#the world of eragon

[murtagh-thorn]

Question: would having a scewed negative view of yourself or multiple insecurities, or things like being neurodivergent or struggling with several negative core beliefs due to trauma, impact your ability to figure it out your own true name? The narrative seems to tell us multiple times that not knowing your own true name could be dangerous and a kink in your armor, but what if your view of yourself is so screwed or you don’t know who you are to where you literally CAN’T figure it out?

[modern-inheritance]

I had to, I'm sorry.

Quotes belong to Christopher Paolini's Eragon, Knopf edition and then the original self published 1st edition.

I also put this on reddit, let's see if the mods allow it.

[dragodraws1]

Murtagh Fanart!

Traitor. Exile. Hunter. Hero and without a doubt our favorite emo boy!! Ladies and Gentlemen: MURTAGH!! For my Murtagh fanart I tried to make him following the descriptions in the book as much as possible and also a Han Solo vibe, since many say that Eragon is like Star Wars but with dragons, so if Eragon is kind of like Luke then Murtagh must certainly be his Han Solo. Oh and here are the visual references and credits to the artists who inspired me for this fanart version of Murtagh : @solarisetlesetoiles @chuwenjie

[dia-viller]

Murtagh and Thorn

[next-gazelle]

Murtagh is so upset about being upgraded from secondary antagonist to main character

[glbtrx]

[umunschaas]

Eragon: "So, what did Morzan look like?"

Jeod: "Hot."

Eragon: "What."

Jeod: "I mean evil. Very evil. Had a very weird laugh too."

[magicandmundane]

Murtagh: Yeah, sure, my stupid kid brother is the leader of the Riders. But am I going to acknowledge that? F*ck no. I hate authority, and I am not giving him that ego boost. Now let’s go hunt down this witch and her cult.

Meanwhile, Eragon: *gets nervous when someone says he’s in charge* *literally could not sleep in a bed because Vrael used to sleep there* *turns down positions of authority almost every chance he gets* *is just a goofy little guy who would like to see his big bro every once in a while*

[caffeinatedshitposts]

did i really just read a W H O L E P A G E that was only EIGHT SENTENCES?

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E I G H T S E N T E N C E S

Christopher Paolini, King of the Eloquent Run-On. I feel bad for his editors.

(edit: its in Brisingr, the part where Orik is waxing poetic about how absurd it is that the dwarves are still bickering amongst themselves. A Whole Page, 8 sentences)

[karlachismywife]

My amazing fiance got me a special edition set of one of my favorite series: the inheritance cycle by Christopher paolini and just omg they is so fucking cool @aelinvioletrose thank you sooooooooo much I love them and I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[murtagh-thorn]

Potentially hot take: even years later, I’m still mad at Nasuada for telling Murtagh to “stop feeling sorry for yourself/get over your trauma” when the trauma was still ongoing and he had been treated like shit by everyone and while Galbatorix had his and Thorn’s true names (which I’m pretty sure he told her about) when she had never been through anywhere near the level of abuse that he had, and that’s a big part of the reason I don’t like them together at all and have a feeling I’m gonna be even more salty about it going into reading Murtagh for the first time.

[modern-inheritance]

It would be funny if the Name of Names just translated to something like “Run as Administrator” or something

Murtagh is standing there screaming in the throne room

“icacls "C:\Users\Murtagh\Utilities\ANCIENTLANG.exe" /grant Murtagh:F”

[dragodraws1]

Eragon at the end of the first Book(sketch)

I finally found and bought the physical copy of Eldest yesterday and since I've already finished the last book of trials of apollo(which I'll also draw at some point) I'm going to start reading Eldest soon and I decided to make this sketch of how I imagine Eragon would look at the end of the first book and the beginning of the second one to help me and make it easier to imagine the scenes in the book.

I decided to put him in this more tidy outfit, because I always thought that the Varden gave Eragon the best clothes possible, since he is literally the "greatest hope" for the entire rebellion against Galbatorix so they needed this to even increase the morale of the entire group and make a kind of show off with him.

[dia-viller]

Murtagh and Eragon have red and blue dynamic, and I'm here for it

[starfox360]

A new art of Arya by Hartesa (@hartesa) / X

[umunschaas]

Things the eragon movie (that doesn't exist) whispered in people's ears and I've (still) seen/read too often;

- dragons die without their rider (no.)

- Galbatorix is white with greying hair (actually tan skin and black hair)

- Arya wearing a dress (pants. I think I remember it being mentioned in the books that she hates wearing dresses, but feel free to correct me)

- Murtagh having black hair (dark brown actually. tho arguably, Paolini made that mistake too lol. Tho he ocassionally mixes up some stuff)

Edit (adding this because it has been brought up quite often now and I don’t know how I could have forgotten to add that :'D):

- Eragon (and Roran) being blond. (No. They have brown hair and also, Eragon doesn't have blue eyes either)

Feel free to reblog and add to this whatever you think the movie (that doesn't exist) made people falsly believe and you still keep seeing.