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Witch of Ten Alders

Bronze-smith of Ten Alders

Old Man of the Nameless Isle

Old Woman of the Nameless Isle

Kurremkarmerruk

Master Doorkeeper

Master Summoner

Havnor Great Port

Ebavnor Straits

Court of Seeming

Chanter's Tower

Court of the Terrenon

Springwater Isle

Hall of the Throne

Temple of the Godking

Temple of the God-Brothers

Sea-House of Serd

School for Wizards on Roke

Township of Low Torning

Nine Masters of Roke

Place of the Tombs of Atuan

Temple of the Twin Gods

The door of the School

The Terrenon stone

The Ring of Erreth-Akbe

The boat Lookfar

The ship Shadow

The Great House of Roke

Kargish Raid on Ten Alders

Ged's Naming Ceremony

Loosing of the Shadow

Death of Archmage Nemmerle

Healing Attempt and Boundary Encounter

Battle of the Dragon of Pendor

Temptation at the Court of the Terrenon

Flight to Gont as a Hawk

Shipwreck on the Isle of Castaways

Encounter in the Hands

Final Confrontation on the Open Sea

Calling the goats

Fog-weaving at Ten Alders

Naming by Ogion

Reading the summoning spell

Summoning of Elfarran

Challenge to Jasper

Nemmerle's rescue

Learning the Doorkeeper's name

Healing attempt on Ioeth

Battle with Pendor dragons

Bargain with Yevaud

Flight to Osskil

Confrontation with the gebbeth

Entering the Court of the Terrenon

Refusal of the Terrenon

Escape from the Court

Transformation into a hawk

Ogion's restoration

Beginning the hunt

Summoning the shadow on the sea

Chase across the sea

Shipwreck on the isle

Confrontation in the Hands

Reunion with Vetch

Final confrontation with the shadow

Six Hundred Runes of Hardic

Book of Shaping

Spell of Summoning

Seamaster's art

The Creation of Éa

Weak as woman's magic · Wicked as woman's magic

To hear, one must be silent

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

The wise don't need to ask, the fool asks in vain

Say your name (Doorkeeper's rule)

Duels in sorcery are forbidden on Roke

Do not change anything until you know the consequences

To light a candle is to cast a shadow

He who would be Seamaster must know the true name of every drop of water in the sea

The power to work magic sets the limits of that power

A mage can control only what is near him, what he can name exactly and wholly

Rain on Roke may be drouth in Osskil, and a calm in the East Reach may be storm and ruin in the West

A man never speaks his own name aloud, until more than his life's safety is at stake

Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go

The wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things

The use of the Old Speech binds a man to truth

The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul

The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril

All things have a name

Return to your beginning to know your end

Third time is the charm

Oath by name (Yevaud's oath)

Selection rules for the Priestess of the Tombs

The Priestess is nameless, the Eaten One

No men set foot upon the inner ground of the Place

Ritual formula of the Remaking

Priestesses wear black

The Eaten One lives alone

The Eaten One must not be touched by men

The Tombs are sacred and only the Priestess can enter

The Priestess must perform the blood sacrifice twice a year

Guards cannot enter the temples

The Godking cannot enter among the Tombstones

The Priestess must be taken from her family

Winter Festival

Ged and the shadow

The Nine Masters

School for Wizards

Old Powers of Earth

The Rune of the Closed Mouth

The Deed of Ged

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

Noth hierth malk manhiolk han merth han!

A rock is a good thing, too, you know.

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

The Song of the Sparrowhawk

The Deed of the Young King

The Deed of Enlad

The Deed of Morred

The Deed of Hode

The Nagian Chant

Only shadow can fight shadow. Only darkness can defeat the dark.

It is light that defeats the dark.

You must turn around. You must seek what seeks you.

You won entrance to Roke by saying your name. Now you may win your freedom of it by saying mine.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

The Song of the Shadow

She is eaten! She is eaten!

O let the Nameless Ones behold the girl given to them, who is verily the one born ever nameless. Let them accept her life and the years of her life until her death, which is also theirs. Let them find her acceptable. Let her be eaten!

The Fate of Jasper

Jasper's role as Ged's rival, his humiliation, and his eventual obscurity.

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Overview Timelines StoryFlow

Entities

Witch of Ten Alders

Bronze-smith of Ten Alders

Old Man of the Nameless Isle

Old Woman of the Nameless Isle

Kurremkarmerruk

Master Doorkeeper

Master Summoner

Havnor Great Port

Ebavnor Straits

Court of Seeming

Chanter's Tower

Court of the Terrenon

Springwater Isle

Hall of the Throne

Temple of the Godking

Temple of the God-Brothers

Sea-House of Serd

School for Wizards on Roke

Township of Low Torning

Nine Masters of Roke

Place of the Tombs of Atuan

Temple of the Twin Gods

The door of the School

The Terrenon stone

The Ring of Erreth-Akbe

The boat Lookfar

The ship Shadow

The Great House of Roke

Kargish Raid on Ten Alders

Ged's Naming Ceremony

Loosing of the Shadow

Death of Archmage Nemmerle

Healing Attempt and Boundary Encounter

Battle of the Dragon of Pendor

Temptation at the Court of the Terrenon

Flight to Gont as a Hawk

Shipwreck on the Isle of Castaways

Encounter in the Hands

Final Confrontation on the Open Sea

Calling the goats

Fog-weaving at Ten Alders

Naming by Ogion

Reading the summoning spell

Summoning of Elfarran

Challenge to Jasper

Nemmerle's rescue

Learning the Doorkeeper's name

Healing attempt on Ioeth

Battle with Pendor dragons

Bargain with Yevaud

Flight to Osskil

Confrontation with the gebbeth

Entering the Court of the Terrenon

Refusal of the Terrenon

Escape from the Court

Transformation into a hawk

Ogion's restoration

Beginning the hunt

Summoning the shadow on the sea

Chase across the sea

Shipwreck on the isle

Confrontation in the Hands

Reunion with Vetch

Final confrontation with the shadow

Six Hundred Runes of Hardic

Book of Shaping

Spell of Summoning

Seamaster's art

The Creation of Éa

Weak as woman's magic · Wicked as woman's magic

To hear, one must be silent

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

The wise don't need to ask, the fool asks in vain

Say your name (Doorkeeper's rule)

Duels in sorcery are forbidden on Roke

Do not change anything until you know the consequences

To light a candle is to cast a shadow

He who would be Seamaster must know the true name of every drop of water in the sea

The power to work magic sets the limits of that power

A mage can control only what is near him, what he can name exactly and wholly

Rain on Roke may be drouth in Osskil, and a calm in the East Reach may be storm and ruin in the West

A man never speaks his own name aloud, until more than his life's safety is at stake

Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go

The wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things

The use of the Old Speech binds a man to truth

The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul

The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril

All things have a name

Return to your beginning to know your end

Third time is the charm

Oath by name (Yevaud's oath)

Selection rules for the Priestess of the Tombs

The Priestess is nameless, the Eaten One

No men set foot upon the inner ground of the Place

Ritual formula of the Remaking

Priestesses wear black

The Eaten One lives alone

The Eaten One must not be touched by men

The Tombs are sacred and only the Priestess can enter

The Priestess must perform the blood sacrifice twice a year

Guards cannot enter the temples

The Godking cannot enter among the Tombstones

The Priestess must be taken from her family

Winter Festival

Ged and the shadow

The Nine Masters

School for Wizards

Old Powers of Earth

The Rune of the Closed Mouth

The Deed of Ged

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

Noth hierth malk manhiolk han merth han!

A rock is a good thing, too, you know.

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

The Song of the Sparrowhawk

The Deed of the Young King

The Deed of Enlad

The Deed of Morred

The Deed of Hode

The Nagian Chant

Only shadow can fight shadow. Only darkness can defeat the dark.

It is light that defeats the dark.

You must turn around. You must seek what seeks you.

You won entrance to Roke by saying your name. Now you may win your freedom of it by saying mine.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

The Song of the Shadow

She is eaten! She is eaten!

O let the Nameless Ones behold the girl given to them, who is verily the one born ever nameless. Let them accept her life and the years of her life until her death, which is also theirs. Let them find her acceptable. Let her be eaten!