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** That would work, but the canon explanation is that they just forgot to die. When Belgarath realizes he's been alive for several centuries and asks Aldur how that could be, Aldur brushes it off as 'is that something mortals are suppose to do? Go back to your studies and forgot that nonsense.'
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** From the union of the first full-blood Dryad's half-blood daughter and a human male.
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* The Orb might be the cause of the accident that divided the universe. The source of the accident is a star dying (exploding) in the wrong place and causing a chain reaction in a galaxy of stars. The orb starts to take Belgarion's example that it has the power to spell his name out in the stars as a suggestion, something that requires the stars involved move in the past due to speed-of-light issues. Within a few months of Belgarion's comment (and ''almost'' immediate command to the orb to stop) the final CHOICE is made...in the light of the accident that has finally reached his world after traveling all the distance to get there.
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* Belgarath's having a tree fall on him towards the end of Book 2 seems a bit weird, since his broken arm doesn't really affect very much, if at all. However, that tree could have easily ''killed'' him--no doubt it was the Dark Prophecy, trying to cheat! Becomes extra Brilliance and Horror when you realize that every ContrivedCoincidence, every bit of helpful or harmful weather is one or the other of the Prophecies either assisting the heroes or trying to get in their way.
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* Beldin is implied in ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'' to be very close to both Belsambar and Belmakor--he explicitly tells the former that he loves him, and he had centuries of academic debates with the latter. Their deaths explain a lot of his nastiness in the main series (though, admittedly, he's always been pretty rough around the edges).
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** Telling something to "vanish" or "disappear" would also probably fit it--and those commands are a lot more likely.
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*In her prequel, the first time Polgara shares her form with her mother, she's struck by the things she never knew about her, including that Poledra, as a wolf, had littermates, and therefore she (Polgara) had wolf aunts and uncles and cousins she's never known about. It's entirely possible that the orphaned wolf pup they acquire in ''The Mallorean'' is literal, rather than adoptive, family.
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** Also possible that [[spoiler: Poledra]] gave him some strict instructions about what to say and what not to say if anyone did, too. She may even have been training him for a future role as Geran's guardian, the way she trained her own children for their roles.
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** It's also implied that the Grolim priesthood is subject to KlingonPromotion.
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** Part of it is that some probably accidentally erased themselves by telling something to vanish. Others might've been grabbed and sacrificed, or killed in battle (Will and the Word doesn't do much good if someone stabs you/hits you over the head). Also, as noted above, you need to have the will to live in order to be immortal. Is it all that surprising that a lot of Grolims ''don't'' want to live in their terrible society forever?
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* We know that the Grolim sacrificed one person every hour, every day, every year, for 7000 years. Based on my calculations, that means 61 billion people were sacrificed, and that's just for each temple. Due to the fact the world isn't even slightly depopulated, and almost certainly couldn't have had that many people alive over that amount of time(only around 107 billion people have ever lived), where are all those people coming from?
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* We know that the Grolim sacrificed one person every hour, every day, every year, for 7000 years. Based on my calculations, that means 61 billion people were sacrificed, and that's just for each temple. Due to the fact the world isn't even slightly depopulated, and almost certainly couldn't have had that many people alive over that amount of time(only time (only around 107 billion people have ever lived), where are all those people coming from?
** It's made very clear that there were large areas of the Angarak world where the Grolims never really bothered to sacrifice people, and it was only really maintained consistently in places where the likes of Ctuchik and Urvon held absolute power (or among the Thulls). It's also noted a few times that the Angaraks underwent some major societal disruptions, meaning that there wasn't really the social framework to do such a thing - and that's not even getting into the ''de facto'' civil war between the Angarak military and priesthood in Mallorea in the backstory. As a result, the numbers were probably rather lower.
** It's made very clear that there were large areas of the Angarak world where the Grolims never really bothered to sacrifice people, and it was only really maintained consistently in places where the likes of Ctuchik and Urvon held absolute power (or among the Thulls). It's also noted a few times that the Angaraks underwent some major societal disruptions, meaning that there wasn't really the social framework to do such a thing - and that's not even getting into the ''de facto'' civil war between the Angarak military and priesthood in Mallorea in the backstory. As a result, the numbers were probably rather lower.
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** The Prophecy Did It. Simple as that.
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** The Borune ones are an exception, thanks to the Prophecy. The rest are basically born full-blooded Dryads and are pretty much invariably girls. Ce'Nedra herself is noted to be essentially a full-blooded Dryad, with Garion pointing out that she ''will'' have the associated lifespan.
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** Probably because he's too young to talk - though it's implied as he gets older that there's something a little odd about him.
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*We know that the Grolim sacrificed one person every hour, every day, every year, for 7000 years. Based on my calculations, that means 61 billion people were sacrificed, and that's just for each temple. Due to the fact the world isn't even slightly depopulated, and almost certainly couldn't have had that many people alive over that amount of time(only around 107 billion people have ever lived), where are all those people coming from?
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* Why aren't there thousands (if not millions) of immortal Grolims out there? Discovering the Will and the Word renders you immortal, even if you're not very good at using it, as demonstrated by Senji. We also know that Grolim's are excepted, as demonstrated by Ashrak \ Chamdar. We're told that MANY Grolim have at least *some* talent for sorcery, but the obvious implication is never drawn.
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* Why aren't there thousands (if not millions) of immortal Grolims out there? Discovering the Will and the Word renders you immortal, even if you're not very good at using it, as demonstrated by Senji. We also know that Grolim's are excepted, Grolims aren't an exception, as demonstrated by Ashrak \ Chamdar. We're told that MANY Grolim have at least *some* talent for sorcery, but the obvious implication is never drawn.drawn.
* Is "Be Not" ANYONE'S first (or second, or tenth) most likely thing to say regarding something they want destroyed? Somewhat more reasonable when Belgarath speculates that "go away" and "get lost" would also result in the sorcerer imploding out of existence, but in-universe we only see the highly unnatural "be not".
* Is "Be Not" ANYONE'S first (or second, or tenth) most likely thing to say regarding something they want destroyed? Somewhat more reasonable when Belgarath speculates that "go away" and "get lost" would also result in the sorcerer imploding out of existence, but in-universe we only see the highly unnatural "be not".
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* Why aren't there thousands (if not millions) of immortal Grolims out there? Discovering the Will and the Word renders you immortal, even if you're not very good at using it, as demonstrated by Senji. We also know that Grolim's are excepted, as demonstrated by Ashrak \ Chamdar. We're told that MANY Grolim have at least *some* talent for sorcery, but the obvious implication is never drawn.
