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* The Eldrak Grul. Imagine an eight-foot-tall, heavily muscled ape-like man, wearing heavy armor and wielding a club as big as he is. Now imagine that he's smart enough to make plans, much faster than you'd think for his size, and wants ''you'' dead personally. He literally defeats ''everyone'' in Garion's group, and it takes calling up Poledra to bring him down - and even then he ''still'' nearly wins.
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** Their boss, the King of Hell. If the image Belgarath makes of him (a ''gargantuan'' monstrosity somehow made of living fire and unmelting ice) has any resemblance to the real thing, it makes the "regular" demons look like a bad joke.
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** To recap: She's the prophecied bride of an insane God who will, if he can overwhelm her, brainwash her to love him and probably force her to fight her friends. And this is the same god who ordered his priests to sacrifice a person an hour by cutting out their hearts, and whose entire left side is currently burning. Yeah.
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** To recap: She's the prophecied prophesied bride of an insane God who will, if he can overwhelm her, brainwash her to love him and probably force her to fight her friends. And this is the same god who ordered his priests to sacrifice a person an hour by cutting out their hearts, and whose entire left side is currently burning. Yeah.
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*** [[UpToEleven [[SerialEscalation Plus]], ''[[AllThereInTheManual the Rivan Codex]]'' mentions a yearly special event -for some 3000 years- where ''exactly'' 2222 sacrifices (''specifically including a newborn child'') were offered
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* After [[TheDragon Naradas]] is killed, Cyradis brings in a necromancer to contact his spirit, so that the king of Perivor can be convinced his death was for the better (the king's mourning is preventing him from helping the heroes). The last words Naradas's spirit says before it passes into the afterlife are just plain creepy:
-->"Zandramas! You said I would not die! You promised, Zandramas..."
-->"Zandramas! You said I would not die! You promised, Zandramas..."
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* What Belgarath does to Zedar in the end.
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* [[FateWorseThanDeath What Belgarath does to Zedar Zedar]] in the end.end: [[BuriedAlive burying him alive]] in the bedrock, while [[AndIMustScream being magically kept alive for eternity]].
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His name was Garath....how that is related to Maragor makes no sense. Looking at the prehistoric world map provided in the books, Gara would be located more in Tolenedra than Maragor. Worse than that, Lake Karanda was clearly uneffected by the splitting of the world and Gara is close to it....making him whatever Karanda was before the cracking of the world. But he certainly not Marag.
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*** Of course he was. He was from the village of Gara. Looking at the name of that place alone, Belgarath is quite likely a Marag, or was, until Aldur stole him.
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*** Of course he was. He was from the village of Gara. Looking at the name of that place alone, Belgarath is quite likely a Marag, or was, until Aldur stole him.
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* Maragor. The combination of its [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insanity-inducing]] ghosts and [[FinalSolution back]][[CannibalTribe story]] make the mercifully brief time spent in Maragor some of the most horrifying moments in the story.
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* Maragor. The combination of its [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insanity-inducing]] ghosts and [[FinalSolution back]][[CannibalTribe story]] make the mercifully brief time spent in Maragor some of the most horrifying moments in the story. The sheer ravaged grief of Mara over this, and his reaction when Belgarath and Polgara will not let him kill Ce'Nedra, leaving him only to turn away and resume wailing, is both this and a TearJerker.
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* The demons. They hail from another universe, they've got the potential to circumvent the prophecies and their attitude towards humans is best summed up by Nahaz's quote about Urvon: "I need this thing."
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** One per hour per temple. Across the two continents. During some 6000 years.
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** One per hour per temple. Across the two continents. During some 6000 years.7000 years.
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*** [[UpToEleven Plus]], ''[[AllThereInTheManual the Rivan Codex]]'' mentions a yearly special event -for some 3000 years- where ''exactly'' 2222 sacrifices (''specifically including a newborn child'') were offered
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** One per hour per temple. Across the two continents. During some 6000 years.
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* Not to mention the [[ReligionOfEvil Grolims]]. [[BigBad Torak]] demands HumanSacrifice, and the Grolims oblige all too enthusiastically. Once, we're treated to the ''[[SarcasmMode pleasure]]'' of a rather graphic description of a slave post-sacrifice.
* Maragor. The combination of its [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insanity-inducing]] ghosts and [[FinalSolution back]][[CannibalTribe story]] make the mercifully brief time spent in Maragor some of the most horrifying moments in the story.
**The backstory is made even worse by the prequel, Belgarath the Sorcerer. [[DirtyOldMan Belgarath]] was rather friendly with the women of Maragor, especially after [[spoiler:Poledra's "death"]], which gives him a certain personal perspective on the genocide.
**It should also be noticed that the [[FlatEarthAtheist Tolne]][[ProudMerchanTRace drans]] only used the CannibalTribe aspects of Marag culture as an excuse. Their real motivation was all that free gold lying around, and the fact that the Marags were totally disinterested in giving it to them. That's right, they ''[[FinalSolution murdered an entire race]]'' for a bit of gold!
* Maragor. The combination of its [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insanity-inducing]] ghosts and [[FinalSolution back]][[CannibalTribe story]] make the mercifully brief time spent in Maragor some of the most horrifying moments in the story.
**The backstory is made even worse by the prequel, Belgarath the Sorcerer. [[DirtyOldMan Belgarath]] was rather friendly with the women of Maragor, especially after [[spoiler:Poledra's "death"]], which gives him a certain personal perspective on the genocide.
**It should also be noticed that the [[FlatEarthAtheist Tolne]][[ProudMerchanTRace drans]] only used the CannibalTribe aspects of Marag culture as an excuse. Their real motivation was all that free gold lying around, and the fact that the Marags were totally disinterested in giving it to them. That's right, they ''[[FinalSolution murdered an entire race]]'' for a bit of gold!
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* The [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Raveners]] dear god, the [[EatenAlive Raveners]]. The forest that they're found in is a many-day-long journey, during which the sorcerers in the party must maintain a ''constant'' mental shield— if they even ''fall asleep'', the party may be doomed.
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* The "smiley plague" from Demon Lord of Karanda. Especially how we get to see its first victim and watch it slowly spread out from there, leaving all of its victims with gruesome, fixed grins. Sweet dreams!
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* Polgara is explaining to Ce'Nedra about herself (paraphrased):
-->'''Polgara:''' In the prophecy we serve, I am Polgara the Sorceress, daughter of Belgarath and great-aunt of Garion.\\
'''Ce'Nedra:''' And in the other one?\\
'''Polgara:''' In the other one, I am the Bride of Torak.\\
'''Ce'Nedra:''' (''gasps'')\\
'''Polgara:''' Now you understand. I've been terrified of Torak ever since my father explained that to me, when I was around twelve.\\
'''Ce'Nedra:''' But surely ''you'' could resist him.\\
'''Polgara:''' You don't understand, Ce'Nedra. He's a God. Not even my power can withstand him, and if I fall to him, then I'll probably be deliriously happy to be his bride, but [[FateWorseThanDeath there will be a part of me that will be screaming in horror]] -- and will keep screaming until the end of time.
* To recap: She's the prophecied bride of an insane God who will, if he can overwhelm her, brainwash her to love him and probably force her to fight her friends. And this is the same god who ordered his priests to sacrifice a person an hour by cutting out their hearts, and whose entire left side is currently burning. Yeah.
* Either book four, ''Castle of Wizardry'', or book five, ''Enchanter's End Game''. Those with a domination phobia should not read.
* What Belgarath does to Zedar in the end.
* And then the prequels reveal what ''Zedar'' did over the course of his life, which includes [[spoiler:driving two of his sworn brothers to suicide via self-''obliteration'']] and [[spoiler:betraying a truly innocent woman to a horrible death]]. Yeah, there's a reason Beldin's said that if Belgarath ever undoes what he did, he'll ''do it again''.
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-->'''Polgara:''' In the prophecy we serve, I am Polgara the Sorceress, daughter of Belgarath and great-aunt of Garion.\\
'''Ce'Nedra:''' And in the other one?\\
'''Polgara:''' In the other one, I am the Bride of Torak.\\
'''Ce'Nedra:''' (''gasps'')\\
'''Polgara:''' Now you understand. I've been terrified of Torak ever since my father explained that to me, when I was around twelve.\\
'''Ce'Nedra:''' But surely ''you'' could resist him.\\
'''Polgara:''' You don't understand, Ce'Nedra. He's a God. Not even my power can withstand him, and if I fall to him, then I'll probably be deliriously happy to be his bride, but [[FateWorseThanDeath there will be a part of me that will be screaming in horror]] -- and will keep screaming until the end of time.
* To recap: She's the prophecied bride of an insane God who will, if he can overwhelm her, brainwash her to love him and probably force her to fight her friends. And this is the same god who ordered his priests to sacrifice a person an hour by cutting out their hearts, and whose entire left side is currently burning. Yeah.
* Either book four, ''Castle of Wizardry'', or book five, ''Enchanter's End Game''. Those with a domination phobia should not read.
* What Belgarath does to Zedar in the end.
* And then the prequels reveal what ''Zedar'' did over the course of his life, which includes [[spoiler:driving two of his sworn brothers to suicide via self-''obliteration'']] and [[spoiler:betraying a truly innocent woman to a horrible death]]. Yeah, there's a reason Beldin's said that if Belgarath ever undoes what he did, he'll ''do it again''.
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