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* [[All Powerful Bystander]]: Both Prophecies by mutual agreement. If they directly clashed, they would blot out entire tracts of existence.
* [[An Odd Place to Sleep]]: Belgarath is able to doze in the saddle, allowing him to dedicate less time for rest and remain alert for longer when it's required. In ''The Malloreon'', Garion also picks up this skill.
* [[Exclusively Evil]]:▼
** Angaraks are portrayed this way in ''[[The Belgariad]]'', but get a makeover in ''[[The Malloreon]]'' when they get a less black and white treatment.▼
** The demons are [[Exclusively Evil]] in both series, but justified because, well, ''[[The Legions of Hell|demons]]''.▼
** Nyissa was portrayed as a nation of [[Smug Snake|Smug Snakes]] in ''[[The Belgariad]]''. In ''[[The Malloreon]]'', this, like the Angarak example, is made much less black and white.▼
* [[Ambiguous Syntax]]: Lots of it, in the various written prophecies both sides are using. Also, deliberately used on Polgara by Aldur, when he says that the Gods will bring Durnik back to life for her to marry, if she'll agree to live the rest of her life with no more sorcerous power than he has. She assumes they mean that she'll be stripped of her power.
* [[Amnesiac God]]: {{spoiler|Eriond}}
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* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Ctuchik, Zedar, Urvon, Chamdar, Zandramas, Naradas, the vast majority of unnamed Grolims, and pretty much every single Morind magician and Karandese wizard.
* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: Ctuchik's tower atop Rak Cthol, and Torak's giant iron tower in Cthol Mishrak. Torak's tower was so tall that a noticeable chunk of a 24-hour day can be spent going up the stairs to the top, doing something which takes maybe five minutes, and then going back down. When he invades the West, he has a giant wheeled iron tower pulled about by his army for him to live in. Lampshaded by Belgarath, who mentions that all sorcerers seem to have a pathological drive to live in towers.
▲* [[Exclusively Evil]]:
▲** Angaraks are portrayed this way in ''[[The Belgariad]]'', but get a makeover in ''[[The Malloreon]]'' when they get a less black and white treatment.
▲** The demons are [[Exclusively Evil]] in both series, but justified because, well, ''[[The Legions of Hell|demons]]''.
▲** Nyissa was portrayed as a nation of [[Smug Snake|Smug Snakes]] in ''[[The Belgariad]]''. In ''[[The Malloreon]]'', this, like the Angarak example, is made much less black and white.
* [[Expansion Pack World]]: Eddings added the south & east of the second continent and the bottom of the first one only after the ''[[Malloreon]]'' was a go.
* [[Expressive Mask]]: After Torak becomes maimed, he takes to wearing a steel mask which covers his face and moves as his unburned face would.
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