But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over all the world. The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain it before the final disaster. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now in the focus of the struggle.

He had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it.