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After his defeat, Cob became an expert in the dark arts of how to cheat death and live forever. Ged recognises the wizard as Cob, a dark mage whom he defeated many years before. After a search, they find the wizard in a house of dragon bones at the extreme western end of Selidor – the end of the world. Orm Embar is waiting for them, but he too has lost the power of speech. They manage to survive the Dragons' Run, and land in Selidor. #The farthest shore to sleep in a sea of stars seriesThey come to the Dragons' Run, a series of small islands south of Selidor, encountering dragons flying about in a state of madness. Ged and Arren set out to Selidor in Lookfar. Orm Embar tells Ged that the dark wizard is there, and the dragons are powerless to defeat him without Ged. The dragon Orm Embar flies over the rafts and tells Ged to sail to Selidor, the westernmost isle of all Earthsea, and the home of the dragons. However, the sickness reaches the Raft People on the shortest night of the year, when their singers are struck dumb, unable to remember the songs. The Raft People are so far unaffected by the spreading evil and Ged and Arren recover their strength there. They are saved by the Raft People, who live on great rafts in the open ocean, only coming to land once a year to repair them. He can feel his energy ebbing from him, and they both drift away on Lookfar out into the open ocean. Ged is injured when they attempt to land on an island, and Arren does little to help him. Increasingly, they come under the influence of the dark wizard. All knowledge of dyeing has been lost however, and the local people are apathetic and hostile.įleeing the sense of evil they encounter there, Ged and Arren head southwest, to the furthest parts of the Reaches. They head further south to the island of Lorbanery, once famous for its dyed silk. They realize that Hare and many others are under the malign influence of a powerful wizard, who is promising life after death. They head south to Hort Town, where they encounter a drug addled wizard called Hare. ![]() Accompanied by Arren, the young Prince of Enlad, the Archmage Ged leaves Roke Island to find the cause on his boat Lookfar. Magic is losing its power songs are being forgotten people and animals are sickening or going mad. A strange, inexplicable malaise is spreading throughout Earthsea. ![]()
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