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Eragon

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Eragon	comment	Eragon is the first novel in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle.The book is about a farmboy named Eragon who finds what he believes to be a stone while hunting in the mountains. It is revealed to be a dragon egg, and Eragon bonds with the dragon hatchling, whom he names Saphira, and becomes a Dragon Rider. Following the death of Eragon's uncle and the destruction of their farm, Eragon and Saphira set out on a quest for vengeance against the Empire and its Dragon Rider king, Galbatorix, once he finds out about the egg and sends monstrous servants to obtain it.Paolini began writing Eragon after graduating from home school at age 15. He spent one month planning out the whole Inheritance Cycle series, one year on the first draft of the novel, and another year rewriting to flesh out the story and characters. Upon his parents seeing the final manuscript in 2001, Paolini's family decided to self-publish the novel; they spent a year touring across America promoting the novel, with Paolini giving talks while dressed in a medieval costume. However, this campaign didn't attract nearly as much attention for the book as its discovery by Carl Hiaasen in 2002, who got it re-published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2003.A film adaptation was released in 2006, and a video game adaptation was released as a tie-in to the movie.
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Eragon / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Brom is a retired Dragon Rider living as an old storyteller in Eragon's home village.
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Eragon / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Eragon / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Eragon and Brom prepare a plan to infiltrate the cathedral which houses their enemies disguised as slaves — only for the plan to crumble apart when Eragon randomly bumps into the enemies and has to flee.
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Eragon / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Eragon / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The scene with the pile of the bodies of the villagers of Yazuac, all murdered by the Urgals, describes the event as refusing to spare neither young nor old. The scene is also topped off with the delightful image of a baby impaled by a spike at the very peak of the pile.
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Eragon / int_2adc858b	type	In the End, You Are on Your Own
Eragon / int_2adc858b	comment	In the End, You Are on Your Own: Subverted. Eragon is forced to leave Saphira and Arya behind when confronting Durza, but they come to Eragon's aid at the critical moment.
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Eragon / int_2e9105e4	type	Power-Strain Blackout
Eragon / int_2e9105e4	comment	Power-Strain Blackout: Eragon's first attempt at casting combat magic causes him to lose consciousness because it takes a large amount of energy out of him at once.
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Eragon / int_3667bfa1	type	Hastily Hidden MacGuffin
Eragon / int_3667bfa1	comment	Hastily Hidden MacGuffin: The story begins with Arya teleporting a dragon egg to the Spine when Galbatorix's agents find her. Eragon finds the egg, kicking off his Hero's Journey.
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Eragon / int_43bda213	type	A Taste of Power
Eragon / int_43bda213	comment	A Taste of Power: Eragon casts his first spell instinctively from desperation (he uses a fire spell to kill a pair of attacking urgals), then has to be trained on how to use magic in a controlled fashion. Brom explains that the Dragon Riders of old raised this to an art form by forcing their apprentices to perform impossible tasks until they ended up casting a spell to complete it out of frustration.
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Eragon / int_4aed206f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
Eragon / int_4aed206f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Justified. While meeting with Jeod in Teirm, Brom sends Eragon away to do some busy work, and Eragon instantly knows they want to talk about things he shouldn't hear, so he finds a secluded spot where he can sit and uses magic to listen through the wall, hearing about all of the things they didn't want him to, such as how Brom and Jeod are agents of the Varden.
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Eragon / int_52e52099	type	Deathbed Confession
Eragon / int_52e52099	comment	Deathbed Confession: Before he dies, Brom reveals that he is a former Dragon Rider.
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Eragon / int_59e24999	type	Supernaturally Marked Grave
Eragon / int_59e24999	comment	Supernaturally Marked Grave: Saphira magically transmutes Brom's sandstone tomb into diamond.
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Eragon / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Eragon / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Galbatorix uses the Urgals in the first book to weaken the Varden and the dwarves.
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Eragon / int_63cf9a3	type	Rage Against the Mentor
Eragon / int_63cf9a3	comment	Rage Against the Mentor: Eragon constantly complains about Brom keeping secrets from him.
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Eragon / int_6844f0d5	type	Undressing the Unconscious
Eragon / int_6844f0d5	comment	Undressing the Unconscious: After rescuing Arya, Eragon and Murtagh attempt to move the comatose elf to a bed, but her sleeve gets caught in a branch and tears, revealing numerous cuts and bruises on her arm. Worried, they both start stripping her to check on her other wounds, and find her entire body has been beaten whipped, branded, and scarred from long periods of Cold-Blooded Torture. Eragon is them forced to use his magic to heal her and uncomfortably notices how attractive she is.
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Eragon / int_6fd5d7e	type	Screening the Call
Eragon / int_6fd5d7e	comment	Screening the Call: Eragon's uncle Garrow tries to sell Saphira's egg before it can hatch and make Eragon a Rider.
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Eragon / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Eragon / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Roran gets this early on. He returns in Eldest.
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Eragon / int_7a05529	type	EggMcGuffin
Eragon / int_7a05529	comment	Egg McGuffin: The one from which Saphira eventually hatches in the first book.
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Eragon / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Eragon / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: Murtagh does this to a slaver named Torkenbrand, killing him.
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Eragon / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Eragon / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: The teenaged protagonist hilariously wields a five-foot blade in earlier publications of the book. This was later retconned to three and a half feet.
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Eragon / int_a885552d	type	Winds of Change
Eragon / int_a885552d	comment	Winds Of Change: Invoked where the opening lines of the books quite deliberately mention that winds carried a scent that changed the world. Namely, to the force of Urgals serving the shade Durza, it carried the scents of a trio of elves making their way through the woods, which they were planning to ambush, and said ambush is what sets the events of the Inheritance Cycle into motion.
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Eragon / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Eragon / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Durza's memory dumps onto Eragon in his dying moments and reveals his tragic past that led him to become a Shade in the first place.
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Eragon / int_b603c74	type	Bows and Errors
Eragon / int_b603c74	comment	Bows and Errors: In the first chapter, Eragon is hunting in the woods with a bow. He only strings it when he finds a deer, which is counterproductive given that stringing a bow can be difficult and time-consuming (this isn't the only time he unnecessarily unstrings his bow, either). Immediately afterwards, he takes three arrows from his quiver although he's only nocking one; he then holds the two arrows he's not using in the same hand he's holding his bow, which sounds like an awkward hand position at best.
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Eragon / int_b8ba9b1f	type	Crossing the Desert
Eragon / int_b8ba9b1f	comment	Crossing the Desert: Eragon, Murtagh, and Saphira have to cross the Hadarac Desert to escape the Empire. Fortunately, Eragon is able to provide a source of water via magic.
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Eragon / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Eragon / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Galbatorix's magnificent plan at the end of Eragon. He recruits his longtime enemies, the Urgals, and offers them free land if they attack the Beor Mountains and stamp out the dwarves and the Varden. This was a particularly ingenious move, because if the Urgals are victorious, that means that two of Galbatorix's principal enemies have been taken off the map, and the Urgals will be too weakened to challenge Galbatorix or fight back if he wants to get rid of them later, all without a single imperial warrior having to die. If the Urgals lose, then Galbatorix has effectively gotten rid of a race he hated anyway (they killed his original dragon in his backstory) before they have a chance to cause trouble for him. The Varden and dwarves manage to stave off the Urgals, leaving both sides significantly weakened but alive. Durza, who was controlling the Urgals, gets killed, causing the much smaller forces of Urgals still alive to turn against Galbatorix shortly afterwards.
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Eragon / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Eragon / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: All over the place. In one of the early chapters the reader is told Eragon is a great hunter, tracker and marksman, to the point of successfully stalking a herd of deer in heavy mist, at night. However, despite all of this, he still manages to return home empty handed, and has no option but to buy meat from his town's butcher shop. Brom's skill as a storyteller is described as "hypnotic". He usually fails to live up to such reputation, delivering fairly plain info dumps without any of the flair you would expect from a proficient raconteur.
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Eragon / int_d2796e58	comment	Clothing-Concealed Injury: After rescuing Arya from prison, Eragon and Murtagh attempt to move the comatose elf to a bed, but her sleeve gets caught in a branch and tears, revealing numerous cuts and bruises on her arm. Worried, they both start stripping her to check on her other wounds, and find her entire body has been beaten whipped, branded, and scarred from long periods of Cold-Blooded Torture. Eragon is them forced to use his magic to heal her while uncomfortably noticing how attractive she is.
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Eragon / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Eragon / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Eragon's threat to a soldier early in the first book.
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Eragon / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Eragon never learned to read, a fact that surprises Brom because Eragon's uncle Garrow was literate. Of course, it only takes a month of instruction for Eragon to be literate enough to gather information from government records, and only a few months after that for him to read philosophical discourse and write epic poetry (in a different language).
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