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Like Jeremy went off on this movie I cannot think straight with Brom on screen
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2 revelations: eragon is a horse girl and Brom was at stonewall
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One of my fav things from the first Eragon book:
When Eragon sees the Urgal footprint and tells Saphira to get Brom to safety and she just grabs Brom and presses him against her with her wings without telling him why and won't let him go before Eragon tells her to. That's just peak "Eragon and Saphira share one (1) braincell and she didn't have it at that time". Also I wanna know what went on in Broms head. One moment he's making a campfire, the next moment his son's dragon snatches him up and won't let him go.
#eragon#inheritance cycle#saphira#brom#eragon bromsson#eragon shadeslayer#im getting back into eragon baby#and i miss brom already even though he's not even dead yet
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Eragon is such a hater
#he didn't even want to listen to what had happened to Murtagh#Murtagh tried to explain his difficult situation#Eragon was his friend#and he didn't even want to trust Murtagh#Eragon treated Murtagh the same way Morzan treated Brom#at least in the first two books#eragon#the inheritance cycle#murtagh morzansson#inheritance cycle
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Oromis doing the same training techniques on Eragon as he did with Morzan and brom, is the equivalent of that one almond mom giving you parenting advice while their kids are actively licking a wall.
#I said what I said#inheritance cycle#christopher paolini#eragon shadeslayer#eragon#funny#eragon bromsson#this was funnier in my head#but seriously you look at him and back at Brom and Morzan and you’re like “who’s idea was that?#love his dumb hypocrisy spouting butt tho
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I will always be so sad and angry that Eragon never recognized how horribly the elves treated him and that no one else helped protect him from it either. Oromis is so insidiously and inexcusably cruel to him and Eragon truly deserved the chance to escape that and see the damage he caused, and also to then beat Oromis into a bloody pulp. And Glaedr too, honestly. He's mostly gone unscathed in my past rants, largely because at least his personality isn't so insufferable, but he ain't shit either. He's fully complicit in all of Oromis's vile abuse, and adds to it himself in certain places. They more than earn Eragon's ire, but they all constantly belittle him and insist that they inherently know better than him about everything, and poor Eragon believes them, so he doesn't fight back. No!!! Every misgiving you have about them is true, and not only should you stand your ground, but you should also start maiming them!!!!!
Oromis's mannerisms are respectful, kind, and gentle, but they in no way indicate his actual feelings. It just serves as a guise, while their actions demonstrate that both he and Glaedr don't have a single shred of respect for Eragon. They don't trust him, they don't put faith in him, they don't care about his wellbeing, and they have so much contempt for him. And they do all that while they take everything from Eragon, demanding he sacrifice himself constantly, and not always just in the interest of beating the Empire! In some cases it's solely an expression of their resentment of him or a way to cut away at the parts of him they don't like.
And Eragon gives them everything, so earnestly and generously. Then they give him jack shit. They only give him whatever suits their intention to use him as a weapon, and even in that, they pick and choose things to withhold according to their disdain for him. Contempt is all he gets in return for his trust and loyalty.
And it makes me sad how Saphira isn't there for him in this. In her defense, she's very young and they harm her also by prioritizing her utility to them over anything else, which she sadly does not recognize either. But beyond that, the elves and Oromis and Glaedr specifically treat her far, far better than they treat Eragon. She's in no way responsible for their actions, but there are places where she enables the abuse. Most often through overlooking it, but sometimes when Eragon rightfully balks at their mistreatment, then turns to Saphira for her input, she tells him, "I trust them and I think you should be deferring to them."
Eragon is so earnest and compassionate and he deserves care, both in the form of other people caring about his wellbeing, and also through the chance for him to learn how he can and should care for himself. Yet at the end of the series, he's so conditioned to accept manipulation and abuse and I just want my poor boy to have a chance to rest and HEAL 😭
#eragon#inheritance cycle#eragon shadeslayer#oromis#glaedr#saphira#im too tired to pull all the receipts for this. maybe later. but believe me I Have Them#its a cold hard canonical fact that oromis is a cruel bastard#this was focused on him and glaedr but the other elves distinctly contribute to this too#notably vanir and arya. also the eldunari have similar issues tbh#why did brom have to die? eragon deserved an authority figure whos not a condescending asshole#catch me thinking of aus where terrible things happen to oromis as a form of catharsis :)
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Got my driver’s license, so yall getting a Modern ‘Good’ Morzan AU, and who drives like what.
Eragon: blasts music like there’s no tomorrow. Might be deaf at this point, but the ADHD must be silenced with rock songs.
Murtaugh: terrified of turning left, but other than that he’s a decent driver. He can’t remember the last time he’s ever did an oil change on the car.
Brom: “don’t turn on your turn signal, that’s how people know where you’re going.”™️
Puts everyone in music timeout if he misses a turn
Arya: only one who can ACTUALLY drive. But she does go fast.
Morzan: hits a curb and goes ‘oopsie’. If he crashes and dies, just know he went out like a man (he’s belting Madonna)
Oromis: had his license taken away, but will still judge your driving even if he’s wrong.
Nasuada: passenger princess. In fact, she never even got her permit. But she doesn’t need one as everyone just drives her where they wanna go, because she’s the one that orders for you at a restaurant, and knows how to do an oil change.
Roran: can’t drive a small car, but can drive a tractor like a race car, and has a pickup truck that’s so busted up you don’t even know how it’s still running. It’s living off blood, sweat, tears, and the power of god.
#christopher paolini#the inheritance cycle#eragon bromsson#eragon#brom#inheritance cycle#murtaugh#Morzan#Morzan Inheritance Cycle#Headcanons#Modern inheritance cycle AU#Good Morzan AU#reformed morzan au
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pssssp if you would like you should draw eragon and saphira dozing off
Thanks for the art requests (^▽^)💖 ! Sorry for the delay, I tested some new art styles so it took a while.
But here is the duo Eragon and Saphira taking a dozing off ! And to compensate I also added Brom smoking his classic pipe while standing guard at night, as one of the camping moments of this trio during their travels through Alagaësia.
The scenario is a ready-made one that I looked for on Pinterest and tried to adapt the characters, light and shadow to it and I actually liked the result (─‿‿─).
#my art#art#digital art#eragon#inheritance#the inheritance cycle#fanart#eragon shadeslayer#christopher paolini#saphira#Brom#Brom Holcomzoon#eragonart#dragon art#camping#road trip
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Accents
(Art is mine) Reading Murtagh, the extent of accents in Palancar Valley is made painfully obvious. This means that Eragon very likely had a thick accent himself, and I have zero doubts within my mind that this is something he was forced to unlearn, at least to an extent (for coherency and diplomatic-appearance purposes.) Along with Brom’s instruction, Murtagh (during their travels together) would also try to train him to manage the accent, and Arya did the same later on. However, when he is excited, upset, or even especially tired, his natural accent easily slips through and he sounds like the most Carvahall-native boy in Alagaësia.
#eragon shadeslayer#the inheritance cycle#Christopher poalini#Accents#headcannons#Thoughts#ideas#consideration#discussion#characters#brom#arya#murtagh#diplomacy#coherent speaking#Training#allies#learning#linguistics#language#Carvahall#Palancar Valley#Murtagh has no accent#But Arya does#The accent of the ancient language#This is more socially acceptable though apparently by human standards in the army#Will explain concepts later
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Okay no I’m not done talking about swords, and their names, because sword names are IMPORTANT okay and they MEAN THINGS—
I rambled in the tags of this post about Eragon and Murtagh naming/renaming their swords to be positive, compared to their fathers’ respective negative sword names, but I want to go further into it.
First is the obvious one, Morzan’s Zar’roc, Misery, and Murtagh’s Ithring, Freedom. I’m almost certain Morzan names his sword as an offensive measure—and I don’t mean offensive as in insulting, I mean it in the combat sense. It’s a curse, almost, upon his enemies: any opponent he faces with this blade will be struck by misery, literally. But one thing we know about Morzan: he’s not particularly wise, and even his best works backfire on him. We see it with Selena, and his confidence that she loves him too much to betray him, so he never warded against her. He named his sword Misery, and Misery is all it brought him: he joined Galbatorix, brought the downfall of the Order, and lost his dragon to nameless madness; he killed Brom’s dragon, making an enemy of the man who once had idolized him and sealing his own demise by Brom’s hand; he threw Misery at his own child and pushed his wife to betray him, which ultimately led to the downfall of everything he had ever worked for. Talk about a curse. He upheld Misery, and Misery came right back to bite him in the ass.
And then Brom took Misery from him, and sequestered it away, and eventually gave it to Eragon without telling him its meaning; and Eragon wielded it without knowing its meaning or history, trying his best to do good with it, and even when he did learn its history and its name he resolved to work to give it a better legacy. After all, a good sword is a good sword. But Murtagh, Morzan’s son and heir, was not done with Misery, bore too painful a scar from Misery to let it go—he took Misery from Eragon and claimed it as his own, claiming his birthright, yes… but taking Misery away from Eragon, in the very same moment that he also protected Eragon from capture and forced servitude, the fate that had befallen Murtagh himself. Complicated as feelings all around may have been, intentional as the act itself may or may not have been, Murtagh here is very much intentionally shouldering that burden. He fully believed that Eragon was another son of Morzan, he could have easily justified rejecting that part of his history and his father’s legacy and offloading it on his younger brother, and yet he didn’t. He took it for himself and declared it his own.
And then he called it Freedom.
After enduring torture and enslavement and a hundred other humiliations, he took Misery in hand and said, no. I do not uphold you. I do not fight for you. I fight for Freedom, for my own and my loved ones’, and for the Freedom of all. He looked at the horror of his past and refused to let it define him. He looked at his father’s mistakes and refused to be bound to them. He took a name of offense, of attack and hostility, and changed it to a name of preservation, of defense, of peace.
And then there’s Eragon, with Brisingr, Fire, and Brom’s mysterious Undbitr, Void-biter. At first glance it may seem that they have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but I would not be here if I wasn’t going to loudly and fervently declare otherwise.
My guess for Brom’s reasoning of naming his sword Undbitr would be somewhere between edgelord teenager antics (look me in the eye and tell me you wouldn’t have wanted a sword name Void Biter at twelve years old) and his admiration for Morzan, who named his sword the simple yet devastatingly clever Misery. Void-biter, bite of death, the bite that would send his opponents to the void. To darkness, to nothingness, to anti-life and anti-hope. A sword lost after his dragon’s death, never seen again, and yet Brom himself succumbs to the bite of his own personal void: he dedicates himself to vengeance, throws everything he has of himself into orchestrating Morzan’s downfall, and the downfall of Galbatorix and the rest of the Forsworn for good measure. It’s implied, from Brom’s own admission of fearing his son would hate him and Oromis’s discussion of his near-suicidal madness after Saphira’s death, that revenge is all Brom lived for until he met Selena—and even after he met her and fell in love with her, I suspect his need for vengeance is what ultimately decided the events leading both to Morzan’s death and Selena’s doomed reunion with Murtagh. Brom may have lost Void-biter, but the void consumed him anyway.
And then there’s Eragon. Yes I’ve said that already but if anything can sum up these books, it’s And then there’s Eragon. The first spell he learns is fire. A dangerous force, certainly, one that can easily break control and wreak untold havoc and destruction, but what force of nature doesn’t fall into that category? He could easily have learned, and thus be represented by, wind or ice or lightning, or even just pain or break. But he didn’t, and he’s not. He wields fire. A force of nature, a destructive weapon… but also the foundation of a home, fire in the hearth; the fuel of invention, to shape metal and glass; and most importantly, a light in the dark, the hope of dawn in the long cold night. Eragon names his sword Brisingr, and it’s not merely a weapon: it is a beacon. His father was consumed by darkness, but Eragon is the one who guided him back to the light, who gave him something to live for after he had defeated his enemy and lost his love; Eragon was the figurehead of the rebellion, the spark that drove a passive resistance into the blaze of true revolution; and now Eragon builds the new hearth of the Dragon Riders, to tend and defend it for future generations.
What a change from misery and the void.
Fire, and freedom. Hope, and peace. Family, and love.
I think Selena would be very proud of her sons.
#inheritance cycle#christopher paolini#eragon shadeslayer#murtagh (inheritance cycle)#brom (inheritance cycle)#selena (inheritance cycle)#morzan (inheritance cycle)#saph scribbles#murtagh spoilers#very light but still there#im normal about these books im so normal about these books (lying)#need a murtagh and eragon reunion STAT i need eragon to be all mushy and proud of murtagh for his growth as a person#while murtagh is VERY uncomfortable and fully expecting to be kicked out but refusing to say anything because the hugs are nice even#if he won’t actually admit it
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Finally got my friend to read the damn series and oh my god it’s worth it
#this is only part 1#I will be adding more#eragon#christopher paolini#the inheritance cycle#eragon shadeslayer#Brom
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I like to imagine that Brom still got to see and participate in some of Eragons firsts. Like the village is sitting around a campfire and Brom tells one of his stories and little Eragon wriggles free from his aunts grasps and waddles over to him- his first steps. And Brom gets to catch him and everyone thinks it's just cute but Brom, on the inside, is so happy that Eragons first steps were towards him.
#or maybe he even is there when eragon says his first word#you know just#the village is pretty tightly knit together and even though they always loved outside of it#it could still be a thing right??#idk i just want brom to have witnessed his sons firsts#eragon shadeslayer#eragon bromsson#brom#inheritance cycle#eragon
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I like a theory that when Brom was dying and he glanced at the place where Murtagh was standing, he thought that it was just a hallucination of the young Morzan. That is why he didn't react to Murtagh
#or probably he was just trying to stay alive as long as possible#Brom loved Morzan as his friend and then spent his life hating him#it's hard to forget a person especially someone who was that important#give me a great theory and i will yap about it for days#thank u so much Reddit user for making this theory#brom#morzan#eragon#the inheritance cycle#inheritance cycle#the world of eragon
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Dragons and their colors
Something that came to my mind a while ago when reading a short story that involved an accident and differently colored cars.
Take this all with a grain of salt, I'm no expert and different cultures can have different meanings for colors.
Saphira and Saphira I: blue:
loyalty, trust, calm, mind
sadness, melancholy, lies
Thorn and Morzan's dragon: red:
love, strong emotions, passion, strength (sometimes luck)
hate, danger, violence, anger
Fírnen: green:
hope, nature, health, energetic, growth
inexperience, jealousy, indifference
Glaedr: gold:
optimism, warmth, luck, wealth
superficiality, jealousy, lies, arrogance
Jarnunvösk: purple:
royalty, luxury, wealth, wisdom, ambition
grief, immature, overly sensitive, arrogance
Shruikan: black:
strength, elegance, seriousness
grief, death, loneliness, threatening, stagnation
#inheritance cycle#eragon#murtagh#the world of eragon#morzan#galbatorix#brom#glaedr#fírnen#saphira#shruikan#jarnunvösk#cant tell me paolini didnt choose the colors on purpose#the inheritance cycle#thorn the dragon#inheritance cycle thorn#murtagh thorn#oromis#arya#arya drottningu#firnen
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It's incredibly amusing to consider the things that Murtagh technically would not know about because he fucked off at the end of the war. (i suspect the new book fudges a lot of this, but im not talking about that.) And the "Brom is Eragon's dad" situation is by far the funniest.
Because Eragon drops that bombshell in the middle of the final confrontation and Does Not Elaborate, including when he talks to Murtagh right before he leaves. He has literally no idea how Brom fits into the backstory of his parents. Technically, he still shouldn't even know that Selena ever betrayed Morzan and helped the Varden! He just has to deal with the knowledge that Brom fucked his mom ~at some point~ and he has no clue what was going on with that. And combined with the details Murtagh does know about the three of them, it's even funnier, like Brom had hang ups about BOTH his parents??? I just know it convinces him that all of them were insane. He has the very tip of the iceberg and everything beneath seems Messy, he's not even sure he wants the rest of the story.
Also he wouldn't actually know how the hell Eragon killed Galbatorix. Eragon doesn't explain that either and Murtagh wouldn't have a different way to know. The spell wasn't spoken, and assuming Murtagh was conscious enough to process all the shit going down, Eragon only says "I made you understand" which is incredibly vague on its own. From Murtagh's perspective, Eragon cast some kinda spell on Galbatorix that apparently sucked so bad that he blew himself up. And he just has no idea what it actually did
King of "I don't know what the fuck is going on so I'll just roll with it I guess"
#eragon#inheritance cycle#murtagh#hes just gone through so much shit at this point hes like 'you know. im not even gonna ask.'#the brom thing is so fucking funny to me tho#he Cant have any complicated feelings like brom abandoned him or took his mother away bc he doesnt know jack shit#hes trapped in the stage of 'why did he and my mom bang???' ahfdjsahfkjsa#(on a more sad note it kinda feels like murtagh doesnt believe he has the right to ask for anything hes not freely given....)
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Do you guys think one of the reasons Murtagh is angry at Eragon for Selena “leaving him behind/not choosing to save him” is because Eragon is the only person who was part of that situation who is still alive? Do you think one of the reasons is because Murtagh needs somebody living that he can be mad and respond back to his anger (misplaced as it is)? Do you think it’s because the people he would hold accountable (Selena and Brom) are dead?
#that encounter would not end well if brom was still living#murtagh would probably get into a sword fight with him and barely restrain himself from killing brom#murtagh#murtagh morzansson#brom inheritance cycle#selena inheritance cycle#eragon#eragon bromsson
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