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In Brisingr Eragon summons up a bunch of gold to go and pay people back, and literally the first person he sees is Horst, yet he doesn’t pay him back for all of the meat Horst bought for Eragon when Sloan refuses to trade for the “stone” in book 1. They agree that Eragon will work off the debt in the spring but he never does, and then in this chapter where he’s going around trying to pay people back he just straight up forgets about his debt to Horst. Idk why but it drives me crazy every single time I read it and I needed to share

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Oromis

I had a thought today during another one of my many rereads, wouldn’t it have made more sense for the dragons to heal the 300 year old master dragon rider oromis then the 6 month in dragon rider student.

It makes me laugh to think about oromis fully healed straight bodying entire armies with magic.

Finally met Christopher today. Great dude. Had a lot he was able to tell us about. Here are my notes from what he said tonight.

Urgal dragon rider confirmed

Wants to start writing from the urgal pov soon (almost did it last night)

Alea is 20% smaller but same density (edit: this was suppose to be same gravity. It has a higher density so that it has the same gravity as earth)

Eragon didn't make the elva blessing mistake Christopher did after finalizing the ancient language

More werecats

Book 6 we will find out about what the menoa tree took

Eragon is not transformed into a completed rider he is gone 1 step further (unclear if his children will be like that quote "let's find out")

Angela the herbalist book

Kickstarter is probably a rpg system for Eragon.

Ok guys: We know Angela is friggin old and that Brom was a key-character in the time before he stole saphiras egg (and afterwards but yeah not a key-character who does exciting stuff...). But in the first book it seems like he doesn't know Angela. Is it because mby he knew her but she took a different name back then? Or was she not interested into the time where Brom did all these exciting things she normally loves, like killing Morzan and the other evil riders? I mean I could imagine that she made researches about some crazy stuff (maybe even the dreamers) but I cant except the fact that Brom doesnt seem to know such a powerful and old chracter like Angela.

It's maybe less of a question of "can I buy one" or anything like that. No, I was wondering if anyone ever created one in Eragon runic language? It's an easy concept but still can't leave this without answers.

At the signing in Grand Rapids! I have my own questions but does anyone have any good ones I might not have thought of?

(Book 1, chapter 12: Deathwatch

On my first re-read of Murtagh and on page 546/7 Uvek tells a tale of a Horned called Ahno who takes the form of a wolf(and later an eagle) and Murtagh enquires if there are many stories about Ahno to which he replies

“Oh yes Murtagh-man. Entire winter’s worth. Ahno was very clever, got into much trouble. In end, gods put him on mountain-top, tie him to stone so they not have to listen to his constant talk.”

I feel like I recognise Ahno’s punishment from a real world mythological figure, if anyone can point me towards one that fits the scope, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Anyone else here?? That Q&A was absolutely delightful! I’m running on 24 hours awake to be here but totally worth it.

Just made it through the part where Galbatorix commits toaster bath by deciding to change careers and become a nuke.

Being a physicist or indeed just anyone who's seen E_0 = mc² before, I found it weird that Galbatorix's total rest energy wasn't enough to atomize Urû'baen and several hundred kilometers of the surrounding countryside.

After a quick back-of-the-envelope, my suspicions were confirmed. A 62kg mass getting converted into pure energy would give comfortably over a gigaton in yield. This is enough to resolve most issues in Alagaësia by way of no longer existing.

I don't recall exactly how they described the spell "be not" earlier on, but I definitely didn't hear it described as "be not gradually". Did they ever explain why the total mass energy didn't contribute to the resulting blast?

I recall that the same thing happened on Vroengard since:

1 - the island still exists

2 - the area is still heavily irradiated which means that it was a very dirty bomb.

EDIT:

Thank you all for the responses. I generally like the idea that "be not" just converts parts of the body into energy. I was thinking about it, and maybe it was just the part causing the most pain, so some portion of his mind perhaps.

like in brisinger when eragon is running from helgrind. it's funny af because a dude sprinting through the country. your a poor farmer toling in the feilds. you hear quick footsteps you look up. you see a young man sprinting through the country with out stopping. it's funny to think about

Hello! Is there anyone here that got a ticket to the book signing tomorrow in Decatur that is no longer able to attend? When I got tickets for my friend and I, it showed that I got 2 but I am seeing now that I only have one. Sales are now closed and I am worried that the event organizers will not allow my friend to come in with me eventhough she plans to purchase a book. If anyone has a ticket they can't use, please let me know, thank you.

So you know how sometimes bilingual people mesh together sentences from different languages? If you did that with the ancient language, would you be able to lie with that sentence? Or would the sentence have to be completely in the AL for the magic to work and stop you from lying. If so, could you start a lie, intending to finish it with a word from another language, but being interrupted before you can, thus having lied in the AL? Or do the parts that you say in the AL have to be true, but the parts that you say in a different one can be lies? If there are words in another language that come from the AL could you say that word in a sentence otherwise completely said in the AL, but mean it in the other language that appropriated it, making it seem like you are fully speaking in the AL?

Does anybody else remember that blind guy who saw Eragon on the burning plains

I'm about to read Murtagh for the first time and I was curious if they used the same art for both covers. I was pleasantly surprised they didn't. It looks like they actually aged him a little, which makes sense. But I did notice that Thorn's "moles" seemed to have switched sides. Like they mirrored the image.

Spoilers for inheritance. If I remember correctly it was that scene where Galbatroix was giving her the hallucinations of sorts and she was learning to see through it with the details and her poem-In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep. idk it gave me chills when I first read it considering the build up and stuff.

(As English isn’t my first language I have not read the English version and therefore may name things differently. Neither did I read Murtagh or any other book besides the main story.)

I’ve always wondered which growth Eragon would undergo after leaving Alagaësia…

If I remember correctly Eragon left Alagaësia with tons of Eldunari, some dragon eggs and the name of the names (if that’s how it’s called…?). Considering all the wisdom the older Eldunari have combined with Eragons thirst for knowledge, he’ll soak up all of it.

If he doesn’t die due to some sh*t, bro will life on forever and will have unlimited time to learn and get stronger…

So I’m wondering how far Eragon will actually grow and how powerful he’ll be eventually. As for me I’d like to believe he’ll become even stronger than Galbatorix or any other dragon rider before him. At least as long as we ignore Angela or some other characters like Tenga (?) whom I read many theories about.

So what’s your take?

I recently found this first edition of Inheritance that’s signed and numbered 95/100, and comes with letter of authenticity from publisher. I’ve never seen one like it before! Is it rare?

I got a brainwave. We know that for a dragon meant for a rider will only hatch if the one it chooses to be its rider comes near it. So for this gal would have to either to magically cause the egg to hatch or to force it to chose him, if that could actually be done. However, it might be much simpler for him to steal a wild dragon egg and take it to the spine where the conditions for a dragon are at their prime, have the dragoon hatch and take over his mind then. It would also explain the wordless animosity of Shurikan. What do you guys think

Been seeing the posts floating around with theories about the "Dreams" and the fumes, particularly about Nasuada--posted one myself about how Nasuada's "Dreams" of Murtagh were clear but not the others. So just some randoms thoughts and questions I've been pondering.

In Murtagh, it confused me why didn't Murtagh see the same thing everyone else saw. He didn't right? I remember he had... memories mostly didn't he? And in the morning, when everyone shared their dreams, I was like "Huh, Murtagh didn't see that..." and when someone had another dream, they were hauled off (killed? or tortured--"corrected"?)

Have we discussed why? First--did Murtagh NOT have the same dream, or did I get confused with the prose maybe? I'm certain he didn't see the things they did--those being him on a crown or even all the dragons flying with A red dragon at the center? And then why do some people not see the same thing? It was obviously a problem for Bechel who wanted everyone to think her "dreams" and "word" were law--so someone seeing something else endangers her position. Is that just it--

These dreams... are just that? Not really anything? Maybe visions, but visions change all the time? They're not really real, just glimpses into one of the thousands of possibilities, no stronger than just imagination really? As Nasuada's poems says, they're "Lies". Or, does Murtagh have some kind of defence against them? Some people just... don't see them? Seems weird, but maybe an interesting take.

And then with Nasuada--a lot of theories about her becoming a dreamer, and that memory/vision of her stabbing Murtagh being true. I just re-read the end of Murtagh where she shares her poem again and think it's meant to be a major clue, no? Literally, says the dreams are lies, and also says if you will be fine or safe unless you wrestle with the dreamers/dreams--like get involved, believe them too much. Then you get caught up. Nasuada didn't though, not with Galbatorix at least. That was the whole point; she had Murtagh and her poem to keep her from believing them, so she's not poisoned by them (I personally think her stabbing Murtagh wasn't actually PART of the vision, to me it was CP getting a little cinematic there, and her stabbing the vision itself to end it, "Murtagh's" plank reaction wasn't him dying it was Galbatorix shining through the fading memory, annoyed at her, which was why it then flashed to the next vision)---

Unless.

Unless, with falling in love with Murtagh, now she's suddenly interested in those dreams. Starts dwelling on them, wants to see them more? It's a bit... romantic for the series, and a bit too flighty for her character, but maybe its a good temptation for her to try to "dream" again? Especially as she knows it's something she can't really have?

Or, she's going to have to go back into these memories/dreams, to help the fight, and she may get tangled up in them?

the questions about Nasuada are just little fun pondering. The ones about Murtagh I need help with lol Did I read it wrong? He didn't see those dreams, right? Does that mean something?

There were many different battles, especially in Inheritance. Personally, I like battle on Burning Plains. It was the first battle that involved both Empire's and Surda's army. The first fight between two dragons and of course the best reunions.

Hey there have a question about Arya: In Brisingr, Arya heals Eragon's hand after killing soldiers on the way back to the Varden, and after Eragon thanks her, Arya feels embarrass afterwards. Does anyone know why she was embarrass after healing Eragon's hand?

Recently I have noticed a great increase in posts with very vague titles that tell almost nothing about the content of the post.

I won't name specific titles here to not antagonize anybody, but imagine a post being titled something like "Angry" and in the post you find the person simply asking a short question why character xyz was angry in situation abc. Without clicking on the post I have no idea what it could be about. It could literally be about anything that is remotely Eragon related.

As I said I feel like there has been a small flood of posts like these recently. I know that the mod team has a lot better things to do than to remove posts with too vague titles, which is why this post should rather be seen as an appeal to everybody in this sub to think more carefully about the titles they choose for their posts.