Hey there, do we have more informations bout the series incoming ??

Since how long has this wiki been existing and how in 5 years since I read the books I desciver of this now

I think they do love each other- Arya does lots of things that support it, like healing his hand, becoming flustered and embarrassed when Eragon notices anything, almost servering her hand to free him in Dras’loana, breaking protocol to greet him first, running to him, kissing him on the forehead, and most importantly, her dragon, Firnen, saying that she has spoken much about him- Arya does not speak much about others at all. I can’t believe that it ended like that though-😭. I guess we have to wait to book V to find out more.

I like dragons

Hello!

I havent posted on this fandom before but ive been here a little while

Im relatively early into brisingr currently and ots good so far

Would you lot enjoy some art of the dragons?

Im not good at drawing people so probably not any characters but I can try the dragons

Ill probably post it in like a couple weeks or smth

This wild magic intrigues me greatly. Especially its fewer limits. Most interesting.

Hello I’m new to both the series and the Fandom and I just wanted to say 👋 hi.

I would have to say Saphira is my favorite character and they really should do another movie. The 2006 one left a lot to be desired. But I love dragons and (knock on wood 🪵) I think 🤔 I found my favorite dragon book at last 😊!

Murtagh's duel with Bachel got me thinking recently. Murtagh, we know, was on his own, he had access to less energy than Bachel. I asked myself how it was possible that he won. If Bachel had more energy, she can just use it all, and Murtagh would lose. Even if she was being conservative, because she could've be entirely confident she had more energy, as the duel progressed, Bachel's spells should've broken through Murtagh's wards and the duel would've been over. So why, I asked myself, are magical duels considered conflicts of wit if it's nearly impossible to bypass a ward?

Then, I had two inspirations. First, the amount of energy you have access to is finite. How much you can get done with that energy isn't. Consider, in Eragon, where Eragon tries to lift mist to dismay the Urgals from a distance. Why should distance increase the cost of the spell? My solution is that it costs energy to move energy. If you're using energy to affect something at a distance, part of the costs of the spell are actually physically moving the energy over that distance. Then, there's more factors that make spells less efficient. Imagine if you tried to burn someone in a duel by superheating the air next to their skin. So, first you'd lose energy over the distance from yourself to that air. Second, the air doesn't perfectly transfer energy to that person, so you lose energy as the heat escapes through conduction, convection, radiation. In the end, only a small portion of the energy you sent out would actually harm them, or go against their wards. So, summarised: when using a spell, do everything you can to make it efficient and prevent energy loss.

The second thought I had was this: While the energy in your BODY is finite, the energy in the environment is not. How did Murtagh defeat Bachel? He dropped something on her. To be precise, he used the GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY within what he dropped on her. Instead of directly acting on Bachel (restricting the fight to the energy in both of their bodies) he found energy in the environment and, using magic, made it so that it was released to attack Bachel. This is the pinnacle of dueling tactics in Alagaesia. However, this could only be used because there was something easy to drop on her: He needed something higher than Bachel (to gain gravitational potential energy), he needed it directly above her (so he didn't have to spend energy moving it so that it hit her when it fell), and he needed it to be low-energy to break it off. If this was a solid rock ceiling, so that he had to actually break a metre-thick layer of rock off the roof to get it to fall, the costs outweigh the benefits of using this tactic, because it's not cheap to do.

So, to talk about the implications of this technique: your first priority in a duel, if possible, is to bypass their wards, like Eragon's trick with stopping light reaching the Lethrblaka's eyes. If you can't do this, your second priority is to find some source of potential energy that you can use in your fight. This could be a dying body in the room that you take the energy of, to fuel yourself. This could be something up high that you drop on them. If you had access to something explosive, you could carry that with you and ignite it (triggering a chemical reaction to make heat, rather than making the heat yourself). Anything that allows portable energy or energy in the environment to be used to harm your opponent. Your last resort, the thing you should always fall back on, if casting a spell so that it will hit their wards, is to make it as efficient as possible. This means being close to them and casting DIRECT spells. Using mediums or in-betweens lowers efficiency and makes it easier for them to block than for you to cast. This is obliquely referenced in Saphira's fight with Thorn in Dras-Leona - she heats the rocks Thorn is buried in so that their wards have to not deflect flames, but actual heat. This is harder to do, because the energy is going directly from the rocks to heat up Thorn's flesh, rather than the fire heating the air which heats up Thorn.

Ultimately, this makes the final solution of winning a duel to NEVER resort to casting random spells at your opponent. Traps are the best way to do it - if they aren't prepared, you can easily win. Second best is to have a preprepared item enchanted so that it casts a bunch of spells (see my last post from around august last year), allowing you to have stacks of opportunities to bypass their wards in a small time. Of course, if you can run, then run. Lastly, if it must come down to a contest of strength use direct spells. I'm honestly astonished that none of these techniques are ever used by any of the characters: to give an example, when Eragon fought Murtagh and overwhelmed him by using the strength of his elven aiders, he firstly allowed them to send him strength from a distance. Stupid move, because energy was lost over the distance. You should put it into a gem beforehand. Then, he cast a spell that immobilises his torso. Yes, it's direct, but it doesn't achieve anything. You want a win? Cast 'sleep'. The spell needs to actually win the fight. To give a picture of what would've happened if Eragon walked into that fight knowing what he was doing, the Elves first would've put all the strength they could into a gem, any gem, that Eragon could carry. Then, Eragon would cast 'slytha' and overwhelm Murtagh. He would go to sleep. I'm not exactly sure how they would subdue Thorn, but perhaps Eragon could put Thorn to sleep and Saphira could catch him, so Thorn doesn't hit the ground and die? Not sure if Saphira's strong enough to do that. Anyway, the point is that they win this fight, and if they can't subdue Thorn, Eragon can threaten to kill Murtagh, and if Thorn continues trying to escape, actually kill him. This would change the course of the war with Galbatorix, all because Eragon actually duelled intelligently. These techniques can be applied to all magical confrontations in the books.

Hope you all a nice day

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I really liked Roran in the first book but hated him in books 2-4. Justice for Classic Roran.

Hi everyone, by any chance, do you know to which languages has Murtagh been already translated, cause it doesn't seem to be avaliable in my original language(Ukrainian) yet?

If you have a favorite dragon from the book series what would it be?

Hi! Call me May. This is my first time on the wiki, but I'm on quite a few other ones. In fact, I even started one! I'm currently reading Eldest.

I think it was announced like 2 years ago and still no updates and to me that is usually a red flag that a show isnt happening but lets go for wishful thinking here, if it does happen who do you all want to see play the characters of eragon book for the tv adaptation.

Hi everyone, I never actually read any of the books but I have listened to every last paolini book I could find. There's a couple of articles online about him trying to produce a series on the inheritance cycle. Has anyone heard any more news on this?