The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon

The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon
David Eddings

Leigh Eddings

Comprising the ancient texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, The Rivan Codex is a book which stands in the same relationship to the Belgariad and Malloreon as The Silmarillion does to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.Before David Eddings started to write his first fantasy series, the BELGARIAD, in the late 1970s, he spent a year working on the design and mythology of the fantasy world in which it is set.The Rivan Codex comprises the immensely readable background material to Eddings’ best-loved series, repeated information a lot of it, but it’s the books that repeat the information, and these seminal documents have about them an air of original inspiration, world-building in action. The rest of it is background which is taken for granted but not spelled out.History, geography, myths and folktales, peoples, gods, customs, social organization, political hierarchy, laws, dress, modes of address, produce, culture, flora, fauna, all presented with so light a touch one can only yearn for Eddings to be taken up by academics so that his style might catch on in the real real world.The 12-book long series grew out of these delightful preliminary sketches like a river growing from a spring of striking purity and constancy. Magically, the information reads fresh each time, minimal Eddings prose, beguilingly arcane, in which massive events attain an all-time perspective.

The Rivan Codex

Ancient Texts Of The Belgariad And The Malloreon

David & Leigh Eddings

For Malcolm, Jane, Joy, Geoff and all the staff at HarperCollins.

It’s always a genuine pleasure to work with you. With all our thanks

DAVID & LEIGH

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u4bd17f32-2326-50df-af73-07e9ecb6eef3)

Title Page (#u3563fc2e-47c2-5b47-8a42-5ea8300a60ae)

INTRODUCTION (#u67ebd9c8-24c7-5713-b482-cf35d9a6f5de)

PREFACE: THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF BELGARATH THE SORCERER

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I THE HOLY BOOKS (#ude4863df-b3f3-5f72-afcb-61d118058ba2)

THE BOOK OF ALORN

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THE BOOK OF TORAK (#u17d1b50a-803b-53af-a1bd-78c1404bbc4a)

TESTAMENT OF THE SNAKE PEOPLE (#u83d9d04b-af4a-502f-8c17-650e76e45bfa)

HYMN TO CHALDAN (#u4be6be33-f1e3-5c75-8df4-0a3947b7ce90)

THE LAMENT OF MARA (#uee65a247-83e3-5262-9b31-f026765a70c9)

THE PROVERBS OF NEDRA (#uf56da61f-c23f-556f-b8b2-d9999e1f8b79)

THE SERMON OF ALDUR (#ue6fc98ee-254c-5d80-823c-951994252bdc)

THE BOOK OF ULGO

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II THE BISTORIES (#litres_trial_promo)

AT TOL HOPELB 5368 (#litres_trial_promo)

THE EMPIRE OF TOLNEDRA (#litres_trial_promo)

UNIVERSAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

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THE ALORN KINGDOMS (#litres_trial_promo)

SENDARIA

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ARENDIA (#litres_trial_promo)

ULGOLAND

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NYISSA (#litres_trial_promo)

THE ANGARAK KINGDOMS (#litres_trial_promo)

III THE BATTLE OF VO MIMBRE (#litres_trial_promo)

BOOK SEVEN THE BATTLE BEFORE VO MIMBRE (#litres_trial_promo)

AFTERWORD (#litres_trial_promo)

INTERMISSION (#litres_trial_promo)

IV PRELIMINARY STUDIES FOR THE MALLOREON (#litres_trial_promo)

A CURSORY HISTORY OF THE ANGARAK KINGDOMS (#litres_trial_promo)

V THE MALLOREAN GOSPELS (#litres_trial_promo)

BOOK 1 THE BOOK OF AGES (#litres_trial_promo)

BOOK 2 THE BOOK OF FATES (#litres_trial_promo)

BOOK 3 THE BOOK OF TASKS (#litres_trial_promo)

BOOK 4 THE BOOK OF GENERATIONS (#litres_trial_promo)