r/Eragon

So, first and foremost: We all know the conversation about water and gemstones, but the words used for scrying reverse that relationship: The character doesn't have to have an understanding of protons, refraction, and all of the other principles of light in order to scry something, and the language used isn't even (something like) "Show me X thing I've seen before."

It's Dream-Stare.

Just to recap and outline:

Scrying works by moving photons around...but it doesn't make the thing you're looking at invisible to other people. Maybe it's duplicating the photons and sending you a copy, or there's some really deep physics related to how photons move going on, but in either case:

It's weird that you can only see things you've seen before. There's nothing in the spell's language that should be creating that limitation, and nothing about the physics involved that does it (Unlike say, trying to scry a closed book).

The limitation also isn't absolute/universal: A person being scryed while wearing a shirt with new stains on it (or lack thereof) doesn't appear as a floating head (or else we'd see a lot more of that in the series), grass that has changed heights slightly doesn't become invisible, etc.

And if I set aside the idea that the Draumr are a retcon, I really have a hard time buying that there's no connection of any kind. My gut suspicion is that the connection between the spell's language and the effect is something like "See as the Dreamers see".

Has anyone else been talking about this?

It occurred to me that she was awful curious about the belt between rescuing Eragon and Arya and them finding the rest of their gear.

Later they go back to recover​ Wyrden's body but they couldn't find the belt.

You don't suppose Angela, perhaps with the Wercats' help nicked it first?

The falling action is the part of the plot that follows the climax. It serves to finish the story and tie up any loose ends. Sometimes, books and series race through the falling action, like Harry Potter after the death of Voldemort, or Percy Jackson and the death of Luke/Kronos.

But in Inheritance, after Galbatorix is dead and Murtagh flees...there are still a hundred pages to go. Every single loose end is tied up. Every thread gets an ending. Everyone finishes their story. And that's awesome! Paolini deserves credit for spending so much time AFTER the climax, after the big bad has been defeated. I think that's part of what makes this series so great. The nice, long, satisfying ending.

Over the last week or so, I’ve been re-reading ‘Murtagh’ and I have to say it’s just as good as the first time around. But in the last couple of days I’ve started getting sick and my head has been really swimming with a gnarly fever. This coincided with me getting to the part of the book where Murtagh and Thorn both come just shy of becoming Bachel’s thralls. I have to say in a humorous way this actually made for a really engaging reading experience, in terms of my own drifting in and out of awareness feeling like it was following Murtagh’s own lol.

10/10 would get thralled by Bachel-itis again (not true actually I’m about to go make some tea and pour myself some OJ)

Has Sloan accepted the egg (for whatever reason), what do you think would have happened? Do you think Saphira would have hatched for Katrina, or would she would have remained inert? I'm on a re-read and wanted to know what everyone thought

Ignoring agility, capacity for magic etc just pure strength who wins? P.s kull also count

I was thinking back to when Eragon enacts his punishment upon Sloan and in his stupor Sloan moans "only a piece of rope, I didn't mean to" along with the name of his wife and then begins to beg someone not to do something.

I've always taken this to mean that he beat her, even if only once, and that is why she jumped. I've also always assumed that she jumped although I guess that theory doesn't have much textual evidence. What do you guys think?

Confused by a line in Eldest (pre ritual) where Eragon is with the dwarven priest looking at the painting of the original Eragon; he says “once my ears match yours, we shall truly be brothers through time…” I know he does become much more elven at the end of Eldest, but at this point in the book there was no plan to do that ritual that I’m aware of. Why does he know his ears will be more elven? I’m assuming I missed a line somewhere where it says that riders in general will get those ears, but I’m not sure when. Thank you!

Edit: solved!!! They do! Thanks all!!

So, obviously Durza suffers from being a Book 1 problem, the magic system not being fleshed out yet, and us as the reader not knowing as much about the magic system at that point anyway, but looking back on it...it seems like Durza had the Varden dead to rights.

His magic is weird in ways that are handy for getting around wards.

He's got a batch of spirits fueling his spellcasting

He's positively ancient by the standards of Shades, and also by the standards of the Varden's spellcasters.

He's got Galbatorix as a frenemy and has managed to survive him for a century, so his vocabulary must be pretttttyyy extensive.

Add onto it that the Varden's best spellcasters were traitors, and it seems like, sans restrictions from Galbatorix and the desire to capture Eragon, he could have dismantled the entire Varden by himself.

Maybe he doesn't know the Death Words. Maybe there's some other factor at play that makes it undesirable for him to just slaughter soldiers en-masse while hiding invisibly in a corner somewhere.

But Durza was bad news for the Varden in a way that I don't think the books did a great job communicating, and that I'm not sure that even end-series Eragon has stopped to consider.

Like, with what we know about magic now? Forget Galbatorix. The Varden didn't have a viable plan to stop Durza.

We know there is a serie coming out or at least working on it.

So what do you wanna see in it? What event should be in the series no matter what? What can be skipped?

I tried to divide the first volume into episodes :

1/ The beginning of Saphira and Eragon's relationship up to Garrow's death

2/ The adventures of Brom and Eragon on the road to the discovery of the gourd and the idea of ​​going to Teirm

3/ Teirm

4/ Dras Leona, Brom's death to Eragon's capture

5/ the escape from Gil'ead until the arrival at the Varden

6/ The grand finale with the discovery of the vardens and the great battle

What do you think?

(just a heads up, very light spoiler for the fork, the witch, and the worm)

I'm sure this has already been suggested since I fear everything has been suggested at this point, but could Angela be another victim of a blessing gone awry like Elva is.

It could involve the interference of a bonded dragon as with Elva, it could be a wild dragon - before or after the formation of the riders - it could be a member of the grey folk, it could be some other magic capable individual or member of a race known or not.

It could also be an intentional curse, perhaps by Tenga himself. Maybe he was victim to a blessing gone wrong and sought to create someone like himself intentionally or is part of a long line of cursed individuals (something like this is my current head canon).

I'm sure that someone more knowledgeable than me could cite exact textual references to support this but I think the most general evidence is Angela taking Elva under her wing as her personal student. (As for my personal head canon, I'd like to think that her finding out that he did this to her on purpose is what led to their falling out)

Anyway, I now await ibid to quote Mr Paolini disputing this when someone else suggested it as a theory.