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Make free printable calendars in PDF format for , and more. However, the book began to get interesting at the end and the world shows a lot of promise. So I am a little torn on whether to continue with the next book in the series or not.
Maybe I'll just dither like Morgon and then probably do it anyway! Feb 16, Violinknitter rated it it was amazing. I love this trilogy far beyond reason, so I won't try to give a reasoned review.
I will give a few words of advice, though. The first book is in no way a stand-alone story. The trilogy only makes sense if you read the entire trilogy McKillip is not for everyone. Personally I love that in a book. I love to feel there is much more to the world and the story than I am being told. If you like to have all the answers by the end of the book, McKillip may not be the fantasy writer for you. Her language, though!!!!
Oh, my goodness, her prose is some of the most beautiful prose I have ever read. View 2 comments. Feb 04, Greymalkin rated it did not like it Shelves: scifi-fantasy. Lovely language and delicate mythos but I just couldn't get over the riddles that weren't riddles. The wordplay was too much for me and although it is a slim book, it felt much longer because the main character kept dragging his heels and complaining through the whole book.
It had a feeling a bit like Taran Wanderer which I love so I can see why people would love this but it wasn't for me, alas! Apr 10, Fares rated it it was ok Shelves: 2-and-a-half-stars. I found it in the local used bookstore, and I liked the cover and the title, but I put off reading it because I didn't know if it would be compelling enough. Well, I was captivated right away by McKillip's writing style and by her protagonist, Morgon. Then, the story line drew me in.
The plot is so mysterious: who is Morgon? Answers and partial answers are revealed slowly, but the action is steady, and the prose is lovely throughout. There are still many unanswered riddles, and although Morgon learned in Caithnard to "beware the unanswered riddle," I don't fear diving into the second book. I want to know what happens, and as far as I can tell, the stricture of the accumulated riddles in the first book is: "If you're interested enough to wonder, always read the second book.
Feb 23, Margo rated it it was ok. Repetitive and painful to read. I do not like the writing style at all. Every time Morgon goes to sleep, someone tries to kill him. Every single time. If it gets dark or someone yawns or they've been traveling a long time and someone says they should rest, you immediately know someone is about to try to kill Morgon -- again.
In pretty much the same way, because it's always this shape-shifting creature. I'm less than half way through the book even though I've been trying to read it for months, an Repetitive and painful to read. I'm less than half way through the book even though I've been trying to read it for months, and he's already been almost killed in his sleep at least five times. Every time Morgon almost dies, he says he's going to go home, he doesn't want this name or this destiny, he'll be safe if he just goes home, he doesn't care if he isn't safe, as long as he's home, blahblahblah.
Every time someone mentions a riddle, one of Morgon's friends says his life could depend on answering the riddle about the stars on his face, and he responds meh, answering riddles was fun for awhile, but I don't feel like answering that one. And Deth and Morgon talk constantly about how cool their harps are.
The names are unoriginal -- really? An of Awn? The only things LOTR-esque about it is the author's apparent love of unpronounceable names, having people randomly start singing poems, and never staying in one place longer than a minute. No, I take that back -- Tolkien uses less unpronounceable names, because Tolkien actually wants to keep the attention of his readers. The author doesn't explain anything to you; the characters just start talking about random stuff that makes no sense until you read it five times because they know what's going on and you don't, and a good book should require you to read the same passage over and over for it to actually make sense.
Stephen R. Donaldson's review on the back of the book, "There are no better writers than Patricia A McKillip," is not only laughable, but an insult to a lot of authors. Ray Bradbury.
Louisa May Alcott. Michael Ende. Elizabeth Gaskell. William Pierre du Bois. People who didn't just have an idea for a story, but knew how to draw their reader into it, and didn't keep throwing them out again by putting more focus on the names than the story or by making them re-read whole chapters to have any idea what's going on.
I'm pages into the first book, and it stopped going anywhere about pages ago. Better than most post-LOTR imitators. Lots, but none that diminish the enjoyment of the text.
Go with the admittedly shallow flow. Perhaps he has already begun to act in ways you do not recognize. See my review of the omnibus volume. I stumbled over this book back in '77 or '78 and then had to wait till I could find the next volume.
Very frustrating. A good series, I find the first volume to be the best of the 3 though I've read reviews of those who disagree. Feb 24, Kaitlin rated it it was ok. I picked this one up as part of my reading project for this year. I'm really trying to read more books written by ladies pre in SFF. This definitely fit the bill, but unfortunately it didn't grip me anywhere near as much as I had hoped for This tells the story of Morgon, Prince of Hed, who manages to unravel a riddle and earn himself notoriety and magical propechy.
Morgon never really knew what he was getting by completing the Riddle, but let's just say it becomes something much much gre I picked this one up as part of my reading project for this year. Morgon never really knew what he was getting by completing the Riddle, but let's just say it becomes something much much greater than a young farm-based Prince could ever have dreamed. What I liked about this book were the hints of magic we saw.
All the way through we hear about this magic that is used by the various land-rulers to really 'feel' all of their lands. The idea that the rulers were in tune with the magic of their domain was something I loved to imagine, but even though it sounds cool I am not sure it was fully developed, and I feel that way about most of the magic within this series. I also really enjoyed the concepts of Harps, History and Shapechangers. We see a lot of myth and legend woven into the quest that Morgon finds himself on, and along the way we discover a significance to the stars on a harp that match the stars on Morgon.
This is definitely utilised at various points in the story to great effect, and I felt like this magic element was probably the one best described and portrayed in the book. What I had problems with were the tiring, drawn-out descriptions of travelling. Some of the scenes within this book just felt too long for my liking and although things do happen on the way, I just never felt like I connected with or sympathised with Morgon himself.
I think the writing style of this book definitely has some lovely moments, but I just couldn't get past the moments and get immersed in the book as a whole. Jul 13, Dana rated it it was ok Shelves: fantasy. Didn't finish. In the first chapter, Main Character MC and his siblings have a fight in front of their subjects involving a rose bush and a poured bucket of sour milk.
The siblings are angry because MC went on a riddle quest and won the quest by asking, "What was the monster that knocked on a door, that one time? Then MC buys a harp and goes on a ship back to visit the college he attended, so he can tell the brother of his future bride that he is the one who w Didn't finish.
Then MC buys a harp and goes on a ship back to visit the college he attended, so he can tell the brother of his future bride that he is the one who will marry her. In the second chapter, MC and the brother get into a fight because MC refuses to accept robes of a riddle master, and brother doesn't want MC to accept the robes of the riddle master, so brother takes off all of his clothes in protest at their apparent agreement and stomps away, presumably in only his underwear.
Then MC gets on a boat. In the third chapter, there is a storm, and MC ends up on a beach with amnesia with an albino companion and his giant cat friend. Albino believes that the princess of the island is not actually the princess, but a daemon, because he saw a bird die on a cliff one day when he was hiking with her They go on archeological digs in an abandoned town and MC, by the way, can't speak, but only write things down.
And then, MC gets his memory back suddenly when he walks up to a harp that no one could play, and he plays it. So he decides to get on a boat again because now there's a war on, you know. This is when I stopped reading.
It is easy to see how this would be a classic. It has several hallmarks of an epic: the eye-opening personal evolution, the quest, the introductions to powerful objects and great events. McKlllip adds to that base an enigmatic world with questions unanswered. Generally, this is a bonus, giving a dose of mystique to what is otherwise an episodic adventure tale. In some places it does hamper the world and characters, as it is never clear that what is extraordinary to the reader is anything but ordinary to book characters.
Ultimately what makes this a standout is the profession of the Riddle-Masters and the art involved with the harp. The former is simply excellent fantasy worldbuilding, changing the way readers think about matters that others coast through without thought.
The latter binds artistry and wonder together in a way that gave an added flair to the tale. There are modern fantasies that are so much better at writing; they understand pacing, characterization, and plotting. But not all authors, present or past, manage the idea. Whenever someone does, as McKillip here, it is worth stopping and noticing. Good story, quite imaginative. I read it a second time, the entire trilogy, and liked it much more. The first time through, I didn't read it, I only listened to it.
I lost a lot that way, including some nuance and details on the complexities of this plot. The story gradually pulled on my heartstrings, especially through the complex characterization of Deth, the harpist. Simon Prebble is a fine narrator, but he didn't add anything to this story. He didn't differentiate between characters enough so Good story, quite imaginative.
He didn't differentiate between characters enough so I couldn't be certain who was speaking. Apr 07, Andy rated it liked it Shelves: read , the-booket-list Most of this book was Morgon begrudgingly or outright telling prophecies and such to go fuck themselves.
He wanted absolutely nothing to do with riddles about his fate. Man, I really felt for him. All he wanted was to go home to be with his siblings, but instead he's roped into a huge adventure that makes him question everything he thinks he knows about himself. See Morgon was born with three stars on his head. And these three stars keep showing up in un-answerable riddles.
So Morgon goes off to Most of this book was Morgon begrudgingly or outright telling prophecies and such to go fuck themselves. So Morgon goes off to find the High One, accompanied by Deth. For most of their journey, I was uninterested. It wasn't until Morgon visits some shape shifters that my interest peaked. The ending felt like it was supposed to be this big twist, but overall, I felt very underwhelmed by it. Apr 21, Maggie K rated it liked it Shelves: plan , sffbctbr , sffbcalphabet.
I would read a little, get to something happening where I wasnt sure about the WHY? The writing is good, I just had a lot of questions over what the main character is doing and why ALthough he is supposed to be a prince of a simple farming community, he keeps taking off on impetuous travels.
He wins a crown through a bet, that also gives him the Kings daughter as his wife a woman he really admirers , he feels he has to go off It took me FOREVER to read this book He wins a crown through a bet, that also gives him the Kings daughter as his wife a woman he really admirers , he feels he has to go off and speak to the high king, I am not sure why.
For some reason, his travels seem to land him on the doorstep of every other king in the country, and they all do really wonderful things to help him.
But Why? I think he is supposed to be some famous prophecy, and is not realizing it, but with all the 'tell' instead of 'show', it was quite confusing.
If I was this princess, I would be all sorts of crazy angry about a fiance running around for years without even to bother speaking to her, bu then again, I am no princess. I am simply confused.
And his sister is none too happy that he risked his life riddling with a ghost to get it. Review: This book is one of the things that got me interested in fantasy to begin with. There were others — Donaldson, Lewis, Vance, Zelazny — but this series was among the most accessible. Quite well. Master Tel, the annoyance in his sparse, parchment-colored face melting into astonishment, gathered his voice again, set a riddle to the strain of silence, "Who won the riddle-game with Peven of Aum?
He told them the tale sitting in the Masters' library, with its vast ancient collection of books running the length and breadth of the walls. The eight Masters listened quietly, Rood in his gold robe making a brilliant splash among their black robes.
No one spoke until he finished, and then Master Tel shifted in his chair and murmured wonderingly, "Kern of Hed. I thought everyone knew that riddle. But when Peven shouted 'There are no riddles of Hed! It wasn't a Great Shout, but I will hear it in my mind until I die. Hagis King of An, my father's grandfather, died in Peven's tower for lack of that riddle. The lords of An should have paid more attention to that small island.
They will now. There is still a riddle without an answer. If Peven of Aum had asked you that, with all your great knowledge you might not be here today. They were mist-colored, calm as his voice. He said, "Without an answer and a stricture, it would have been disqualified.
Master Ohm, you helped us search a whole winter the first year I came here for an answer to that riddle. Peven took his knowledge from books of wizardry that had belonged to Madir, and before that to the Lungold wizards.
And in all their writings, which you have here, no mention is made of three stars. I don't know where to look for an answer. And I don't Beware the unanswered riddle. Hide behind the closed doors in your mind, you stubborn farmer. A hundred years from now students in the White of Beginning Mastery will be scratching their heads trying to remember the name of an obscure Prince of Hed who, like another obscure Prince of Hed, ignored the first and last rule of riddle-mastery.
I thought you had more sense. Is that so hard to understand? Why are you being so obtuse? You of all people? What more do you suggest he do? The Master Ohm broke it with a rustle of cloth as he shifted. However I suspect you will have to provide Morgon with more incentive than pure knowledge before he would make such a long, harsh journey away from his land. Sooner or later, he'll be driven there.
I want to go to Anuin, not Erlenstar Mountain. I don't want to ask any more riddles; spending a night from twilight to dawn in a tower rotten with cloth and bone, racking my brain for every riddle I ever learned, gave me a distaste for riddle-games.
You will go to Anuin, and the lords of An, and my father and Raederle will give you at least the respect due to you for your knowledge and your courage. But if you accept the Black, it will be a lie; and if you offer the peace of Hed to Raederle, that also will be a lie, a promise you will not keep because there is a question you will not answer, and you will find, like Peven, that it is the one riddle you do not know, not the thousand you do knew, that will destroy you.
How can you be so blind? How can you so stubbornly, so flagrantly, ignore everything you know is true? How can you let them call you a Master?
How can you accept from them the Black of Mastery while you turn a blind eye at truth? He said tautly, Rood's face suddenly the only face in the still room, "I never wanted the Black. But I do claim some choice in my life. What those stars on my face are, I do not know; and I don't want to know.
Is that what you want me to admit? You take the eyes that your father, and Madir, and the shape-changer Ylon gave you and probe your own cold, fearless way into truth, and when you take the Black, I will come and celebrate with you. But all I want is peace. We can only judge Morgon according to our standards, and by those he has earned the Black. How else can we honor him? He undid his robe, let it slide to the floor, stood half-naked in the startled gaze of the Masters.
He leaned back in his chair, his stiff fingers opening, and said icily, "Put your clothes back on, Rood. I have said I didn't want the Black, and I won't take it.
It's not the business of a farmer of Hed to master riddles. Besides, what honor would it give me to wear the same robe Laern wore and lost in that tower, and that Peven wears now? He leaned over it, his hands on the arms. His face loomed above Morgon's, spare, bloodless.
He whispered, "Please. Then Morgon's own body loosened as though the black gaze had drained out of it. He heard the door close and dropped his face in one hand. I lost my temper. Will you accept the Black? You surely deserve it, and as Tel says, it is all we have to honor you.
I do want it. But Rood wants it more than I do; he'll make better use of it than I will, and I would rather he take it. I'm sorry we argued here--I don't know how it got started. Morgon's eyes moved to him after a moment.
So do you, although you have chosen not to act--as is, according to your rather confused standards, your right. But I suspect a journey to the High One will not be as useless as you think.
And why should I trouble whatever destiny Rood thinks I have until it troubles me? I'm not going out hunting a destiny like a strayed cow. He went alone to the mountains, taking nothing but his harp, and lived quietly, far from all men, farming and playing his harp. So great was his harping in his loneliness, that it became his voice, and it spoke as he could not, to the animals living around him. Word of it spread from creature to creature until it came one day to the ears of the Wolf of Osterland, Har, as he prowled in that shape through his land.
He was drawn by curiosity to the far reaches of his kingdom, and there he found Ilon, playing at the edge of the world.
The wolf sat and listened. And Ilon, finishing his song and raising his eyes, found the terror he had run from standing on his threshold. But I don't see what that has to do with me. I'm not running: I'm simply not interested. Morgon did not see Rood again, though he searched through the grounds and the cliff above the sea half the afternoon for him. He took supper with the Masters, and found, wandering outside afterward into the dead wind of twilight, the High One's harpist coming up the road.
Deth, stopping, said, "You look troubled. He must have gone down to Caithnard. Three stars gleamed below his hairline, muted in the evening. I want him with me at Anuin, but it's getting late, and I don't know now if he'll come.
If we miss the tide, they'll sail without us. He's probably drunk in some tavern, wearing nothing but his boots. Maybe he would rather see me take a long journey to the High One than marry Raederle. Maybe he's right. She doesn't belong in Hed, and that's what upset him. Maybe I should go down and get drunk with him and go home. I don't know. Surely Rood, of all people, would have told you the truth about how he feels toward the marriage. The sky darkened slowly as he and the harpist took the long road back to the city; on the rough horns of the bay the warning fires had been lit; tiny lights from homes and taverns made random stars against the well of darkness.
The tide boomed and slapped against the cliffs, and an evening wind stirred, strengthened, blowing the scent of salt and night. The trade-ship stirred restlessly in the deep water as they boarded; a loosed sail cupped the wind, taut and ghostly under the moon. Morgon, standing at the stern, watched the lights of the harbor ripple across the water and vanish. With the horses we carry, you may be happier up here in the air. There are plenty of skins from your own sheep to keep you warm.
Sitting on a great spool of cable, his arms resting on the rail, he watched the white wake furl to the turn of the silent helmsman's tiller. His thoughts slid to Rood; he traced the threads of their argument to its roots, puzzled over it, retraced it again.
The wind carried voices of the handful of sailors manning the ship, a snatch of traders' discussion of the goods they carried. The masts groaned with the weight of wind; the ship, heavy with cargo, neatly balanced, cut with an easy roll from bow to stern through the waves. Morgon, the east wind numbing his cheek, lulled by the creak and dip of the vessel, put his head on his arms and closed his eyes. He was asleep when the ship shuddered as though the twelve winds had seized it at once, and, startling awake, he heard the furious, unchecked thump of the tiller.
He stood up, a call dying in his throat, for the deck behind him was empty. The ship, its sails full-blown to the harsh wind, reeled, throwing him back against the rail. He caught his balance desperately. The chart-house, where the traders had been lamp-lit as they pored over their papers, was dark. The wind, whimpering, drove hard into the sails, and the ship rolled, giving Morgon a sudden glimpse of white froth. He straightened slowly with it, his teeth set hard, feeling the prick of sweat on his back even in the cold spray.
He saw the hatch to the hold open reluctantly against the wind, recognized the web-colored hair in the moonlight. He made his way toward it in a lull of wind, clinging to whatever stay and spare corner he passed. He had to shout twice to make himself heard. Morgon, staring at him, made no sense of the words. At the touch, and his quick, silent glance across the decks, Morgon felt his throat suddenly constrict "Deth--" "Yes. His brows were drawn hard. They can't have just--just vanished like pieces of foam.
Where are they? Did they fall overboard? The animals screamed in terror; the deck itself seemed to strain beneath them, as though it were being pulled apart. A rope snapped above Morgon's head, slashing across the deck; wood groaned and buckled around them.
He felt his voice tear out of him. In open sea, we're not moving! Deth caught Morgon as he slid helplessly across the deck; a wave breaking against the low side drenched them both, and he gagged on the cold, bitter water. He managed to stand, clinging with one hand to Deth's wrist, and flung his arms around the mast, tangling his fingers in the rigging.
His face close to the harpist's, his feet sliding to the tilt of the deck, he shouted hoarsely, "Who were they? Deth's figure blurred in the sweep of a wave; the mast snapped with a jar Morgon felt to his bones, and the striped canvas weighted with rigging and yard slapped him loose from his hold and swept him into the sea.
He lifted his face; a bone-white beach strewn with seaweed and bleached driftwood blurred under one eye; his other eye was blind. He dropped his head, his eye closing again, and someone on his blind side touched him. He started. Hands tugged at him, rolled him onto his back. He stared into a wild white cat's ice-blue eyes. Its ears were flattened.
A voice said warningly, "Xel. The voice said, "Who are you? What happened to you? His voice would not shape the words. He realized, as he struggled with it, that there were no words in him anywhere to shape answers. A silence spun like a vortex in his head, drawing him deeper and deeper into darkness.
He woke again tasting cool water. He reached for it blindly, drank until the crust of salt in his mouth dissolved, then lay back, the empty cup rolling from his hands.
He opened his good eye again a moment later. A young man with lank white hair and white eyes knelt beside him on the dirt floor of a small house.
The threads of the voluminous, richly embroidered robe he wore were picked and frayed; the skin was stretched taut, hollow across his strange, proud face. He said as Morgon blinked up at him, "Who are you? Can you speak now? Like a small wave receding, something he had once known slipped quietly, silently away from him. The breath exploded out of him suddenly, violently; he dug the heels of his hands into his eyes.
Did you fall off a ship in that storm last night? Are you of Ymris? Of Anuin? Of Isig? Are you a trader? Are you of Hed? Of Lungold? Are you a fisher from Loor? Can you see now? His frown deepened suddenly; he reached out and brushed at the hair plastered dry with salt against Morgon's forehead. His voice caught. The man said softly, incredulously, "You don't remember even that.
You came out of the sea with three stars on your face, with no name and no voice, like a portent out of the past I am Astrin Ymris. He fetched wood, stirred up the embers under a cauldron of soup; by the time it had heated, Morgon had fallen asleep.
He woke at dusk. The tiny house was empty; he sat up, looking around him. It had little furniture: a bench, a large table cluttered with odd objects, a high stool, the pallet Morgon had slept on. Tools leaned against the doorway: a pick, a hammer, a chisel, a brush; dirt clung to them.
Morgon rose, went to the open door. Across the threshold a great, wind-blown plain swept westward as far as he could see. Not far from the house, dark, shapeless stoneworks rose, blurred in the fading light. To the south lay, like a boundary line between lands, the dark line of a vast forest.
The wind, running in from the sea, spoke a hollow, restless language. It smelled of salt and night, and for a moment, listening to it, some memory reeled into his mind of darkness, water, cold, wild wind, and he gripped the door posts to keep from falling. But it passed, and he found no word for it. He turned. Strange things lay on Astrin's broad table. He touched them curiously.
There were pieces of broken, beautifully dyed glass, of gold, shards of finely painted pottery, a few links of heavy copper chain, a broken flute of wood and gold. A color caught his eye; he reached for it. It was a cut jewel the size of his palm, and through it flowed, as he turned it, all the colors of the sea. He heard a step and looked up.
Astrin, Xel at his side, came in, dropped a heavy, stained bag by the hearth. He said, stirring the fire. I found that at the foot of Wind Tower. No trader I showed it to could give me the name for that stone, so I took it to Isig, to Danan Isig himself. He said that never in his mountain had he seen such a jewel, nor did he know anyone beside himself and his son, who could have cut it so flawlessly.
He gave me Xel out of friendship. I had nothing to give him, but he said I had given him a mystery, which is sometimes a precious thing. He let Morgon take the knife from him. Can you remember anything else about yourself? Try to--" He stopped at the helpless, tormented expression on Morgon's face, gripped Morgon's arm briefly. It will come back to you. Astrin ate quietly, the white huntress Xel curled at his feet; he seemed to have settled back into a habit of silence, his thoughts indrawn, until he finished.
Then he opened the door a moment to the driving rain, closed it, and the cat lifted its head with a yowl. Astrin's movements became restless as he touched books and did not open them, set shards of glass together that did not fit and dropped them, his face expressionless as though he were listening to something beyond the rain. Morgon, seated at the hearth, his head aching and the cut over his eye pressed against cool stones, watched him. Astrin's prowling brought him finally in front of Morgon; he gazed down at Morgon out of his white, secret eyes until Morgon looked away.
Astrin sat down with a sigh beside him. He said abruptly, "You are as secret as Wind Tower. I've been here five years in exile from Caerweddin. I speak to Xel, to an old man I buy fish from in Loor, to occasional traders, and to Rork, High Lord of Umber, who visits me every few months. By night, I dig in other directions, sometimes in books of wizardry I've learned to open, sometimes out there in the darkness above Loor, by the sea. I take Xel with me, and we watch something that is building on the shores of Ymris under night cover, something for which there is no name But I can't go tonight; the tide will be rough in this wind, and Xel hates the rain.
I wish I knew your name. I wish He rose as suddenly as he had sat down, and took from his shelves a heavy book with a name on it stamped in gold: Aloil. It was locked with two apparently seamless bindings of iron.
He touched them, murmuring a word, and they opened. Morgon went to his side; he looked up. Then his eyes widened a little as he remembered, but Astrin continued, "Most people have forgotten. He was the wizard in service to the Kings of Ymris for nine hundred years before he went to Lungold, then vanished along with the entire school of wizards seven hundred years ago.
I bought the book from a trader; it took me two years to learn the word to open it. Part of the poetry Aloil wrote was to the wizard Nun, in service to Hel. I tried her name to open the book, but that didn't work. Then I remembered the name of her favorite pig out of all the pig herds of Hel: the speaking pig, Hegdis-Noon--and that name opened the book. Do you know that tale? Aloil was furious with Galil Ymris because the king refused to follow Aloil's advice during a seige of Caerweddin, and as a result Aloil's tower was burned.
So Aloil made a stone in the plain above Caerweddin speak for eight days and nights in such a loud voice that men as far as Umber and Meremont heard it, and the stone recited all Galil's secret, very bad attempts at writing poetry.
From that the plain got its name. He straightened. Xel can't laugh. You make me remember I'm human. I forget that sometimes, except when Rork Umber is here, and then I remember, all too well, who I am. Now if I can read his handwriting Astrin turned to him finally. He held Morgon gently by the arms and said slowly, "I think if this spell can make a stone speak, it may make you speak. I haven't done much mind-work; I've gone into Xel's mind, and once into Rork's, with his permission.
If you are afraid, I won't do this. But perhaps if I go deep enough, I can find your name. Do you want me to try? He nodded, his eyes holding Astrin's, and Astrin drew a breath. Sit down. Sit quietly. The first step is to become as the stone Astrin, standing across from him, grew still, a dark shape in the flickering light.
Morgon felt an odd shifting in the room, as if another vision of the same room had superimposed itself over his own, and refocussed slightly. Odd pieces of thought rose in his mind: the plain he had looked at, Xel's face, the skins he had hung to dry. Then there was nothing but a long darkness and a withdrawal. Astrin moved, the fire reflected strangely in his eyes. He whispered, "There was nothing.
It is as though you have no name. I couldn't reach the place where you have your name and your past hidden from yourself.
It's deep, deep His hands closed tight on Astrin's arms; he shook Astrin a little, imperatively, and Astrin said, "I'll try. But I've never met a man so hidden from himself.
There must be other spells; I'll look. But I don't know why you care so much. It must be the essence of peace, having no name, no memory All right. I'll keep looking. Be patient. The rain had stopped; the clouds hung broken above Wind Plain. The book has been awarded with , and many others. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you.
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