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1. "The Belgariad" has numerous characters with diverse histories. In Garion's journey, he has met kings and queens, princes and princesses, barons and emperors, numerous nobles as well as ordinary folk. Some of them were married when we met them but most of them had their love story blossom as David Eddings' five-book story (2-books for those who own the reprinted "Belgariad" volume 1 and 2) unfolded. Let's see how well you know the pairs and their lovestories. So, to start it off: This couple is known as The Child of Light and the Queen of The World.
2. From these follows the line of Polgara, Beldaran, Gared, Daran, Gorek, and numerous others.
3. She is the most important woman in the world; queens bow to her, kings follow her without question; she is one of the most beautiful and most powerful women and yet she chose a very humble, ordinary, and practical blacksmith to be her mate.
4. In their so-called courtship, she admitted to asking Garion if he could cast a spell so he (not Garion) could love her; meanwhile, he vowed to set every horse in Algaria (he's Sha-Dar) to look for her if she ever left him.
5. He's been after her for the longest time but her parents didn't approve. When his cousin became king, the girl's parents finally agreed. Unfortunately, their marriage was not a happy one; he stayed away from home as often as he could, she did numerous petty things to make him unhappy. But as they both grew and matured, they realized that they loved each other and had a better relationship afterwards.
6. He is secretly a brillant strategist and his second wife is a very intelligent woman, though not many Alorn kingdoms accept this. They are very much in love and it's so sad that he had to die. Still, she wore black even after her mourning period was over and never married again.
7. Complete opposites, they are drawn by a force they don't really understand. He's a religious fanatic who thinks about sin, sin, sin all the time and she's a woman who looks at life the way it is and accepts it for what it is - even managing to enjoy what he sees as sin since she has no choice.
8. They finally got together in "The Mallorean" but their love story has been known far and wide throughout Arendia and, as Belgarath put it, "Arendish virgins have been crying themselves to sleep" because of their love triangle.
9. He's devoid of intelligent thoughts and when people first heard of their lovestory, they thought that she would be the brains in their partnership. After all, she's good in medicine and practical ('xept when it comes to him!). Unfortunately, whenever she looks at him, all rational thought leaves her head too...
10. He dreamt about her even before she was born. She was probably born just to be his wife and the mother of his children, from whom the Chosen One will be one. Yet their marriage was the start of Belgarath and Polgara's truce.
11. After the battle of Vo Mimbre, these two were joined together in marriage to give the region peace. To maintain that peace and the fiction that all is united, all the ruling couples that followed this original ruling pair are named after the first two. These two are also probably the only monarchy where both male and female rule jointly to wherever their rule extends, before Garion declared that he and Ce'Nedra would also rule jointly.
12. Both quiet people, they rule over the plains of Algaria.
13. Their palace and kingdom is probably the most casual of all, with the king sharing an easy friendship with his knights and subjects. She's a dabbling mystic but has no talent in that area whatsoever. He's a very good king but believes his wife stupid ("Well I certainly didn't marry her for her brains!").
14. Possibly the most ordinary-looking of all monarchs, they rule over practical Sendaria. It has been joked all over Aloria that the queen has probably been pregnant since puberty.
15. The two are the best who graduated at the Academy and with these two as parents, it's no doubt what their children's profession would be nor would there be any question their offspring would be good at it. He's the best spy and businessman Drasnia has and ended up one of the richest men around when we first start in "The Mallorean". She's also really good and ended up becoming one of Drasnian Intelligence's most secret spies.
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