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* AnAxToGrind: He primarily wields an axe, in battle and outside of it.
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* IllGirl: the cause of her death, due to the infamous weather of the Isle of the Winds. As Polgara puts it, "The filthy climate of this island is destroying my sister's lungs!". Nevertheless, she might have lived another decade or so if the Rivan Deacon hadn't been a secret Bear Cultist who waged war on the medical profession in order to force all Rivans to bend to the Church, thus denying Beldaran proper treatment.
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* UnfitForGreatness: He was the eldest son and heir to the throne of Aloria, which made Belgarath quietly terrified. He wasn’t a bad guy but he didn’t have what it took to rule a massive empire. He seems to have done fairly well as King if Drasnia though.
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* UnfitForGreatness: He was the eldest son and heir to the throne of Aloria, which made Belgarath quietly terrified. He wasn’t a bad guy but he didn’t have what it took to rule a massive empire. He seems to have done fairly well as King if of Drasnia though.
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* UnfitForGreatness: He was the eldest son and heir to the throne of Altria, which made Belgarath quietly terrified. He wasn’t a bad guy but he didn’t have what it took to rule a massive empire. He seems to have done fairly well as King if Drasnia though.
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* UnfitForGreatness: He was the eldest son and heir to the throne of Altria, Aloria, which made Belgarath quietly terrified. He wasn’t a bad guy but he didn’t have what it took to rule a massive empire. He seems to have done fairly well as King if Drasnia though.
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* CrushingHandshake: Even as an old man he was strong enough to give these to the legendarily brawny Dras Bill-Neck.
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* CrushingHandshake: Even as an old man he was strong enough to give these to the legendarily brawny Dras Bill-Neck.Bull-Neck.
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[[folder: Bormik]]
The Darine Prophet. Unlike the Mrin Prophet, he was completely sane and his prophecies were coherent, albeit less detailed, which make the Darine Codex a useful tool for deciphering the Mrin Codex.
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* BoneCrushingGrip: Even as an old man he was strong enough to give these to the legendarily brawny Dras Bill-Neck.
* MadProphet: Subverted. Many privately suspected that he’d gone a bit loopy in his old age as berserkers are known to do, but in fact he was completely sane. He didn’t even remember the prophecies after he gave them, he was more like a conduit.
* RetiredBadass: He was a former [[TheBerserker berserker]], and still pretty strong for his age.
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: His spinster [[TheCaretaker caretaker]] daughter turned out to be this when Polgara fixed her squint.
[[folder: Bormik]]
The Darine Prophet. Unlike the Mrin Prophet, he was completely sane and his prophecies were coherent, albeit less detailed, which make the Darine Codex a useful tool for deciphering the Mrin Codex.
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* BoneCrushingGrip: Even as an old man he was strong enough to give these to the legendarily brawny Dras Bill-Neck.
* MadProphet: Subverted. Many privately suspected that he’d gone a bit loopy in his old age as berserkers are known to do, but in fact he was completely sane. He didn’t even remember the prophecies after he gave them, he was more like a conduit.
* RetiredBadass: He was a former [[TheBerserker berserker]], and still pretty strong for his age.
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: His spinster [[TheCaretaker caretaker]] daughter turned out to be this when Polgara fixed her squint.
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* BoisterousBruiser: He treats the trip to Mallorea like a family trip. It's a characteristic that his descendants (from his second marriage), the Kings of Cherek, kept going.
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[[folder: Beldaran]]
Daughter of Belgarath and Poledra, and twin sister of Polgara, she didn't inherit her parents' magical abilities the way Polgara did. Sweet, kind, and with a core of solid steel, she married Riva Iron-Grip and became the mother of the line that would eventually result in Garion.
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%%* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Riva.
* GirlOfMyDreams: The Prophecy sent Riva dreams of her before she was even born to make sure he would fall in love with her.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She had bright golden hair, and was probably the kindest hearted member of her family, save possibly her distant grandson, [[TheHeart Garion]] -- and even he occasionally shows signs of Belgarath's signature grumpiness, as well as the Alorn tendency to go berserk (albeit only under severe stress).
* IllGirl: the cause of her death, due to the infamous weather of the Isle of the Winds. As Polgara puts it, "The filthy climate of this island is destroying my sister's lungs!". Nevertheless, she might have lived another decade or so if the Rivan Deacon hadn't been a secret Bear Cultist who waged war on the medical profession in order to force all Rivans to bend to the Church, thus denying Beldaran proper treatment.
* InTheBlood: Polgara notes at one point that nearly all Beldaran's descendants (including Belgarion) are blonde because of her.
* LostLenore: To Polgara, her twin sister, with Belgarath noting that if you were to ask Polgara's age, she'd probably instinctively answer in the plural. The fact that they had a PsychicLink didn't hurt.
* MayDecemberRomance: She was at least twenty years younger than Iron-Grip when they got married.
* MuggleBornOfMages: The entire rest of her family were Sorcerers. Her? Not so much. It doesn't seem to have bothered her, though.
* OneTrueLove: Riva's, as he was for her.
* ParentalFavoritism: It's no secret that Belgarath loved her more than Polgara -- though that had a lot to do with the fact that Polgara spent most of her youth and adolescence hating him (and not entirely without reason), while Beldaran was much more openly loving and forgiving, and even after, he and Polgara had a more adversarial VitriolicBestBuds type relationship.
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Polgara, though they loved each other dearly.
* PostHumousCharacter: For both series, though she appears in ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'' and ''Polgara the Sorceress'', and makes a post-mortem cameo thanks to Polgara later on in ''The Belgariad'', after Garion's found out the truth about his heritage, and she arranges for him to meet his (dead) parents, as well as Riva and Beldaran.
%%* PrincessClassic
* SilkHidingSteel: She was actually the dominant twin over Polgara, and her influence is probably one of the reasons that Polgara's so powerful in the subtle forms of magic. She also had the entire group of Aldur's disciples wrapped around her finger -- Beldin invented a new form of musical harmony for her wedding hymn.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: there's her status as Polgara's twin, Belgarath's daughter, and Belgarion's ancestor, of course, but there's a further impact on Polgara: her being Queen of Riva meant that Polgara, while visiting, learnt all her main lessons in diplomacy and dealing with royal courts (leading to her enormous political influence, and being a successful ruler of the duchy of Erat) and Polgara's interest in medicine (she's now the most experienced and knowledgable healer in the world, and she's started at least one medical college) was sparked by Beldaran's pregnancy.
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[[folder: Cherek Bear-Shoulders]]
* TheBigGuy: He was absolutely huge, like all of his sons.
* BoisterousBruiser: He treats the trip to Mallorea like a family trip. It's a characteristic that his descendants (from his second marriage), the Kings of Cherek, kept going.
* FamousAncestor: Of the royal families of all the Alorn Kingdoms.
* FamedInStory: Like his sons, both for his role in the reclaiming of the Orb, and as the last King of Aloria/founder of Cherek (which was named after him because he never bothered to give it a name).
* HeartbrokenBadass: He was a great warrior and king, but it's explicitly stated on several occasions that the loss of his kingdom, and more importantly, his sons (who all went off to rule the constituent parts of what had been Aloria), broke his heart and left him a shadow of his former self.
* LastOfHisKind: He was the last King of Aloria.
* ModestRoyalty: He was incredibly informal and laid back, even treating the quest to Cthol Mishrak as a hunting trip with his boys.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Helped get the Orb back from Torak, started the fine Cherek tradition of seafaring, and the Cherek defensive blockade of Riva, which lasted for thousands of years.
* VestigialEmpire: He went from ruling Aloria (the second largest empire in history after Mallorea) to only the Cherek Peninsula.
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[[folder: Dras Bull-Neck]]
* AnAxToGrind: He primarily wields an axe, in battle and outside of it.
* TheBigGuy: He's the biggest of Cherek's sons -- which is saying something, since they're all enormous.
* BoisterousBruiser: Like his father, he's an enthusiastic fighter.
* DumbMuscle: Outside of cheating at dice, he's not very smart. Not stupid, exactly, but not the smartest. To his credit, he's aware of this and admits it when disqualifying himself from taking up the Orb.
* FamedInStory: Like his brothers and father, for his part in the reclaiming of the Orb.
* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Drasnia.
%%* FounderOfTheKingdom: Drasnia.
%%* ModestRoyalty: Like the rest of his family.
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The quest to regain the Orb comes to mind.%%Why?
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[[folder: Algar Fleet-Foot]]
* ABoyAndHisX: He was one of the first in the West to domesticate the horse and begin to breed them for riding.
* TheBigGuy: All of Cherek's sons were huge, though Algar's leaner than the other two.
%%* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Algaria.
* FamedInStory: For his role with the reclamation of the Orb.
%%* FounderOfTheKingdom: Algaria.
%%* ModestRoyalty: And softly spoken with it.
%%* TheQuietOne: And the smartest of his family.
* TheSmartGuy: He's fairly explicitly the smartest of his family -- Cherek's smart enough but not extraordinary, Dras is DumbMuscle (as Belgarath observes and he's self-aware enough to admit it) outside of cheating at dice, and Riva's more uncomplicated than stupid.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: See the quest to claim the Orb.
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[[folder: Riva Iron-Grip]]
Founder of the Kingdom of Riva, first Guardian of the Orb, and with Beldaran, direct ancestor of Garion.
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%%* {{BFS}}: He was the first wielder of the Sword of Riva.
%%* TheBlacksmith: ... which he forged himself.
%%* TheBigGuy: He was about seven feet tall.%%Not the trope.
* BittersweetEnding: He got to be a King, to wield the Orb of Aldur, and marry the literal girl of his dreams. But it came at the cost of losing the rest of his family, and despite the fact that she was younger than him, he outlived his wife, which broke his heart and led to a slow decline, resulting in his death shortly after the birth of his grandson. However, they did end up TogetherInDeath, which is something.
* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Riva.
* FamedInStory: Even more than his siblings and father -- he was the first one to technically wield the Orb since Torak cracked the world with it (though that was mostly a case of pointing it at Torak and letting it do what it liked).
* ForgingScene: He was the one who forged the Sword of the Rivan King.
%%* FounderOfTheKingdom: Riva.
* HeartbrokenBadass: ''Polgara the Sorceress'' shows very explicitly how Beldaran's death broke him, leading to a slow, sad decline, and his death
%%* ModestRoyalty: Like the rest of his family.
%%* MayDecemberRomance:
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: This is commonly believed why he was chosen to carry the Orb, in fact it was because he was the only one who had no ambition to use it for his own gain.
%%* OneTrueLove: Beldaran's, as she was his.
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* TogetherInDeath: With Beldaran, as shown by Polgara opening up a brief door to the world of the dead in ''The Belgariad''.
* YoungestChildWins: If you can consider being the guardian of the Orb winning -- which, when he realised that he'd never see his brothers or father again outside of formal occasions, he initially (and as even Belgarath admitted, understandably) didn't.
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[[folder: The Mrin Prophet]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: He had some kind of serious developmental disability that made him almost more animal than man.
* MadOracle: Mad and mentally handicapped.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: One of the few cases where the trope is played openly, he lived and died [[SecurityBlanket chained]] up outside a kennel (both kennel and chain later becaming object of pilgrimage). According to Dras it was for his own good, because left to his own devices he would run out into the fens and probably drown or starve.
* NoNameGiven
* NonLinearCharacter: The reason why the Mrin Codex is so confused, he apparently could not understand the concept of time, so predicted events just came into his mind at random.
* SecurityBlanket: He ''loved'' his chain and the nice, soothing, relaxing sound it made when he rattled it. Also refused to go to a better home than his kennel.
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[[folder: Beldaran]]
Daughter of Belgarath and Poledra, and twin sister of Polgara, she didn't inherit her parents' magical abilities the way Polgara did. Sweet, kind, and with a core of solid steel, she married Riva Iron-Grip and became the mother of the line that would eventually result in Garion.
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%%* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Riva.
* GirlOfMyDreams: The Prophecy sent Riva dreams of her before she was even born to make sure he would fall in love with her.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She had bright golden hair, and was probably the kindest hearted member of her family, save possibly her distant grandson, [[TheHeart Garion]] -- and even he occasionally shows signs of Belgarath's signature grumpiness, as well as the Alorn tendency to go berserk (albeit only under severe stress).
* IllGirl: the cause of her death, due to the infamous weather of the Isle of the Winds. As Polgara puts it, "The filthy climate of this island is destroying my sister's lungs!". Nevertheless, she might have lived another decade or so if the Rivan Deacon hadn't been a secret Bear Cultist who waged war on the medical profession in order to force all Rivans to bend to the Church, thus denying Beldaran proper treatment.
* InTheBlood: Polgara notes at one point that nearly all Beldaran's descendants (including Belgarion) are blonde because of her.
* LostLenore: To Polgara, her twin sister, with Belgarath noting that if you were to ask Polgara's age, she'd probably instinctively answer in the plural. The fact that they had a PsychicLink didn't hurt.
* MayDecemberRomance: She was at least twenty years younger than Iron-Grip when they got married.
* MuggleBornOfMages: The entire rest of her family were Sorcerers. Her? Not so much. It doesn't seem to have bothered her, though.
* OneTrueLove: Riva's, as he was for her.
* ParentalFavoritism: It's no secret that Belgarath loved her more than Polgara -- though that had a lot to do with the fact that Polgara spent most of her youth and adolescence hating him (and not entirely without reason), while Beldaran was much more openly loving and forgiving, and even after, he and Polgara had a more adversarial VitriolicBestBuds type relationship.
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Polgara, though they loved each other dearly.
* PostHumousCharacter: For both series, though she appears in ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'' and ''Polgara the Sorceress'', and makes a post-mortem cameo thanks to Polgara later on in ''The Belgariad'', after Garion's found out the truth about his heritage, and she arranges for him to meet his (dead) parents, as well as Riva and Beldaran.
%%* PrincessClassic
* SilkHidingSteel: She was actually the dominant twin over Polgara, and her influence is probably one of the reasons that Polgara's so powerful in the subtle forms of magic. She also had the entire group of Aldur's disciples wrapped around her finger -- Beldin invented a new form of musical harmony for her wedding hymn.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: there's her status as Polgara's twin, Belgarath's daughter, and Belgarion's ancestor, of course, but there's a further impact on Polgara: her being Queen of Riva meant that Polgara, while visiting, learnt all her main lessons in diplomacy and dealing with royal courts (leading to her enormous political influence, and being a successful ruler of the duchy of Erat) and Polgara's interest in medicine (she's now the most experienced and knowledgable healer in the world, and she's started at least one medical college) was sparked by Beldaran's pregnancy.
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[[folder: Cherek Bear-Shoulders]]
* TheBigGuy: He was absolutely huge, like all of his sons.
* BoisterousBruiser: He treats the trip to Mallorea like a family trip. It's a characteristic that his descendants (from his second marriage), the Kings of Cherek, kept going.
* FamousAncestor: Of the royal families of all the Alorn Kingdoms.
* FamedInStory: Like his sons, both for his role in the reclaiming of the Orb, and as the last King of Aloria/founder of Cherek (which was named after him because he never bothered to give it a name).
* HeartbrokenBadass: He was a great warrior and king, but it's explicitly stated on several occasions that the loss of his kingdom, and more importantly, his sons (who all went off to rule the constituent parts of what had been Aloria), broke his heart and left him a shadow of his former self.
* LastOfHisKind: He was the last King of Aloria.
* ModestRoyalty: He was incredibly informal and laid back, even treating the quest to Cthol Mishrak as a hunting trip with his boys.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Helped get the Orb back from Torak, started the fine Cherek tradition of seafaring, and the Cherek defensive blockade of Riva, which lasted for thousands of years.
* VestigialEmpire: He went from ruling Aloria (the second largest empire in history after Mallorea) to only the Cherek Peninsula.
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[[folder: Dras Bull-Neck]]
* AnAxToGrind: He primarily wields an axe, in battle and outside of it.
* TheBigGuy: He's the biggest of Cherek's sons -- which is saying something, since they're all enormous.
* BoisterousBruiser: Like his father, he's an enthusiastic fighter.
* DumbMuscle: Outside of cheating at dice, he's not very smart. Not stupid, exactly, but not the smartest. To his credit, he's aware of this and admits it when disqualifying himself from taking up the Orb.
* FamedInStory: Like his brothers and father, for his part in the reclaiming of the Orb.
* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Drasnia.
%%* FounderOfTheKingdom: Drasnia.
%%* ModestRoyalty: Like the rest of his family.
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The quest to regain the Orb comes to mind.%%Why?
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[[folder: Algar Fleet-Foot]]
* ABoyAndHisX: He was one of the first in the West to domesticate the horse and begin to breed them for riding.
* TheBigGuy: All of Cherek's sons were huge, though Algar's leaner than the other two.
%%* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Algaria.
* FamedInStory: For his role with the reclamation of the Orb.
%%* FounderOfTheKingdom: Algaria.
%%* ModestRoyalty: And softly spoken with it.
%%* TheQuietOne: And the smartest of his family.
* TheSmartGuy: He's fairly explicitly the smartest of his family -- Cherek's smart enough but not extraordinary, Dras is DumbMuscle (as Belgarath observes and he's self-aware enough to admit it) outside of cheating at dice, and Riva's more uncomplicated than stupid.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: See the quest to claim the Orb.
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[[folder: Riva Iron-Grip]]
Founder of the Kingdom of Riva, first Guardian of the Orb, and with Beldaran, direct ancestor of Garion.
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%%* {{BFS}}: He was the first wielder of the Sword of Riva.
%%* TheBlacksmith: ... which he forged himself.
%%* TheBigGuy: He was about seven feet tall.%%Not the trope.
* BittersweetEnding: He got to be a King, to wield the Orb of Aldur, and marry the literal girl of his dreams. But it came at the cost of losing the rest of his family, and despite the fact that she was younger than him, he outlived his wife, which broke his heart and led to a slow decline, resulting in his death shortly after the birth of his grandson. However, they did end up TogetherInDeath, which is something.
* FamousAncestor: Of the royal family of Riva.
* FamedInStory: Even more than his siblings and father -- he was the first one to technically wield the Orb since Torak cracked the world with it (though that was mostly a case of pointing it at Torak and letting it do what it liked).
* ForgingScene: He was the one who forged the Sword of the Rivan King.
%%* FounderOfTheKingdom: Riva.
* HeartbrokenBadass: ''Polgara the Sorceress'' shows very explicitly how Beldaran's death broke him, leading to a slow, sad decline, and his death
%%* ModestRoyalty: Like the rest of his family.
%%* MayDecemberRomance:
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: This is commonly believed why he was chosen to carry the Orb, in fact it was because he was the only one who had no ambition to use it for his own gain.
%%* OneTrueLove: Beldaran's, as she was his.
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* TogetherInDeath: With Beldaran, as shown by Polgara opening up a brief door to the world of the dead in ''The Belgariad''.
* YoungestChildWins: If you can consider being the guardian of the Orb winning -- which, when he realised that he'd never see his brothers or father again outside of formal occasions, he initially (and as even Belgarath admitted, understandably) didn't.
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[[folder: The Mrin Prophet]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: He had some kind of serious developmental disability that made him almost more animal than man.
* MadOracle: Mad and mentally handicapped.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: One of the few cases where the trope is played openly, he lived and died [[SecurityBlanket chained]] up outside a kennel (both kennel and chain later becaming object of pilgrimage). According to Dras it was for his own good, because left to his own devices he would run out into the fens and probably drown or starve.
* NoNameGiven
* NonLinearCharacter: The reason why the Mrin Codex is so confused, he apparently could not understand the concept of time, so predicted events just came into his mind at random.
* SecurityBlanket: He ''loved'' his chain and the nice, soothing, relaxing sound it made when he rattled it. Also refused to go to a better home than his kennel.
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