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- From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (D.K. Fellows)
- Subject: Re: The Orb and Aldur.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.130613.21757@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:06:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.010604.23751@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, 2120158@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU () writes:
- >In article <924818114854@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
- >>It has been suggested by a few users of this net that the orb has sentience. The
- >>question that arises is 'Did Aldur,while forming the orb, give it sentience
- >>(addition - was Aldur the origonal Child of Light).Or did the prophecy (the
- >>voice that speaks to Garion on occasions) give the orb sentience. Or it the
- >>orbs' sentience the prophecy itself.
- >
- > I agree that the orb does have some independant thought (witness Garion on his
- > way to meet Torak, Belgarath "explained" to it why it should make itself
- > "unnoticable", also witness (somewhere in the Mallorean) the orb explaining to
- > Garion how to fix the crack that Torak make in the world).
- >
- > However as to how it developed, I would like to say that I think that Aldur
- > formed it, or it formed itself. Here are some reasons why:
- > 1) If the prophecy formed it, why when the prophecy was destroyed in the
- > end, did the orb retain it's intelligence. (Weak reasoning I know.)
- >
-
- The universe formed it sometime before the Accident, which was when the Orb and
- the Sardion also split apart. Both stones then fell to Earth, one in Zamad (the
- Sardion) and one in the Vale (the Orb).
-
- There they were polished off. I suspect that Belagarath thought that Aldur was
- 'breathing life' into the Orb was a misunderstanding, as the Orb was already
- alive.
-
- > 2) If the orb's sentience is the prophecy, then why is the orb described
- > as childish (see Belgarath talking to the orb in Bk 4,Belgariad), while the
- > prophecy is very intelligent.
- >
-
- The Orb is closely connected with the Prophecy, but the two are still distinct.
-
- Also, the Prophecy became merged into the new single Prophecy after the Choice.
- The explanation is fairly clear, and quite a lot of light is thrown on what had
- happened to create the sequence of events leading up to the Choice.
-
- > Also to be taken into the arguement is that the prophecy has been around for a
- > long time, where the orb appears to be relatively new.
- >
-
- Incorrect. The Stones were One before the Accident.
-
- Donal.
-
- --
- "Everything that is not nailed down is mine.
- Everything that I can pry loose is not nailed down."
- - Collis P. Huntingdon
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