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| - Belgarath the Sorcerer was the father and ultimate grandfather, respectively, of Polgara and Belgarion. He was called the Ancient and Beloved in the Mrin Codex and The Eternal Man by various storytellers, and was generally regarded as the most powerful sorcerer in the universe. Belgarath began life as a young orphaned thief two thousand years before the cracking of the world, in a village named Gara. At the time he was called Garath, which meant "of the town of Gara" in the language spoken in that place and time. After visiting the cursed Godless Ones who did not follow Gorim to Prolgu, he found himself in the Vale of Aldur. Caught there in a snowstorm and dying, he was leaning back and feeling sorry for himself when a voice invited him inside a nearby tower. He went inside, planning to steal, and found himself given tasks to do for the owner. He eventually discovered the power of the "Will and the Word", also known as sorcery. At that point he became the first disciple of the tower's owner, Aldur, who was one of the seven Gods. He renamed him Belgarath, the "Bel-" meaning "Beloved". He was sent on a number of missions throughout the world, dealing with issues that Aldur wished a human representative to see to. He came across a young she-wolf in his travels, while traveling in the form of a wolf himself, and she followed him to his errand and back to his tower. After hundreds of years, she saw him turn into some kind of animal, and changed her form to an owl. After some time of continually springing surprising new forms on him, she eventually told him she was leaving. She took the form of a human and built a farmhouse in the Vale and Belgarath stumbled upon it, finding out her name was Poledra. He apparently didn't realize who and what she was (he dropped some hints that he did in his autobiography) and married her, and they had twin girls. One of these girls was names Polgara, and the other was Beldaran. File:Belgarath1.jpg During his later travels, after the apparent death of his wife, he helped his sorceress daughter Polgara protect the last of the royal line of Riva, as well as opposing the evil, one-eyed god Torak. It was under the guise of a storyteller that he first met Garion, who was a descendant of Beldaran and the Rivan kings in Polgara's care. Also, his supposedly dead wife returned during The Malloreon.
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