Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Edding's stated goal when writing the Belgariad was the create The Archtypical Fantasy Saga. Somewhere there is a foreward or introduction where he explains that he used included every genre cliche as a literary experiment.
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Date: 2008-01-16 05:47 pm (UTC)