In Ursula K. Le Guin's The Farthest Shore, the third book of the Earthsea cycle, magic is fading from the world. Wizards forget their spells, songs lose their words, and a strange apathy spreads across the islands. Ged, the Archmage, journeys with Arren, a young prince of Enlad, to uncover the source of this decay. Their quest leads them to the dry land beyond death, where the sorcerer Cob has breached the wall between life and death in his desperate pursuit of immortality. To restore balance, Ged must sacrifice everything, while Arren learns that accepting mortality is essential to truly living.
