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Chamdar's task for the several centuries of his life was to find and kill the heir to the Rivan throne. His task was not an easy one, as the Rivan royal family was very effectively hidden by the sorceress Polgara, daughter of Belgarath. To find the Rivan king, he tailed Belgarath for decades on and off; the latter took great pleasure in spending years at a time leading Chamdar on elaborate wild goose chases. Unfortunately, Chamdar managed to find the descendants of the Rivan kings from time to time, often spelling near-disaster.
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On one of those occasions, shorty after the Battle of Vo Mimbre, Chamdar showed his true ambitions. Having found the current Rivan heir, he preyed on his latent egotism to draw him into a phony sect of the Bear Cult (who believe that the Rivan king will lead them to victory against the rest of the world). Chamdar, rather than kill him, intended to present him to Torak himself, gaining power far beyond what Ctuchik would allow him. Luckily, Polgara and Belgarath were able to intervene in time to break Chamdar's control over the young Rivan's mind and send him scurrying away.

Chamdar's next encounter with the Rivan line was somewhat less fortuitous. Polgara had closeted the family away in Annath, a remote village in Sendaria whose chief resource was its stone quarry. Chamdar killed the eldest of the Rivan line, Darral, by causing a landslide in the quarry. He then used the shock of Darral's death to drive his wife insane, turning her into a pawn that he would use to great advantage later. When Darral's daughter-in-law was due to have a baby, Chamdar caused the late Darral's wife to wander off into the forest, luring Polgara after her. While the sorceress was away, he set fire to the house that the last remaining members of the Rivan family were in, burning all to their deaths but the baby Garion (later Belgarion). A vengeful Belgarath, arriving moments too late, was only kept from killing Chamdar by having the baby thrown at him while the Angarak sorcerer made his getaway.
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Chamdar continued to lurk near Garion while he grew up, and nearly succeeded in capturing him in the palace of Val Alorn. Garion only barely escaped from him and back to safety, only for the group to be caught later on in the Forest of the Dryads. There, without Belgarath around to help, Chamdar revealed himself, forcing Polgara to agree to come before Torak as his destined bride. However, upon Polgara's calling Chamdar a swine, the Grolim smacked her and Garion was driven to finally avenge his parents, the injustice just done to Polgara, as well as completely embrace his growing powers of sorcery by burning Chamdar to death. This act would plague Garion's dreams for decades to come.

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Of all the Grolims and Torak's disciples, Chamdar is the most cunning one, as the only one who managed to kill four of Belgarath's and Polgara's protégés right under their very nose.