Alternative titles Information from the Polish Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language. Czarnoksiężnik z Archipelagu

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Epigraph Only in silence the word,

only in dark the light,

only in dying life:

bright the hawk's flight

on the empty sky.

—The Creation of Éa

Dedication To my brothers

Clifton, Ted, Karl

First words 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.

Quotations The wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Last words But in the Deed of Ged nothing is told of that voyage nor of Ged's meeting with the shadow, before ever he sailed the Dragons' Run unscathed, or brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan to Havnor, or came at last to Roke once more, as Archmage of all the islands of the world. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)

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