Mr BA
20-08-2009, 15:13
Warriors in the Mist
The Island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast
Sea, is a land famous for wizards. From the towns in its high valleys and the ports on its dark
narrow bays many a Gontishman has gone forth to serve the Lords of the Archipelago in their
cities as wizard or mage, or, looking for adventure, to wander working magic from isle to isle of
all Earthsea. Of these some say the greatest, and surely the greatest voyager, was the man called
Sparrowhawk, who in his day became both dragonlord and Archmage. His life is told of in the
Deed of Ged and in many songs, but this is a tale of the time before his fame, before the songs
were made.
He was born in a lonely village called Ten Alders, high on the mountain at the head of the
Northward Vale. Below the village the pastures and plowlands of the Vale slope downward level
below level towards the sea, and other towns lie on the bends of the River Ar; above the village
only forest rises ridge behind ridge to the stone and snow of the heights .
The Island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast
Sea, is a land famous for wizards. From the towns in its high valleys and the ports on its dark
narrow bays many a Gontishman has gone forth to serve the Lords of the Archipelago in their
cities as wizard or mage, or, looking for adventure, to wander working magic from isle to isle of
all Earthsea. Of these some say the greatest, and surely the greatest voyager, was the man called
Sparrowhawk, who in his day became both dragonlord and Archmage. His life is told of in the
Deed of Ged and in many songs, but this is a tale of the time before his fame, before the songs
were made.
He was born in a lonely village called Ten Alders, high on the mountain at the head of the
Northward Vale. Below the village the pastures and plowlands of the Vale slope downward level
below level towards the sea, and other towns lie on the bends of the River Ar; above the village
only forest rises ridge behind ridge to the stone and snow of the heights .