The Tombs of Atuan Ged is encountered years later in an dark, underground labyrinth by the young High Priestess Arha, also called Tenar. She was taken from her family as a girl to become a priestess to the Nameless Ones. Ged is a powerful wizard seeking the missing half of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe, on which is engraved the broken Rune of Peace. She makes him her prisoner, but sees that she is bound by meaningless ritual. The Farthest Shore Ged is the older experienced Archmage of Roke investigating with young prince Arren of Enlad a mysterious disappearing of magic.
Mages can no longer do spells.
They adventure far to the south, and are led to the dragons' islands in the west. Ged closes the wound in the world, but it takes all his power to do so. Magic on Earthsea uses the power of true names. There is a balance between light and dark, male and female, and life and death. The Last Book of Earthsea .