer to avoid dealing with them if at all possible, but they can be manipulated, if you are very careful. (Nobody is that careful.)
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The Belgariad / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Belgariad / int_7d89315b	comment	Torak. Sure, he's the resident evil god of the setting, but he spends all of the series and most of the backstory horribly maimed because of several monumentally stupid decisions; the main characters have absolutely no respect for him and regularly refer to him by such epithets as "Burnt-face" and "One-eye"; he has no ability to either anticipate or cope with change in the world; and he has absolutely no subtlety, sense of military tactics, or awareness of human nature whatsoever, relying entirely on brute force. One gets the impression that the only reason he was ever a credible threat was that, as a god, he has a lot of brute force to throw around, and Garion wins their final battle by pointing out how very pathetic he is behind all the bluster.
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The Belgariad / int_7e0bdc30	type	Weddings for Everyone
The Belgariad / int_7e0bdc30	comment	Weddings for Everyone: Much to Silk's eventual dismay. This is Lampshaded and then justified, as the Prophecy of Light points out to Garion that service to its goals is supposed to be rewarded.
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The Belgariad / int_7e716d9f	type	Expansion Pack World
The Belgariad / int_7e716d9f	comment	Expansion Pack World: Eddings added the south & east of the second continent and the bottom of the first one only after The Malloreon was a go.
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The Belgariad / int_7eaff888	type	Roaring Rampage of Rescue
The Belgariad / int_7eaff888	comment	After their Roaring Rampageof Rescue of Garion in Nyssa, Barak threatens to commit suicide, thinking he's a dangerous monster and will eventually be trapped as a bear forever. Polgara (who knows why he's transforming, but can't say yet because Garion's identity is still a secret) stops him with a combination of reverse psychology and by revealing that Barak's wife back home is pregnant with his first son.
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The Belgariad / int_7ec8506d	type	Animal Talk
The Belgariad / int_7ec8506d	comment	Animal Talk: Sorcerers instantly learn the language of an animal on assuming its shape, and can even understand and use it on transforming back.
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The Belgariad / int_7fe8f0d1	type	That Wasn't a Request
The Belgariad / int_7fe8f0d1	comment	That Wasn't a Request: The heroes are quite fond of doing this.
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The Belgariad / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Belgariad / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: The Purpose Of The Universe gets cranky if you ask it "why me". Near the end, Garion asks "why me?" in the most annoying, immature, whiny tone he can muster. The Purpose cracks up. There's another one in the Malloreon, when the heroes end up roped into doing a job for the Dagashi, and ask for money to cover expenses. The Dagashi leader shows them a chest full of gold and invites them to take some, but no more than two hands can hold. Sadi sends up Toth, who has hands the size of saucepans, who scoops out about a quarter of the gold in the chest. Sadi then asks if he should put some back, since he (for many reasons) has no desire to piss off the Dagashi more than necessary, but their leader laughs and waves it off, stating the errand would make them earn the money and the demonstration of cleverness pleases him.
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The Belgariad / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Belgariad / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Garion and Ce'Nedra, centuries before they're born. Note to the Tolnedran Empire: Signing a marriage contract for 'when the lost heir of Riva returns', when you don't really believe that day will ever come, can and will come back to bite you. The prequels Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress reveal that there have been many arranged marriages down through the centuries, as the Gods and the Prophecies arranged things so that Garion and his friends would be born at the right time and be where they needed to be when they needed to be there.
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The Belgariad / int_80a1d98f	type	Missed the Call
The Belgariad / int_80a1d98f	comment	Missed the Call: In a very ironic and somewhat sad way, Torak could be said to embody this trope for the Prophecy of Dark. It's discovered in The Malloreon that he was never intended to be the seventh God, but the accident that split the universe caused him to come into being as a twisted, malevolent caricature. Despite being the Child of Dark for millennia beyond count, the Sardion never revealed itself to him, and his only purpose for existing was for Garion to kill him so Eriond could take his place.
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The Belgariad / int_80e7ee8d	type	Chevalier vs. Rogue
The Belgariad / int_80e7ee8d	comment	Chevalier vs. Rogue: In the backstory, Arendia spent centuries mired in a bloody civil war between the knights of Vo Mimbre and the rogues of Vo Astur.
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The Belgariad / int_80ed013b	type	The Chooser of the One
The Belgariad / int_80ed013b	comment	The Chooser of the One: Each Prophecy has its own Chosen One, and Cyradis has the responsibility of deciding which Prophecy ultimately remains valid.
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The Belgariad / int_822ff0d7	type	Relative Error
The Belgariad / int_822ff0d7	comment	Relative Error: In Castle of Wizardry, Garion meets his cousin Adara — who, it has to be said, is stunningly beautiful and who he instantly hits it off with. When Ce'Nedra sees them together, she immediately assumes they're an item, breaks down, and has to be disabused of the notion by Polgara. This is also the moment when she is forced to admit that she loves Garion.
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The Belgariad / int_828a5ca8	type	Roaring Rampage of Rescue
The Belgariad / int_828a5ca8	comment	Polgara — dear gods, Polgara. Her Roaring Rampage of Rescue after Garion is subjected to Go-Go Enslavement by Salmissra has to be seen to be believed. "Wilt thou face a God, Polgara?" "If I must."
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The Belgariad / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
The Belgariad / int_830b0ac9	comment	In the Final Battle of The Belgariad, Torak craves domination above all else and seeks to make Garion yield even when he has the boy dead to rights.
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The Belgariad / int_834420aa	type	BFS
The Belgariad / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: The Sword of the Rivan King. At six feet long, and made of Thunderbolt Iron to boot, it would be impossible to lift without the Orb helping. The Orb also gives the sword its own personal Weirdness Censor, at least when it isn't covering it in blue flames. The monstrous broadsword 'Zakath gets in Dal Perivor also counts; being mundane, Garion has to ask the Orb to help him lift it too.
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The Belgariad / int_835f53f3	type	Pals with Jesus
The Belgariad / int_835f53f3	comment	Pals with Jesus: Belgarath is the "Jesus" in this sub-story, where he teams up with a Nadrak prospector and goes off to mine gold. The prospector is a bit rattled by the fact that his mining buddy is his religion's Satan-analogue, but eventually decides that the whole "Satan" thing is less important than the fact that Belgarath pulls his weight and doesn't snore.
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The Belgariad / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
The Belgariad / int_83adb272	comment	Most of the sorcerers are several thousand years old. Except for Polgara, who looks to be in her mid-late twenties, they all look like old men. Polgara falls for Durnik, who's in his thirties — bit of an age gap. Belgarath is so old that he shows up as an aged mentor in the three-thousand-year-old "Bible" of the series, and is basically considered to be Satan by the Big Bad's followers. It doesn't help that when the sorcerers get caught up in research in their towers, they flat out seem to forget that time is flowing. Belgarath managed to not notice that the wolf which had been staring at him while he puttered around his tower had been doing so for a thousand years until one day he stopped and actually did the math to realize it. Belgarath himself doesn't even seem to notice how old he is until he's over three hundred years old, when he finally asks his god why he doesn't seem to be ageing. The god replies that he's always found it inconvenient.
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The Belgariad / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Belgariad / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance Belgarath and Poledra — she's a wolf shapeshifted into human form. No, you shouldn't think about it. When called out on this by a rather disturbed Garion, Belgarath points out that the change of form is absolute. It helps, somewhat, that wolves are depicted as sentient beings, and according to Belgarath, don't tend to die of old age unless they want to — something he realized after he noticed that Poledra had been hanging around him for a millennium. Also, Poledra had her own part to play in the prophecy besides simply being Garion's ultimate grandmother. Even Garion and Ce'Nedra, as she isn't technically human; it's stated that the Dryad strain breeds true in the female Borunes. This isn't widely known, with Belgarath explaining in The Malloreon that it was difficult enough to get the Alorns to accept a Tolnedran Queen (which they mostly did, Bear Cult excepted), without bringing up the fact that she technically wasn't human.
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The Belgariad / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
The Belgariad / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Hilariously and spectacularly subverted at the climax of book three. Grolim High Priest Ctuchik is ecstatic at having lured the heroes into coming after him in his fastness, gloating that he need merely kill any one of the party to stop the Prophecy from coming true, only to be somewhat disconcerted to find out that the only member of the group vulnerable enough that he actually can kill them before Belgarath and Polgara can finish blocking Ctuchik's attack — Ce'Nedra — is not only not there, but has been safely left a thousand miles away. In a hidden city buried underneath a continental shelf. With the over-deity UL as her personal bodyguard. As Belgarath made sure to point out, Ctuchik really should have taken a headcount first before allowing the group inside.
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The Belgariad / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
The Belgariad / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: Many of the novels start with an excerpt from a historical or religious text that provides relevant Back Story for the book in question. Humourously, the excerpts often reference the same event, with completely different interpretations.
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The Belgariad / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Belgariad / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Both heroes and villains make liberal use of sarcasm. It's hard to go a page without somebody making some snarky comment.
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The Belgariad / int_861b520a	type	Sneaking Out at Night
The Belgariad / int_861b520a	comment	Sneaking Out at Night: In Polgara the Sorceress, many of the adolescent heirs to the Rivan throne down through the centuries suddenly developed a habit of trying to sneak out at night once they met their future wives. In a few extreme cases either Polgara or the girl's parents had to resort to putting bars on the youngsters' windows until the wedding day, just so the adults could get some sleep.
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The Belgariad / int_86968c96	type	Above Good and Evil
The Belgariad / int_86968c96	comment	Above Good and Evil: Ctuchik claims he and Belgarath have gone beyond restrictions of morality when the latter mildly objects to his love for torture.
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The Belgariad / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Belgariad / int_875615dd	comment	A non-humorous example: the primary source for Angarak sacrifices to Torak are the Thulls. Pregnant women are not sacrificed. If a Thull woman wants to keep her heart inside her body, she does everything (or should that be everyone) she can to get pregnant if she isn't currently showing.note This relates to a real phenomenon: in English common law until the early 20th century, for example, a woman convicted of a capital crime could get a stay of execution if she were pregnant, and there were men who earned money as "child-getters" as a result. Female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read were famously both spared as a result of being pregnant, and it was colloquially referred to as "pleading your belly".
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The Belgariad / int_88699eee	type	Bargain with Heaven
The Belgariad / int_88699eee	comment	Bargain with Heaven: The big one is Polgara's bargain with Aldur to restore Durnik (which includes a second, internal one when Belgarath bargains with Mara to get its cooperation in the venture.) There are several others scattered through the series, though, since the Gods have a physical presence in the world.
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The Belgariad / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Belgariad / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Algars — a culture of horse riding nomads who have trained themselves for centuries specifically to fight the Murgos. They are extremely good at it. Then there are the Mimbrate knights, who combine ridiculous combat prowess with utter fearlessness (which is routinely suspected to be the result of a complete lack of common sense). And the Asturian archers, who can mow down opposing armies like wheat with a storm of arrows. Then there are the Tolnedran legions, the only professional fighting force in the armies of the West, who are reputed to be able to kick the asses of any of the abovenote Tolnedra is based on the Roman Empire — individually their soldiers are probably less badass than the other races but the Tolnedrans excel in tactics, strategy and battle formations, a fact demonstrated in one book while facing an Angarak army — with a few swift horn blast commands their entire formation switches and the enemy army can't react fast enough and the Tolnedran legions cut right through them., and the Cherek "navy", who pretty much can rule the seas if they want. Let's face it, most of the Western armies are badass to one extent or another — which has a lot to do with the fact that Tolnedrans excepted, they've spent several centuries preparing to take on the Torak led Angaraks. Even Drasnia, while mostly famous for its vast spy network, supposedly possesses the best infantry and spearmen in the world.
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The Belgariad / int_890d778	type	Wizards Live Longer
The Belgariad / int_890d778	comment	Wizards Live Longer: Since all the sorcerers we meet in the books are essential to the plot, it's never conclusively established if it's the power of sorcery itself that grants a long lifespan or whether it was given to these sorcerers by one of the Prophecies as a form of Plot Armor so they can accomplish the tasks set out for them. At the end of Pawn of Prophecy, Belgarath explains to Garion that everyone lives as long as they need to, and that his task just happens to be something that has taken a very long time. In any case, sorcerers get effective 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 dangerous what they do is. At one point it's mentioned the reason for the endless stream of Eternal Salmissras is that it simply didn't occur to Issa to make his original beloved handmaiden immortal the way other gods did for their disciples, and hasn't noticed the changes. This suggests Aldur and Torak may have actively done something to give their disciples live longer. (Aldur at least finds the notion of aging and dying inconveient.)
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The Belgariad / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
The Belgariad / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: Played With. By modern standards, a lot of behaviour by the heroes qualifies as such, but a lot of it is Deliberate Values Dissonance, with the behaviour being perfectly moral by the standards of a broadly late medieval world. However, even by In-Universe standards, it sometimes veers into this, with it even being discussed by the heroes at a few points, and acknowledged that, while it may not necessarily be a good thing, it's absolutely necessary to fulfil the Prophecy. Belgarath performed assassinations as well as coerced marriages to create the families of the True Companions, and is quite unapologetic about it. Yes, it was wrong, but he doesn't really care. At one point, he Lampshades this: Silk goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge to avenge the murder of a Drasnian agent in the second series (The Malloreon). He slaughters many members of a rival Tolnedran family, the Honeths, simply because they are part of the family, whether they had anything to do with the murder or not. Again, none of the protagonists have any issue with Silk killing many innocent people, other than Silk "wasting time". In the prequel, Belgarath the Sorcerer, a group of Nyissan assassins kill the Rivan king Gorek and his family (save one child, who escaped) at the behest of their queen Salmissra (and ultimately Zedar). Understandably, Belgarath and the Alorns are pissed—but the Alorns's response is to invade Nyissa and basically slaughter 90% of the population (some 1.8 million people) and turn the country into a smoking wasteland as some kind of "object lesson" designed to terrify the Nyissans into not interfering in other countries ever again. Nearly 2 million mostly innocent (barring slave traders et al) people gruesomely slaughtered for something they knew nothing about and could not have prevented. This event can arguably be laid at Zedar's door, because being a former Disciple of Aldur he knew exactly how the Alorns would react. It can also be considered a parallel of the Real Life atrocity at BÃ©ziers — both occur during a time period considered the "middle ages" in their respective worlds, both were considered acts of morality at the time and both are retrospectively considered a horrific aberration. Subverted with the methodical slaughter of the Angarak army after Torak falls at Vo Mimbre, as revenge for what happened to Drasnia, with the Tolnedran commander being sickened by the slaughter, calling it monstrous. The only reply is "so was what happened to Drasnia."
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The Belgariad / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Belgariad / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Whoever the Child of Light and Child of Dark are at the time.
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The Belgariad / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Belgariad / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Durnik and Horse.
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The Belgariad / int_89b71276	type	Mind Your Step
The Belgariad / int_89b71276	comment	Mind Your Step: Belgarath has a loose step on the stair to his tower. It turns out that he put a diamond under it, in order to see how long it took for it to be ground to dust. Then he forgot he'd done so and simply developed the habit of skipping that step, since it wobbled...
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The Belgariad / int_89e55922	type	Friendlessness Insult
The Belgariad / int_89e55922	comment	Friendlessness Insult: Garion accuses Torak of having no one at all who loves him, meaning that the best he can possibly achieve is a Pyrrhic Victory where he will be alone. Torak loses all self-control, howling in rage, and makes such a clumsy attack that he's easily defeated. Belgarath later explains that if Torak had succeeded in forcing Polgara to love him, then he would have been invincible.
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The Belgariad / int_8a0cfe56	type	Merchant Prince
The Belgariad / int_8a0cfe56	comment	Merchant Prince: Silk in The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Belgariad / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: What Torak did to Zedar in the prequel when he tried to get the Orb back single-handedly. The threat of him doing this to Polgara is a major element of dramatic tension in Enchanter's Endgame. Polgara employs a variant of this technique as an alternative to Cold-Blooded Torture; she conjures up an illusion of something so horrible that people spill their guts rather than face it. It fails rather hilariously in King of the Murgos when she tries it on a prepared Sadi—he's so stoned out of his mind he thinks the projection is pretty and asks if it can do tricks. Silk should have recognised Asharak when they meet in Pawn of Prophecy; when told about the meeting, Belgarath implies that Asharak may have tampered with his mind.
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The Belgariad / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
The Belgariad / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Near the beginning of The Malloreon, Belgarion pulls this, mostly to demonstrate how much he's grown up since the previous series. He stops a civil war in Mimbre by basically riding out between the two armies, unhorsing everyone who gets in his way, and then calling down a cataclysmic thunderstorm between them, while suggesting that anyone who wants to start fighting, can start by fighting him. Considering how eager Mimbrates are to go to war, nothing less would have done the trick, probably.
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The Belgariad / int_8c8bd091	type	Fetus Terrible
The Belgariad / int_8c8bd091	comment	Fetus Terrible: Justified in The Malloreon, because a woman is about to give birth to the child of a Demon Lord. Neither child nor mother survive.
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The Belgariad / int_8caa992e	type	Weak-Willed
The Belgariad / int_8caa992e	comment	Weak-Willed: Ce'Nedra spends a lot of time getting mind-controlled. At one point, Belgarath deliberately leaves her behind so this can't happen.
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The Belgariad / int_8ccfcf8e	type	Horny Sailors
The Belgariad / int_8ccfcf8e	comment	Horny Sailors: In one chapter in the third book, a sailor who had been at sea for months and stealing from his captain after landing, gets relief at the tavern and spends his loot by drinking his ass off and sleeping with a local barmaid. When he wakes up, he finds the girl dead with a Slasher Smile on her face. Tinking he killed her, he flees to Mal Zeth, carrying nothing but the clothes on his back and the deadly plague he caught.
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The Belgariad / int_8de7402d	type	Measuring the Marigolds
The Belgariad / int_8de7402d	comment	Measuring the Marigolds: Subverted in an almost literal way as part of Belgarath's backstory: he spent centuries studying and learning everything he could about a single flower, plucked from the ground, as part of his magical education. When his master finally suggested burning the flower and studying the ashes, Belgarath realized that he had come to love the flower after so long, and couldn't bear to see it destroyed.
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The Belgariad / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
The Belgariad / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Urvon. Nahaz helps him come to this conclusion.
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The Belgariad / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
The Belgariad / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Ariana, Adara, and Ce'Nedra respectively. They fit the stereotypical personality traits as well; Ariana is a typically romantic, ditzy Mimbrate maiden (though one that is also very good at healing), Adara is a calm and poised Algar lady, while Tolnedran Princess Ce'Nedra is the bossy and impulsive leader of the trio during their misadventures together.
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The Belgariad / int_8ee72ccd	type	Sickeningly Sweet
The Belgariad / int_8ee72ccd	comment	Sickeningly Sweet: The denouement of The Malloreon, where everyone pairs off with their Love Interest and has Babies Ever After. Lampshaded by Silk, and, as on previous occasions, implied to be the Prophecy's way of saying thank you.
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The Belgariad / int_8fdd68fc	type	Self-Serving Memory
The Belgariad / int_8fdd68fc	comment	Self-Serving Memory: The Book of Torak retells the story of the Book of Alorn from Torak's perspective, it gets the basic events mostly correct, but twists them to portray Torak as a victim or Tragic Hero. On a lighter note, Polgara accuses her father of this when 'writing' her prequel (set just after his), while also being implied to have one of her own.
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The Belgariad / int_9123208f	type	Breaching the Wall
The Belgariad / int_9123208f	comment	Breaching the Wall: In Guardians of the West: When Belgarion leads an assault on a fortified city that's been taken over by Bear-Cult rebels, he uses sorcery to break down the city gates. He forgets that he's holding the Orb of Aldur, a tremendously powerful Amplifier Artifact that's quite enthusiastic about helping him, so the spell instead vaporizes the gates and sends chunks of gate tower flying miles away. Having learned a bit of subtlety, the next time Belgarion goes up against a Bear-Cult stronghold, he uses his sorcery to breach an aquifer under the city and raise the water table. After a night, the walls anticlimactically fall over in a minor mudslide and his forces march in.
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The Belgariad / int_9186eded	type	Helicopter Parents
The Belgariad / int_9186eded	comment	Helicopter Parents: Polgara to Garion. Somewhat justified considering Garion's importance, but Polgara tends to take it to the extremes, inserting herself into every aspect of his life even after he has married and has long had any need of her advice or assistance.
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The Belgariad / int_91c001	type	Cute Mute
The Belgariad / int_91c001	comment	Cute Mute: Errand, at least until The Malloreon, and Lampshaded there: "I see you've learned to talk, boy."
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The Belgariad / int_93253bcd	type	LampShading
The Belgariad / int_93253bcd	comment	Although Silk isn't evil, there's a hilarious Lampshading when Sadi points out that Silk has no qualms against swindling people or murdering them in cold blood but baulks at dealing in drugs.
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The Belgariad / int_944eb8fb	type	All Deaths Final
The Belgariad / int_944eb8fb	comment	All Deaths Final: Due to universal agreement of the Gods, with two notable exceptions.
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The Belgariad / int_94e89d31	type	Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish
The Belgariad / int_94e89d31	comment	Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish: Sorcerers who learn the art of Animorphism can also speak to animals. Polgara gets information from birds, and Garion learned to speak Wolf (though as several non-shifting characters demonstrate, it is quite possible to learn how to speak and understand Wolf anyway - it just takes more effort). Hettar, being a Sha-Dar, can already talk to, and understand, horses.
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The Belgariad / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Belgariad / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Discussed and defied, as there is a possibility that a third prophecy may arise, and Belgarath doesn't want that at all, and neither does the Big Bad. The demons, however, do: they want both prophecies to cease existing and the universe under the command of The King Of Hell.
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The Belgariad / int_9588c44b	type	First Period Panic
The Belgariad / int_9588c44b	comment	First Period Panic: In Polgara the Sorceress, Polgara and Beldaran freak when they find bloodstains on their bedding. Polgara narrates the moment when she and Beldaran became women overnight, of which there was "fairly visible evidence all over the bedsheets". Their mother died when they were born, and that's not really something you can discuss with your uncle. Poledra, their mother, isn't really dead, and explains matters to them. Why she didn't plan ahead isn't answered, but she might not have thought about it — wolves don't menstruate.
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The Belgariad / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Belgariad / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Taiba had twin daughters who were both killed by the Grolims as a sacrifice. And painfully true for Belgarath and Poledra, who outlive their daughter Beldaran by thousands of years.
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The Belgariad / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: In The Malloreon cycle, it is revealed that the emperors of Mallorea are divine per definition, due to the original emperor being a LITERAL God, Kal Torak.
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The Belgariad / int_966f0c70	comment	Enchanted Forest: The Wood of the Dryads is home to a race of Nature Spirits/Plant People. Cutting down trees is strictly forbidden, and punishment will be dealt out by the inhabitants. The Dryads and the nearby Borune family have a long standing treaty that no logging will take place in their land, or else all the wives, mothers and daughters of the Borune family will pack up and return to the Wood of the Dryads, since they're all Dryads.
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The Belgariad / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Belgariad / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Tends to occur a lot - which is somewhat justified for a high Medieval fantasy world.
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The Belgariad / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Belgariad / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Torak in the first series and Zandramas in the second. Of course, the real villain is the Dark Prophecy itself.
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The Belgariad / int_9793f1b9	type	Solitary Sorceress
The Belgariad / int_9793f1b9	comment	Solitary Sorceress: Vordai, the Witch of the Fens, fits the bill. Shunned by her homeland because of her powers, she lives in the swamplands of southern Drasnia and has become fond of the fenlings, otter-like critters that are native there. When Belgarath and Garion are passing through, she compels them to give the fenlings the power of speech in exchange for passage back out of the fens. Polgara herself has qualified a few times throughout her long life.
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The Belgariad / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
The Belgariad / int_97aaa7f3	comment	Silk's remarks regarding knowing a man is a spy for Brador. In fact, nearly all of Silk's political and mercantile gamesmanship can be seen as an escalating series of these, with him on top. It's also In the Blood, as the one and only time he meets his match across the negotiating table, it turns out to be his hitherto unknown half-brother.
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The Belgariad / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
The Belgariad / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: The Chereks, Algars, Arends, and Murgos all represent different flavors of this trope.
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The Belgariad / int_98650fc7	type	Deconfirmed Bachelor
The Belgariad / int_98650fc7	comment	Deconfirmed Bachelor: Silk, especially in The Malloreon when he trades out his Unrequited Love for Queen Porenn to catching the eye of wily up-and-coming Lady-Spy Liselle. From the last few pages of The Belgariad:
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The Belgariad / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Belgariad / int_9b54d536	comment	The Sardion (Cthrag Sardius) is the Evil Counterpart to the Orb of Aldur (Cthrag Yaska). One could argue that Torak's black sword, Cthrek Goru, is the Evil Counterpart to the Sword of the Rivan King.
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The Belgariad / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
The Belgariad / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: When Garion returns to Faldor's farm in book four, he realizes he's changed so much that he can't live there ever again.
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The Belgariad / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Belgariad / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass Durnik, twice, both at the hands of the Gods. Garion as well, although his power growth is presented organically rather than abruptly. His progress does tend to come in fits and spurts. In The Malloreon, 'Zakath doesn't so much take a level in badass, as he does regain one, regaining the fencing and riding skills that he'd let go rusty during his time as The Emperor. Sadi is a straight example, developing from an Evil Chancellor and Sissy Villain into a capable combatant with his own unique style, becoming one of the few badass Eunuchs in fiction.
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The Belgariad / int_9bd92eef	type	Astral Projection
The Belgariad / int_9bd92eef	comment	Astral Projection: Garion does this in Queen of Sorcery to tell Pol and Barak where he is so that he'll be rescued.
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The Belgariad / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Belgariad / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini: Invoked and Lampshaded for laughs in Book 4, when Ce'Nedra insists that her ceremonial plate armor have cleavage, to the armorer's disgust. She explains that she's recruiting an army and needs to be seen as a queen, while proper armor on her petite frame would make her look like a young boy. The armorer grouses about the mechanical disadvantages but eventually concedes — though not without asking what she intends to put in the cleavage.
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The Belgariad / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Belgariad / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: How Asharak/Chamdar killed Garion's parents, and thus, how Garion kills Chamdar. And in Belgarath the Sorcerer, Belsambar suggests throwing burning pitch into the Angarak cities.
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The Belgariad / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
The Belgariad / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Beltira and Belkira in the main series, at least. This was eased off of in the prequels in order to make them actual, y'know, characters.
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The Belgariad / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Belgariad / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Blink and you'll miss it in Pawn of Prophecy. Garion, while talking to Barak, mentions an augury for Durnik that said he would die twice. Silk's horrified reaction when Relg uses his ability to move through rock in a fight, by pushing an enemy into a cliff and leaving him there to suffocate, foreshadows Zedar's Fate Worse than Death when Belgarath buries him in the bedrock. In Polgara's prequel: when Polgara is about ten she learns the language of the birds. When she becomes a sorceress, not only is her go-to animal form an owl, she turns out to be a better flyer in any bird form than anyone except Beldin (who has several thousand years of practise on her). In the introduction to the first book, Torak mentions that he did something important "in the high places of Korim, which are no more." Most of the entire second series involves everybody trying to find a place "which is no more", although by then linguistic drift has also made the reference more obscure. In the first series, Garion, hoping to impress his newly-found cousin Adara, magically creates a new species of flower with a lovely scent. Polgara takes a good look at it, and concludes that it might have some medicinal properties but she's not sure what. In the first book of the second series, there's a scene between Adara and Errand, where she mentions that she sprinkles the petals in her clothes chest and the scent makes her husband very affectionate note Errand thoughtfully replies that he's pretty sure it's because Adara is the one wearing the scent. Later in the second series, Cyradis tells them that Adara's rose — specifically its scent — is actually the undiscovered antidote to an inhaled poison that would otherwise kill 'Zakath. In fact, going by Cyradis' claims that it's the legendary 'sovereign specific', the universal remedy, it might even be a remedy to everything.
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The Belgariad / int_9d61fd2c	type	Traumatic Superpower Awakening
The Belgariad / int_9d61fd2c	comment	Traumatic Superpower Awakening: This is standard for sorcerers. Garion, particularly, first uses his power consciously when Chamdar slaps Aunt Pol. In The Malloreon, the sorcerers muse that this tendency might be the reason there are fewer of them around: most people's instinct in such a situation might be to destroy something, but unmaking is forbidden, resulting in them being destroyed instead.
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The Belgariad / int_9dc3f2ef	type	Evil Takes a Nap
The Belgariad / int_9dc3f2ef	comment	Evil Takes a Nap: The evil god Torak spent five centuries in a prolonged coma to recover from being stabbed through the head during his bid for world domination. During Belgarath's prequel story, he is also forced to sleep while Belgarath and company enter his room to retrieve the orb.
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The Belgariad / int_9eac6c0a	type	Housepet Pig
The Belgariad / int_9eac6c0a	comment	Housepet Pig: Played for Laughs with a very folksy Nadrak woodsman who not only lives with his pet pig but brings it to the tavern with him. The protagonist makes a Running Gag of the encounter, but has to admit that it's a good pig.
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The Belgariad / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
The Belgariad / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: The Raveners that inhabit the Great Southern Forest in Cthol Murgos, they're described as vaguely human shaped, corpselike creatures with fangs and claws that feed on the flesh and blood of the living and shun the daylight.
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The Belgariad / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
The Belgariad / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: When dealing with demons, the question isn't if you'll get screwed, but when. Just ask Urvon. Or Chabat. Or Zandramas. Or any number of unnamed Morind magicians who got eaten by creatures they thought they had under control. Belgarath is able to control his summoned demon in The Belgariad to intimidate the Morindim, but he is very careful to play by the rules and banish it when he's done with it. Nobody in their right mind ever deals with a Demon Lord.
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The Belgariad / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The Belgariad / int_a00c13e0	comment	Belgarion also becomes this following his Awesome Moment of Crowning and slaying of Torak in single combat towards the end of the first series. Zakath greets him by remarking that his exploits 'have shaken the world.'
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The Belgariad / int_a05abbc8	type	Throwing Down the Gauntlet
The Belgariad / int_a05abbc8	comment	Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Mandorallen, except he "missed" the floor, much to the detriment of his opponent's face.
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The Belgariad / int_a05dd4ba	type	Inconspicuous Immortal
The Belgariad / int_a05dd4ba	comment	Inconspicuous Immortal: Whereas most immortal sorcerers are Living Legends and divine agents who shape the course of history, Senji the alchemist became one by accident and settled right back down to his academic research for millennia. His colleagues quickly became Fantastically Indifferent — not least because he defenestrated a man who tried to stress-test his immortality.
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The Belgariad / int_a122bf2f	type	Blind Seer
The Belgariad / int_a122bf2f	comment	Blind Seer: Martje in Val Alorn; in the first book, Polgara "cures" her by restoring her sight. The Dalasian Seers are merely blind-folded.
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The Belgariad / int_a14c8cfe	type	Secret Legacy
The Belgariad / int_a14c8cfe	comment	Secret Legacy: Garion's "Aunt Pol" is revealed to actually be many times removed — she's the sister of his penultimate grandmother. Belgarath is his ultimate grandfather.
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The Belgariad / int_a16aeb99	type	Genuine Human Hide
The Belgariad / int_a16aeb99	comment	Genuine Human Hide: At one point in the Malloreon, Belgarath finds a Grolim prophecy written down on human hide. This prompts him to express annoyance with the Grolims and their ways, less for moral (it'd be redundant when the Grolims are well-known for their regular human sacrifices) than for practical reasons — human skin is terrible at holding ink, so only a few fragments of the prophecy are still readable.
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The Belgariad / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Belgariad / int_a18fda9c	comment	Subverted in Belgarath the Sorcerer, when Belgarath reveals that the "pure of heart" part of the legend is just embellishment. Anyone could have touched the orb at the start, but they needed to decide who would guard it, and the main criteria were that they wouldn't feel tempted to use the orb, and they could devote their life to being a guardian. Riva's older brother Dras even admits that he could probably resist the temptation to use the orb, but that he wasn't the smartest guy in the world, and that his brothers were more qualified. Ironically, it's Riva's use of the orb in the escape that bonds it to him (before that, even the sly and somewhat-corrupt Belgarath could have picked up and used the orb... which the Prophecy explicitly warns him not to do).
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The Belgariad / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Belgariad / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Garion's horror and self-loathing over Asharak's death (no matter how badly it was deserved) is a major plot element of Queen of Sorcery. Also a major plot point for Zakath and his back story which affects his behaviour and decisions in much of The Belgariad and Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_a2ba7393	type	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
The Belgariad / int_a2ba7393	comment	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: Ulgos, thanks to their nature as a society that lives entirely underground. It takes Relg years to adjust on a permanent basis.
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The Belgariad / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
The Belgariad / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: In Belgarath The Sorcerer, one of the spin-off books, Belgarath meets a troll-like monster (an Eldrakyn) named Grul. Belgarath manages to disembowel Grul in self-defense, but feels pity for Grul when he sees Grul shed two tears, and conjures a needle and stitching material so Grul and sew himself back up.
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The Belgariad / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
The Belgariad / int_a3c0d670	comment	Sadi is a straight example, developing from an Evil Chancellor and Sissy Villain into a capable combatant with his own unique style, becoming one of the few badass Eunuchs in fiction.
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The Belgariad / int_a44cd048	type	Meet the New Boss
The Belgariad / int_a44cd048	comment	Meet the New Boss: Invoked in Nyissa — the new Salmissra is chosen for her ability to imitate the original in every way. Belgarath comments that at least this system has the advantage that the people doesn't have to adapt to the new ruler's quirks.
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The Belgariad / int_a547562c	type	Spy Catsuit
The Belgariad / int_a547562c	comment	Spy Catsuit: Subverted in The Malloreon. Velvet frequently dresses in tight-fitting leather, but it is described as looking masculine, workman-like, bleak and completely uninteresting.
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The Belgariad / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Belgariad / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: Horse, a stallion who can jump through space and traverse great distances in a short time. 'Zakath gives Garion his own Cool Horse.
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The Belgariad / int_a5ff88ac	type	Superior Twin Teamwork
The Belgariad / int_a5ff88ac	comment	Superior Twin Teamwork: Single-Minded Twins Belkira and Beltira are the only sorcerers capable of decoding the Mrin and Darine Codexes due to their Twin Telepathy, as the codexes only make sense when read in conjunction. The regular Telepathy that all other sorcerers possess doesn't appear to be up to the task.
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The Belgariad / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
The Belgariad / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Eight of them, at least in the Back Story. After Torak used the Orb of Aldur to break the world, the other seven agreed not to directly intervene lest such a catastrophe happen again.
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The Belgariad / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Belgariad / int_a675997a	comment	Scaled Up: Zandramas turns into a dragon. She seems to go out of her way towards being as ostentatious as possible.
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The Belgariad / int_a6e4215d	type	Mega Maelstrom
The Belgariad / int_a6e4215d	comment	Mega Maelstrom: The Cherek Bore is a town-sized maelstrom in the strait that connects the Gulf of Cherek to the Sea of the Winds. Cherek sailors are good enough to get around it, but anyone else would be crazy to try, giving the Chereks free rein of the Gulf.
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The Belgariad / int_a6f7514e	type	Determined Expression
The Belgariad / int_a6f7514e	comment	Determined Expression: This occasionally graces the faces of such stoic characters as Eriond and Durnik, especially when they're doing something major.
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The Belgariad / int_a73c3428	type	Prophecy Pileup
The Belgariad / int_a73c3428	comment	Prophecy Pileup: There are two competing prophecies, the Light and the Dark. The conflict of the series determines which will be the true prophecy.
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The Belgariad / int_a79671cc	type	KidAnova
The Belgariad / int_a79671cc	comment	KidAnova: Garion shows traces of this in the first book: being one of the rivals over Zubrette, flirting with a young maid at an inn and getting kissed by a Cherek girl. Funnily enough, when Ce'Nedra shows up, they don't get along very well.
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The Belgariad / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Belgariad / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity Belgarath has elevated this to an art form, to the point where his own daughter sometimes underestimates him. Garion isn't bad either, demonstrating an analytical mind that impresses Beldin (The Smart Guy) and political smoothness that impresses Brador, the Good Chancellor to 'Zakath. The latter works all the better since, as Garion drily points out, he looks like "an unlettered country oaf." Anheg uses it with great skill for political purposes. Also Beldin, who points out his disfigurement is an advantage in this — people see his twisted body and just assume he's stupid to boot.
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The Belgariad / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Belgariad / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: King Cho-Hag. A cripple on the ground, frighteningly deadly on a horse.
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The Belgariad / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Belgariad / int_a8559a9f	comment	This event can arguably be laid at Zedar's door, because being a former Disciple of Aldur he knew exactly how the Alorns would react. It can also be considered a parallel of the Real Life atrocity at BÃ©ziers — both occur during a time period considered the "middle ages" in their respective worlds, both were considered acts of morality at the time and both are retrospectively considered a horrific aberration.
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The Belgariad / int_a88d99c2	type	Vengeance Denied
The Belgariad / int_a88d99c2	comment	Vengeance Denied: Inside Rak Cthol, the Companions end up finding a runaway slave named Taiba, who by prophecy, is the sole survivor of the Marag race. She carried nothing but a rusted knife with her in hopes of finding and killing Cthuchik for raping her and sacrificing her children, but got lost in the process until that point. When the Companions come back, Taiba insists on going back to Ctuchik, but they tell her that Cthuchik was obliterated out of existence, and the fact that Rak Cthol is collapsing. She breaks down initially, but out of gratitude, she joins the Companions.
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The Belgariad / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Belgariad / int_a8a04f6f	comment	Zedar gets buried alive forever. Excuse me, I Must Scream.
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The Belgariad / int_a95fc331	type	Mad God
The Belgariad / int_a95fc331	comment	The Mad God Torak brings oppressive cloud cover wherever he goes because the sun itself refuses to shine on him.
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The Belgariad / int_a9c932c7	type	Thought They Knew Already
The Belgariad / int_a9c932c7	comment	Thought They Knew Already: A minor example appears in The Malloreon: Garion has recently been made king and he's periodically given money for personal expenses which he keeps in a drawer in his bedroom. His wife finds out about this, considers it very important, and asks why she didn't tell him. His answer was that he'd thought she already knew. She begins happily counting the coins, to Garion's bemusement. (She is from the kingdom that worships the god of wealth, after all.)
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The Belgariad / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Belgariad / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hey, remember Brill, The Mole from the very first book? It turns out, he's this setting's equivalent of a Ninja. Belgarath gets this all the time. Indeed, Belgarath The Sorcerer reveals that it takes a LOT of work for him to build up his crouching itinerant storyteller persona, including clothes specially tailored to look like they're falling apart at the seams, and boots designed to fit well, but explicitly not match. He may look scruffy and listless, but he's actually very practically dressed most of the time. Beldin exploits assumptions made based on his short, hunchbacked appearance, and is more of a slob than Belgarath could ever hope to be. He's also smarter than Belgarath could ever hope to be, something Belgarath himself acknowledges, but often pretends otherwise.
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The Belgariad / int_aa2bd65c	type	Mordor
The Belgariad / int_aa2bd65c	comment	Mordor Cthol Mishrak is the name of a city where the evil god Torak stayed for about two thousand years, but it's also applied to the region surrounding the city. The name means "City of Endless Night", because Torak created a huge mass of totally black clouds and parked them the city and its surrounding region. It really is as dark as night there, at all hours of the day. Due to the lack of sun, most plants don't grow and water doesn't evaporate quickly, leaving the place reeking of decay, fungus, and stagnant water. Torak's iron tower, which he knocked down in a fit of rage, has rusted down to a kind of metallic-reeking goop, and definite adds to the smell. The city's also far in the north, far enough for it to experience an arctic winter of extended periods of night. Put it next to an arctic swamp, and it's really miserable. Beldin described it as a suburb of Hell. In The Malloreon, Zandramas' home province of Darshiva gets the same treatment, presumably due to the fact that she, too, is the Child of Dark. This is expanded on by the protagonists, who come to the realisation that Torak actually never did park that cloud over his city — he was just so disgusting that the sun literally refused to look at him or anything near him. Also everything in the area around his manor house is blighted, even though he hasn't been there for centuries.
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The Belgariad / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Belgariad / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: A number of cases, both In-Universe and out-of-universe; the most glaring case of the latter is the way that one exercise of the Marital Rape License on a drunken Barak's part in the first book of the Belgariad is largely brushed over. There's a brief scene when he's ashamed, and his wife, Merel, pointedly calls him out for it in veiled language (it goes straight over Garion's head), but that's all there is to it — Polgara is actually amused when she realises that Merel is pregnant (granted, she might not know the circumstances) and the resulting child, Unrak, is presented as making everything better between the two of them. Beyond that, it's never mentioned again, and quietly filed under Early-Installment Weirdness). At first, this might be startling, but considering that Barak's a Cherek, and it's repeatedly noted that even by the standards of the other medieval-ish Alorn kingdoms the Chereks — a Viking Fantasy Counterpart Culture (or at least, counterparts of what most people imagine as Vikings) — hold the most sexist attitudes (though in Anheg's case, it's mostly an act for political purposes), with Silk's wry observation that they haven't yet quite worked out that women are human. Hettar's murderous attitude to Murgos following his parents being killed in a Murgo raid when he was a child, which is mostly presented in the first series as a personal quirk/product of his backstory/occasional inconvenience, save for when Garion wonders at the Power Of Hate that could drive a seven year old boy to survive being left for dead and result in, well, Hettar. Considering that most of the Murgos encountered are soldiers or spies/assassins, the protagonists are Alorns, big on vengeance, and hating Murgos, it's not surprising that most of them don't really think it's worth mentioning. That said, in Belgarath's prequel, Polgara grimly remarks that she's afraid that a young Hettar could be growing into "a proper monster", so it's not completely overlooked. The Nadrak custom of women technically being owned by men is regarded as this In-Universe, with most who aren't familiar with it being somewhere between bemused by and horrified at it. The reactions are at least partially ameliorated by the crucial part, which is that the woman retains the rights to their person, meaning that any man who is so unwise as to touch a Nadrak woman without her express consent, even if he is her nominal owner, is very quickly going to regret it. Said skills mean that a woman can always 'persuade' an owner to sell her if she doesn't like him, regardless of her treatment. There's also the part where every time a Nadrak woman is sold, she gets to keep half the money. So not only are Nadrak women better at haggling and sales pitches, they tend to have a wider variety of skills to up their sale prices. It's implied that among the 'elderly' Nadraks, the women are generally much, much wealthier than the men. And added to all that, as Polgara observes in her prequel, for the most part Nadrak women actually have more actual freedom and independence than most 'free' women elsewhere in the world. In general, most of the examples filed under Protagonist-Centred Morality also qualify.
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The Belgariad / int_ab44208d	type	Stock Medieval Meal
The Belgariad / int_ab44208d	comment	Stock Medieval Meal: Sendaria grows a variety of crops, but according to Belgarath, good luck being served anything but turnip stew in a Sendarian inn.
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The Belgariad / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
The Belgariad / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Sadi of Nyissa in The Malloreon. In fact, most Nyissans.
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The Belgariad / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Belgariad / int_ad1db87c	comment	Done, also by the good guys, shortly earlier. Zandramas is alone with her minions just outside The Place Which Is No More, and exults that she will be there and Team Light won't... Oh wait, the fog just cleared. Cue Garion with his BFS, et al. Cue Oh, Crap!.
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The Belgariad / int_adb98918	type	All-Powerful Bystander
The Belgariad / int_adb98918	comment	All-Powerful Bystander: Both Prophecies by mutual agreement. If they directly clashed, they would blot out entire tracts of existence.
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The Belgariad / int_adc73af3	type	Rich Language, Poor Language
The Belgariad / int_adc73af3	comment	Rich Language, Poor Language: Poorer Arends have the "Wacite brogue"â€”basically a Scottish or Irish accent. Ironically, Wacune was the wealthiest duchy in Arendia back before its capital, Vo Wacune, was razed by the Asturians.
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The Belgariad / int_add14bc2	type	Orcus on His Throne
The Belgariad / int_add14bc2	comment	Orcus on His Throne: Although Torak is technically the Big Bad of the first series, he spends almost all of it asleep.
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The Belgariad / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Belgariad / int_ae3d6438	comment	Another notable Stoic is the Voice of the Prophecy, which usually speaks with a certain dry amusement. Every now than then — usually when the rules it and its opposite have laid down are being ignored or things are about to go completely out the window — it can get very angry or very excited.
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The Belgariad / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
The Belgariad / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero: Garion at one point changes an outdated law that taxed commoners more than nobles; at the time the law was written, the nobles were expected to provide troops, but since they no longer had that responsibility, it was fairer to tax commoners and nobles equally. When another character compliments Garion on his fairness, he doesn't hide the fact that his reasons are wholly pragmatic: he points out he'll have fewer people angry at him this way, because there are fewer nobles than there are commoners. Garion's (very)-great-aunt Polgara shares this trait: when refugees from a destroyed city stream into her territory, she orders food and shelter set up to receive the women and children while the men join her army. When someone says this is very kind of her, she says her reasons have nothing to do with kindness, and that she doesn't want her new soldiers to be worried about their families' wellbeing: they'd probably get desperate and raid her kingdom if they were!
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The Belgariad / int_aeea541c	type	Baby-Doll Baby
The Belgariad / int_aeea541c	comment	Baby-Doll Baby: In The Malloreon, Ce'Nedra is put into a hallucinatory state by the villain, Zandramas, who had previously abducted her baby. In order to find out where the good guys are headed, Zandramas pretends to be a friend of Ce'Nedra and to return her baby, but what she actually gives is a bundle of rags. Ce'Nedra is left crooning over the bundle and trying to show her compatriots how beautiful it is. In order to save her from undue stress, Polgara erases her memory of the event.
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The Belgariad / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Belgariad / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Zedar in the backstory.
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The Belgariad / int_af682bc7	type	Heavenly Blue
The Belgariad / int_af682bc7	comment	Heavenly Blue: Associated with the god Aldur.
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The Belgariad / int_af95cf90	type	Above the Gods
The Belgariad / int_af95cf90	comment	Above the Gods: UL and the two opposing Destinies are much more powerful than the gods. The Destinies are equal in power, but how they stack up to UL is unknown.
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The Belgariad / int_affcdc91	type	Evil Is Sterile
The Belgariad / int_affcdc91	comment	Evil Is Sterile: The Prophecy of Light explains that this is the difference between it and the Prophecy of Dark—it wants new things to happen and evolve, while the Prophecy of Dark wants to keep things stagnant.
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The Belgariad / int_b00a7c5e	type	Robe and Wizard Hat
The Belgariad / int_b00a7c5e	comment	Robe and Wizard Hat: Sorcerers maintain that this image of them is a fiction invented by Muggles who know nothing about them. The few times Belgarath, who usually favours the Rummage Sale Reject style of dress, is forced into such an outfit (usually by the more image conscious Polgara), it puts him in a notably foul mood.
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The Belgariad / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Belgariad / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase Garion: "Why me?" Poledra and Polgara (on occasion): "How remarkable." Silk: "Trust me." Anyone and everyone, when the verbal sparring gets out of hand: "Be nice." The Alorn characters, whenever they hear a snappy comeback: "(That's) One for your side." (One of the characters who says this even says that this is an inside joke among the Alorns.)
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The Belgariad / int_b08b0f0e	type	Serpent of Immortality
The Belgariad / int_b08b0f0e	comment	Serpent of Immortality: Queen Salmissra also invokes this trope. The patron god of Nyissa is a snake god who favored a mortal priestess a long time ago, but neglected to prolong her life. After her death, each reigning queen is chosen based on how closely they resemble Salmissra and kept artificially young through drugs, and replaced when they grow too old for this to work. In effect, this means that it appears to uninformed outsiders Nyissa, favored by the serpent god Issa, has its monarch blessed with immortality and eternal youth. Unfortunately, the realization that she is not immortal drives one Salmissranote two if you count the prequels into rather immoral actions under the promise of immortality, until Polgara transforms the latest one into an immortal snake. Since she's immortal, like she wanted, and Nyissans are very fond of snakes, everyone's very happy with this state of affairs - especially considering that she's no longer drugged to the eyeballs.
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The Belgariad / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
The Belgariad / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word Pretty much every conversation with Silk has a variant... Though as the following shows, half the time he doesn't even bother to mask it with humour: Also subverted by Yarblek, who answers an accusation of blackmail with "Some call it that, yes."
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The Belgariad / int_b0b0f9c3	type	ProtagonistCentredMorality
The Belgariad / int_b0b0f9c3	comment	In general, most of the examples filed under Protagonist-Centred Morality also qualify.
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The Belgariad / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Belgariad / int_b1346878	comment	Silk's horrified reaction when Relg uses his ability to move through rock in a fight, by pushing an enemy into a cliff and leaving him there to suffocate, foreshadows Zedar's Fate Worse than Death when Belgarath buries him in the bedrock.
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The Belgariad / int_b14e4aab	type	Brainwashed Bride
The Belgariad / int_b14e4aab	comment	Brainwashed Bride Discussed regarding the Mad God Torak's obsession with marrying Polgara the Sorceress. She says that if she ever fell under his will, he'd see to it that she was deliriously happy to become his bride — except for the part deep down that would be screaming in horror forever. Polgara is famous in history for having rejected Torak's command to come marry him during the battle of Vo Mimbre. The prequel eventually reveals how she resisted: She didn't. Her secretly-not-dead mother was possessing her at the time, specifically to protect her from mind control, and did the rejecting for her.
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The Belgariad / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Belgariad / int_b15f8d35	comment	Devious Daggers: Silk is a Lovable Rogue, a Living Legend in the Drasnian Intelligence Agency, and an expert knife fighter. He keeps a bewildering number of daggers secreted on his person at all times.
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The Belgariad / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Belgariad / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Generally averted In The Malloreon when a group of assassins fight Brand's sons, and only one lives because he received such a 'tap on the head'. When the heroes come to question the surviving assassin, Polgara declares that while he is alive, his head and mind suffered too much damage for him to answer their questions, and likely too much for him to ever even wake up. By Garion, after Belgarath suggests that next time he use an axe or a club, as the punch he used to knock a Grolim out nearly killed him. King Korodullin takes a blow to the head in battle, and suffers lasting ill-effects, losing much of his hearing. Otherwise it does seem to be an effective way to deal with sorcerers.
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The Belgariad / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Belgariad / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Used on the part of one of the hero's allies in Pawn of Prophecy. According to Polgara, the victim, Merel, was very shallow. And she wasn't part of the hero's crew. Though it has to be said that she said that before it happened. Barak does express regret for the circumstances, and Merel puts him through marital hell until she finally bears him a son, Unrak, (and he compliments her for it), which fixes the relationship instantly. While perhaps not entirely surprising for a medieval fantasy world — particularly a culture based on the Vikings — it is also not surprising that the precise circumstances of Unrak's conception are never discussed again.
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The Belgariad / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Belgariad / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Especially in the first couple books.
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The Belgariad / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
The Belgariad / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Any time a sorcerer woos a normal, unless that normal then gains powers of their own.
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The Belgariad / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
The Belgariad / int_b2279346	comment	The Prophecy (and in the Retcon prequel, Poledra and Ul) really screwed around with Belgarath. Letting him suffer for four thousand years because he was lied to about his wife dying while he had — as he saw it — abandoned her? Harsh, man.
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The Belgariad / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Belgariad / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: The prequels. The most egregious example is that taking into account Silk's cameo towards the end of Belgarath the Sorcerer, when he and Garion encounter Asharak in Pawn of Prophecy, Silk should have known that "Asharak" was Chamdar and should hence have realized that the fact that Asharak was poking around was highly significant and should be reported to Belgarath immediately. It's handwaved with the implication that Asharak was tampering with his mind, but that still doesn't explain why Belgarath didn't react to the name. The author eventually Lampshaded this by categorizing the original books as the stories told about the events depicted where things were changed by the storyteller for dramatic reasons and the prequels as personal memoirs subject to the personal biases and the distortions and omissions that human memory is by definition subject to, hence the same events being reported differently in different books.
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The Belgariad / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
The Belgariad / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: An important consideration in a cast full of royalty and nobility. The lack of an heir was a significant strain (among many) on Barak's marriage, and after millennia without a Rivan King, the entire West was holding its breath waiting for Ce'Nedra to get pregnant.
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The Belgariad / int_b351349c	type	Flowery Elizabethan English
The Belgariad / int_b351349c	comment	Flowery Elizabethan English: Arendish folks talk like this, particularly the Mimbrates... though the Asturians deliberately change accents out of their contempt for the Mimbrates. One (non-Arendish) character trying to sound intelligent speaks like this for a few pages, before being explicitly told that she sounds ridiculous. Thoroughly and hilariously lampshaded in The Malloreon when Poledra remarks that if they stick around the Arends long enough, everyone will be doing it. For his part, Eddings not only does the style grammatically, but (in The Rivan Codex) is highly critical of those who try but get it wrong. Subverted in the first series when the kings have a war council and one of them starts the meeting speaking this way (with difficulty). Belgarath asks what he thinks he's doing, and then tells him to get on with it and let the historians insert the thee's and thou's. Mandorallen is considered, even In-Universe, to be excessive at this. Since he's pretty much an up to eleven example of the Mimbrates, this is perhaps not entirely surprising.
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The Belgariad / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
The Belgariad / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Beldin has a stick with only one end. He uses it to keep children occupied so they don't bother him. It later ends up in among Belgarath's things.
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The Belgariad / int_b41acf08	type	AxeCrazy
The Belgariad / int_b41acf08	comment	Axe-Crazy: Urvon, Taur Urgas, and possibly Torak.
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The Belgariad / int_b4ceb95f	type	Stellification
The Belgariad / int_b4ceb95f	comment	Stellification: After the final confrontation between the two Prophecies, the loser's Chosen One and Cosmic Keystone both Disappear Into Light. The winner explains that they'll become a new galaxy to repair the damage from the universal cataclysm that first divided the Prophecies.
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The Belgariad / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Belgariad / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail In The Belgariad, Lelldorin manages to extend an epic fail over the course of a week. When he announces that he's going to get back to the main group, his beloved refuses to stay behind. During the departure and trip he manages to break her older brother's leg, run his cousin through the leg "just a little bit", punch out all of a priest's teeth, and cause enough assorted mayhem to get a bounty put on his head by the crown. And all of this was without trying. This is also an example of Disaster Dominoes. He did successfully marry the girl in the process, though! (Supposedly because travelling alone with her would cause more trouble — which Lelldorin probably meant, despite his genuine love for her, but said girl is immediately noted by Garion as not just seeing it as a formality.) In The Malloreon, Garion has to stop a war threatening to engulf the entire kingdom of Arendia. He magically summons a storm that helps him single-handedly stop two charging armies in their tracks, force an old friend to marry the love of his life and resolve the dispute. He's very pleased with his hard day's work. A few chapters later he finds out that he sparked off blizzards, hurricanes, droughts and tornadoes right around the world, and even triggered a new ice age. It took the combined efforts of the Gods themselves and two of the most powerful sorcerers alive over six months to fix it. Needless to say, Garion is banned from touching the weather again for two thousand years. When he protests that he just needs to "make time" to practice, he is promptly told by a startled Belgarath — who takes him literally — to leave time alone as well since even all the gods together wouldn't be able to fix that.
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The Belgariad / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Belgariad / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: While learning how to summon demons, one of the magicians Belgarath approached tried to grand-stand by summoning a demon lord in a sigil of fire on a running river. He succeeded in the summoning, but the sigil was washed downstream with the river, leaving the magician to be summarily eaten.
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The Belgariad / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
The Belgariad / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: A lightweight version. Ever since the Accident split the Purpose of the Universe into two competing Destinies, the same general series of events has been repeating over and over. Discussed by the characters throughout The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad / int_b5b097fd	type	Beer Goggles
The Belgariad / int_b5b097fd	comment	Beer Goggles: In Sorceress of Darshiva, a noblewoman is drunk enough to make advances towards Beldin. Beldin is an elderly foul-mouthed hunchback with questionable standards of personal hygine.
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The Belgariad / int_b64e1024	type	Evil Smells Bad
The Belgariad / int_b64e1024	comment	Evil Smells Bad: The areas corrupted by the presence of the Child of Dark both have this as a defining trait. Justified in both cases by the Child of Dark summoning eternal fog and cloud cover to blot out the Sun. The bad smell is, at least in part, mold and mildew.
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The Belgariad / int_b68e8efe	type	Neutral in Name Only
The Belgariad / int_b68e8efe	comment	Neutral in Name Only: In The Malloreon, Cyradis the Seer is supposed to be the neutral party who makes the final Choice between the Light and Dark Prophecies. However, she travels with the heroes, gives them valuable advice, and her fellow Seers of Kell provide direct aid. It's Justified to balance out how the agents of the Dark Prophecy cheat and try to sabotage the Choice at every opportunity.
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The Belgariad / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Belgariad / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor There are many occasions where characters complain about traits in others that they themselves possess. Usually some variation of dramatizing (i.e. Belgarath, who spent years as a professional storyteller, complains that Beldin is being too ostentatious). They are frequently called on this. In Belgarath the Sorcerer, Belgarath and Beldin at one point meet for the first time in a while, and ask what the other has been up to; Belgarath had just finished a rigorous mathematical proof that three and three made six, while Beldin had been trying to determine the exact difference between the concepts of "right" and "good." Both men wonder why the other was doing something so pointless.
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The Belgariad / int_b79ff7b1	type	Forced Addiction
The Belgariad / int_b79ff7b1	comment	Forced Addiction: When the Nyissan Decadent Court kidnap Garion, they dope him up on Fantastic Drugs with deadly withdrawal symptoms as a carrot-and-stick to make him a docile consort. They weren't counting on him curing himself with sorcery.
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The Belgariad / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Belgariad / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Taur Urgas. He sleeps in his armour, plays war music wherever he goes, and actually orders his elite guard to clear the way for Cho-Hag so that he can fight him. His last words as he dies? "Come back Cho-Hag. Come back and fight!" Many Mimbrate and Cherek characters approach this trope as well, although they're generally closer to Boisterous Bruiser, as do lots and lots of Murgos.
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The Belgariad / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
The Belgariad / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: The Orb definitely has a personality of its own, but it's not very developed. As Belgarion says, it's "closer to a horse or dog..." It tends to get very enthusiastic when it "lends a hand" to Garion's sorcery, leading to some rather spectacular effects, and sometimes gives him unsolicited advice. For example, when he offhandedly mentions to Zakath that it could write his name in the stars, it starts to twitch, as if excited at the prospect that Garion wants it to do something for him. Zakath gets a bit wild-eyed and Garion immediately has to explain to the Orb it was only an example. It's implied that part of the reason Garion — and, indeed his ultimate ancestor Riva Iron-Grip — was chosen to bear the Orb is his basic humility; he's not subject to the temptation to use the Orb for the sake of power. Another great example of this is when Zakath is virtually holding Garion & his crew prisoner in Rak Hagga. Garion and Zakath get into a heated argument, in which Garion informs Zakath that he can leave anytime he wants. When Zakath asks just how he proposes to do that, Garion loses his temper, uses his BFS to focus his will on the door and shouts "BURST!". The Orb, a bit startled by all this and wanting to help sink Garion's point, blows the 2-foot thick stone wall to fine gravel in addition to blasting the door to splinters. Zakath gets the point almost immediately.
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The Belgariad / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
The Belgariad / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: The Bear Cult, based on a misguided interpretation of something the Alorn's god Belar said, has to be periodically suppressed — less for its practices, since mostly it's harmless cavorting around in bear skins, than for when it tries to get involved in politics and export its fanaticism by force.
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The Belgariad / int_b9085a47	type	Summon Magic
The Belgariad / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: Two of the three main branches of supernatural powers (sorcery, witchcraft and magic) revolve around this. Witches use mischievous spirits. Magicians (practitioners of magic) utilise demons. That last one isn't recommended.
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The Belgariad / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Belgariad / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Inverted in the case of Salmissra, Queen of Nyissa and consort of the slumbering snake god Issa. She takes a potion to maintain her outer youth but she's really a mortal woman like all of her predecessors, chosen for their resemblance to the original Salmissra, who died ages ago. Polgara "remedies" the situation by turning her into an immortal giant serpent. More deconstructed than averted, because part of Polgara's rationalization for what she does to Salmissra is that Issa forgot to make the original Salmissra immortal in the first place.
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The Belgariad / int_b99f51b2	type	An Odd Place to Sleep
The Belgariad / int_b99f51b2	comment	An Odd Place to Sleep: Belgarath has developed the skill of dozing in the saddle, allowing him to dedicate less time for rest and remain alert for longer when it's required.
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The Belgariad / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
The Belgariad / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing Polgara does this at least twice. Ce'Nedra's capable of some impressive tantrums, too, but as hers don't threaten entire cities, they get less attention.
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The Belgariad / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Belgariad / int_ba6cf869	comment	Subverted with the methodical slaughter of the Angarak army after Torak falls at Vo Mimbre, as revenge for what happened to Drasnia, with the Tolnedran commander being sickened by the slaughter, calling it monstrous. The only reply is "so was what happened to Drasnia."
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The Belgariad / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Belgariad / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Ce'Nedra. Oh good gods, Ce'Nedra - the girl/woman with a temper that could give almost every Anime Tsundere lessons, prior to her mellowing out (and even then, it still makes the occasional appearance).
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The Belgariad / int_bb0f336e	type	Mad Mathematician
The Belgariad / int_bb0f336e	comment	In Belgarath the Sorcerer, Belgarath and Beldin at one point meet for the first time in a while, and ask what the other has been up to; Belgarath had just finished a rigorous mathematical proof that three and three made six, while Beldin had been trying to determine the exact difference between the concepts of "right" and "good." Both men wonder why the other was doing something so pointless.
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The Belgariad / int_bb10f0d3	type	Thieves' Cant
The Belgariad / int_bb10f0d3	comment	Thieves' Cant: The Secret Drasnian Language is a variation, both in that it was developed for spies (though still largely used by thieves, simply because many of them are the same people), and because it's a sign language. As Drasnians are a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Italians, they are known to gesticulate greatly while talking, so the language is designed to allow its users to have a secret conversation with their hands while simultaneously holding a more mundane one with their voices.
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The Belgariad / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
The Belgariad / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Sadly, more frequent than you'd think, thanks to a mixture of Deliberate Values Dissonance, Blue-and-Orange Morality, and the fact that High Fantasy or not, it is a medieval world. Unrak, son of Barak and Merel, is, at the very least, heavily implied to have been conceived due to the latter demanding his "rights" (while it's never exactly stated, the implications are heavy enough that at the very least, it's a case of dubious consent) — though it's quietly ignored afterwards, and filed under Early-Installment Weirdness. All of the Dryads, too, since they're conceived with captured human men. Taiba had twin daughters this way, due to a fellow slave having gotten her as a "gift" from the Murgos — it wasn't the first time. This one is played for horror.
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The Belgariad / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
The Belgariad / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: The nonhuman Dryads. They kidnap human men and force them to father children. This goes one of two ways: a girl will always be a Dryad, and a boy will be human with Dryad genes lying dormant. These Dryad genes can then be passed on to the children of that male — and they are, resulting in Ce'Nedra, who, thanks to dilution, is half Dryad. Pure dryads don't have male children. In "Belgarath the Sorcerer", Belgarath notes that crossbreeding dryads with the House of Borune did some odd things, since a pure dryad "would never give birth to a male child".
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The Belgariad / int_bbd25056	type	Eunuchs Are Evil
The Belgariad / int_bbd25056	comment	Eunuchs Are Evil: The kingdom of Nyissa seems to have a lot of evil eunuchs. Considering that you have to be a eunuch to work at the royal palacenote The drugs that maintain Salmissra's apparent youth also make her perpetually horny, so in order to keep the government able to function, the civil service was rendered incapable of and uninterested in sex, and the palace is filled with intrigue, this is a Justified Trope. Remedied in the second series when Sadi, formerly seen as an Affably Evil Chancellor, turns out to be arguably no worse than the protagonists, drug dealing aside.
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The Belgariad / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
The Belgariad / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: The Prophecy of Light says this to Garion before leaving at the end of The Malloreon. Sniff...
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The Belgariad / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
The Belgariad / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When he gets tired of Torak's mind games, Garion makes it a point to tell him off.
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The Belgariad / int_bdd027c5	type	Den of Iniquity
The Belgariad / int_bdd027c5	comment	Den of Iniquity: Several of the rooms in Ctuchik's tower in Magician's Gambit.
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The Belgariad / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Belgariad / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around A non-humorous example: the primary source for Angarak sacrifices to Torak are the Thulls. Pregnant women are not sacrificed. If a Thull woman wants to keep her heart inside her body, she does everything (or should that be everyone) she can to get pregnant if she isn't currently showing.note This relates to a real phenomenon: in English common law until the early 20th century, for example, a woman convicted of a capital crime could get a stay of execution if she were pregnant, and there were men who earned money as "child-getters" as a result. Female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read were famously both spared as a result of being pregnant, and it was colloquially referred to as "pleading your belly". Similarly, Salmissra has this reputation. It is equally unfortunate, since her overdriven libido is a known side-effect of the drugs she takes to maintain her youthfulness and apparent similarity to the original Salmissra. The current Salmissra sees being polymorphed into a ten-foot snake as a vast improvement in her situation not simply because she's immortal and Nyissans like snakes, but because, for the first time in decades, she isn't desperately horny and can actually even think straight. Bethra, though this is subverted to a certain extent given that she has apparently been using sex to manipulate various major players in Tolnedra's political turmoil on the orders of Drasnian Intelligence. Belar — according to Belgarath, a common fantasy of Alorn women was to be visited in the night by their God and Belar liked to make as many dreams come true as possible. Initially, Belgarath admits that it might have been rumour, but his prequel all but states that it really did happen. A lot.
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The Belgariad / int_bf39b16c	type	Standing Between the Enemies
The Belgariad / int_bf39b16c	comment	Standing Between the Enemies Near the beginning of The Malloreon, Belgarion pulls this, mostly to demonstrate how much he's grown up since the previous series. He stops a civil war in Mimbre by basically riding out between the two armies, unhorsing everyone who gets in his way, and then calling down a cataclysmic thunderstorm between them, while suggesting that anyone who wants to start fighting, can start by fighting him. Considering how eager Mimbrates are to go to war, nothing less would have done the trick, probably. In a bit of unfortunate irony, this was somewhat subverted when the Armies of the West were being ground between the Murgos and the Malloreans. As 'Zakath explains in the sequel, if they had been able to get their ships past Thull Mardu, the Malloreans and Murgos would have gleefully ground each other into paste and the Armies of the West could have just sat back with the popcorn.
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The Belgariad / int_bf3c7344	type	Snooty Sports
The Belgariad / int_bf3c7344	comment	Snooty Sports: During a visit to the Melcene Islands in The Malloreon, the party sees a group of nobles out on a fox hunt. Durnik can't understand why they bother since no one raises chickens on the island, to which Silk tells him that there are no native foxes on the island either; they have to be imported. They both agree that it's a ridiculous sport, with Silk observing that rich people's sports are, "Usually exotic and often cruel." Meanwhile, Beldin amuses himself with the thought of raising a pack of trolls for the nobles to try chasing instead.
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The Belgariad / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
The Belgariad / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Ariana, Adara, and Ce'Nedra respectively. They fit the stereotypical personality traits as well; Ariana is a typically romantic, ditzy Mimbrate maiden (though one that is also very good at healing), Adara is a calm and poised Algar lady, while Tolnedran Princess Ce'Nedra is the bossy and impulsive leader of the trio during their misadventures together. In The Malloreon, the three women in the party: Velvet (blonde), Polgara (brunette), and Ce'Nedra (redhead). They are later joined by two other blondes, Cyradis and Poledra, who themselves form this with Velvet: Poledra is reddish-blonde, Cyradis is dark blonde, and Velvet is honey blonde.
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The Belgariad / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
The Belgariad / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: A recurring threat against Polgara is that Torak will Mind Rape and force her into marriage. Indeed, the turning point of the final battle comes when Polgara is able to tell Torak exactly where he can go stick what, despite his attempts to force her. She's able to resist because of Durnik's death of all things; Garion, having previously realized that Torak doesn't understand love, tells her to "think of Durnik!" and she holds. Belgarath specifically points out that if Torak had had the emotional support of Polgara's "love", however false, Belgarion would never have been able to defeat him. It actually happens to Garion once, at the hands of Salmissra, who has him drugged to the eyeballs and dressed up Go-Go Enslavement style. Thanks to his mental relationship with the Prophecy, it doesn't hold for long.
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The Belgariad / int_bfdbf829	type	Significant Name Shift
The Belgariad / int_bfdbf829	comment	Significant Name Shift: For the first two and a half books, Garion insists on thinking of Polgara as "Aunt Pol" and Belgarath as "Mister Wolf," since those are the names he first learned for them when he was a litle boy, and he still hopes that someday he (and they) can go back to those days. When he starts to accept his position as Belgarion the Chosen One, he starts to think of them by their proper names of Polgara and Belgarath.
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The Belgariad / int_bfe568a3	type	Ominous Clouds
The Belgariad / int_bfe568a3	comment	Ominous Clouds: The strongholds of the evil god Torak are perpetually overcast with unnatural clouds. One wizard claims it's because the sun refuses to shine on him.
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The Belgariad / int_c00e411c	type	Amnesiac God
The Belgariad / int_c00e411c	comment	Amnesiac God: Eriond
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The Belgariad / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
The Belgariad / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Vella and Yarblek, Played for Laughs, and justified by Nadrak culture, in which all women are property of a man, but own the rights to their person, and are free to cut up any man who tries to take advantage.
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The Belgariad / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
The Belgariad / int_c10da874	comment	Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanter's End Game. Averted in the sequel series. The motifs weren't Eddings' idea — he'd originally conceived a trilogy titled Garion, Ce'Nedra and Torak but was overridden by his publisher who explained that (at the time) books in the genre had a maximum page limit that meant he couldn't cram the story into three volumes. The titles came afterwards.
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The Belgariad / int_c142c1ff	type	Childless Dystopia
The Belgariad / int_c142c1ff	comment	Childless Dystopia: As a child, in his prequel, Belgarath notes he spent a very depressing winter in a town cursed with sterility — at first, he enjoyed it, because they spoiled him rotten, but later it became depressing.
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The Belgariad / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Belgariad / int_c145f69b	comment	Polgara transforms Salmissra into a snake after she threatens to usurp Garion's role in the prophecy. Subverted in that, once she gets used to it, Salmissra actually likes it a good deal better that way and so do her advisers. That, and she's a venomous snake, which means she's plenty deadly.
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The Belgariad / int_c241adec	type	Supernatural Sensitivity
The Belgariad / int_c241adec	comment	Supernatural Sensitivity: Sorcery makes what is described as a "sound", which can be mistaken for mundane noise under some circumstances. The sound can be lessened by doing things slowly, and shapeshifting, because it's directed internally, is very quiet. The protagonists are often forced to avoid sorcery in enemy territory because of this noise effect. Interestingly, other forms of supernatural power, such as magic, wizardry, necromancy, and prophecy, do not make this signature noise. In an interesting variation, the reason that the Grolims were kept away from Kell with a curse was to keep them from noticing that the Dals were not using magic in general, but specifically employing telepathy to form a sort of "group mind" (and thereby listening in and receiving advance notice of the prophecies they could not be allowed to have). So while magic was being used, it was employed in a more literal sense than usual since it was creating an actual sound (mental, but still something that could be "heard") others could be sensitive to.
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The Belgariad / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Belgariad / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: It's casually mentioned that all Dryads are conceived with captured human men used as breeding slaves. No characters express opposition to this. Noticably averted when Polgara goes on a Rampage through Salmissa's palace with Barak expressly to stop this.
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The Belgariad / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Belgariad / int_c313d43a	comment	It would be interesting to see how Garion copes in ten to twenty years time when the True Companions start dying off... note Silk, the oldest non-immortal member of the group, is pushing fifty by the end of The Malloreon. although his wife is capable of living much longer than regular mortals, and several of his family members are ageless, so he won't be all alone.
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The Belgariad / int_c340b342	type	The Stormbringer
The Belgariad / int_c340b342	comment	The Stormbringer: The Mad God Torak brings oppressive cloud cover wherever he goes because the sun itself refuses to shine on him. Vordai the witch cursed the mob that attacked her to be surrounded by endless rain wherever they went.
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The Belgariad / int_c391447c	type	God Is Flawed
The Belgariad / int_c391447c	comment	God Is Flawed: All the gods except UL and Aldur. While they're on the side of good (excluding Torak, of course), they are also capable of being childish, petty, spiteful, or not thinking things through, and then regretting it later.
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The Belgariad / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Belgariad / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Interestingly, engineered by the good guys in the last book. Garion pretends to be about to choose the wrong successor, so that when he gets it right Zandramas will be pissed off and put off-balance. Done, also by the good guys, shortly earlier. Zandramas is alone with her minions just outside The Place Which Is No More, and exults that she will be there and Team Light won't... Oh wait, the fog just cleared. Cue Garion with his BFS, et al. Cue Oh, Crap!.
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The Belgariad / int_c3fabe01	type	Genocide Survivor
The Belgariad / int_c3fabe01	comment	Genocide Survivor: Taiba is the last surviving Marag. Her ancestors were almost completely wiped out when the greedy Tolnedrans invaded their realm hundreds of years earlier in an ill-conceived search for gold.
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The Belgariad / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Belgariad / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Ctuchik resorts to this when his Plan A fails. Unfortunately for him, Belgarath is not even remotely tempted by that kind of offer. Zandramas attempts this as well, to override the choice of Cyradis. She even offers herself to Belgarion, saying he would find her fair...
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The Belgariad / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
The Belgariad / int_c4500946	comment	Break His Heart to Save Him: Garion realizes after returning to Faldor's farm that he can't stay and that his childhood sweetheart, Zubrette, isn't cut out for whatever destiny has in store for him. When she approaches, Garion feigns an expression of nothing but friendship. Zubrette is devastated at the implied rejection and runs away.
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The Belgariad / int_c4da82aa	type	Easily Elected
The Belgariad / int_c4da82aa	comment	Easily Elected: Deconstructed. Sendaria's attempts to create a democracy got off to a rough start, as they allowed anyone to run for the throne, and everyone was given one vote. The first election took seven years and ultimately crowned a rutabaga farmer who had long since forgotten he was on the ballot. Nonetheless, he was The Good King.
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The Belgariad / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The Belgariad / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Brill and the rest of the Daghashi, and Issus, a Nyissan poisoner and assassin. Silk, Liselle, and the other members of Drasnian intelligence have this as one of their skill sets.
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The Belgariad / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
The Belgariad / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Zedar
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The Belgariad / int_c6695a49	type	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois
The Belgariad / int_c6695a49	comment	Much of The Malloreon is composed of a huge MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois between 'Zakath, Zandramas and Urvon for control of the Sardion, with Mengha and Agachak looking to get involved from the outside, and the Demons working for whoever summons them. Ultimately Mengha allies with Urvon (who he and Nahaz start plotting against), 'Zakath Heel Face Turns and Zandramas secures her position as the Big Bad with the deaths of Urvon, Agachak, and Mengha, and the banishment of Nahaz, in one of the most stunning examples of Eviler than Thou in fiction. Whew.
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The Belgariad / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Belgariad / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Practiced by the Grolims in honor of Torak. Belgarath admits that it may or may not have been Torak's idea to begin with, but Torak never did anything to stop it.
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The Belgariad / int_c728ea66	type	Fear Is Normal
The Belgariad / int_c728ea66	comment	Fear Is Normal: Mandorallen has never felt fear before. During a fight with unusual clay and mud monsters, he feels fear for the first time and is ashamed. He also thinks his companions won't be able to rely on him in the future. Durnik comforts him with the idea that everyone feels fear.
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The Belgariad / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Belgariad / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A sword comes free from a stone that's held it in place, waiting for the one true king. The mechanisms are different, but that's a definite shout out to everyone's favourite mythical king. Torak, in the Ashabine Oracles: "Know that I hate thee, Belgarion. For hate's sake will I throw myself into the darkness. For hate's sake I spit out my last breath at thee, my damned brother." Belgarath, when forced into formal garb, always wears a white robe, rather like a certain other Eccentric Mentor wizard who usually prefers shabbier garb from another fantasy series.
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The Belgariad / int_c800b997	type	New Skill as Reward
The Belgariad / int_c800b997	comment	New Skill as Reward: Belgarath invokes this trope in Belgarath the Sorcerer: he finds a very old practitioner of a type of magic that he wants to learn, and curries favor with him by bringing him food that he'd otherwise be unable to obtain for himself, e.g. wild game. In return, the old magician teaches Belgarath the school of magic before he passes on of old age. This appears to be more or less standard practice among the tribal folk of that area.
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The Belgariad / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
The Belgariad / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: You will lose track of how often this is invoked.
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The Belgariad / int_c92a568	type	Family Extermination
The Belgariad / int_c92a568	comment	Family Extermination: In the Malloreon, emperor 'Zakath vows to wipe out the entire bloodline of Murgo King Taur Urgas after a scheme of the latter's got his fiancee executed. This started with him rounding up every Urga family member in Mallorea and periodically sending bits of them back to Taur Urgas with highly insulting notes attached. The only way to stop him from killing the surviving Prince (later King), Urgit, is revealing that the Queen cheated on Urgas with a Drasnian emissary, and the reason he was the surviving "son" was the mental advantage of being the only one not Royally Screwed Up. 'Zakath, who'd spent the best part of a decade or so waging a war on Murgo soil and depopulating entire districts just to try and get his revenge, has a spectacular breakdown.
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The Belgariad / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
The Belgariad / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: When a sorcerer changes shape, their clothes will come back later when they change back. No one knows exactly where they go during that time.
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The Belgariad / int_c955269e	type	The Stateless
The Belgariad / int_c955269e	comment	The Stateless: The Ulgos (and the beasts who populate the region where they live) were the product of the gods screwing around with their creation powers. The god UL refused to let His children destroy those poor folks when they'd finished playing around with them, but the other gods refused to claim them, having already chosen their own followers, so those godless people were forced to wander around for centuries until finally the prophet Gorim convinced UL to take them in. Alas, when Gorim went to tell his fellow godless that they now had a new god, only a minority agreed accept UL and follow Gorim to their new home. The rest remained godless, and Gorim made them barren so that they'd all eventually die off; he considered this far more merciful than letting their race persist.
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The Belgariad / int_cb0b6076	type	Upbringing Makes the Hero
The Belgariad / int_cb0b6076	comment	Upbringing Makes the Hero: Invoked by Polgara; she deliberately raises Garion as a farmboy to give him a solid moral foundation for when he ends up having to save the world.
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The Belgariad / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
The Belgariad / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: The Raveners in the Southern Forest are slow, rotting, of human form, and scavenge from graves. Except when there's a war going on nearby when they become a lot faster, and inclined to chase down the living. There is a war going on nearby when the heroes have to pass through, and the Southern Forest is the size of Arendia, and is in between them and their destination...
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The Belgariad / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
The Belgariad / int_cc1bd54d	comment	And Ce'Nedra may be a Non-Action Guy, but she did raise a truly vast army and has proven a highly capable manipulator and political player.
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The Belgariad / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Belgariad / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Almost everywhere. Eddings mined real-world cultures almost exclusively when populating the world of The Belgariad. Word of God states in The Rivan Codex: "The Sendars correspond to rural Englishmen, the Arends to Norman French, the Tolnedrans to Romans, The Chereks to Vikings, the Algars to Cossacks, the Ulgos to Jews, and the Angaraks to Hunnish-Mongolian-Muslim-Visigoths out to convert the world by sword. I didn't really have correspondences in mind for the Drasnians, Rivans, Marags, and Nyissans. They're story elements and don't need to derive from this world."
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The Belgariad / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Belgariad / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Garion gets to add Godslayer to his constellation of grandiose titles at the end of the fifth book. Of course, this is explicitly justified as his purpose for existing in the first place, and he's aided by a power a wee bit higher than Torak.
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The Belgariad / int_cd336741	type	"Wanted!" Poster
The Belgariad / int_cd336741	comment	"Wanted!" Poster Silk gets this treatment a lot, much to his disgust. Beldin too, in Mallorea, thanks to his vendetta against Urvon, much to his delight. Specifically, he creates a series of masterful characters with the help of shapeshifting that render the posters useless — but every century or so, drops into Urvon's home base and butchers a lot of priests and guards to let Urvon know he's still kicking around and wanting to continue a discussion they once had about white-hot hooks and Urvon's guts.
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The Belgariad / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Belgariad / int_ceec4df5	comment	In the backstory, the Accords of Val Alorn say "...but Aloria shall maintain Riva and keep it whole." When the accords were signed, Aloria hadn't existed as a nation for centuries; it was now Riva, Cherekh, Drasnia, and Algaria. When an Emperor's attempt to force Riva to trade ends in disaster, he calls for an invasion — and discovers that while Aloria isn't officially a single nation anymore, but it is an unofficial confederation. When the Rivan King is assassinated, it's made clear that, yes, Aloria does exist.
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The Belgariad / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Belgariad / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: The Tolnedrans worship a god that loves money, which sent them down a road to love money more than Gods, so that they're effectively atheist merchants, and their god couldn't be happier with them. Most Tolnedran characters will cling to their atheism no matter how much the world's supernatural elements prod at them, including a scene where General Varana spends a tactical meeting facing away from the other commanders so that he won't have to see the sorcerers he's working with shapeshifting and casting spells. However, many acknowledge these things do exist, they just "officially" disbelieve them. Further proof of this trope by the Tolnedrans: according to any Tolnedran, and the entire Tolnedran government, there is no such thing as magic, yet there are also specific laws making it illegal to use the very magic the law makers agree does not exist. Inverted by Brador, the chief of the Mallorean Empire's Bureau of Internal Affairs. He is a Melcene, who, like the Tolnedrans, don't believe in anything supernatural. Along comes Book 3 of the Malloreon, at which point demons start butchering whole cities under the command of a Grolim priest. Brador not only doesn't seem to have any trouble believing demons exist, but he begs Belgarath and Belgarion to help him convince his even more skeptical emperor to call off his Roaring Rampageof Revenge so they can go back and deal with the situation. The Melcenes as a culture are the polar opposite of the Tolnedrans. They not only believe in magic but actually have their scholars study things like spiritism and alchemy (they even have their own sorcerer, though he's seen as a bit of an oddball). However, they don't believe in the gods, and consider other cultures' religions as proof of how backwards and superstitious all non-Melcenes are.
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The Belgariad / int_cfb3edb2	type	Weather Saves the Day
The Belgariad / int_cfb3edb2	comment	Weather Saves the Day: A major element that resulted in the victory of the western kingdoms at Vo Mimbre in the prequels was an unprecedented snowstorm in Cthol Murgos that stranded Torak's second army, but we only get the reports, we don't see it.
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The Belgariad / int_d00fa9ec	type	Myth Prologue
The Belgariad / int_d00fa9ec	comment	Myth Prologue: The prologue summarizes the Divine Conflict that shaped the history of the world, the Cosmic Keystone that's central to it, and the founding of The Chosen One's bloodline. The book then shifts to said Chosen One's childhood as an oblivious Farm Boy.
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The Belgariad / int_d155515c	type	Thunderbolt Iron
The Belgariad / int_d155515c	comment	Thunderbolt Iron: The BFS is made of this.
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The Belgariad / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
The Belgariad / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: When Belgarath asks Garion if he's studied the prophecies, Garion says he'll "make time" to do so. Considering that Belgarath just finished cleaning up the mess Garion made by summoning a storm, he's dismayed at the thought of what damage Garion might cause by manipulating time itself.
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The Belgariad / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Belgariad / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Poledra subverts it. Justified by the woman who is giving birth to Nahaz's offspring. Garion gets a look at her and realizes there is no way she'd survive the birth.
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The Belgariad / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
The Belgariad / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The Algar Stronghold. It's a huge self-sufficient walled city in the middle of the plains of Algaria, huge enough to hold every single Algar alive and still have lots of leftover space. But the Algars are nomads, so why did they waste the effort building it? For one very simple reason: The Murgos like to attack cities, and can't seem to resist attacking it. Which makes them sitting ducks for the Algars.
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The Belgariad / int_d303e45e	type	Citadel City
The Belgariad / int_d303e45e	comment	Citadel City: The city of Riva is built around a cove that is the only viable landing site for an army on the island of Riva; it is constructed such that each successive row of buildings can function as a city wall in case the previous wall is breached, to protect the Orb of Aldur in the castle of Riva. The Stronghold of the Algars is nothing but citadel. The Algars are nomadic horsemen who have spent centuries building the place up in the middle of a huge grassland. It doesn't protect anything—rather, it gives invading armies a tangible target to go for. When they do, the Algar horsemen can destroy their supply lines, while archers within the citadel can have a field day picking off the attackers.
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The Belgariad / int_d32d01aa	type	Sterility Plague
The Belgariad / int_d32d01aa	comment	Sterility Plague: When Gorim of the godless finally got a god to accept him, he asked for his people to follow and cursed those who refused with sterility. In Belgarath the Sorcerer he expresses regret at this and surprise that the curse wasn't lifted.
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The Belgariad / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
The Belgariad / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded. The majority of the conflict in the books comes from the truly ridiculous amount of effort spent by the Child of Dark in attempting to suborn the Prophecies. This always turns out to be its ultimate downfall.
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The Belgariad / int_d33d9ca1	type	Despair Gambit
The Belgariad / int_d33d9ca1	comment	Despair Gambit: The Dark Prophecy uses these on occasion, especially when it's getting desperate and running out of mooks to throw at the goodies. Silk and Garion employ their own Gambits at the final meeting, to greater effect.
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The Belgariad / int_d3701aea	type	Prevent the War
The Belgariad / int_d3701aea	comment	Prevent the War: Early in The Malloreon Garion gets to bully two armies into going home and not (potentially) starting a civil war.
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The Belgariad / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Belgariad / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In the prequel novels, Polgara removes the Bear-Cult from Riva by having some witnesses observe the secret ceremonies (that involve low-grade stage magic that wouldn't fool anyone if it weren't for an earlier part of the ceremony involving large quantities of beer) and arrest them under their own anti-witchcraft laws.
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The Belgariad / int_d41a6617	type	Wandering Walk of Madness
The Belgariad / int_d41a6617	comment	Wandering Walk of Madness: In Polgara the Sorceress, Garion's grandmother Alara's mind starts to slip after she is widowed, causing her to forget her husband's death and go wandering in search of him. One such episode draws Polgara away from the house while Chamdar tries to murder Garion, leading her to suspect Chamdar Invoked the trope with sorcery.
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The Belgariad / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Belgariad / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Morindim magicians usually mutter the incantations that summon demons to keep others from learning them. However, Belgarath speaks one very clearly—because no magician in his right mind would try summoning a Demon Lord (basically one step short of summoning the King of Hell himself). Belgarath does this because he needs to deal with a lot of demons very quickly, and thus summons one that can pull rank. At one point in Demon Lord of Karanda, it's necessary for the heroes to use the Orb of Aldur to deal with a demon. Now, the Orb tends to be rather conspicuous when used (generating "noise" that sorcerers can hear and emitting a brilliant blue glow), which would reveal their location to people looking for them. So, instead of trying to convince the Orb to tone it down, they go the other direction, lighting up the sky for hundreds of miles around and generating so much sorcerous noise that the entire province of Karanda shakes from it.
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The Belgariad / int_d53acc8a	type	You Are Not Ready
The Belgariad / int_d53acc8a	comment	You Are Not Ready: Garion and weather. Lord, does he make a mess of things, and Belgarath is NOT happy with him triggering blizzards, tornados, droughts, another Ice Age, that sort of thing. Garion is ordered to study weather for 2000 years before touching it again. Then Belgarath has a major Oh, Crap! moment when Garion promises to "make time" to do it (all Garion meant was that he'd rearrange his schedule).
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The Belgariad / int_d59d06c4	type	Breeding Slave
The Belgariad / int_d59d06c4	comment	Breeding Slave: The Dryads, who have only females, capture human males to reproduce with.
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The Belgariad / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Belgariad / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Both the Light and Dark Prophecies. Having eons to prepare helps. Zandramas is also a decent Chessmaster, although whether it's personal skill, or the result of having been infused with the Spirit of Dark is up for debate. She certainly manages to plan ahead, with each of her moves ready to fall into place the minute that a previous one fails.
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The Belgariad / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
The Belgariad / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: It's implied that harsh military-style training is a common rite of passage for Murgo boys. Urgit describes the training regimen he and his brothers all endured, which began when they were seven years old, as a life of constant fear and senseless brutality meant to turn them into perfect Murgos — strong, brave, loyal, and dedicated to Torak. That it also tended to thin out the possible heirs seems to be just a handy side-effect as far as the Murgo royal house is concerned.
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The Belgariad / int_d725222d	type	Foul First Drink
The Belgariad / int_d725222d	comment	Foul First Drink: Garion is served his first beer when the main characters visit a noble estate. Feeling out of his depth as a Farm Boy in famous company, he drinks it to act grown-up in front of his aunt, but regrets both the flavour and the buzz.
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The Belgariad / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
The Belgariad / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: Spells require that a sorcerer draw energy from things around them, or when creating things, themselves.
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The Belgariad / int_d786481	type	Top Wife
The Belgariad / int_d786481	comment	Top Wife: This trope is in effect in the Murgo royal court. Urgit's mother doesn't mind at all that Silk killed Taur Urgas' eldest son, because he was the son of the "first wife" (who used to boast that she would have her son order the execution of all the lesser wives as soon as he took the throne). Later in the Malloreon, when the marriage arrangements between Urgit and Prala are being arranged, one line in the contract states that Prala will have the permanent rank of most favored wife. However, she insists that he subverts this in favour of only marrying her despite tradition.
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The Belgariad / int_d79f4a9e	type	Heinousness Retcon
The Belgariad / int_d79f4a9e	comment	Heinousness Retcon: A frequent criticism of the books was that the series treats Zedar, one of Big Bad Torak's Disciples as unredeemable, even though it seemed apparent that he was under Torak's control and even though the series takes place in a universe where You Can't Fight Fate, and therefore his worst actions had to happen in order for the good guys to triumph in the end. David and Leigh Eddings thus felt compelled to address this in the prequel, Belgarath the Sorceror, which reveals that Zedar was always arrogant and obsessed with power, even back when he was a Disciple of Aldur, and then he was the one responsible for driving Belmakor, a briefly mentioned Disciple of Aldur, to suicide.
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The Belgariad / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Belgariad / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds Polgara and Beldin. Their typical greeting ritual is to insult each other in such graphic terms that hardened warriors either turn pale, or rush to stop what they think is an impending murder attempt. It's actually how they show affection. Lampshaded when Garion points out that Polgara uses affectionate insults to greet Beldin because saying "you're looking well" or suchlike would be massively insincere — he is, after all, indescribably ugly. Beldin and Belgarath do this quite a bit as well. Vella and Beldin in The Malloreon, which virtually becomes part of their courtship before they end up mated as a pair of hawks at the end of the series. The level to which they go to in their language towards one another makes even some who are already used to Beldin blanch.
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The Belgariad / int_d948b07	type	Terrain Sculpting
The Belgariad / int_d948b07	comment	Terrain Sculpting: In the backstory, Torak, after stealing the Orb, is faced with a war against all the other gods and their followers. To protect himself and his people, he uses the Orb to crack the entire continent in two, turning a pangaea into two distinct landmasses and causing lots of geological fallout and mayhem. At one point, Garion thinks about that event, the Orb starts giving him suggestions about how they can put it back together. At one point 'Zakath says that if Garion tries to leave the city where 'Zakath is detaining the party without his permission, he'll just have his troops follow Garion around to keep track of him (he knows Garion won't slaughter his soldiers for doing their jobs.) Garion reminds him of The Breaking of the World, which was done with the very same magic rock Garion carries around with him, and theorizes that 'Zakath's troops will have a great deal of difficulty staying on his trail when they encounter a trench fifty miles wide stretching across the entire continent. It's about this time 'Zakath starts to understand that Garion et al are a) being very patient with him and b) he really, really does not want to test their patience.
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The Belgariad / int_d94f81a	type	The Sneaky Guy
The Belgariad / int_d94f81a	comment	The Sneaky Guy: Silk.
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The Belgariad / int_d980738c	type	Eat the Summoner
The Belgariad / int_d980738c	comment	Eat the Summoner: Demon summoners have to keep the demons under constant strict control or face this. Garion watches one of them challenge Belgarath, but make a mistake in forming the shape that he forces the demon into, allowing it to burst free and slaughter both the summoner and his clan. Note that it didn't bother to chase down Belgarath or Garion, since they weren't the ones who tried to enslave it.
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The Belgariad / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
The Belgariad / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: The Dryads are technically a race of this, but look identical to humans.
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The Belgariad / int_da6a88f8	type	Blindfolded Vision
The Belgariad / int_da6a88f8	comment	Blindfolded Vision: The Seers of Kell in fact rely on the blindfolds to maintain their powers. The Belgariad is Relg's First Time in the Sun, and the only way he can really see during the day is to keep himself blindfolded.
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The Belgariad / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
The Belgariad / int_dabc7a46	comment	Sixth Ranger: Many characters join up with the group along the way, but the best example is probably 'Zakath in The Malloreon. He joins the group towards the end of the fourth book, after having been a major stumbling block to their progress during the first part of the series, and an antagonist in The Belgariad. He soon becomes something of a second Lancer to Garion (Durnik is his first one).
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The Belgariad / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
The Belgariad / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: Belgarath and Polgara are generally either this or The Dreaded, depending on the audience. Belgarion also becomes this following his Awesome Moment of Crowning and slaying of Torak in single combat towards the end of the first series. Zakath greets him by remarking that his exploits 'have shaken the world.'
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The Belgariad / int_db9dd05	type	Magic Misfire
The Belgariad / int_db9dd05	comment	Magic Misfire: If you try to unmake something with sorcery such as by saying "Be not!" it will rebound on the caster fatally instead, as Belgarath explains.
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The Belgariad / int_dbb38c16	type	Magical Star Symbols
The Belgariad / int_dbb38c16	comment	Magical Star Symbols: When summoning a demon, the summoner stands within a pentacle as an extra level of protection. If they leave it or it's disrupted — or if they draw it on water to show off and don't notice it washing away — the demon is free to take revenge before returning to Hell.
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The Belgariad / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
The Belgariad / int_dbb414ed	comment	The most egregious example is that taking into account Silk's cameo towards the end of Belgarath the Sorcerer, when he and Garion encounter Asharak in Pawn of Prophecy, Silk should have known that "Asharak" was Chamdar and should hence have realized that the fact that Asharak was poking around was highly significant and should be reported to Belgarath immediately. It's handwaved with the implication that Asharak was tampering with his mind, but that still doesn't explain why Belgarath didn't react to the name.
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The Belgariad / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
The Belgariad / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Eddings does not tend to be subtle with his romances — in-universe or out. Literally everyone knows how Garion and Ce'Nedra feel about each other before they do. (But then, they are teenagers.) It is painfully obvious from the word 'go' that Durnik is deeply, if quietly, in love with Polgara. Her own feelings are less obvious, but not that much less obvious.
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The Belgariad / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
The Belgariad / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Ce'Nedra. Polgara tells her she shouldn't cry in public; she hasn't the right coloring for it.
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The Belgariad / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Belgariad / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I Urvon. Nahaz helps him come to this conclusion. The title "Kal" means both King and God, so any of the Angarak monarchs who appended it to their names fall under this as well (though Zakath claims he did it for propagandistic purposes, not because he actually believed he was a god. He was mad, but not that kind of mad).
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The Belgariad / int_dc5b65e3	type	Make Games, Not War
The Belgariad / int_dc5b65e3	comment	Make Games, Not War: The kingdom of Dal Perivor in The Malloreon settles arguments between nobles by holding tournaments. It's not unheard of for two nobles to decide that they want to have a tournament and collude to come up with a "disagreement" to justify it.
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The Belgariad / int_dc664499	type	Gracefully Demoted
The Belgariad / int_dc664499	comment	Gracefully Demoted: Played for Drama when the Rightful King Returns to Riva after a millennium. Brand, The Good Chancellor and previous de facto ruler, is happy to yield the throne to Belgarion, but Brand's son sees Belgarion as The Usurper and tries to assassinate him. The attempt fails and, as the son dies, Brand rejects him.
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The Belgariad / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Belgariad / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: The first quintet spends nearly five books ship-teasing Polgara/Durnik (with things like his constant concern for and solicitousness of her and the way he makes her absolutely light up in a way no one else can do, among other things) to kingdom come before it becomes explicit in the final chapters of book five. Literally Everyone Can See It, even the rather oblivious young Garion, who suggests as young as 9 that Durnik would be a good match for her.
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The Belgariad / int_dd608502	type	HellHound
The Belgariad / int_dd608502	comment	Hell Hounds: The Hounds of Torak. Actually Grolims who've transformed themselves into giant dogs. Some have since changed back to form the Chandim; they aren't noticeably more pleasant.
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The Belgariad / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
The Belgariad / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: In regards to armor, at least the full plate worn by Mimbrate knights. Eddings gets its protective abilities more or less correct, without exaggeration, but defaults to popular misconception in regards to its weight; a medieval knight in full field plate carried less weight over his whole body than a modern infantry soldier carries on his back. The misconception arises because people confuse tournament armor worn for jousting matches—armor that was so heavy a knight had to be lifted by a winch onto his horse—with field plate worn in actual combat. Eddings's reasons may stem from believing the misconception (many do) or just finding it amusing to have the culturally dunderheadeed Mimbrates wearing armor so heavy they can barely move.
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The Belgariad / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Belgariad / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Mara (God of the Marags) reaches it when the Tolnedrans finally swarm into Maragor to get at the gold that the Marags themselves didn't value at all, apparently killing the entire race. In response, Mara turns the entire country into a haunted land that drives anyone who even thinks about the gold hopelessly insane, often to the point of suicide, and Mara himself stays in the center of the capital city expressing his grief. This goes on for several thousand years until it's revealed that some of the Marag race was sold into slavery and still lived.
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The Belgariad / int_def5d614	type	Suddenly Suitable Suitor
The Belgariad / int_def5d614	comment	Suddenly Suitable Suitor: Garion and Ce'Nedra, deliberately invoked in that neither knows they're going to be in an Arranged Marriage... and they've been thrown together all along with the intent that they fall in love. Even funnier is that Ce'Nedra had been starting to have feelings for Garion (despite knowing it would be completely impossible politically for her to marry so far beneath her station), until she discovers that he's the hereditary Overlord of the West and as such is not only an eminently suitable suitor but actually outranks her. At this point, she becomes furious because now an ancient treaty means she ''has'' to marry him. To be fair, Garion isn't entirely happy about it either, though he's mostly just bewildered.
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The Belgariad / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
The Belgariad / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: The Will and the Word — Focus your will, and then say the word. If you believe (and happen to be a sorcerer), it'll happen. There are a variety of other types of magic users, including witches (who deal with spirits in nature), magicians (who summon and "control" demons), "wizards" with unspecified minor powers, necromancers, and seers, but in the end they are all stated to be variations of the same concept. Also, alchemy turns lead into gold... and glass into glass-like steel (or possibly high-durability plastic/transparent aluminium).
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The Belgariad / int_e03533c8	type	Blood Bath
The Belgariad / int_e03533c8	comment	Blood Bath: Both Zandramas and Chabat are Evil Sorceresses and priestesses of a Religion of Evil; in fact, aside from a couple unnamed characters, they are the only female priestesses devoted to Torak that are shown in the entire series. Each one is described by priests in their temples as showing an almost unseemly enjoyment in performing the Grolim rite of cutting out people's hearts. Both are also described by those same priests as bathing in their victims' blood. The ritual evisceration doesn't turn any Grolim's hair, but the whole bathing-in-the-blood part is atypical enough that it squicks out even other Angarak priests of Torak.
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The Belgariad / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Belgariad / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear Polgara — dear gods, Polgara. Her Roaring Rampage of Rescue after Garion is subjected to Go-Go Enslavement by Salmissra has to be seen to be believed. "Wilt thou face a God, Polgara?" "If I must." Ce'Nedra also shows tendencies of this after Geran is kidnapped, although she's not nearly as capable of inflicting mayhem, it's not for lack of willingness. Barak is an odd example, since while he'd normally fit under Papa Wolf, he forcibly becomes a bear when Garion is threatened... no matter where Garion actually is. This is, at first, exceptionally distressing, since he doesn't know the cause and assumes that he's cursed. Once he finds out, he promptly starts trying to figure out how to tastefully reference it in his family crest. His son Unrak inherits this, with regard to Geran, Garion's son.
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The Belgariad / int_e1ecdac3	type	Our Gods Are Different
The Belgariad / int_e1ecdac3	comment	Our Gods Are Different: The seven younger Gods ( eight, including Eriond) are immensely powerful beings, said to have infinite mental capacity and Will (the two factors of sorcery) to draw upon. But they are not omniscient — they have to be informed of events occurring in the world before they can act. Their father, elder God UL, may be omniscient — but he appears to be constrained in how much he can interfere with events, possibly as a necessity of prophecy.
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The Belgariad / int_e205b147	type	Merlin and Nimue
The Belgariad / int_e205b147	comment	Merlin and Nimue: Belgarath and Polgara form an extremely unusual-in-fiction father-daughter sorcerer/sorceress team. Lacks both the betrayal and the romance, though — for obvious reasons.
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The Belgariad / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Belgariad / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Belsambar. Belgarath recollects: "I think he knew half the rabbits and deer in the vale by their first names, and birds used to perch on him the way they would have if he had been a tree." Polgara is a friend to all birds. Ce'Nedra talks to trees — and they listen to her! (she's a dryad, after all.)
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The Belgariad / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
The Belgariad / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played straight in the first series, but not in the second. Sadi's pet snake, Zith, is downright cute, and strikes up an improbable friendship with 'Zakath's kittens.
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The Belgariad / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
The Belgariad / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind There is only one dragon in the series, who is both the first and the last of her kind. The gods made three, but the two males killed each other in the first mating season. The entire depiction of dragons is an intentional subversion of the basic fantasy archetype of the creatures — just dumb lizards. Garion is also the last surviving descendant of the Rivan royal family (which Belgarath observes was never particularly fertile), and Taiba is the last Marag. As for Taiba, not anymore, Mara and Relg saw to that. Hettar even complains that his wife Adara can't keep up with Taiba when it comes to making babies and accuses Mara of cheating.
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The Belgariad / int_e280b250	type	Hard Head
The Belgariad / int_e280b250	comment	Hard Head: Just about everyone. Garion in particular develops a deserved reputation for banging his head into things, which becomes something of a Running Gag.
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The Belgariad / int_e28ccd68	type	No Sex Allowed
The Belgariad / int_e28ccd68	comment	No Sex Allowed: Relg had...issues with sex in general, and stated that one of his goals was to build a society like this. The fact that this would have them die out was pointed out to him in-universe, and he said he was looking for a workaround. Fortunately, he has enough Character Development over the course of the novels to grow out of the desire to build this kind of society.
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The Belgariad / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Belgariad / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Each of the gods has a totemic signature, and they and their chosen race mimic these animals in a characteristic, if not always physical, way. More directly, each of the sorcerers trained by Aldur has a preferred alternate form: the women like the owl (Aldur's own totem, although it could be argued that Poledra's favourite alternate form is actually that of a human since she was born a wolf), while Belgarath takes the form of a wolf so often that he's introduced as 'Old Wolf'. He's the only one of Aldur's disciples who favours a land animal as his alternate form — Beldin is addicted to flying (as a blue-banded hawk) and the twins prefer doves. Belgarath points out several times in his prequel book that he never really learned to fly very well, although he can cover vast distances in the air when he has to — he just doesn't enjoy it like Beldin and Polgara do.
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The Belgariad / int_e3373f2d	type	The Chosen People
The Belgariad / int_e3373f2d	comment	The Chosen People: The Ulgos. Rejected by all of the other gods, their leader appealed to UL, the creator of the gods, and successfully convinced Him to adopt his people. Incidentally, the Ulgo religion is heavily inspired by traditional Judaism.
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The Belgariad / int_e34fc3c2	type	Poverty Food
The Belgariad / int_e34fc3c2	comment	Poverty Food: When the companions posing as poor travelers aren't eating food from seedy inns, or leftovers from their last stop, or burning bacon to a crisp, they resort to eating gruel.
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The Belgariad / int_e375c858	type	Fog of War
The Belgariad / int_e375c858	comment	Fog of War / Weather of War: The Grolim use a fog to cover their army's movments in The Belgariad.
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The Belgariad / int_e386dc9	type	Staying Alive
The Belgariad / int_e386dc9	comment	Staying Alive: Poledra, who was said to have died in childbirth but in reality went undercover for three thousand years to secretly watch over the Prophecy's interests.
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The Belgariad / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
The Belgariad / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel Velvet claims to be this in The Malloreon, but any woman who has graduated from the Drasnian spy academy probably doesn't qualify for Proper Lady status even if she is a Margravine. Porenn is probably a better example. She does a good job of appearing demure and harmless, but as of Guardians of the West she's the ruler of Drasnia, and has the most effective intelligence network in the world at her disposal. Even before that she engineers the Nadrak defection at the Battle of Thull Mardu — with a little help from Silk and Yarblek — which prevents the armies of the West from being wiped out.
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The Belgariad / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
The Belgariad / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: The entire purpose of the march of the Armies of the West against the Angaraks in Enchanter's Endgame is to distract them from Garion's journey to confront Torak. They know their war is ultimately hopeless: they're vastly outnumbered, and even if Garion wins, they don't expect to survive. What they didn't count on was the hatred of the Malloreans and Murgos for each other.
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The Belgariad / int_e46fabf7	type	Observation on Originality
The Belgariad / int_e46fabf7	comment	Observation on Originality: This is held up as a perfect example of the observation in action. It's completely unoriginal and very, very good.
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The Belgariad / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
The Belgariad / int_e4ba33fc	comment	In The Belgariad, Lelldorin manages to extend an epic fail over the course of a week. When he announces that he's going to get back to the main group, his beloved refuses to stay behind. During the departure and trip he manages to break her older brother's leg, run his cousin through the leg "just a little bit", punch out all of a priest's teeth, and cause enough assorted mayhem to get a bounty put on his head by the crown. And all of this was without trying. This is also an example of Disaster Dominoes. He did successfully marry the girl in the process, though! (Supposedly because travelling alone with her would cause more trouble — which Lelldorin probably meant, despite his genuine love for her, but said girl is immediately noted by Garion as not just seeing it as a formality.)
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The Belgariad / int_e50e82e5	type	Nemesis Weapon
The Belgariad / int_e50e82e5	comment	Nemesis Weapon: The Orb of Aldur is a Cosmic Keystone and Cthrag Sardius is its antithesis; however, they function differently in the plot. The Orb is temperamental and allows only certain chosen people to touch it, and even fewer to wield it, whereas the Sardion is even more antisocial and will destroy anyone who hasn't already mastered the Orb and used it to keep the Sardion's will at bay. Then there's the Sword of the Rivan King, forged from Thunderbolt Iron and imbued with the power of the Orb; it's countered by Cthrek Goru, the sword of darkness that is first wielded by the evil god Torak and later by the demon lord Mordja in the final showdown.
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The Belgariad / int_e5261a5a	type	Aristocrat Team
The Belgariad / int_e5261a5a	comment	Aristocrat Team: Most of the Companions have aristocratic backgrounds: Barak is an earl, Kheldar the thief and spy is also a prince, Hettar is the son of a king, Mandorallen is a baron, Ce'Nedra a princess, and Polgara is the Duchess of Erat and possibly the richest of the entire lot. The sequel series adds the Margravine Liselle and Emperor Kal Zakath of Mallorea.
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The Belgariad / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
The Belgariad / int_e529d5c3	comment	Vordai the witch cursed the mob that attacked her to be surrounded by endless rain wherever they went.
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The Belgariad / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
The Belgariad / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: Ce'Nedra complains of her small bust, and when she commissions armor for herself, has the chest "enhanced". The narration notes that her figure fills out quite a bit after her first pregnancy.
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The Belgariad / int_e6469d8a	type	Verbal Tic Name
The Belgariad / int_e6469d8a	comment	Verbal Tic Name: Errand
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The Belgariad / int_e6fa475c	type	Offered the Crown
The Belgariad / int_e6fa475c	comment	Offered the Crown: In the backstory, after the Battle of Vo Mibre, Brand was offered the crown of Arendia. He strenuously refused.
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The Belgariad / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Belgariad / int_e70127	comment	Hey, remember Brill, The Mole from the very first book? It turns out, he's this setting's equivalent of a Ninja.
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The Belgariad / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
The Belgariad / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs The Horse that Garion resurrects has a notably puppy-like demeanor. Later, the snake Zith shows an astonishing number of cat-like traits, including purring when happy, shivering in the cold, and giving birth to live young.
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The Belgariad / int_e7117c09	type	Backstory
The Belgariad / int_e7117c09	comment	Magic is rather flexible... but you may not unmake anything. Breaking things is fine, as that just changes its state, but using magic to make something "Be not!" causes it to backlash and take you out. Which means that you technically can unmake something, so long as the something is you. A couple of sorcerers in the Back Story actually committed suicide this way.
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The Belgariad / int_e71ad328	type	Plot Tailored to the Party
The Belgariad / int_e71ad328	comment	Plot Tailored to the Party: Each of the many companions has a specific skill (some more broadly applicable than others) which is necessary at some point. Justified in that the Purpose of the Universe has acted to tailor the party to the plot, through the use of various prophecies.
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The Belgariad / int_e7bffa82	type	Sarcastic Devotee
The Belgariad / int_e7bffa82	comment	Sarcastic Devotee: At one point Garion notes that he understands now why Belgarath was so consistently irritated at Silk throughout the entire series — leadership is hard enough without someone standing behind you providing a sarcastic running commentary.
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The Belgariad / int_e802aecd	type	Threatening Mediator
The Belgariad / int_e802aecd	comment	Threatening Mediator: Garion bullies two armies into putting down their weapons. And then he bullies the two leaders into accepting his compromise to end their conflict.
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The Belgariad / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Belgariad / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: At the end of the third book, the Prophecy — which is normally calm, matter-of-factly and snarky — practically screams at Garion to save Errand from Ctuchik's collapsing tower. Errand's importance doesn't become clear until The Mallorean, but the Prophecy had every reason to be upset — it came very close to losing the game right then and there. "Save that child or everything that has ever happened is meaningless!"
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The Belgariad / int_e8f2d4f2	type	The Devil Is a Loser
The Belgariad / int_e8f2d4f2	comment	The Devil Is a Loser: Torak. Sure, he's the resident evil god of the setting, but he spends all of the series and most of the backstory horribly maimed because of several monumentally stupid decisions; the main characters have absolutely no respect for him and regularly refer to him by such epithets as "Burnt-face" and "One-eye"; he has no ability to either anticipate or cope with change in the world; and he has absolutely no subtlety, sense of military tactics, or awareness of human nature whatsoever, relying entirely on brute force. One gets the impression that the only reason he was ever a credible threat was that, as a god, he has a lot of brute force to throw around, and Garion wins their final battle by pointing out how very pathetic he is behind all the bluster. It's revealed in The Malloreon that it isn't entirely his fault — Much of Torak's mindset is influenced by the fact that he was, for a very long time, the host of the Spirit of Dark, which is flat-out described as being completely unable to change, thus the above inabilities to cope with change, as Darkness is constant, inflexible. Light is change in its nature. Also, it turns out that he was never supposed to be a God at all. The same thing that split the two Purposes created him as the wrong god. Eriond is the God who was supposed to be.
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The Belgariad / int_ea1bf9b6	type	Improbable Antidote
The Belgariad / int_ea1bf9b6	comment	Improbable Antidote: In Magician's Gambit, Relg discovers that using his ability of passing through solid rock got rid of his cold. When Zakath is poisoned with Thalot, a Nyissan poison with no known antidote, Cyradis reveals that the scent of Adara's Rose — a flower Garion created for his cousing only a few years previously — is the only cure.
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The Belgariad / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Belgariad / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Mostly averted — the local rules of magic mean that learning sorcery instantly conveys immortality. Sorcerers never bitch about it, and instead find ways to stay busy for all of those years. This is explored further in The Malloreon and the supplemental novels. Sorcerers do spontaneously pop up from time to time, but there's some attrition due to accidentally (or deliberately) unmaking themselves. The ones that survive this process are the ones who learn how to handle immortality. Belgarath even admits that part of the sorcerer aloofness and tendency to hole up in their towers in study and ignore the passing of a few centuries, every now and then, is a vital coping technique, lest grief drive them insane. It also makes Polgara that much more incredible, as she was forced to forgo this tactic for a thousand years... living with a family line whose every member (every member, from birth to death) she was intimately involved with. It would be interesting to see how Garion copes in ten to twenty years time when the True Companions start dying off... note Silk, the oldest non-immortal member of the group, is pushing fifty by the end of The Malloreon. although his wife is capable of living much longer than regular mortals, and several of his family members are ageless, so he won't be all alone. Played very straight with Belgarath. Two of his sorcerer brothers — whom 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 (who had been a companion for over a thousand before that), 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 a drunken beggar for two years (Beldin explicitly states that he was "a legend" in Camaar, because they've never seen anybody get that drunk before) and eventually ends up entertaining women in Maragor until Beldin finally intervenes.
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The Belgariad / int_eaa2b8f8	type	Bewitched Amphibians
The Belgariad / int_eaa2b8f8	comment	Bewitched Amphibians: People are constantly suggesting this to Polgara, Belgarath and their kin, but in the entire series it only happens once, in Polgara the Sorceress, when she turns a Cherek king into a (man-sized) frog so that he will take her seriously. More often are people turned into other animals such as pigs.
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The Belgariad / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Belgariad / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The Big Guys that are left behind in The Malloreon get an illusory Big Damn Heroes moment. They also try to manufacture a coincidental version of this, and end up wandering around Mallorea like a loose (and hilarious) siege weapon.
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The Belgariad / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
The Belgariad / int_eba911fd	comment	Dark Messiah: Zandramas to many Grolims, and the people of Darshiva. Harakan also enjoys playing this role, as evidenced by his Ulfgar and Mengha personas, which he uses to subvert the Bear-Cult and the Karands respectively. Neither one of them really cares about the people that they're supposedly representing, and are only using it for power.
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The Belgariad / int_ebd01bc5	type	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me
The Belgariad / int_ebd01bc5	comment	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: In a rare gender flip, Salmissra has this done to Garion. Plus lots of drugs and poisons to make him compliant. Oh, and he's about fifteen. In accordance with the gender flip, the Roaring Rampage of Rescue is performed by Polgara, Garion's Parental Substitute.
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The Belgariad / int_ec31ec73	type	Tom Swifty
The Belgariad / int_ec31ec73	comment	Tom Swifty: In Belgarath the Sorcerer, Belgarath recounts a time when he transformed himself into an owl to spy on someone. He just couldn't resist saying that he watched the person "owlishly".
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The Belgariad / int_ee1bd506	type	Curiosity Is a Crapshoot
The Belgariad / int_ee1bd506	comment	Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Something that Belgarath is all-too aware of, which causes him to butt heads with the Constantly Curious Silk when the party find themselves sheltering in the cave where the gods used to meet when creating the world. Silk very much wants to know what the fruit on the table in the cave tastes like, but Belgarath warns him to stick to just looking at it. When Silk asks why he can't just find out, Belgarath tells him "Looking won't kill you. Knowing might."
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The Belgariad / int_ee7fca3d	type	Silver Fox
The Belgariad / int_ee7fca3d	comment	Silver Fox: Belgarath, the oldest person in the world short of the gods and who looks appropriately venerable for an aged sorcerer, when he strips to the briefs to dive into a lake and shows off his impressive physique in the process. Liselle is very impressed with what she sees and begins blushing when teased about her reaction.
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The Belgariad / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
The Belgariad / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Garion uses the Orb to keep the two-year-old Geran entertained. Hilariously enough, when he's told to stop, the Orb grumbles. See also Beldin's stick with only one end, which he uses to distract children so they won't bother him.
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The Belgariad / int_f020c621	type	Cast From Stamina
The Belgariad / int_f020c621	comment	Cast from Stamina: Sorcery is exhausting; Beldin teleports a bunch of loose rocks from a riverbed into a pile to use as building material for a tower and it's all he can do to walk the next day.
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The Belgariad / int_f025884b	type	TheAntiChrist
The Belgariad / int_f025884b	comment	The Antichrist: The Child of Dark. It's Torak for the first series, and Zandramas for most of the second.
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The Belgariad / int_f052b794	type	Phosphor-Essence
The Belgariad / int_f052b794	comment	Phosphor-Essence: After Eriond becomes a God at the end of The Malloreon, he has to concentrate on not glowing.
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The Belgariad / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
The Belgariad / int_f06b07ff	comment	The prequel novels elaborate on this. Up to a point, Riva's descendants were actually told of their lineage; in one generation in particular, however, the Bear-Cult (duped and led by Asharak) caught hold of the heir, plied him with tales of glory, and subverted his mind, nearly ruining the Prophecy. Ever since, the heirs were Locked Out of the Loop.
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The Belgariad / int_f1b69b2a	type	Science Wizard
The Belgariad / int_f1b69b2a	comment	Science Wizard: When Aldur's disciples aren't off on adventures saving the world or studying prophecies to help them save the world, they're studying how the world works—science, essentially. They tend to understand it better than most mortals do.
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The Belgariad / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Belgariad / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Zigzagged, often depending on whose point of view we are seeing it from. A lot of the characters are professional warriors or assassins and love nothing so much as a good fight, while scenes focusing on "civilians" tend to highlight the suffering and loss involved. Of special note is Garion himself, who goes from being noticeably traumatised by the first few battles he's part of to complaining about other people stealing his kills somewhere around the fourth book.
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The Belgariad / int_f1d7ce26	type	Only Useful as Toilet Paper
The Belgariad / int_f1d7ce26	comment	Only Useful as Toilet Paper: As part of her Obfuscating Stupidity act, Queen Layla subtly invokes this trope when she uses a draft treaty to wipe jam off the face of her youngest child. (The ambassador gets the message, but can't call her out on it.)
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The Belgariad / int_f243e0a7	type	Dangerous Deserter
The Belgariad / int_f243e0a7	comment	Dangerous Deserter: The heroes encounter a farm raided and with its inhabitants killed by a roving band of these in the Malloreon. Garion goes off on his own and kills them, the farm having reminded him of Faldor's.
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The Belgariad / int_f300ca44	type	Cliché Storm
The Belgariad / int_f300ca44	comment	Cliché Storm: Deliberately invoked by the author.
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The Belgariad / int_f329f2a2	type	Got Volunteered
The Belgariad / int_f329f2a2	comment	In The Malloreon, Garion has to stop a war threatening to engulf the entire kingdom of Arendia. He magically summons a storm that helps him single-handedly stop two charging armies in their tracks, force an old friend to marry the love of his life and resolve the dispute. He's very pleased with his hard day's work. A few chapters later he finds out that he sparked off blizzards, hurricanes, droughts and tornadoes right around the world, and even triggered a new ice age. It took the combined efforts of the Gods themselves and two of the most powerful sorcerers alive over six months to fix it. Needless to say, Garion is banned from touching the weather again for two thousand years. When he protests that he just needs to "make time" to practice, he is promptly told by a startled Belgarath — who takes him literally — to leave time alone as well since even all the gods together wouldn't be able to fix that.
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The Belgariad / int_f38a4690	type	Legacy of Service
The Belgariad / int_f38a4690	comment	Legacy of Service: In a way, the entire Rivan people, as exemplified by the Brands. The Rivans exist solely to guard the Orb of Aldur—their city was designed by Belgarath himself, with every building and every home part of the fortifications. Duty and service are integral parts of their culture, and they also select the men who hold the office of Brand. They're servants to the Kings of Riva, serving as a sort of chancellor — handling the day-to-day administration while the king makes the big decisions. The office isn't hereditary, the Rivans choose based on character and ability—so every Brand is an intelligent man of reliable character, sound judgment, and an unbreakable sense of duty. So dedicated are they to their duty that upon assuming office, they abandon whatever name they had before, becoming known simply as 'Brand' (which was the name of the first one to hold the office). They've spent a long time taking care of Riva and its throne while waiting for the return of the true king, but once he DOES show up, they never falter, and continue to serve faithfully. (With one notable, but quickly-corrected exception.) Belgarath notes that the Rivans choosing a Brand don't go quite as far as the Nyissans do with selecting a Salmissra, but they come fairly close. Also, Barak's family, whose ability to shapeshift into bears is due to them being the hereditary protectors of Garion and his family.
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The Belgariad / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
The Belgariad / int_f4061d83	comment	Capital Letters Are Magic: The word EVENT, rendered in small capitals, refers specifically to an event required for the fulfillment of prophecy. These EVENTS are in essence instantaneous conflict between the two opposing Wills of the Universe, settled by a choice made by a mortal. The reason that they are instantaneous is that longer conflicts would destroy the universe. Also UL, father of the gods. Oddly, the habit of capitalizing his name originated in a printing error that Eddings thought looked good.
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The Belgariad / int_f4b1129f	type	Anger Born of Worry
The Belgariad / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Pretty much standard for Polgara. Her usual targets are her father, Garion, and Durnik, but anyone she cares for who scares her is usually in for a telling-off.
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The Belgariad / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
The Belgariad / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War Much of The Malloreon is composed of a huge MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois between 'Zakath, Zandramas and Urvon for control of the Sardion, with Mengha and Agachak looking to get involved from the outside, and the Demons working for whoever summons them. Ultimately Mengha allies with Urvon (who he and Nahaz start plotting against), 'Zakath Heel Face Turns and Zandramas secures her position as the Big Bad with the deaths of Urvon, Agachak, and Mengha, and the banishment of Nahaz, in one of the most stunning examples of Eviler than Thou in fiction. Whew. Also at the climax of The Belgariad, when after Torak's death the Angarak invasion of the West degenerates into a decades-long war between Mallorea and Cthol Murgos. Urgit's struggle to ascend the throne of Cthol Murgos after the death of Taur Urgas.
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The Belgariad / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
The Belgariad / int_f617419c	comment	Trial by Combat: Being, as it is, a reference to Arthurian epics, the Arendish culture uses this from time to time. It comes into play in the second book when Garion accuses a Murgo ambassador of plotting against the king without evidence, and Mandorallan champions his assertion, resulting in a minor bloodbath that clears up the problem.
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The Belgariad / int_f690d996	type	Refuge in the West
The Belgariad / int_f690d996	comment	Refuge in the West: The Orb is stored in a Citadel City on the Isle of Riva, the world's westernmost land. Justified: it's being protected from the Angarak Hordes from the East and the locale puts the world's best armies and navy in the way — apparently there's no danger of them sailing east around the globe.
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The Belgariad / int_f6a0872	type	Mage Tower
The Belgariad / int_f6a0872	comment	Mage Tower: Each of the disciples of Aldur have their own tower. It's a deliberate and conscious emulation of their patron god Aldur, though the specific styles vary reflecting aspects of the individual sorcerer's personality. Belkira and Beltira have a bridge linking theirs while the hunchbacked Beldin has a delicate and airy looking tower. Belgarath lampshades it while infiltrating a villain's tower by saying that every sorcerer he's met seems to build one â€” this particular one is upside down and hangs from the edge of a mountain, apparently just because it can.
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The Belgariad / int_f6ca5b54	type	The Archmage
The Belgariad / int_f6ca5b54	comment	The Archmage: Belgarath is the closest to the ideal of the archmage: he is the senior Disciple of Aldur, the oldest and most experienced sorcerer in the world, and possibly the most powerful after Belgarion. He is a master of sorcery, a decent alchemist, and a fair-to-good magician. He also has a mix of pragmatism and determination that enables him to take on any necessary task, no matter how difficult or morally abhorrent. The other Disciples of Aldur also qualify, particularly Beldin and Polgara. Beldin is the most intelligent of the lot, with the best theoretical understanding of sorcery, while Polgara is a master of medicine and how to manipulate people. One of Torak's disciples, Ctuchik, is an example of an evil Archmage. He's nearly Belgarath's equal in power and knowledge, and he rules Cthol Murgos with an iron fist. Torak's other two disciples, Zedar and Urvon, are subversions. As Disciples of a God, they should qualify, but Zedar doesn't get many chances to show what he can do, and when he does, he's handicapped by the fact that he's always on the wrong side of prophecied events. Urvon is shown to be more of an arch-butt kisser than a genuine magic-worker, relying on his authority as a Disciple and his competent underlings to accomplish his goals.
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The Belgariad / int_f74f567f	type	Bastard Understudy
The Belgariad / int_f74f567f	comment	Bastard Understudy: Harakan/Mengha to Urvon.
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The Belgariad / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Belgariad / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: The Bear-Cult. Relg starts out this way (albeit as a more positive variant), but after several books worth of Character Development he manages to lose the worst aspects of it, while remaining a deeply religious man.
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The Belgariad / int_f8117297	type	Go-Go Enslavement
The Belgariad / int_f8117297	comment	It actually happens to Garion once, at the hands of Salmissra, who has him drugged to the eyeballs and dressed up Go-Go Enslavement style. Thanks to his mental relationship with the Prophecy, it doesn't hold for long.
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The Belgariad / int_f8c079b3	type	With Us or Against Us
The Belgariad / int_f8c079b3	comment	With Us or Against Us: Invoked by Belgarath in The Malloreon, but it's justified by the fact that there really are only two sides in the great conflict: Change or an Eternal Status Quo.
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The Belgariad / int_f9636192	type	Prophecies Are Always Right
The Belgariad / int_f9636192	comment	Prophecies Are Always Right: Deconstructed. The reason for the prophecies in the first place is that a pure accident caused the original Purpose of the Universe to be threatened, so it split apart to protect itself. The competing Purposes then each set about to cause a course of events to occur such that their preferred outcome would come to pass. They create prophecies specifically to set out instructions for their pawns to make those things happen — or more specifically, to give meaning to the events. Moreover, the competing prophecies sometimes describe mutually exclusive outcomes that do not come to pass until they are resolved in a moment of Choice, which can only be made by a mortal.
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The Belgariad / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
The Belgariad / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: The Asturian Arends' long standing rebellion against the Mimbrate Arends.
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The Belgariad / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Belgariad / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Garion asking 'Zakath if he's sure he's not part Arendish, whenever the latter is behaving too enthusiastically regarding the prospect of extreme danger in The Malloreon. And, of course, "Why me?" It eventually gets a Lampshade Hanging (several, in fact).
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The Belgariad / int_fb1fb07f	type	Doomy Dooms of Doom
The Belgariad / int_fb1fb07f	comment	Doomy Dooms of Doom: Martje of Val Alorn likes to talk about Barak's Doom.
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The Belgariad / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Belgariad / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: The Thulls are the Big Guy of the Angarak races, characterized as slow-witted and cowardly, and are kept in perpetual thrall by the Grolims. Life for a Thull is a neverending scene of terror, as at any moment they could be sacrificed to Torak by one of the steel-masked priests, who can read minds so that even the thought of rebellion is pointless. Once Torak is dead, however, Silk notes that the Thulls are collectively taking great delight in finding every single Grolim they can get their hands on and finding new, creative ways to kill them.
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The Belgariad / int_fb3ac5b7	type	Astrologer
The Belgariad / int_fb3ac5b7	comment	Astrologer: The leaders of the Dal race.
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The Belgariad / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
The Belgariad / int_fb6b207f	comment	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 way possible.
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The Belgariad / int_fba4c0aa	type	Driven to Villainy
The Belgariad / int_fba4c0aa	comment	Driven to Villainy: Zedar claims this, although the prequels undermine his position. He initially joined Torak of his own free will, intending to act as a Fake Defector, and then Torak's touch on his mind obliterated his ability to resist. The implication is that pride was his Fatal Flaw for assuming that he, or any mortal, could mount that kind of deception against a god. At the end, Zedar tries to shrug off responsibility by arguing that he was merely playing his role in the prophecy, but Belgarath doesn't buy it.
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The Belgariad / int_fc5dd45e	type	Lodged Blade Removal
The Belgariad / int_fc5dd45e	comment	Lodged Blade Removal: Defied when Adara takes an arrow to the chest. Her would-be love interest Hettar panics and intends to pull it out, but someone with more sense orders him to leave it alone so they can take Adara to someone with Healing Hands.
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The Belgariad / int_fd48fd66	type	YouMeanXMas
The Belgariad / int_fd48fd66	comment	You Mean X Mas: 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.
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The Belgariad / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The Belgariad / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming When Aldur accepts someone as a pupil, beginning the extremely laidback process of becoming one of his disciples, Aldur prefixes the person's name with "Bel" for men and "Pol" for women; both syllables mean "Beloved". Garath = Belgarath, Garion = Belgarion, Polgara, Poledra.... As Belgarath notes, Aldur sometimes has a way with words. Polgara's sister, Beldaran, doesn't follow the theme because she was never a disciple of Aldur's; her destiny was to marry Riva and be the ultimate mother of the line that resulted in Garion. Most races' cities and towns follows thematic naming schemes — every city in Tolnedra starts with "Tol"; every city in Mallorea starts with "Mal"; every city in Maragor starts with "Mar"; etc. Silk and Velvet, the two Drasnian spies. Though other spies have different fake names that aren't fabric-themed. The names of Dryads always begins with an X. The women of the Borune family have names that always begin with 'Ce'. When Garion eventually gets around to asking Ce'Nedra why her name doesn't begin with an X like other Dryads, she explains that it does. It's just that humans pronounce the name "X'Nedra" incorrectly as "Ce'Nedra" which is where the 'Ce' prefix comes from. When their first daughter is born, Garion names her "Beldaran" in honour of Polgara's long-dead sister and his ultimate grandmother. Ce'Nedra is noted to be initially a little annoyed with the name - not because she doesn't like the idea of the tribute, but because she needs her daughter to have the Dryad 'X'. She moves on pretty quickly, though Garion speculates that she's still figuring out where to put the 'X', and decides that he doesn't want to know.
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The Belgariad / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
The Belgariad / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: A noblewoman that the party encounters in Mallorea, due to extreme boredom and isolation.
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The Belgariad / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Belgariad / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the first series, one of the reasons Relg is such a zealot is that at one point it was prophesied that he would be the one to reveal the next Gorim (the Ulgo's equivalent of the Pope and Dalai Lama rolled into one), and it's gone to his head. This is never mentioned again. In Enchanter's End Game it pretty much takes a command from UL to get Relg to admit he loves Taiba, lay aside his hysterical reactions to anything remotely sexual, and just marry her already. In Guardians of the West it turns out that that new Gorim is Relg's firstborn son. When told of this, Belgarath laughs like a drain and remarks that UL really does have a sense of humor after all.
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The Belgariad / int_fe1c3451	type	Prophet Eyes
The Belgariad / int_fe1c3451	comment	Prophet Eyes: The blind seer that Polgara cures has them. Naradas, Zandramas' Dragon in The Malloreon has something similar, but his pupils are visible and his eyes function — just the rest of his eyes are blank white. Seeing as how he's neither blind or a prophet, the integrity of the trope is maintained. Also, the Grolim who becomes the first Disciple of Eriond can't see what's in front of him after being struck by the Curse of Kell. (A magical protection the Seers of Kell created to keep Grolims from trying to get spoilers on the Prophecy by sneaking into Kell.) He's not blind, it's just that instead of the world around him, he sees something else. He sees Eriond's face — literally the face of his benevolent God. He's actually much happier that way and it doesn't seem to stop him getting around just fine.
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The Belgariad / int_fe7d9114	type	Sleeps with Both Eyes Open
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The Belgariad / int_feaf5424	comment	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Durnik, who has been quietly in love with Polgara for years, always calls her by the respectful "Mistress Pol", because that's how he's known her since they first met on Faldor's farm. It's not until Enchanters' End Game, when she utterly magically exhausts herself and collapses, that we hear him cry out a terrified "Polgara!"
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The Belgariad / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog Zakath literally pets the cat in The Belgariad — he has a kitten which he apparently found in an alley somewhere. He spends most of his time watching it. He doesn't really say why, but as a literary device, it's effective. In The Malloreon, the female cat has remained his companion and is now an adult. Though he frequently is trying to find homes for her kittens because, as Zakath himself says "She has been unfaithful to me... again." Amusingly, a female cat is called a "queen". What better companion pet for an Emperor than a Queen?
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The Belgariad / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Garion strongly suspects 'Zakath of being one of these in The Malloreon.
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The Belgariad	hasFeature	In Their Own Image / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Inadequate Inheritor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Incest Subtext / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Inelegant Blubbering / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Inexplicably Identical Individuals / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Informed Obscenity / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Innocent Swearing / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water! / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Insufferable Genius / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Intangibility / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Intergenerational Friendship / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Jeanne d'ArchÃ©type / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Jousting Lance / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Just Think of the Potential! / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Karmic Overkill / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Kill the God / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	King on His Deathbed / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Know-Nothing Know-It-All / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Kryptonite Is Everywhere / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Lack of Empathy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Lady Land / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Land of One City / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Last Grasp at Life / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Leave Him to Me! / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Left-Justified Fantasy Map / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Legacy Character / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Legacy Immortality / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Legendary in the Sequel / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Leonine Contract / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Let Me Get This Straight... / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Lethal Harmless Powers / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Licked by the Dog / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Life Will Kill You / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Living Distant Ancestor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Living Forever Is Awesome / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Living Forever is No Big Deal / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Living Relic / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Locked Away in a Monastery / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Lodged Blade Removal / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Loincloth / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Lost in Character / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Lost in Transmission / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Love Makes You Dumb / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Loved I Not Honor More / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Loyal Phlebotinum / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Luke Nounverber / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Macho Masochism / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mad God / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mage Tower / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magic A Is Magic A / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magic Antidote / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magic Is a Monster Magnet / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magic Misfire / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magical Gesture / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magical Homeless Person / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magical Incantation / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magical Nanny / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magical Sensory Effect / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Magical Star Symbols / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Make Sure He's Dead / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Malevolent Masked Men / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Maligned Mixed Marriage / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Man-Eating Plant / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mandatory Motherhood / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mangst / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Marital Rape License / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mark of the Supernatural / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Marriage to a God / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Masking the Deformity / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Master Actor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Master of Disguise / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Master Poisoner / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mayâ€“December Romance / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mayflyâ€“December Romance / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Measuring the Marigolds / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Meet the New Boss / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mega Maelstrom / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Men Get Old, Women Get Replaced / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Methuselah Syndrome / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mind Your Step / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mirthless Laughter / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mistaken for Dying / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Moment of Silence / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Money Fetish / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mordor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	More Teeth than the Osmond Family / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Morning Sickness / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Morphic Resonance / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Moses in the Bulrushes / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mounted Combat / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mr. Vice Guy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mugged for Disguise / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Muggleâ€“Mage Romance / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mundane Solution / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Murder Is the Best Solution / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Murder the Hypotenuse / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	My Beloved Smother / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	My Grandson, Myself / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Mysterious Waif / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Myth Prologue / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Naked Nutter / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Named After the Injury / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	National Weapon / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Nature Is Not a Toy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Necromancer / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Nemean Skinning / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Nemesis Weapon / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Nephewism / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Nepotism / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Neutral in Name Only / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Never Tell Me the Odds! / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	New Skill as Reward / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Accounting for Taste / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Delays for the Wicked / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Infantile Amnesia / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Loves Intersect / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Mercy for Murderers / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Periods, Period / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Sex Allowed / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	No Woman's Land / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Noiseless Walker / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Non-Idle Rich / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Non-Linear Character / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	North Is Cold, South Is Hot / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Not Always Evil / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Not Hyperbole / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Not So Omniscient After All / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Not That Kind of Mage / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Occult Blue Eyes / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Offered the Crown / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Offering Another in Your Stead / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Old Retainer / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Older Sidekick / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Ominous Clouds / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Once More, with Clarity / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	One-Gender Race / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	One-Handed ZweihÃ¤nder / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	One-Word Vocabulary / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Only the Chosen May Wield / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Only Useful as Toilet Paper / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Only You Can Repopulate My Race / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Oral Fixation / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Orcus on His Throne / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Our Gods Are Different / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Our Mages Are Different / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Our Nymphs Are Different / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Our Witches Are Different / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Outdoor Bath Peeping / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Outsourcing Fate / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Oxymoronic Being / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	P.O.V. Sequel / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Pair the Spares / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Pals with Jesus / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Panicky Expectant Father / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Patchwork Map / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Patient Zero / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Pauper Patches / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Paying in Coins / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Pen-Pushing President / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	People of Hair Color / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Perfect Poison / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Phosphor-Essence / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Physical Religion / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Plagued by Nightmares / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Planet of Hats / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Plant Person / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Playful Otter / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Playing Both Sides / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Please Put Some Clothes On / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Please Wake Up / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Plot Detour / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Plot-Powered Stamina / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Plot Tailored to the Party / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Poison and Cure Gambit / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Poke in the Third Eye / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	PokÃ©mon Speak / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Polar Opposite Twins / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Poverty Food / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Power Tattoo / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Powers Do the Fighting / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Pragmatic Hero / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Pre-Sacrifice Final Goodbye / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Prelude to Suicide / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Pretty Boy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Prevent the War / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Prophecies Are Always Right / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Prospector / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Protagonist-Centered Morality / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Proud Merchant Race / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Psychic Radar / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Puberty Superpower / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Punctuation Shaker / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Purple Prose / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Rage Against the Mentor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Rain of Arrows / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	"Rashomon"-Style / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Real Name as an Alias / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Really Gets Around / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Really Royalty Reveal / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Rebellious Princess / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Redhead in Green / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Reed Richards Is Useless / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Refuge in the West / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Rejected by the Empathic Weapon / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Religion is Magic / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Religion of Evil / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Religious Bruiser / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Remember the New Guy? / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Request for Privacy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Requisite Royal Regalia / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Resigned to the Call / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Retired Monster / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Ribcage Ridge / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Rich Language, Poor Language / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Ridiculously Long-lived Family Name / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Rightful King Returns / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Ringer Ploy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Roaring Rampage of Rescue / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Robe and Wizard Hat / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Royal Bastard / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Ruling Couple / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Ruling Family Massacre / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Running Away to Cry / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sacred Language / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sacred Scripture / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sad Clown / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sand Bridge at Low Tide / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sanity Has Advantages / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sapient Steed / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Scars are Forever / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Science Wizard / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Screw Destiny / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Scry vs. Scry / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Scullery Maid / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Second Love / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Secret-Identity Identity / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Secretly Wealthy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Self-Guarding Phlebotinum / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Self-Poisoning Gambit / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sensor Character / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sent Into Hiding / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Seriously Scruffy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Serpent of Immortality / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Serrated Blade of Pain / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Settle It Without Weapons / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Seven Minute Lull / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sexually Transmitted Superpowers / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Default Form / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Shapeshifting Lover / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	She Is All Grown Up / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Shining City / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sibling Murder / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Signature Scent / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Significant Green-Eyed Redhead / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Silent Partner / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Silver Fox / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Simple, yet Opulent / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Single Line of Descent / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Single-Minded Twins / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Single-Precept Religion / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Single Tear / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sinister Scimitar / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Skilled, but Naive / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Slap-Slap-Kiss / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sleeps with Both Eyes Open / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Smelly Skunk / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Smug Smiler / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Snake People / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sneaking Out at Night / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sneaky Departure / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Snooty Sports / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Solitary Sorceress / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Solo Duet / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Solo Mission Becomes Group Mission / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Space Cold War / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Space Jews / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Spare to the Throne / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Speaks Fluent Animal / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Spit Take / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Squishy Wizard / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Stab the Sky / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Stalker without a Crush / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Standard Hero Reward / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Starter Villain / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sterility Plague / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sticky Fingers / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Stock Medieval Meal / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Stronger Than They Look / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Stumbling in the New Form / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Suave Sabre / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Suddenly Significant Rule / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Suddenly Suitable Suitor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Suicide Watch / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Summon Bigger Fish / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Summon Binding / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Summon Magic / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Summoning Ritual / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Super Drowning Skills / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Super-Speed Reading / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Superior Twin Teamwork / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Supernatural Sensitivity / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Supporting Leader / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Supreme Chef / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Swamps Are Evil / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sweeping the Table / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sword Fight / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sword of Plot Advancement / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Sympathy for the Devil / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Talk About the Weather / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Talking through Technique / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tantrum Throwing / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Team Chef / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Teleportation with Drawbacks / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tell Me About My Father / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Terminal Transformation / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Terrain Sculpting / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Terror Hero / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Testing Range Mishap / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Textile Work Is Feminine / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	That Poor Plant / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	That Wasn't a Request / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Ageless / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Almighty Dollar / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Archmage / int_2372359
The Belgariad	seeAlso	The Belgariad
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Blacksmith / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Catfish / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Champion / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Chooser of the One / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Chosen People / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Conqueror / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Devil Is a Loser / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Drunken Sailor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Emperor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Empire / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Fellowship Has Ended / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Final Temptation / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Fog of Ages / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Gadfly / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Gods Must Be Lazy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Good Chancellor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Grotesque / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Heretic / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The High King / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The "I Love You" Stigma / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Insomniac / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Joy of First Flight / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Law of Conservation of Detail / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Legions of Hell / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Medic / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Mentally Disturbed / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Mourning After / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Old Gods / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Omniscient / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Owl-Knowing One / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Pig-Pen / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Purge / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Quest / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Quiet One / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Rich Have White Stuff / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Spymaster / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Stateless / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Stormbringer / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Storyteller / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Talk / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Tramp / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Voice / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The Wrongful Heir to the Throne / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Theme Table / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Theme Twin Naming / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Theseus' Ship Paradox / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	They Call Him "Sword" / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Thieves' Cant / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Third Law of Gender-Bending / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	This Was His True Form / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Thought-Controlled Power / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Thread of Prophecy, Severed / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Threatening Mediator / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Thunderbolt Iron / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Time Dissonance / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tomes of Prophecy and Fate / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tongue-Tied / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tonight, Someone Dies / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Too Broken to Break / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Too Important to Walk / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Top God / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Top Wife / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Transmutation / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Trapped in Villainy / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Trash the Set / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Traumatic Superpower Awakening / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Travel Transformation / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Treacherous Spirit Chase / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tribe of Priests / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	True Blue Femininity / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	True Craftsman / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	True Love is Exceptional / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	True Neutral / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Tunnel King / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Twincest / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Two-Faced / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unequal Rites / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unable to Support a Wife / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unaffected by Spice / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Understatement / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Undisclosed Native / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Undressing the Unconscious / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unequal Pairing / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unishment / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unknowingly in Love / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unreliable Expositor / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unskilled, but Strong / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Unwitting Pawn / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Upbringing Makes the Hero / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Uptown Girl / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Urban Warfare / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Vanity Is Feminine / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Variant Chess / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Vengeance Denied / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Vetinari Job Security / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Voice of the Legion / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Volleying Insults / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wacky Cravings / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Walk on Water / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Walking the Earth / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wandering Culture / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wandering Walk of Madness / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wandering Wizard / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Warm Milk Helps You Sleep / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	We Win, Because You Didn't / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Weak-Willed / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wealthy Ever After / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Weaponized Stench / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Weather of War / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Weather Saves the Day / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Weddings for Everyone / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	What a Senseless Waste of Human Life / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Humanoid? / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wild Card / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wizard Beard / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wizard Classic / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wizard Duel / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wizard Workshop / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wizards Live Longer / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Womb Horror / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Words Can Break My Bones / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Words Do Not Make The Magic / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Workplace-Acquired Abilities / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	World Sundering / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	World Tree / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	World's Strongest Man / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Worthless Treasure Twist / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wounds to Keep / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Wrestler of Beasts / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	You Are Not Ready / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	You Mean "Xmas" / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Cliché Storm / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Cast From Stamina / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Fictional Document / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Hero Secret Service / int_2372359
The Belgariad	hasFeature	Regent for Life / int_2372359

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