Character backstories

Today I'm talking about character backgrounds for my planned series off of David Eddings works. Here it goes.

As far as catching up with character story I've only had time to get around to Garion and Riva. Because Garion and Ce'Nedra will both have extremely long lifespans they plan to stay on The Isle of Winds until their son has learned the duties of being a king and then they would retire to a small earthy cottage near The Vale and the woods of the Dryads. It was revealed to them one very special wedding anniversary by the destiny of the universe they had fought for that it has arranged it so that both of them will die peacefully with each other when they had decided it was time.

One day when they are all out on a picnic far north of the castle Geran notices something. They are in a grove nestled between the huge northernmost mountains of the island and he remembers the story his father had told him of how Riva trekked into supposedly these same mountains to retrieve the two hunks of star metal he made into the sword. He finds a strange trace of ore in the wall and Garion is interested enough to call Belgarath and others over to look at it and it's found that it's some form of QuickSilver. It's extremely light, easy to forge, incredibly durable, and beautiful. Belgarath theorizes that it's some sort of "growth effect" from when those two magical stars struck the mountain and now the entire range of mountains on the island is abundant with it.

This discovery leads to a huge boom in The Isle of the Winds' economy and a sister city to Riva is built between those mountainsides as a mining capital of the entire West. Garion has a great idea to dig a canal between the River of Veils that Riva is built over to the North River so that the QuickSilver can be easily transported to Riva to sell to traders. The entire land between those mountains that was once peat bogs has almost healed itself and the land required very little work before a city could be built atop it. With Riva's rapidly rising economy more people migrate to the island nation and the two cities and areas along the river become more and more urbanized with the sheepherders still herding on the west and east sides of the new canal.

That was Garion's and his families background. Bye.


- By Ashton