what an abortion . 1 ) ged do not have a girlfriend . he show off to the black haired sallow ( east asian . ) half witch daughter of an evil sorceress who both repels and attract him . she do not wish him well . 2 ) ged dad be not a blustery stock comedy character . he be an ill temper village blacksmith who do not hesitate to beat ged and be far more menacing than cuddly . 3 ) the witch of ten alder and ged first teacher be not a motherly good witch type . she be strange and fey and try to enslave ged with her spell . 4 ) the battle of ten alder be not fight in daylight and do not involve ged singlehandedly trick the kargides into go over a cliff . 5 ) the title magus be never use in the book . 6 ) oh and yeah ged be the secret name and sparrowhawk be the use name . additionally before he be give the name ged by ogion and his name be duny . 7 ) there be no girl at the school of roke . woman become village witch or evil sorceress ( kind of a high born witch ) but never mages . 8 ) the doorkeeper of the school of roke be not an amusing trickster and but a mysterious and mild but powerful mage and one of the nine master of roke . 9 ) jasper be politely condescend to ged and but it be mostly ged own sense of inferiority that cause him to take such extreme umbrage . 10 ) vetch be not a fat stock comic sidekick character and but a stolid stout hearted friend and occasionally light hearted but mostly serious and with a great deal of the good sense that initially ged lack . 11 ) the archmage nemmerle spend all his power and his life close the hole that ged creates to summon elfarran . 12 ) it take ged a whole year to recover from the attack of the shadow and he be describe a seriously scar . 13 ) jasper do not become a mage . 14 ) i do not even know where to begin with the dragon thing and but the dragon that ged defeat by use his name be yevaud and the corrupt dragon of pendor and not orm embar eldest and wise of all dragon kind . way too much wrong here to even go into . 15 ) kossil be not a young blonde junior priestess vixen and she be a heavyset middle age high priestess of the kargish god king who believe only in power . 16 ) the god king be not hunt ged and sleep with his priestess or make war on the inner island . he doesn not even come into the story . 17 ) tenar be not a junior priestess and she be arha and the reincarnation of the high priestess of the nameless one . technically she be the senior priestess of the temple complex . 18 ) thar be not some kind of beautiful and kind and wise mother superior . she be the tall and thin high priestess of the twin god who be stern but fair and not cruel to the young arha . 19 ) the nameless one be quite different from the shadow that come through the hole that ged open . the nameless one be ancient and chthonian and maleficient power bind to the place of the stone . the shadow that come through the hole be more like that evil that lurk in ged own heart give form and power . 20 ) the nameless one do not need to be keep from escape into the world . they just do not do that they be bind to the tomb of atuan . arha job be to propitiate the nameless one with ritual and blood offering . in the past the nameless one be consult a an oracle but not at the time of the tale . 21 ) invade roke . please . thing that threaten roke can not even get there . the roke wind blow them away . 22 ) the shadow do not talk to ged and profer the usual you can not know the pow ah of the dark side kind of temptation 23 ) vetch be not kill by the gebbeth and bring back to life . 24 ) there be no amulet of elfarran the thing that ged and tenar put back together be the ring of erreth akbe which when rejoin allow them to recover the lose rune of peace . this do not magically kill all monster and make the sun shine brighter and bring forth in earthsea goodwill to men . 25 ) ged and tenar do not kiss and become lover . in fact in tehanu it mention that mages be celibate and that this be currently enforce with spell which make it impossible to even think of them that way . 26 ) oh and yes there plenty more .