New cover reissue of Book One of the classic ELENIUM series introducing the Pandion Knight Sparhawk and his horse Faron, a sleeping queen, and a jewel that can save her! After a long spell of exile, Sparhawk, Pandion Knight and the Queen's champion, returns to his native land to find it overrun with evil and intrigue -- and his young Queen grievously ill. Indeed, Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within a year. But as Sparhawk and his allies -- who include Sephrenia, the ageless sorceress, and Flute, the strange and powerful ...
Tras diez años de exilio, Falquián regresa a Elenia para reanudar sus obligaciones como caballero pandion y paladín de la reina. Sin embargo, su joven reina, Ehlana, sufre una fatal enfermedad, supuestamente la misma que llevo a la tumba al rey Aldreas, su padre. Permanece con vida gracias al poderoso hechizo invocado por Sephrenia, la mujer de edad indefinida que inicia a los pandion en los secretos de la magia. Enhalana esta sentada en su trono, petrificada dentro de un bloque de cristal y abocada a la muerte, a menos que alguien encuentre un remedio antes de que transcurra una año.
Elhana, reina de Elenia, tras ser envenenada, conserva la vida gracias a un hechizo que la mantiene petrificada en un bloque de cristal. El conjuro duraría mientras vivieran los diez caballeros que habian intervenido en el mismom pero, desde su realizacion, cada mes muere uno de ellos. Falquian, paladin de Elhana, busca desesperadamente el remedio para su reina, que se halla en el Bhelliom: una joya maravillosa que iba engastada en la corona del rey Sarak de Thalesia, que murio en una batalla quinientos años antes.
Long ago the evil God Torak fought a war to obtain an object of immense power the Orb of Aldur But Torak was defeated and the Orb reclaimed by Belgarath the sorcerer Garion a young farm lad loves the story when he first hears it from the old storyteller But it has nothing to do with him Or does it For the stories also tell of a prophecy that must be fulfilled a destiny handed down through the generations And Torak is stirring again
In the Hall of the Rivan King Garion and his companions now have the Orb of Aldur carried by an innocent young boy and must return it to its rightful home on the pommel of the sword in the Great Hall on the island of Riva As they journey across the lands Murgo soldiers and Grolim sorcerers try to stop them But Garion s true adversary the evil God Torak is waking up in his dark tomb ready for the final conflict
