If you have read A Wizard of Earthsea, then you may remember that at the very beginning, when young Ged saves his native village and defeats the hag warriors, he is taken as an apprentice by the magician Ogion the Silent, known to his fellow tribesmen for having once “saved the city from a terrible earthquake, calmed the mountain, as one calms a frightened beast.” Readers had to wait 30 years to finally hear the story of Ogion and the earthquake. And here she is in front of you.