Pawn of Prophecy
The launch of the Belgariad, the defining gateway epic of the 1980s: for an entire readership cohort, this — not Tolkien — was the first fat fantasy, and its conversational template echoes through the genre's found-family mode.
Series Guide
The Belgariad
Farm boy Garion, the Orb of Aldur, two prophecies at war and fantasy's chattiest found family on a five-volume quest. The defining comfort epic of the 1980s.
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