Yevaud

Yevaud is a male dragon known as the "Dragon of Pendor". Yevaud was first introduced in the short story "The Rule of Names", a short story published before the first Earthsea book A Wizard of Earthsea was written.
Yevaud is described as being "lean as a hound... and huge as a hill," taller on his hind legs than a Pendor tower, with grey-black scales, a spike-crowned head and a triple-forked tongue. Although it is generally impossible to tell the gender of dragons, Yevaud is considered to be male. He exhibits unusually human behavior, for a dragon. Dragons, for the most part, abhor physical possessions; they split from humans because they valued freedom rather than earthly possessions. But Yevaud highly valued the pirate treasure hoard that he stole from the Sealords of Pendor. A Description of Earthsea explains, “As there are ascetics among humans, some dragons are greedy for shining things, gold, jewels; one was Yevaud, who sometimes came among people in human form.”
Yevaud guarded the eight dragon eggs that hatched on Pendor. The dragons threatened the local islands and Ged was sent to keep them at bay. Ged had power over it by using its true-name in the Old Speech. Ged is familiar with stories of Yevaud's pillaging on the nearby islands of Osskil and guesses the Dragon of Pendor is the dragon from that story. Ged makes Yevaud promise to never go East of Pendor again.
== "The Rule of Names" ==
In “The Rule of Names,” Yevaud is being hunted by a group of wizards called the League, so he leaves Pendor, taking his treasure hoard with him. In human form, he travels to Sattins Island in the Eastern Reach, where he lives for five years, pretending to be a wizard called Mr. Underhill (although his wizardry is judged second-rate by the townsfolk there). The arrogant wizard Blackbeard, who is also the heir to the deposed Sealords of Pendor, comes looking for him, having learned Yevaud’s true name through black magic but mistakenly believing him to be a powerful wizard who slew the dragon and took the treasure. In a duel of magic, Blackbeard speaks Yevaud’s name to force him into his true shape—this changes him into a dragon, who promptly eats Blackbeard and feasts on the villagers.
== A Wizard of Earthsea ==
By the time of A Wizard of Earthsea, Yevaud is caring for a brood of eight young dragons, and has become rather old and lazy. After five of his brood are killed and one badly injured attempting to attack Ged, Yevaud initially menaces Ged, and tries to lure Ged ashore by tempting him with treasure, but realizes he was beaten when Ged reveals that he knew the dragon's name. Ged guarantees the safety of Yevaud and his remaining young if they promise not to fly east of Pendor. Yevaud attempts to get out of this deal by instead offering to tell Ged the name for the Shadow, which is at that time pursuing him. Although Ged is tempted by this offer, he rejects it and Yevaud swears on his name a binding oath never to come any nearer to the Archipelago.
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