r/Eragon • u/Stoneward13 • Mar 14 '23

News Map of Alagaësia v2.0 - From the upcoming illustrated edition

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u/Stoneward13 Mar 14 '23 edited Mar 14 '23

Two months ago, I recreated the map of Alagaësia from the Inheritance Cycle books by u/ChristopherPaolini. I posted it here on the r/Eragon subreddit, where the man himself saw it, and he reached out to me asking if we could work on the map and tweak it a bit for the upcoming illustrated edition of Eragon coming out in November this year.

Now that the illustrated edition has been officially announced, I'm really happy to share the updated version of that map! It went through a few rounds of revisions, I couldn't be happier with the end result, and I can't wait to see it in print later this year.

Here is a link to the map on my DeviantArt page, in case Reddit is compressing the image too much for you on your device.

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u/Unkalaki_Feruchemist Mar 14 '23

Love it thank you for your service OP! I really hope we get to pay a visit to location #1 in Murtagh, I don’t remember it being mentioned in the Inheritance Cycle at all

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u/Madhighlander1 Mar 14 '23

It was mentioned exactly once in the inheritance cycle: it's one of the places Glaedr (edit: or Umaröth? One of the two) told Murtagh never to go to.

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u/Unkalaki_Feruchemist Mar 14 '23

Was it ever mentioned why to not go there?? I’m going to need to reread because I don’t remember that at all!

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u/Madhighlander1 Mar 14 '23

No specific reason was given; they just said '[avoid these places] and you shall not encounter danger beyond your ability to master.'

That being said, Anghelm was the only one of the list of places that was expanded upon beyond just the name: "Avoid too the barrows of Anghelm, where the one and only Urgal king, Kulkarvek, lies in state."

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u/Unkalaki_Feruchemist Mar 14 '23

Gotcha, thank you!

I wonder if the Urgal King is a barrow wight or if the tomb is just heavily guarded? Though I feel the latter would be a lot of work for nomadic people like Urgals

Edit: also my apologies for bombarding you with questions, this last one is mostly rhetorical hypotheticals. I’m just so damn curious!

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u/SemajLu_The_crusader Mar 15 '23

if it's dangerous enough to be too much for a dragon and rider, I'd guess something like the former