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| - While at Ashaba, prior to the Battle of Vo Mimbre, the Dark Prophecy overcame Torak and put him in an ecstasy such that Torak produced the Ashabine Oracles. The book was not thick and bound in black leather. Torak did not like some of the passages produced, so he redacted them, but one uncut copy survived in the hands of Senji. 'Know that we are brothers, Belgarion, though our hate for each other may one day sunder the heavens. We are brothers in that we share a dreadful task. That thou art reading my words means that thou hast been my destroyer. Thus must I charge thee with the task. What is foretold in these pages is an abomination. Do not let it come to pass. Destroy the world. Destroy the universe if need be, but do not permit this to come to pass. In thy hand is now the fate of all that was; all that is; and all that is yet to be. Hail, my hated brother, and farewell. We will meet—or have met—in the City of Endless Night, and there will our dispute be concluded. The task, however, still lies before us in the Place Which Is No More. One of us must go there to face the ultimate horror. Should it be thou, fail us not. Failing all else, thou must reave the life from thine only son, even as thou hath reft mine from me.' -- The Sorceress of Darshiva
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