A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

In Gont, in Roke, they teach high wizardries. But they do not teach all wizardries. This is Osskil, Ravenland: it is not a Hardic land: mages do not rule it, nor do they know much of it. There are happenings here not dealt with by the loremasters of the South, and things here not named in the Namers’ lists.