![]() ![]() ![]() The bear is sedated, caged, and carried to the campaign, awakening and breaking free in the middle of a battle which they are losing. Against the wishes of the Tuginda, the high priestess, a military campaign is launched to retake Bekla. The Ortelgans once ruled the Beklan Empire. ![]() Kelderek shares his belief with the local barons and priestesses. When a tremendous fire ravages a forest, a bear twice as tall as a man flees to the river island of Ortelga, and is found exhausted by Kelderek, a hunter who thinks the bear may be Lord Shardik, "the Power of God", returned to his worshippers. The events revolve around the discovery, capture and military and symbolic uses made of an incredibly large bear, called Lord Shardik by those who subscribe to a set of religious beliefs in the novel. Shardik is his second novel, and first of two novels set in the fictional Beklan Empire. Shardik is a 1974 fantasy novel by Richard Adams. ![]()
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