Eventually, she succumbs to his kindness, and revokes her role as priestess. While kept prisoner, Ged has located the half-ring of Erreth-Akbe, and so he asks Arha to escape the tombs with him. In finding a place to think, she sees Kossil unearthing the fake grave, and so she runs to the treasury to confess everything to he prisoner, Ged. She realises that Kossil will now wish to kill her for her actions. Arha refuses to believe it, and curses her in the name of the Nameless Ones. Kossil informs Arha during an argument that the Nameless Ones do not exist, and that the real power lies with her. She and Kossil have a relationship that is beyond an enemy, beyond just a nemesis. Unable to do so, she asks her only friend eunuch Manan to dig a fake grave, and hide Ged in the treasury of the tombs, where only she can go. Although, she keeps him as a prisoner.Ī priestess named Kossil learns of the presence of Ged within the tombs of Atuan, and so informs Arha that she must sacrifice his life to the Nameless Ones. Arha traps Ged, but later spares his life after he tells her of the outer world. When she is fifteen years of age, Ged (Sparrowhawk) arrives at the tombs of Atuan in search for half of Erreth-Akbe's ring. The book is based around a girl named Tenar, renamed Arha, who is placed in the tombs of Atuan as the high priestess for the " Nameless Ones".
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