#Morzan’s dragon

[good-morzan-inheritance-cycle]

Morzan, Eragon and Murtaugh all prefer sleeping under their Dragon’s wings. But each dragon goes about it differently.

Morzan’s dragon likes to cave his wing and make a huge cave that just lets Morzan do his thing, walk around and whatever. They like being close but not always touching. They’re more of a quality time type pair.

Saphira likes to tuck her wings tighter but still gives Eragon his room to read and such. But it’s much more of a tent that’s cozy rather than roomy. They like to kinda cuddle when doing it, but there’s definitely legroom and Eragon can squirm like the little ADHD goblin he is.

Thorn just straight up smothers Murtaugh.

[cs-cabin-and-crew]

Morzan’s dragon!

He’s also the new poster child for a new blog I made specifically for Good Morzan

He was such a pain to draw, but I love him.

His fangs are kinda like a young walrus’! So they’re not only baby proofed for murtaugh, but the caps are also to prevent them from getting chipped.

(And if anyone has rendering/coloring tips to make me not wanna kill someone, I’d greatly appreciate it…)

Also does anyone know if his name was ever revealed despite his curse/spell?

[umunschaas]

No one stays sane after loosing their bonded dragon.

No, not even Brom. Like, the guy absolutely lost it when Rhunön refused to make him a new sword, having to be 'calmed down' by Oromis. I wonder if Oromis learned harshly from what happened to Galbatorix and tried his hand on some actual therapy sessions with Brom. Having actual friends to help him, sure did him some good too. And then Brom had the benefit of directing his anger at those that no one liked anyway.

So, what if Galbatorix hadn't turned his anger, grief and madness against the Order, but against the draumar instead.

[thearunadragon]

How would the IC characters react to being forced to put on a face mask and get their nails painted?

Wrote this entire thing and then my browser froze and deleted it lmao. sorry this took so long. Great ask!

ERAGON: Is confused, but as long as it makes you happy.

ARYA: *yowling cat noises*

OROMIS: Refuses to answer straightforwardly how he feels about this and is talking in circles.

MORZAN: Already secretly paints his nails goth black but would still stab you if you tried it.

MURTAGH: Drops his head dramatically on the table with a loud “UGHHHH” but lets you do it anyway.

NASUADA: *hesitant* “…Fine, but only if it’s red.” *points at EXTREMELY specific red-wine-maroon mail polish you’ve never seen in your life.

GARROW: Would make Birka and Brugh interchangeably step on you.

RORAN: Could not care less as long as Ismira helps with the nails and he can do it with Katrina, or at least talk to her.

ISLANZADÍ: Would absolutely not allow it unless it was an obscenely dramatic glitter polish.

ALÍN: “GLITTER!!”

SAPHIRA: Only accepts if the nail polish color compliments her scales.

THORN: Watches quietly and starry-eyed as you take the time and care to make his talons look nice. He is smiling the whole time.

FÍRNEN: Fidgets and moves like a little kid the entire time because he is excited.

GLAEDR: *earthquake noises*

GARZHVOG: Will allow it if you listen to and share the stories of his people and share some of your own.

BLÖDHGARM: Will allow nail polish, forbids the face mask because fur and damp do not mix.

ORIK: “I’ll be a BEWTIFUL FECKIN’ PRENCESS, HVEDA, DON’T KNOCK ET TILL YEH TROY ET!”

UVEK: “Good color. Very strong.” His nails: 💅

[alagaesia-headcanons]

I have a ride or die headcanon that little Murtagh was obsessed with Morzan’s dragon. He absolutely loved him.

Murtagh sees him often enough from a young enough age that he’s never scared of him. So naturally, he’s absolutely enamored with the huge, beautiful, glittery, fire breathing monster that hangs out outside the house. He’s kept at a distance, but he’s still the dragon’s biggest fan. Murtagh’s very upset to learn that he doesn’t have a name which feels very unfair to him, so he musters up all his creativity and dubs him “Red”.

Morzan doesn’t always travel with his dragon when he leaves the estate, depending on what he needs to do. So sometimes the dragon stays and rests while Morzan is gone. During one such time, when Selena is also away on a mission, a freshly 3 year old Murtagh escapes his nurses and goes to Red. He’s careful at first, testing the waters gently, then getting increasingly close and comfortable with him when Red seems utterly unbothered. He’s no more than an ant next to the dragon’s enormous size. Murtagh is immediately in love, clambering all over him and constantly babbling to him, undeterred by the lack of response.

The servants do eventually find him after a frantic search. Morzan’s dragon doesn’t like any of the staff, so despite letting Murtagh nestle into the crook of his foreleg, he snarls and snaps at anyone who tries to get close enough to retrieve him. The servants are stuck in a grim dilemma, because no one’s willing to test the limits of a gargantuan, irascible dragon, and they don’t have anything to bribe Murtagh with that’s cooler than said dragon, so he refuses to budge. They’re absolutely terrified the dragon will kill him, either inadvertently or not.

After three full days of Murtagh glued to Red’s side, remaining miraculously unsquished, Morzan returns. The servants are in a cold sweat, stuttering and shaking like leaves in a storm as they try to explain that his son is fine, there’s no need for alarm, but there may be just a small issue. He goes to his partner and does with insulting ease what the staff have fruitlessly tried for three days, he steps right in and scoops Murtagh up. He looks completely unkempt and ignoble, dirty and scraped from being outside the whole time, giggling unrepentantly and singing Red’s praises.

To the servants great luck, Morzan finds this all quite amusing. Carrying Murtagh back to the house, he accuses, “Trying to replace me as the dragon Rider, are you?” and Murtagh cries, “Yes! Take me flying!” Morzan says that he will, but it never happens.

Selena is less thrilled when she learns of this, also afraid that the dragon might kill Murtagh in a moment of annoyance. But Murtagh adores him and she can’t reliably keep him away, so she tries to accept the incongruous match. Red doesn’t show any perceptible warmth to him, and yet he makes the effort to keep tabs on him and stops him from doing anything too dangerous. Of course, since the banishing of the names stunted his mind, the dragon doesn’t have any nuanced opinion of Murtagh, but he can recognize that his little ant feels incapable of malice and he comes to like Murtagh in the way he can. Learning of Red’s death on top of the loss of both his parents utterly devastates Murtagh.

After a little while in Uru’baen, Tornac asks Murtagh which parent he was closer to, and Murtagh tells him Morzan’s dragon. Tornac takes a very long, very strained breath, thinking Oh dear gods help me I have so much fucking work to do.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Since both Brom and Eragon had blue dragons and both Morzan and Murtagh had red dragons, I wonder if the color of a dragon somehow reflects the rider's nature

[tonhalszendvics]

[saphira-approves]

Can I come and tell you my deepest pain?

We should have had Morzan alive. I mean yeah, it would fuck up the whole narrative but imagine Murtagh being afraid of his father. He hates the king but fears his father.

Imagine him and Thorn; Morzan sees them, and he has problems with booze in canon, just how drunk he'd have gotten after Thorn learned to talk? There he is with his nameless dragon, half of his heart and soul, that he had to watch descend into stupidity. (Does he have its name written up here and there, does he watch it every day just to think about how he could make it real again?) Would he dream of killing his son and taking his dragon to himself? Would he want that even though he despises that sick joke of a connection that is in between Galbatorix and Shruikan?

And then Galbatorix finally discovers the name of the names. How would he beg for the king to use it to heal his companion?

Also, it would be very funny to watch our main characters run for their lives with an angry dragon after them, but y'know.

Should I write a fic about this

Oh you absolutely should write a fic about this (and let me know when you do! I’d love to read it!), and I should go back through my WIPs to find my time travel AUs…

I usually write more about Selena than Morzan, but I do love the idea of getting to see grown-up Murtagh’s reaction to seeing his father, especially in a context where Murtagh has lived without him for a while—whether that’s because Brom didn’t kill Morzan and Selena got both her sons to Carvahall, or because resurrection or time travel shenanigans happened.

As for Morzan still being around when Murtagh gets captured… I think there’s a 50/50 chance he gets Real Weird about the torture, in a “I was pretty sure up to this point that I didn’t actually care about my son but now my best friend is torturing My Son and I don’t like it actually” way, and I think that would be really fun to explore; I think, also, that when Thorn hatches and Galbatorix prematurely increases his size, Morzan would again be Real Weird about it because, like, that’s a baby dragon the size of an adult. He hasn’t lost his name, he just hasn’t really developed one yet; he’s a weird, warped mirror of Morzan’s own dragon. And when Thorn does, eventually, with difficulty, start to ‘grow up’, Morzan’s probably going to get twitchy about it—it’s been at least a century, more than two thirds of his lifespan, since he’s even MET a somewhat psychologically stable dragon; how much has he forgotten of their true intelligence, their real personalities? And when Galbatorix does find The Word, if Morzan asks him to heal his own dragon… honestly I don’t know if Galbatorix would be able to. Having power and knowing how to use it are two different things, we saw Murtagh figure that out in his own book with The Word. Would the king even know where to start? Would he allow Morzan to try for himself? Morzan probably wouldn’t have a clue where to begin, all we ever hear about him from people who’d met him is that he’s a powerful spellcaster, but not a very clever one.

Honestly, the whole situation might drive Morzan to split from Galbatorix; and even if not, it would still probably drive Morzan to be extremely destructive, to himself and everyone around him.

Also he’d be so pissed to learn about Eragon’s true parentage. Not even in a “my wife cheated on me?!” way but in a “oh my god can Brom stop being SO OBSESSED with me for FIVE MINUTES” kind of way.

[glbtrx]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Galbatorix/Morzan (Inheritance Cycle) Characters: Morzan (Inheritance Cycle), Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle) Additional Tags: don't take life for granted Summary:

Morzan and Galbatorix get attacked by a group of Riders... Morzan learns not to take everything for granted.

[ One-shot ]

[modern-inheritance]

Brain fried, things to do later tonight need to nap to prep.

Actually read some of the Gil’ead Murtagh things earlier. A rough plan is forming.

Solo Team Brom shenanigans to be tinkered with at some point in time.

Debating how badly to wreck Brom with the MIC Breath. I do not know his trauma well. Will have to consult. Got very close to breaking elf earlier. Will revisit, possibly revise. Going to test that ‘would probably break if shown a loved one going through Durza’s torture gauntlet, just a question of how long’ theory. Again, not sure how long she and Brom have till Murtagh explains the purging process to them.

I am tired. I am going to nap.

[tonhalszendvics]

@dellanir hey, sorry for the tag, but it's maybe easier to talk like this than in the answers :|

To my understanding, our heroes won the final battle when Galbatorix lost his cool. He got mad, he set everything aside and tried to break Eragon's mind, straight and head-on. And the thing that made him mad was Murtagh getting free and attacking him. That was that broke the king's spell that was holding down Arya, Saphira and Elva, so they were physically able to move.

Most of Eragon's success is him acting on a whim, on instincts - but at the same time it also almost killed him many times, so when we are throwing things of what could he have done, keep in mind that all of those can kill him as well. Also: Eragon spent like. Two months at most in Ellesméra, studying from Oromis and he forgot a lot (ie. the Banishing of the Names, human runes, probably even more, as Oromis had no time to revise their lessons. I don't hold it against him, it was a very difficult and challenging part of his life). He got the distilled version of the rider-training. Galbatorix was a student in the height of the Order, so I think we can safely assume that everything Eragon knew, Galbatorix knew as well. Even if he had been an apprentice a long time ago and he forgot a lot.

Murtagh said that the king could be killed in many ways. Eragon found one. However, we've seen how did Galbatorix deal with Nausada, and in the new book it was revealed how did he break Murtagh. For me, this means that if Murtagh there in the throne room didn't change, Galbatorix would have done the same to Eragon. He was entertained by Eragon and the others, but he'd have returned to the known ways. He could have started with separating Eragon from the others, stripping him from his magic. He could have started torturing Saphira, which is a well-known method to break riders. Eragon reached him with his talking, that's why he let that duel happen in the first place, but if he had talked further, I think he'd have silenced him.

If we have the throne room scene with everything the same, except for Murtagh and Thorn switching sides, then Eragon and his company has the slimmest chance to win. It is possible, as everything is possible, but I'd give it a one to million ratio. We were granted with the best outcome there, I think, everything else would have been too taxing to our heroes either physically or mentally. I am thinking about Murtagh's threat from the third book where he'd said that he'd cut down Eragon's hand, since he wouldn't need that in Uru-baen. And while hands can be glued back with magic, as we've seen it in courtesy of Balder, Glaedr's case shows that it is not always the case.

For mental stuff: Eragon was in a very vulnerable state mentally after the end of the war. Let's not forget that he was a teenager who was forced to grow up too fast and who'd lost basically everything during that war, including his own sense of privacy. If he'd beaten Galbatorix alone without the help of Saphira, Arya, Murtagh, Thorn and Elva, he'd have become a second Galbatorix. If not immediately after the battle, then later on. He still has that fear, that's why he left Alagaesia.

Galbatorix was alone. Even if he had Shruikan and the Eldunarya, they all hated him, so in reality, he was alone. He had to be overthrown via group effort, and in that way it had happened in the book, otherwise Eragon's future, and the future of Alagaesia, would be in danger.

TLDR: Eragon has a one to a million chance to win without Murtagh's help, and I don't want him to win like that, because that would break him and the consequences would be ugly.

Could Eragon actually defeat Galbatorix without Murtagh's help?

If Murtagh's true name had remained the same or if he hadn't remembered the Name of Names, does that mean Galbatorix would have easily defeated Eragon and the Varden?

[good-morzan-inheritance-cycle]

Light up Morzan’s dragon because I forgot to post it here and I’m an idiot who forgot to turn the light layers on in the original drawing

[cs-cabin-and-crew]

Are any of us gonna acknowledge that based on timeline, Morzan was a child when Galbatorix made him his apprentice?

[umunschaas]

A special request! Mightest thou draw Snorzan on the back of his nameless dragon? Or perhaps having a tea party with the giant snails on Vroengard?

Well... the thing is...

Morzan under his snail curse is around hand-sized. And his partner is big xD

Saves the saddle certainly. And for the poor nameless/mindless bean, it probably wouldn't be much of a difference, since Morzan's mind is still fully present.

(also he doesn't take kindly to being compared with Snalglí... claims it is because they are dumb, but probably also because he's still far smaller than them xD)

[thearunadragon]

IC Character react to Dinosaur: Plesiosaurus

How IC Characters Would React to Dinosaurs, Part Fourteen; Plesiosaurus:

ERAGON: Wonders if the teeth, once lost, could be collected to serve as decent arrow heads.

MURTAGH: Collects the teeth to make the arrow heads and a slightly emo necklace.

ARYA: Riding this sucker with a spear in her hand, shouting war cries in common elvish like an inebriated cavewoman.

NASUADA: “They’re in the water supply now???”

ORIK: “Holy Kilf. Holy KILF. Hvedra. Hvedra, it’s Aunt-f***ing’-Beatrice!!

GARZHVOG: “No horns. Disappointing. Neck like stick.” Is promptly slapped by a flipper and forced to learn how to swim VERY quickly. “I apologize. Good strength.” *leaves*

UVEK: Is trying to tie leather armor onto it.

ALÍN: :0000

ANGELA: “Now, Howard, I thought we discussed this already! The local fish population simply cannot clean you that fast! You have to go south of here— yes, to the reef! Do I need to call Marlin?”

SOLEMBUM: is gone faster than you can realize he was even there in the first place.

BROM: “…like a blasted sea chicken with arms—“ *walks off muttering*

SILNA: sacrifices the nearest bird and blows this popsicle stand

SAPHIRA: Eragon, this is going too far. I’m not even sure what this is! Have the Nïdwhal been seeing problems?

THORN: Thinks it looks like a fat extraterrestrial spaghetti and is now wheezing quietly in laughter.

FÍRNEN: It is a manatee with big neck and big teeth, is it not?

GLAEDR: is vaguely annoyed by this thing purely because he thinks it’s disproportionate

OROMIS:

MORZAN: would try and use this thing as an extra battle beast but like for pretend scenarios

GARROW: “…and this, children, is why I hate the Bay of Fundor.”

ELVA: “Fish.” (Glances at recent bass consumption reports) “Bad fish.”

[massiveladycat]

ha. ha. ha. so i just read eldest WHO THE FUCK. WAS NOT GOING TO WARN ME ABOUT THESE THINGS: 1. MURTAGH BEING ERAGON'S OLDER BROTHER HELLLOO?? 2. I THOUGHT MURTAGH WAS DEAD I WAS GRIEVING YOU CANT DO THAT TO ME PAOLINI 3. ERAGON STOP MAKING MOVES ON ARYA SHE'S THREE TIMES YOUR AGE 5. eragon makeover >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 6. i wasnt planning on loving roran so much but YES STRONGHAMMER!!!!1111 (he immediately punched eragon upon seeing him) 7. im getting concerned about murtagh's situation 8. also eragon sweetheart no. being forced to be a rider under galbatorix doesnt mean betrayal 9. i still love eragon though ill be defending that boy until the day i die. if there are no more eragon lovers on earth ive been KILLED 10. the elves are so fun to read about 11. the book cover confused me at first because . . . hey, why isn't the dragon blue, isn't this saphira?? NO. IT'S THORN. IT'S MOTHERFUCKING THORN 12. please paolini don't kill off orik 13. garrow was more of a dad to eragon than morzan will ever be. 14. saphira is amazing i love her 15. its so funny when you realize eragon literally watched saphira hatch and then suddenly she's SEVERAL TIMES HIS SIZE and calls him "little one" and mothers him because selena wouldn't and also tells him 'you got to calm down little man' when eragon is trying to flirt with arya 16. speaking of that watching him try and flirt with her makes me crack up 17. but it also gives me second-hand embarrassment