whatever happened to Beldin?

[deuc]

I just read the belgariad and the mallorean through a second time, and at the end of The Seeress of Kell, Beldin and Vella turned into hawks and flew away, but there's this one sentence that they were "never again to return".

but isnt beldin immortal? and vella mortal, so does that mean that beldin lived out the rest of his life as a hawk? o.o

[pyan]

I always thought it was just shorthand for "...as his work was done, and peace restored, so he felt no need to continue being involved in things...."

[ghost8772]

could be his time was over. time to have a bunch of blue and lavender banded hawks by starting a new species. no idea if in a few decades there was a medium detonation as the father of the species willed himself out of existence to find the mother....

[Reading_fanatic]

But remember Belgarath said that it wasn't true immortality but that they only lived as long as they needed to do do their job (Or something) so Beldin could have become mortal. (Or Vella could have become Immortal)

However I could be wrong as I haven't read the books in a while

[The Ace]

Who cares ? The story's over and I don't think either of them are in any danger.