![]() ![]() ![]() The Wight defeats Cadvan and Maerad thinks they are all doomed. They are again attacked by a bunch of Hulls and a creature called a Wight. With Hem in tow on their journey, there is even more urgency to get to Norloch. He tells her that he will take her to Innail, a town where Maerad will be able to get proper training as a bard. Since then, the Nameless One has been growing more powerful and his dark minions have been growing in strength and numbers, threatening to overrun the kingdom of Annar with their evil. Cadvan explains that long ago, the King of Afinil traded his bardic "Name" in order to have immortality and became an evil sorcerer who everyone now calls the Nameless One. When a child comes of age, they will suddenly know the Speech, which is the ancient bardic language that activates their magic. The Gift is a sort of bardic magic that involves magical "Speech" and "Knowledge". Cadvan tells Maerad that she is blessed with the "Gift" (magical powers) and that she should, by rights, be attending one of the great bardic schools because an ignorant person with the Gift is dangerous to herself and people around her. He uses his magic to help her escape her slave-master, unseen. ![]() One day, she meets a man named Cadvan, who claims to be from the School of Lirigon, one of the bardic schools of magic. ![]()
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