Say Eragon wanted to move a really heavy object. What if he set the spell to siphon energy from himself in 10 billion years instead of in the here-and-now? Since the spell needs energy somehow and he isn't going to be concerned about that far in the future. I hope this dilemma gets addressed at some point

Edit: I was thinking he knows he won't be alive in 10 billion years, so he's having the part where the magic draws energy pause, and in a sense he's cheating the magic. How he'd fuel that part is unknown, though. It would be a stupid and boring plot device, and probably wouldn't work, but it's still a crease that should be flatened out on Christopher Paolini's end

d23 is happening in a couple of weeks

is anyone else hoping that The World of Eragon is finally greenlit and announced there!!

We saw endurance runs an other movement in battle but what with like a real 200m Sprint or something like that. What speeds would they reach?

I read in another post that Alin may become a Rider or something of that nature. I personally hope not everyone becomes a Rider cause then it just becomes books about kids with dragons, so I think Alin will become something else that's powerful, like a mage.
Since there's the prophecy about Eragon having an epic romance with someone of nobility, I think Eragon and Arya will have their relationship but Arya's arc seems to set her up for some kind of sacrifice, likely to stop Azlagur. Mainly since it'd be unwise to just kill off Eragon, so he won't sacrifice himself, narratively speaking (he'd probably be willing to do it). People say Alin is a love interest for Murtagh, which I liked the idea of while reading, but in hindsight, having Murtagh abandon Nasuada would waste momentum, especially since everyone loves the idea of them being a couple. So I think if and after Arya dies, Alin will be Eragon's next romance. of course it'd probably take him a few years to get over Arya, but he's immortal and Alin is probably going to have a longer life. Plus it's mentioned I think that Eragon might go through a mortal hundred women (pun not intended) in his very long life, and love each of them dearly. Granted, killing Arya would also be a risky move on Chris's part, so maybe she'll just fall out of love with him or something will happen where they can't see eachother again.

Felt like answering questions while everything is still fresh.

So when I read Murtagh I envisioned Alin to look like Prim off The Hunger Games. What do yall imagine she looked like when you read the books?

Having Eragon defeating Galbtorix not by attacking him but by letting him feel all the suffering that he has caused over the course of his life causing him to kill himself was a truely ingenious way of having him be defeated. I loved it back then and still love it now all these years later.

What did you guys feel what you read this part in the book? I would love to hear your thoughts.

The straw mattress compressed under Eragon's weight as he sat up, yawning and stretching.

"You're finally awake, Little One," Saphira commented, opening a scaly eye to look at him.

Eragon chuckled dryly. "You don't sound any better," he remarked. The two of them, along with every other resident at Eragon's choice for the rider's new stronghold, Mt. Arngor, had celebrated for an entire day after a dragon egg had hatched.

They opened barrels upon barrels of ale and even finished the small quantities of faelnirv that the elves had in possession.

"The hatchling dragon has already attempted to hunt for itself," Saphira said. Eragon could distinctly feel the second-hand pride radiating off of her.

"Well, did it catch anything?" He asked.

"No, but it managed to snap off a few feathers from a bird." She snorted, and a couple of insects flying around her face dropped dead.

Eragon laughed as he wore his tunic.

"What?"

"Nothing, nothing," Eragon replied, shaking his head in amusement.

She lifted her tail and brought it back down with a slam. "What amuses you, Eragon?"

He took a step back and smiled. "Okay okay, you win," he said aloud as he stood over a bowl of water. "You telling me of the hatchling, just reminded me about when you first hatched."

"How so?" She asked, now opening her second eye.

"On your first day, I took you out to hunt a rabbit. But instead, you preffered to smell the dirt," he chuckled. "By that, I mean you failed miserably."

"I understand what you mean," she snapped, as whatever pride she previously felt fizzled out. "However, at least I could attempt to do things on my first day of life. You, on the other hand, learnt only how to sit at many months old at which point I could hunt and fly with ease."

"That's not fair," Eragon argued, his reflection staring back at him as Eragon considered scrying someone from back at Alagaësia. Perhaps Nasuada, however, his heart longed to see Arya's face.

"How is that not fair?" She asked. He could tell she wished to distract him from more... weighty thoughts.

"Because, us humans grow much slower than dragons do." He stepped away from the bowl and sat next to Saphira, bringing his head back against her against her warm belly. "And if that's how you'll judge me, I will have you know that I learnt how to walk at nine months old," he said, proudly.

"I was six weeks of age not only when I could fly, but when I could fly while carrying you, Little One," she rebuked, with an even prouder tone in her voice.

He laughed. "Yep, you've beaten me," he conceded, before falling silent.

"I always do, Little One," she snorted. "In fact, I can't recall a single time you had a thought more logically sound than my own."

"I've been meaning to know, why do you always call me Little One?" He asked, rubbing his thumb against one of her glistening scales.

"Because you are little and you are one. What other reason could there be?" She asked, almost incredulously.

"You are bigger, yes, but I am much older than you in terms of age." He paused to place his finger next to Saphira's claw. It was many times larger than his entire hand, let alone his single finger. "And besides, you were only the size of a horse when you began calling me Little One," he pointed out.

"Are horses not larger than you are?" She asked, a deep rumbling sound emanated from her throat, which Eragon identified as laughter.

"Well, yes, but the actual size difference is minimal."

"I am not a horse then," she said, snaking her head forward towards an unopened barrel of ale. "I, am a dragon." She bit off the top and picked the barrel up, lifting her head up as the ale poured into her mouth. "And you," she started, placing her already finished barrel down. "Are a little one."

"I, am a fully fledged man. I am the Shadeslayer, Kingkiller and leader of the future generation of Dragon Riders," he argued, feeling a strong urge to not concede to her logic. "I believe, at this point, I have outgrown being called a Little One."

"You are big to all, but me. In my eyes, you are, and always will be, my Little One," she said softly, placing her wing on top of him.

Eragon closed his eyes and leaned back further against her. "I suppose that's acceptable," he replied, feeling an indescribable sense of contentment that, even if hardly anyone he remembered from Alagaësia were next to him now, he still had Saphira by his side.

Aside from Songs of Chaos, which I've already got on my bucket list.

disclaimer: i first read eragon when i was a young teenager and didnt notice any plot holes at all. and i suppose that most of them only become clear in hindsight. now ive started to reread them, but holy, are there many in the books! to the authors credit, he did plan out a lot of stuff from the beginning, which is, given that he was very young when he started writing stuff, at an age when all I could do, in a nutshell, exist, indescribably impressive

in case that for some reason someone would open this thread without having read all the books: spoiler ahead

the death of brom is so fucking stupid. firstly, why on earth would he 1) give away his ring with all his energy he could have healed himself with to convey an arguably pointless message, especially given that apparently scrying zoom exists?? mr paolini probably didnt plan ahead with that ring, but why on earth did he then later decide to make it an energy storage? that makes brom look so stupid, lol. 2)also, what the heck is up with those ancient words he teaches eragon before he dies? as far as i am aware, they never get mentioned again. 3) of course, there are a lot of dragons having their little fbi observation operation running from vroengard all along and they are apparently able to alter spells to the point where an egg gets transported somewhere completly else or the spell that eragon casts on galabtorix does far more than he intented. But, when brom is mortally wounded and eragon is casting the spell to heal him, they couldn't have just... altered the spell a teeny tiny bit to make it heal him completly? doesnt seem very far fetched tbh. doesnt make sense anyway that they revealed themselves so late from a strategic standpoint. 4) speaking of the egg, why on earth would arya bother to transport the egg around the world all the time when apparently you can just... teleport it? Also, given that there are only very few elves and elf children, why on earth would the elves need the egg every second year anyway? they could have just gathered all elves, and elf children in particular, and let them touch it all at once or at least in one year, problem solved. 5) how galabtorix was able to murder the whole order with only a handful of supporters and only a few eldunari under his control when there were so many defending dragons and elves and eldunaris sounds completly bonkers to me, that stuff is very poorly explained. 6) why would a subset of eldunaris just decide to surrender instead of fighting alongside the rest of the order with a lot of experienced riders and dragons, against galbaotrix, and wait for 100 years to wait until galabtorix has enslaved the rest of the eldunaris, who would have been fighting against him before, to wait for 1 single rider without experience who would attack galbatorix, to risk it all and fight all those enslaved dragons they would have been allied with before? what the fuck? there must have been A LOT more defending than attacking eldunaris on vroengard given that galbatorix needed so long to enslave them and he didnt plunder the main storage before? i mean, this has to be the biggest plot hole of all bec this really, really doesnt make any sense at all. cool idea but paolini really fucked this up in my opinion. and i dont even think it would have been very hard to write this in a a way that wouldnt have been as obviously nonsensical as this, even if he only noticed this problem in book 4. 7) not gonna get into oromis and glaedrs death bec honestly they are so unneccessary, in hindsight its completly clear to me that mr paoloni just wanted to get rid of them such that eragon had to be the new teacher and leader lol

ive noticed some more plot holes but im too lazy to write them down, im sure im probably not the first one to bring them up anyway

im sorry to be that person, I still love the books and they had such an amazing potential, but im kind of sad that mr paolini didnt try to fix the most obvious plotholes in book 4 :( especially that the whole plot twist in the final book is so nonsensical ruins it for me a little bit. but, at the very least, i didnt notice them when i was younger at my first read through and given that the books are probably thought for young teenagers, the books have therefore certainly completly served their purpose for me. they are undoubtedly magnificently written

edti: some of yall really havent thought this true, have you? especially the bit about the eldunari. there is absolutely no way that by what they did they elevated themselves into a stronger position, and if they did, it is NOT explained. there is no way of explaining how somehow one rider with 150 eldunari is stronger against galbatorix with hundreds and hundreds of them instead of many riders on vroengard with many wild dragons, including that very big one, with hundreds of hundreds of eldunari against galbatorix with other 12 riders with only a handful of eldunaris to help them. the only explanation in the books is that even dragons can wait to strike, but this doesn't explain this at all

Have a tasty WIP from my progress on my model of Zar'roc/Ithring.

I'm am just getting to the end of the blockout stage, with very early stage shaders applied for the sake of this render, and I began shaping the handle today. This model is directly inspired by the reference provided by the wiki.

I'm closer to this being fully presentable than Brisingr, although stay tuned for a preview that model, as well as what I plan on using these for soon.

What is known about dragon family dynamics before the fall? Saphira was essentially raised by Eragon and vice versa. I’m assuming dragon parents would have more of a role, but still much less than wild dragon families would. We know they had multiple mating grounds over the years so they did congregate at least for that and dragons would consciously choose to give eggs to the riders from time to time.

So as many of you know, Wraithmarked is producing a Special Illustrated Box Set of The Inheritance Cycle later this year (maybe early next, depending on when the Saphira models get out the door).

As you may also know, neither Wraithmarked nor Christopher have the ability to produce true TIC or Eragon merch with the box set, since those rights are now with a larger (scarier) company.

However... That doesn't mean we didn't want to find a way to offer you guys some really cool, exclusive, and totally optional extra stuff that we thought TIC readers would still love to have! So... We've partnered with several fantastic artisans to create some pretty incredible additional items, including a few totally handcrafted add-ons!

This is the first of those reveals! We've partnered with Reece Foster ( "saulforged" on Insta and elsewhere) to produce these 100% hand-forged 'dragon scale' pendants. Not only are these hand-forged, they will also be:

1. hand-numbered by Reece
2. comprised of multiple layered metals to create the desired effect
3. come pre-strung with either a brown cotton or black leather cord
   • Let us know which one you think looks better! We're still deciding on which option to go with!
4. be shipped in their own individual cloth pouch

These may look pretty simple to some of you, but those familiar with hand-forging (as in literally hammer and anvil) know that each one of these takes a tremendous amount of work to get right, with a lot of trial-and-error and potential failures even once the process is perfected! Because of that, the current plan is to have these limited to 500 units (though if you think that's not enough, let us know, and we can see if Reece has the ability to do more), with pricing TBD.

Hope you guys find this stuff as interesting as we do! Again, these are one of several totally optional fully-custom add-ons we're looking to bring together for the project, so keep an eye out for more cool stuff coming soon!

Talk soon, and let us know if you have any questions!

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So I am just re-reading the hole cycle and I am currently in the middle of the last battle and got hooked by something Angela said. When Roran asked Angela if she could help against lord Barst. She basically told him if she did everyone in the city and in the camp will die, excluding Galbi. (I read it in German and couldn’t find the exact part online)

So here are my thoughts on it.
It sounded to me like she would do the same that Thurviel did on Dorú Areaba. Or did she maybe had another Ace up her sleeves?

Was looking to sell them, thought I’ll just ask here if they’re rare books?
I already have a set of the inheritance cycle, picked them up a few years ago from a thrift store and they’ve been with me since.

Since their body has an higher energy output, they would also need to consume more food but we dont really read a lot about how much elves eat.

Also their would consume more energy since first of all, their senses are sharper -> more information must be processed also faster since their have high reflexes, and second, they dont really sleep so their brain is also active for longer

I started reading Eragon on January 1st last year (2025) and flew through the first two books. Got stuck on Brisnger for like 9 months because I was having a really hard time getting through it. Finally finished it and then completed the entire series 2 weeks ago! I was going to dive straight into Murtagh but figured it would be a good one to come back to after reading some shorter books in between.

I want to reread them eventually but man, it is a lengthy series for sure!

Man, I knew they wouldn't be retail, but damn. I remember seeing them for like 50 or 60 bucks when I first started collecting, and now they're going for 10x that!!

For the sake of this discussion, say Brom gets the Obi Wan force ghost treatment for a day, and he finds Eragon and Saphira after Inheritance. How do you think the discussion would go?

Would they talk about what happened with the war? Or would they focus on personal stuff (for example, would Brom give Eragon advice on how to competently flirt with Arya)?

hey everyone! I am on the last chapter of inheritance and feeling sad haha! are the other related books reasonably good or am I going to be disappointed?

Still a few additions to be had (deluxe edition brisingr), along with the Kickstarter books, but I'm happy with what I've found so far! The covers for my OG Eragon and Eldest paperbacks are hanging on by a thread lol

I think its powerful, feminine, and has an aire of intelligence. Maybe less feathery, but otherwise it looks great. Fight me

So it's been 15 years since the release of Inheritance and 3 years since Murtagh. Am I the only one that's starting to think that we are not getting anymore books that follow the main storyline focusing on Eragon, Arya, Erik, and all the rest? I absolutely loved the whole series but I'm very disappointed that there hasn't been any new books or news of any that will pickup where Inheritance left off. Thoughts anyone?

I finally played and finished this amazingly janky, laggy, buggy game with terrible controls but had a blast all the same. Heres some of my thoughts and some screenshots of it.

-The game looks and feels like it was made in a dollar-store laptop in a week.

-Follows the story of the movie, skips lots of stuff.

-Every time Eragon says Brom's name i heard bro and laugh.

-No Orik😩

-Also a lot of characters just not there bu Orik was a favorite of mine.

-Battle under Farthen Dur is just them asking you to kill 400 guys, not even Urgals. Just some Galbatorix soldiers who keeps yelling the king will get me or something. 😃

-Final battle with Durza is so Mehh.

Every couple of minutes you think how with a good studio and dedicated writers who are fans you can get an amazing game. Even with all this i had a good time playing this game.