Chapter 11 Epilogue

Even if Esthero of Yifeixu had kept his word and made a song of Ged's great deeds, that song was lost.There is a story circulating in the Eastern Frontiers about a ship that ran aground on a bottomless ocean, days' journey from all shores.The people of Yifeixu Island say that the man who drove the boat was Estero; The boat was a fisherman from Houpu Island. He couldn't steer the boat away from the invisible sand where the boat was stranded, so the boat is still drifting where it is stranded.That is to say, for so many years, the Song of Shadows has only been fragments of legends, drifting among the islands like driftwood. In "The Fellowship of Ged" there is no mention of that journey at all, nor of Ged's meeting with the shadow.What is narrated in the song is all later experiences, including his voyage to the islets of Longju; As a mage, he returned to Roke Academy.