
Nasuada decides to move the Varden to the free land of Surda to organize another strike against Galbatorix. Before they leave the land of the dwarves, the dwarf king asks to adopt Eragon as an honorary member of his family. The Varden choose their fallen leader’s daughter, Nasuada, to lead them Eragon and Saphira, as important public figures, are asked to endorse this choice, which they do. Stability among the Varden is threatened when the leader of the group is killed in a follow-up Urgal-tracking operation Eragon’s friend Murtagh and a pair of sorcerers named the Twins disappear in the same operation. Eragon realizes that he needs to learn more and decides to take the advice of The Cripple Who Is Whole and go to the land of the elves in order to study magic and fighting. Durza, a powerful Shade in Galbatorix’s service, leads an army of the monstrous, warlike Urgals to attack Farthen Dûr with the help of Saphira, an elf named Arya, a mysterious dream-presence who calls himself The Cripple Who Is Whole, and good luck, Eragon manages to kill Durza, though he sustains a terrible wound across his back in the process.Įldest opens in the aftermath of this battle. A series of other adventures leads Eragon and Saphira to Farthen Dûr, a hollow mountain that contains both a dwarf city where the human resistance fighters, the Varden, make their temporary home.


Eragon flees with the village storyteller, Brom, who turns out to be a former Dragon Rider himself Brom instructs Eragon in some of what he needs to know, and eventually dies defending him. He and Saphira are pursued by the king, Galbatorix, a Dragon Rider himself who became evil Galbatorix’s sinister, inhuman agents kill his Uncle Garrow, who raised him, and burn his farm. When the first book in the trilogy opens, Eragon is just a farm boy from a remote valley when he discovers a dragon egg and it hatches, he and the dragon, Saphira, become linked for life and he assumes the only person alive with the rare and powerful status of a Dragon Rider.

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