Timeline for Why did Garion assume that neither Polgara nor Belgarath exist?
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 6:08 | vote | accept | Narusan | ||
| Nov 26, 2017 at 23:52 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | ... it's not like they could look it up on the internet, after all. :-) | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 23:51 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | @Narusan, they weren't hiding anything, except from Garion. You live in a society with near-universal education and I think that is misleading you. By way of analogy, Queen Isabella I certainly knew that the world was round, and so did the rest of the nobility, but the average peasant? Maybe yes, maybe no. But that's not because it was a secret, just because most people weren't formally educated. | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 22:09 | comment | added | JW8 | @Narusan, some of these nobles (Barak and Silk) were traveling and working directly with Belgarath and Polgara - they had the duo's description and knew what they could do (especially Polgara's streak of white hair). Others, like the Sendars sent to search for them in the first book, were sent by King Fulrak, who was also an ally of the pair and sent his men specifically to bring them to court. It's easier to speculate that Belgarath looked like an itinerant storyteller that no one would look twice at - and who would really go looking for Polgara at a farm? | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 22:04 | comment | added | Narusan | But how come these nobles knew the truth and nobody else did? Were they so effective hiding it from everybody?... Erm, you know, I have just been chatting with this grandpa who told me to do this. - No, he‘a bit someone special, but I just valued his advice. | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 22:01 | history | answered | JW8 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |