Publisher's Synopsis
A magnificent limited, numbered, boxed, signed first edition for collectors, quarter bound in leather.
Comprising the ancient texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, The Rivan Codex is a book which stands in the same relationship to the Belgariad and Malloreon as The Silmarillion does to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Before David Eddings started to write his first fantasy series, the BELGARIAD, in the late 1970s, he spent a year working on the design and mythology of the fantasy world in which it is set.
The Rivan Codex comprises the immensely readable background material to the Eddings's best-loved series. These seminal documents have about them an air of original inspiration, world-building in action. History, geography, myths and folktales, peoples, gods, customs, social organization, political hierarchy, laws, dress, modes of address, produce, culture, flora, fauna, all presented with the lightest touch. Massive events in the twelve-book series here attain an all-time perspective.
