Book Reviews
The Rivan Codex, David & Leigh Eddings
Twenty years ago, David Eddings doodled "a map of a place that never was" and began the creative
process for the four best-selling fantasy series, the Belgariad, the Malloreon, the Elenium, and
the Tamuli. He created a myriad of plots, stories, "magic thingamajigs," heroes, wizards,
villains, and worlds that were used to midwife the birth of each novel. This book contains the
original, structural outline of the stories, each of which is annotated, for all the fantasy
series. Naturally, details vary from those of the published sagas, and still it is
spellbinding--all of it: the various characters' own summaries of their worlds and problems,
the maps, the other illustrations, the glossary, and the Eddings' frequent quips and comments.
Dazzling fantasy that will captivate those uninitiated in any of the series and beguile old
series hands with its storytelling.