![]() ![]() Still idealistic and unworldly, Kelderek is dismayed by the brutality and corruption that quickly surrounds him. Shardik's worship is restored to central prominence in Bekla with Kelderek as the high priest to the recaged bear, but temporal power is held by the military barons. The bear is sedated and caged by the priestesses to be carried forward with the Ortelgans but awakens from his slumber during a battle they are losing as if in divine intervention, he breaks free, crushing the opposing army. The Ortelgans worship the bear-god Shardik and once ruled the entire territory now known as the Beklan Empire, but their territory and religion are now limited to a small barony of river-islands on the empire's outskirts.Ĭonvinced that this bear is an incarnation of Shardik, Kelderek communicates this belief to the local priests and barons, eventually resulting in a military campaign to retake Bekla. When a tremendous fire ravaged the forest, the bear managed to flee by swimming the flooding river and collapsed at the river's bank, to be found almost dead by Kelderek. In the forest near his home on the river island of Ortelga, he sees an enormous bear. Kelderek is a young hunter nicknamed "Play-with-the-Children" because of his simple nature and love of small children. The story is about a hunter seeking to kill giant bear that may be a god. ![]() Maia Shardik is a fantasy novel written by Richard Adams in 1974. ![]()
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