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of Vigun began. The Seer Vigun arose and spoke to us
upon the day when the Dragon God of Angarak raised the
stone which he called Cthrag-Yaska and by its power
cracked the earth asunder.. And with the cracking of the
earth the First Age ended and the First Fate and the First
Task, and it became the concern of the Second Generation
to seek out the children of the Gods to learn from them the
things which they knew of the Gods and of the two Fates
which contended for the mastery of creation.
And the Seers of the Generations of Vigun were called
the searchers, for they wandered up and down the world,
touching the minds of the children of the Gods to learn
from them. And the searchers found many strange things
concerning the Gods, for Behold! Each God was so caught
UP in a single idea that he was in all other ways
incomplete. But when at last the searchers went up unto the Vale
where the God Aldur dwelt with his Disciples, they found
a God caught up with the idea of knowing, and the
despair which had descended upon them was banished as
they came into contact with the mind of Aldur. And Aldur
comforted them with his wisdom and counseled them to
endure the coming of the Angaraks, who would soon
invade their lands. And when they went away, one of
their number remained behind for a time. And this was
the Seeress Kammah, who awaited the return of the first
Disciple of Aldur and she who was to be his wife. And
when Belgarath, his task completed, returned to the Vale,
his only companion was a snowy owl. And Kammah
perceived this in wonder and even unbound her eyes so
that they might confirm by common sight what that other
Sight had revealed. And Behold! Poledra was an owl, and
the Sight revealed to Kammah that she was also a wolf,
but that one day she would become a woman and wife to
Belgarath. And Kammah began to tremble and she fell
down upon the earth in the presence of Poledra, for the
vision which came to her shook her very soul. Kammah
knew in that instant that Poledra would bear two
daughters, and that the one would wed the King who would be
the Guardian of the stone called the Orb, and that from
their line would spring the Godslayer whom men would
call 'Belgarion'. The other daughter of Poledra, Kammah
perceived, would be the mightiest Sorceress the world
would ever know, and the name 'Polgara' would be
inscribed beside that of 'Belgarath' in the Book of the
Heavens. But it was not Polgara's power which so awed
Kammah. Rather it was the knowledge that the childless
Sorceress would be mother to Belgarion, and even more
so to the Beloved Guest who would one day come to the
Feast of Life.
And of all the things which were learned by the Seers
of the Generations of Vigun, this was the most important.
And the Seers of the lands of the east and of the lands of
the west contemplated it in wonder until the end of the
Second Age.
Now, as all men know, the Third Age began when
ancient Belgarath, in the company of the King of the
Alorns and the King's three sons, went up unto Cthol