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You may be looking for the Inheritance Trilogy, by N. K. Jemisin.The Inheritance Cycle, formerly known as the Inheritance Trilogy, is a series of High Fantasy novels written by Christopher Paolini. The first book was originally self-published by Paolini and his parents, but later migrated to Alfred A. Knopf on the recommendation of Carl Hiaasen, where it found wider success, leading to the rest of the series being published there. It contains the following books: Eragon (2003) Eldest (2005) Brisingr (2008) Inheritance (2011) Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia (2009) (canon, but not part of the Cycle) The Tales from Alagaësia short story collection. Volume 1: Eragon - The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm (2018) Murtagh (2023) (direct sequel, inclusion in the Cycle unknown)The novels tell the tale of Eragon, a farmboy who discovers a dragon egg in the mountains and is amazed when it hatches for him. He raises the dragon, Saphira, and becomes bonded with her as a Dragon Rider. Unfortunately, the evil Galbatorix, the ruler of The Empire who betrayed and destroyed the Dragon Riders long ago, finds out, and sends his impenetrably cowled Ra'zac servants to capture Eragon and Saphira.They escape, but the Ra'zac burn down Eragon's home and kill his uncle. Our heroes set out for revenge, joined by the village's old storyteller, Brom, who, as it turns out, is a former Dragon Rider himself. On their quest, Eragon and Saphira meet up with a badass Anti-Hero with a Mysterious Past, rescue an elf princess, join the Varden, learn the truth about Eragon's past and his missing father, and face down foes far more powerful than themselves—eventually culminating in a final battle against Galbatorix himself.The first book was adapted into a film in 2006, but after the film got extremely negative critical reception and relatively underperformed at the box office, there are currently no plans for any movie sequels. However, there have been petitions to reboot the film series that (however unsuccessful) did gain sizable support, and Paolini has also spoken about the movie after the fact, stating that it told its own version of the story compared to the books' story and leaving it to fans to determine which story they like better. In 2022, a television adaptation of the books was announced for Disney+.The final title in the series, Inheritance, answered a number of key mysteries regarding the series, such as what was contained in the Vault of Souls and the fates of major characters like Galbatorix and Eragon, but left open certain nagging mysteries such as the source of the witch Angela's powers. Following its publication, Christopher Paolini floated a number of possibilities regarding what he might work on in the future, including a hypothetical fifth title, spin-off titles focusing on characters other than Eragon, or separate works in other genres.However, there was an approximately seven-year gap in the series prior to the announcement of the publication of the short story collection The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, which was stated to feature three original stories set within Alagaësia, interspersed with an unfolding adventure featuring Eragon set a year following the ending of Inheritance. The title includes a tale written by Christopher Paolini's sister Angela, featuring the character Angela whom she served as the namesake for. It was published in December 2018.Five years later, Paolini announced a new entry in the series, a full sequel rather than a collection of short stories. Murtagh, set to release in 2023, looks set to explore the immediate aftermath of the original Cycle and Murtagh's coming to terms with his role in things. An illustrated edition of Eragon (with the illustrations done by Sidharth Chaturvedi) was also announced to accompany the title and celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary.All titles in the series have been published in multiple languages, including German, Spanish and Swedish.
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Scientifically Understandable Sorcery
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Scientifically Understandable Sorcery: Magic works by the same laws and logic as physics. A general rule is that it takes as much work to do something by magic as it would by mundane effort.
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Farm Boy
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Farmboy: Eragon, who starts out as his uncle's adopted son and farmhand.
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Applied Phlebotinum
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Applied Phlebotinum: In the form of Functional Magic.
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The Call Knows Where You Live
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The Call Knows Where You Live: Carvahall receives a lot of trouble from this trope even after Eragon leaves.
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Artistic License – Linguistics
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Artistic License – Linguistics: Oromis' explanation of the Ancient Language gets basic points about language wrong: "The suffix o forms the past tense of verbs ending with r and i. Sköliro means shielded, but skölir means shield. What you said was ‘May luck and happiness follow you and may you be a shield from misfortune.’" Unfortunately, Eragon wasn't using the active past tense, but the passive future imperative ("may you be shielded" is an imperative pertaining to something that is to happen, not something that has happened).
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Bio-Armor: In later books, Eragon can protect his hands when delivering powerful blows by using magic to grow calluses on them. During one fight in Brisingr, he punches through a shield to strike the assassin holding it, causing the assassin to fly across a hallway and into the wall, breaking their neck.
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Instant Expert
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Instant Expert: Eragon learns magic faster than any of the other characters, despite him being Just a Kid. He also learns to read in a week, and never has literacy problems after that, in either his own or the Ancient Language. It probably helped that his own mind was supplemented by Saphira's, who as a very young dragon was still very receptive to new knowledge and information.
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I Don't Pay You to Think
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I Don't Pay You to Think: A Deconstructed Trope in Brisingr. Roran has joined the Varden's army and been sent on a dangerous mission in one of the towns of Galbatorix. He's been given temporary command of a group of warriors, but is still under the command himself of a captain who has just ordered a rock-headed strategy to attack the town that is essentially suicide, a head-on assault pretty much guaranteed to result in failure. After the captain leaves, Roran implements his own strategy, but warns that everyone in his group may be made to take the punishment. All follow him and he ends up killing nearly 200 enemy forces through his own strength, secures the victory, and ends up rescuing the idiot captain and what few soldiers of his own he has remaining. Afterwards, Roran is stripped of his weapon and left for appropriate punishment. Upon return to the Varden, Roran is hailed by a hero, but still ordered that he must take a massive amount of lashes if he wishes to remain with the Varden. Nasuada explains that his punishment must be severe and must be public, or else others will believe they too can disobey orders and the chain of command will break down, and that his success and relationship to Eragon are the only reasons she isn't immediately putting him to death for insubordination. Afterwards, she promotes him to captain, as he is too valuable to lose, and this way she can be sure that the only orders he can disobey are hers, which had better only happen if it's in the process of directly killing Galbatorix.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Eragon trying to summon the true form of his sword.
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Lying by Omission
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Lying by Omission: The Ancient Language can't be used to speak falsehood. Aware of partial truths, elves have a special gesture to promise that they won't use omission to mislead each other.
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Our Elves Are Different
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Our Elves Are Different: Elves are portrayed similarly to Tolkien's, being immortal, wiser, faster, stronger and more beautiful than the other races and highly skilled at magic.
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The Worf Effect
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The Worf Effect: Islanzadi, an established badass, is killed without significant effort by Barst.
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Master Swordsman
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Master Swordsman: Eragon ends up becoming one fairly early on. His case is perhaps a little unrealistic, in that about a year of sparring with Brom every night suddenly turns him into an elite warrior. But Brom does turn out to have been one of the ultimate badasses of this setting, so perhaps it's a testament to his teaching skill. Murtagh is extremely skilled, having been trained from a young age by a great master (and his surrogate father) Tornac. Eragon admits he's probably a bit better than him. Arya is extremely skilled, even for elf standards, and never loses a fight on that front. Brom, who trained Eragon, is also extremely good, and hasn't even lost his edge with age. Eragon's mastery is also subverted in the last book. He ends up sparring with Arya and his elite elf bodyguards at length, and discovers he's still losing to them most of the time even after all his experience. No matter how good he is, technical skill loses out to people who've been seeing your moves for a hundred years, it just takes a little longer to knock you down.
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Punctuation Shaker
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Punctuation Shaker: Ra'zac and Zar'roc, amongst others.
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Religion of Evil
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Religion of Evil: The cultists of Helgrind are this. Human Sacrifice and ritualised mutilation is common amongst their ranks, to the point their High Priest is little more than a head and limbless torso carried from place to place on a litter, so extensively mutilated Eragon can't tell if the priest is male or female. They're proved to be even worse in Inheritance, where it's revealed the cultists actually worship the Ra'zac as living gods, and seek to ensure the extinction of dragons so there will no longer be checks on their deity's freedom to hunt.
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Title Drop: In each book. Eragon is obvious. The climax of Eldest drops both the book's title and the title of the series, when Murtagh takes Za'roc from Eragon as his inheritance from their father. After all, he is the eldest brother Brisingr, the third book, is both the true name of "fire" and the very first spell Eragon ever cast (way back in the first book). More significantly, it is also the name he gives to his new sword after it is forged...with interesting results. It's not dropped much in the last book, but it's implied that Eragon's Inheritance is the responsibility of leading and rebuilding the Dragon Riders.
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Twist Ending: Eldest reveals that Murtagh and Eragon are brothers. Brisingr reveals that they are actually half-brothers who share a mother.
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Feel No Pain: Galbatorix has soldiers who have agreed to serve him (rather than be compelled by magic) in return for generous rewards, and cannot feel pain as a result of his spells. They're extremely creepy, and very dangerous-even if suffering crippling injuries, they still strike at the enemy, as only death stops them, or losing so much blood that they pass out.
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Sand In My Eyes: Every emotional scene is punctuated with "a single shining tear". This leads to the unfortunate implication that many of the characters never cared much for their loved ones, as more tears have been shed for other, lesser things.
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And This Is for...
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And This Is for...: Roran, to one of the Ra'zac in Brisingr, for his home, for Carvahall, and for his father.
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Our Orcs Are Different: They're called Urgals. They also turn out to have been under Mind Control of the Shade Durza. Once released, they're so pissed off with Galbatorix that they swiftly move to join the Varden, a move that is reluctantly accepted. They prove powerful and erstwhile allies. In the end, Eragon is so impressed with them, and also concerned politically about their future (their battle-hungry but small population frequently ran raids on human cities and left a deep sense of Fantastic Racism behind), that he grants them the power to become dragon riders.
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Forgotten Phlebotinum: Eragon forgets about Brom's ring during the battle in Eldest, and almost immediately after berates himself for not realizing it was there.
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Immortal Procreation Clause: Dwarves, who live much longer than humans, are repeatedly stated to reproduce at a slower rate. This is even more extreme with the immortal-unless-killed elves, who are even less prolific than the dwarves. At the beginning of the cycle, it's been over a decade since the last elf children (twins) were born, which is partially due to the fact that with such a long lifespan, Elves view children – a lifetime commitment – as the ultimate act of love and bonding. They don't exactly find that bond with every mate.
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Urgals' entire society is based on this trope.
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Eragon's philosophy is this. Possibly Lampshaded when four different characters, Murtagh, Sloan, Elva, and a soldier in Feinster, call him out on this.
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A Boy and His X: A 15-year-old farm boy and his life-bonded dragon.
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Heroic Suicide
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Heroic Suicide: Elven Dragon Rider Thuriel set off the magical equivalent of a nuclear bomb by releasing the energy of his body, which required him to die in the process, saving dragon eggs from Galbatorix on Vroengard.
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Fingore: Eragon examines a vial with some liquid inside and pours it onto his finger; the liquid turns out to be the acidic Seithr oil used by the Ra'zac, which burns a small patch of skin. Brom tells him that at least he had enough sense not to drink it. When Eragon visits Kvîstor's mother after the latter dies saving Eragon from assassins, Kvîstor's mother cuts off one of her fingers in front of him while grieving.
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Automaton Horses: Lampshaded with the elves' horses. Both played straight and lampshaded elsewhere, such as in the first book where they ride through a desert for almost a week, although Eragon does use magic to raise water from the ground.
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Trilogy Creep: What was once a "Trilogy" is now a "Cycle" with four books, considering Brisingr (the third, and what was meant to be the final, book) was around 900 pages and not even at the halfway point of completion.
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Chekhov's Gun: To the series' credit, they establish many and pay virtually all of them off, and any that go unanswered are deliberately framed as being such for now. Eragon has a vision early in the first book about people on a boat going down a river. It doesn't end up paying off 'til the last pages of the last book. When he answers the call to adventure in the first book, he steals some leathers from the local tanner to make a saddle and inwardly promises he'll pay him back someday. He does so in the third book. When he first arrives in Farthen-Dûr, he's told about the slide around Vol Turin (the Endless Staircase), and ends up using it in order to reach the ground floor in time during the battle. Early in the second book, a neighbor of Roran sees her husband killed and even eaten by the Ra'zac and promises that she'll have her blood debt paid by Roran at some point. She eventually does in the last pages of the last book. Brom's ring Aren ends up paying off multiple times. Eragon is first given it, and it ends up helping prove his credibility to the Varden and being a meaningful gift. As time goes on he even notes it's a precious keepsake. Then in the third book he discovers there's a veritable mountain of energy inside it, which might be invaluable when it comes to fighting Galbatorix. But then in a subversion, in the fourth book he ends up using it all miles before he ever meets Galbatorix. However, he notes that if he didn't use it then, he'd never get the chance to even do that, so it was well-spent. When Glaedr tells Saphira to "keep her heart safe" before she and Eragon leave to go help the Varden fight the Empire's army in Eldest. Later revealed that he was referring to a special magic stone every dragon has called an Eldunari which is basically their source of magical power and where their souls go if the Eldunari is removed from their bodies, they're also the source of Galbatorix's power, so that's quite a big gun.
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Aborted Arc: Roran's job at Dempton's mill in Therinsford. He takes it in Eragon in hopes of having money to marry Katrina, and it's a big plot point for a few chapters. But Roran gets Put on a Bus when he leaves for the mill, and is not seen for the rest of the book. And the job itself ends up being cut short by the death of his father, and Roran is back in Carvahall by the beginning of Eldest.
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Nephewism
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Nephewism: Eragon is raised by his aunt and uncle, without ever knowing his parents.
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Slave Mooks: Most of Galbatorix's soldiers and vassals don't serve him willingly, Murtagh included. He'll either coerce them into swearing loyalty to him in the Ancient Language, or make them by learning their true name. We're also told villagers are regularly conscripted, with any who resist being killed.
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Generation Xerox: Murtagh is doomed to follow in the footsteps of Morzan, his father. Eragon likewise follows in his father Brom's footsteps. Each has a dragon of the same colour as his father's, while Eragon's Saphira even has the same name as Brom's Saphira.
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: Of the pile of corpses in the town of Yazuac, the mound is peaked by an infant impaled by a spear. Delwin's 10-year-old son Elmund is impaled by a stray spear thrown during a skirmish in Eldest.
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Vanity Publishing
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Vanity Publishing: The series started as this, before a larger publisher got their hands on it.
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Bald of Evil
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Bald of Evil: The Twins are a pair of bald identical twins who are revealed to be spying on the Varden as Galbatorix's agents.
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Beauty Equals Goodness
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Eragon, Murtagh, Nasuada and the elves could easily nab careers as models. Subverted in the fact that most elves are beautiful because they're fully capable of manipulating their own appearance to their liking with no consequence, and that later on we meet elves who aren't necessarily ugly, but definitely look odd when paired with even the other members of their race, including one who has given himself a full body of royal blue fur.
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You Can Talk?
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You Can Talk?: When Solembum the werecat speaks to Eragon telepathically the first time. Eragon utters: "You said that!" followed by the reply: "Who else?" In Eldest, Roran does this with Saphira as well. Even though she doesn't speak to him directly, Roran exclaims "she speaks!" when Eragon repeats her words to him for the first time.
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In the End, You Are on Your Own
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In the End, You Are on Your Own: In the first book, subverted by Arya and Saphira at the critical moment. Eragon is told that this is likely to happen with Galbatorix, since he's the only member of the Varden powerful enough to stand a chance.
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Mauve Shirt
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Mauve Shirt: Kvîstor in Brisingr, a Dwarf who serves as Eragon's guide and one of his bodyguards while in Tronjheim. He winds up getting killed while protecting Eragon from assassins.
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Beard of Evil
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Beard of Evil: Galbatorix is shown in artwork to have a full, sinister-looking beard.
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Leonine Contract
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Leonine Contract: The nobles who swore fealty to Galbatorix simply did so because he would kill them otherwise.
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Combo Platter Powers
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Combo Platter Powers: Being a dragon rider gives you a lifelong psychic connection and bond with your dragon and makes you a magic user, regardless of previous heritage, while also making you stronger than most magicians ever by giving you your dragon's strength to draw upon. Your psychic link also lets you read people's minds and even invade them, to the point where you can probe dozens of minds at once with ease. You'll also become stronger over time, and magic will let you do virtually any cool thing you want to within reason. That's not even mentioning the cool-colored sword you're eligible for, the awesome training, or, oh yeah, that you get a dragon.
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Fantastic Nuke
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Fantastic Nuke: The elven Dragon Rider Thuriel cast a spell that acted as this, releasing the energy of his body to stop Galbatorix from getting the last dragon eggs on Vroengard. It was complete with deadly radiation that made the whole area uninhabitable for decades to come.
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Enemy to All Living Things
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Enemy to All Living Things: Eragon learns how to draw power from all life around him to boost his own magic, draining nearby things of their Life Energy. The result is plants and small animals dying around him when he needs extra power, if he isn't careful. To be fair, he's horrified when he realizes that he can kill so inadvertently, and tries to reserve that power for use on plants when he can.
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Dead Guy Junior
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Dead Guy Junior: Eragon names his first horse Cadoc, the name of his maternal grandfather.
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Cursed with Awesome
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Cursed with Awesome: Elva, though in constant pain, figures out very quickly how to use her empathetic abilities to her advantage, eventually becoming a Manipulative Bastard antiheroine.
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Flaying Alive: Eragon's first flight on Saphira resulted in most of the skin on his legs being rubbed off. By accident.
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Beard of Sorrow
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Beard of Sorrow: Roran grows one after Katrina is kidnapped by the Ra'zac to disguise himself from his enemies.
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Hollywood Acid
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Hollywood Acid: Seithr oil, primarily used by the Ra'zac. Usually a harmless liquid used to preserve pearls, but with the application of Blood Magic it will eat through living or recently dead organic material. However, the most unique quality is leaving inorganic material (such as its own containers) unharmed, making it useful for assassinations. It's also highly explosive, as it was used to blow Garrow's farmhouse apart and kill several villagers when the Ra'zac attacked Carvahall in Eldest.
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Amplifier Artifact
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Amplifier Artifact: By storing energy in gems, they can be turned into power-sources that will up the magical abilities of anyone using them. They're also commonly used as lights when more common methods are impractical or dangerous, but damaging one of them results in a big explosion.
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Rank Scales with Asskicking
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Rank Scales with Asskicking: The more powerful someone in the Empire is politically, the more powerful they are physically or magically. Durza is implied to be second only to Galbatorix, later Murtagh fills the role as well, and they are the only characters to give Eragon a proper fight. General Barst takes command of the Imperial Forces in Urubaen and he leads from the front, kicking all kinds of ass and taking down Islanzadi in the process, having been given an Eldunari to augment his strength.
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La Résistance
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La Résistance: The Varden, with support from both the dwarves and Surda, has been opposing Galbatorix's rule for the better part of a century.
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Rule of Cool
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Rule of Cool: Possible Lampshade Hanging when the elven blacksmith chastises Eragon for specifying a design for purely aesthetic reasons, as well as by Angela in the battle at Feinster.
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Achey Scars
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Achey Scars: The gigantic scar that Eragon got during his battle with Durza causes him immense pain until it is healed in the second book.
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Ludd Was Right: Nasuada is faced with trying to fund the Varden which she has no idea how to go about doing, until she realizes after damaging her dress that the creation of lace, while time consuming, is not actually hard to produce energy wise, and so has the magicians of the Varden set to work magically creating lace and selling it for less than anyone else, causing massive waves in the textile industries of both the Varden's host country of Surda and the Broddring Empire.
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Blessed with Suck
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Blessed with Suck: Quite literally Elva, as her curse was intended to be a blessing, but was misspoken. She is cursed to feel the pain and uncertainties of everyone around her, forcing her to endure constant torment. Later, the negative side effects are taken away by Eragon.
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Arrow Catch
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Arrow Catch: Eragon in the second book when a volley of arrows is unleashed at him. He deflects most of them with magic, and catches one in his hand.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In Brisngr, Roran defies his orders and leads the Varden forces to a heroic victory over the empire. Despite this, he is still guilty of ignoring his superiors and Nasuada is forced to punish him in order to prevent others from following his example.
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I'm Melting!
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I'm Melting!: According to Brom, this would be the result of someone drinking Seithr oil.
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Because Destiny Says So
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Because Destiny Says So: Eragon decides at the end of the fourth book to leave Alagaësia forever only because a prophecy in the first book said he would.
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Deus ex Machina
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Deus ex Machina: Frequently, especially the Blood Oath Ceremony, which magically transforms Eragon into a super-attractive half-elf and heals his crippling back scar. Also Saphira, who says she can change reality in some unspecified way, although not at will. This is an ability all dragons have, which is the technical excuse for Eragon's change above. Dragons in general are described as this from early on, as they are inherently magical creatures and phenomena of that kind can sprout up around them all the time without them even trying.
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Manipulative Bastard: Elva, being an empathic antiheroine, uses her power to discern a person's weaknesses and vulnerabilities, then say exactly the thing that she knows will give them the most comfort or the most pain. At one point, she does this to Eragon, and is able to bring him to his knees just with some well-chosen words.
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Bittersweet Ending: The Big Bad is dead, half of the surviving Eldunarya are insane, and there's no place to raise the dragons, forcing Eragon and Saphira to leave Alagaësia forever in order to raise them. This prevents their fledgling romances with Arya and Fírnen from ever being. Although that was something of a Foregone Conclusion. Saphira and Fírnen, however, mate, and the vault of dragon eggs is opened, securing the revival of dragons as a race and the re-establishment of the Dragon Riders as a regulatory force of good.
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Plot Leveling
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Plot Leveling: In Brisingr, Eragon suddenly starts encountering enemies immune to his new story-breaking powers. However, most of them have been encountered by Roran and the Varden.
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I Am X, Son of Y
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I Am X, Son of Y: Patronymics/matronymics seem to be the rule in Alagaesia, with Roran Garrowsson and Katrina Ismirasdaughter. Eragon, being an orphan with an unknown father, introduces himself as "Eragon, son of None" (at least until he kills Durza, after which he mainly uses the epithet "Shadeslayer". And then he learns who his father is, after which he calls himself Eragon Bromsson.).
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I'm Having Soul Pains: Eragon's back, due to being slashed open by Durza in the previous book, causes him tremendous pain through the first two-thirds of Eldest.
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Magically-Binding Contract: Anything someone swears to do in the Ancient Language will be done – it compels them. The only out is if their personality gets changed so much that they really aren't the same person as who swore it.
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Oromis and Glaedr's deaths aren't given much in the way of weight, though a large part of that is because both they and Eragon are in the middle of battle at the time.
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King Incognito: Murtagh appears to be just an ordinary rogue, albeit one with a lot of expensive stuff, until it is revealed that he is the son of Morzan, Galbatorix's most powerful general, and soon after takes his father's place as the Empire's champion.
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Million Mook March: Galbatorix's army, fully marshalled at the end of Eldest numbers over 100,000. To put that into perspective, the Varden's forces number about 4,000 at the start of the books.
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Always Chaotic Evil: Discussed at length. The Ra'zac and Shades are alway evil, but the Raz'ac are eventually revealed to be victims of evolution; they evolved to be humanity's apex predator, so they aren't chaotic evil so much as they are a wolf to the human rabbit. Shades aren't really a species and are so vanishingly rare they don't get discussed as such. The Urgals seem like this in the first book, but from then on are revealed at length to have their own nuanced religion, culture, and art, and their own capacity for restraint and cooperation. They're not inherently evil, "merely overfond of war." Many of the characters openly express skepticism that the Urgals will ever truly move beyond this perception, since their culture relies so much on martial achievements. But others point out that if they don't let them try while their leaders are willing to, they'll have no chance at all.
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A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Eragon with La Résistance, Roran with his village.
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Aggressive Categorism: The Dwarven clan Az Sweldn rak Anhûin hold a hatred for all Dragon Riders, regardless of whether or not they support Galbatorix. This culminates in an attempt to kill Eragon during Brisingr.
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Cessation of Existence: The elves and the dragons believe this happens when living things die, presumably due to their natural telepathic abilities, as living minds always simply fade and disappear during death. In the end, Eragon himself admits that he would prefer this option to some form of eternal existence.
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Aloof Ally: Elva refuses to help the Varden attack Dras-Leona. She does give in when Eragon asks her to storm Uru'Baen.
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: In the first chapter of Eldest, Ajihad succumbs to wounds from an Urgal ambush.
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The Big Guy: Nar Garzhvog and (ironically) Orik, who are both Blood Knight fighters that use heavy weapons and rack up more than a few in a typical battle body count.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: The bewitched soldiers in the third book feel no pain, and thus fight through dismemberment that by all rights should have totally incapacitated them one way or another. Most Varden lose their nerve while fighting these guys, because fighting someone with half his face hanging off his bare skull – who laughs at you, no less – is horrifying.
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Little Miss Snarker
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Little Miss Snarker: Elva has a lot of colorful things to say to the people around her, helped by her ability to deduce a lot of information about them with her powers. Eragon, in particular, ends up deservedly on the receiving end of it.
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Unresolved Sexual Tension
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Arya and Eragon at the end of Book IV. Murtagh and Nasuada, to some extent.
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Elective Monarchy
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Elective Monarchy: The dwarf clan chiefs vote to appoint another king or queen upon the creation of a vacancy in the position. In Brisingr, after the death of La Résistance-friendly King Hrothgar, a few isolationist clans unsuccessfully oppose the royal candidacy of Orik, his nephew and heir. The elves do the same in Inheritance too, with a number of families, noble houses and elders required to consent on the choice. Arya is the one they appoint in the end.
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Mining experts, proudly industrious, great beard-havers, and rock-attached mountain folk with a strong attachment to beer, a small rivalry with elves (nowhere near as pronounced as somewhere like The Lord of the Rings)... Gimli would feel right at home.
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What Measure Is a Mook?
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What Measure Is a Mook?: A major theme of the series. In the first book, Eragon only has to fight Urgals and a Shade, and doesn't struggle much with it morally, especially after coming across a village massacred by the former early on. But from the second book on, he ends up mostly fighting human soldiers, including what he knows are unwilling recruits or people just defending their homes. Over time he becomes increasingly frazzled by the action and finds it hard to cope, and the Urgals become sympathetic fairly quickly, calling even his past actions into doubt. Brisingr probably stresses this the most, as during an undercover exfiltration from enemy territory, Eragon kills a young recruit who promises he won't tell anyone he saw them, but who has been forced to swear a magical oath that will compell him to tell when someone asks him. Eragon kills him but is haunted by his death for days.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Murtagh and his literal dragon, who are the dragons for his evil King, and his dragon. Prior to him joining up with Galbatorix, the role of the Dragon was Durza the Shade, and in the backstory before Durza, Morzan the Dragon Rider.
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Snow Means Death
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Snow Means Death: In Galbatorix's backstory, his dragon and friends were slain on a sheet of ice unmelted in summer.
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The Empath
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The Empath: Elva gains the ability to sense others' pain as a consequence of Eragon's botched blessing.
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The Empire
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The Empire: About a century prior to the start of the series, Galbatorix usurped the throne of the Broddring Kingdom, then went on a spree of conquest. The result, referred to as "the Empire", is a large state ruled over with an iron fist by Galbatorix.
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Doorstopper
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Doorstopper: Each successive book is about 150-200 pages longer than the previous instalment, with Brisingr topping out at 748 pages. This is the reason for Book Four; "Book Three" was pushing 900 pages and not even halfway finished. A reprinting of Eragon and Eldest in a single volume dubbed the "Inheritance Omnibus" is 1216 pages long and large enough to crush a small dog if dropped from sufficient height. The Japanese translation of Eldest is so large that it is split into two books. Another way to consider it - the audiobook version of Brisingr runs 29 hours and 39 minutes, while the audiobook of Inheritance runs 31:22, though both of these do include an interview between Paolini and his editor that runs about a half hour. Either way, you're looking at well over a day of continuous listening if you wanted to listen to the entire thing all at once.
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Bastard Angst: Eragon is briefly distraught to learn that his mother and father weren't married. Orimis, whose culture doesn't really have marriage per se, tells him that he's sure they considered themselves the equivalent of married at least. Eragon is cheered up by this, and lets it go.
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The archaisms in the books are often used incorrectly. An example would be Orik saying "mine King, Hrothgar." "Mine" is only used before vowels. Characters also use "thou" and "you" within the same sentence. This may be a stylistic decision on Paolini's part, though some (especially those who know a bit about early modern English) feel that it breaks the Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
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Single-Species Nations
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Single-Species Nations: The elves have their kingdom in the great northern forest Du Weldenvarden, and the dwarves have theirs in the Beor Mountains of the south. The Urgals appear to also have their own nation, although it's never shown on a map. For some of the series, the largely-human Varden are based in the dwarven kingdom, but it's clear that they are not citizens and don't expect to be there forever.
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Gem Tissue
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Gem Tissue: A dragon's Eldunarí is stated to be a gem-like body organ.
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Super-Speed: Possessed naturally by elves, Shades, Ra'zac, and Kull. Dragon Riders seem to gain this over time.
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Meta Power: The "Name of Names" or the True Name of the Language of Magic grants dominion over all spells cast in that language. Anyone who knows the Name of Names can erase or alter other spells pretty much at will. Galbatorix plans to use it for controlling who can use magic.
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Though it may be unintentional, the dwarves have several similarities to ancient Israelites, such as migrating from what is now a desert in the distant past, being a nation composed of 13 clans (like the 12 tribes of Israel), and having one of those clans be a priestly caste (and named Quan, sounding similar to Kohen).
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Magic Knight
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Magic Knight: Shades, Elves, and Dragonriders tend to train in both combat and magic.
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Disease by Any Other Name
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Disease by Any Other Name: After a Fantastic Nuke, people are described losing their teeth and hair and getting very sick, matching radiation poisoning. Creatures and plants in the area have also mutated to the extreme, in a stereotypical, more urban legend type result of radiation exposure.
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: This is discussed. Neither of Eragon's teachers, Brom or Oromis, taught the Big Bad of the series, Galbatorix. Oromis says he's glad for it because Galbatorix made sure to personally kill anyone that was involved in his teaching. However, Oromis did teach Morzan, who became Galbatorix’s right hand man.
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Knight Templar Parent: Sloan, who outright says he'll kill anyone who tries to mess with Katrina.
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Lodged-Blade Recycling
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Lodged-Blade Recycling: During the final battle at the end of Eragon, one of Hrothgar's soldiers is impaled by a spear. Hrothgar pulls the spear out of his comrade and throws it into an Urgal 20 yards away.
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Language of Magic
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Language of Magic: The magic in this world was bound to the Ancient Language by a mysterious race of Precursors. It's still possible to cast magic without the Ancient Language (in fact, dragons are only capable of casting magic this way and it's the only way to use magic once Galbatorix learns the true name of the Ancient Language and shuts off the magic for almost everyone else), but it's very difficult to get right and can easily go wrong. Dragons themselves can only use magic spontaneously when they get a certain "trigger", which most often happens during times of emotional stress.
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Here There Were Dragons
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Here There Were Dragons: 100 years ago, Evil Overlord Galbatorix threw down the Dragon Riders and forced every magic user to swear loyalty to himself and swear the Empire, resulting in magic becoming much rarer, dragons nearly going extinct, and the power of the elves to begin to fade away. However, Galbatorix regrets his past actions and is now actively working to resurrect the dragons under his command.
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Language of Truth
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Language of Truth: It's impossible to lie in the Ancient Language. Doesn't apply when written though, only spoken or when in someone's mind. Any oath sworn in the Ancient Language is also binding, making it impossible to break unless you are released from it. However, the Ancient Language will not prevent someone from speaking a falsehood if they believe said falsehood to be true. This lends an interesting element to magic. Spells must be carefully worded to avoid becoming a lie if the spell fails – for example, if someone is restricting you, and your spell is "release me," if they're stronger than you, you'll die, since turning the spell off without getting free would make it a lie and it therefore just eats energy until it kills you. A better spell would be "reduce the energy restraining me," since even if you don't get free, you will have succeeded in reducing the energy a bit. Elves, who speak the ancient language as a native tongue, are the best at working around these nuances.
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The Berserker: In Brisingr, Imperial berserkers who have had their ability to feel pain magically removed are introduced. Additionally, despite developing into a strong military commander capable of devising plans nobody else could ever think of, Roran is capable of summoning a berserk-like rage that allows him to slay nearly 200 soldiers in one battle.
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Rejection Ritual
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Rejection Ritual: Some crimes in dwarven society are punishable by a form of banishment known as vargrimstn, where they treat the exile as though they had ceased to exist. Eragon notes how chilling it is when after one high-ranked dwarf is pronounced banished, the other dwarves act as though his continued ranting is just ambient noise, and when he grabs hold of one of the other council members, the guards that pull him away do so with an attitude suggesting that they're just helping the councilor straighten his clothes.
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Dire Beast: The Beor Mountains are home to a number of giant versions of regular wild animals, including feldûnost (giant goats), shrrg (wolves the size of horses), nagra (boars who grow even larger than the shrrg), and urzhad (cave bears the size of houses). Feldûnost are raised as livestock by the dwarves, but the others are dangerous wild animals — nagra are prized as challenging and dangerous prey by particularly brazen dwarf hunters, while urzhad are stated to be dangerous foes even for dragons.
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Good All Along: The Urgals, or at least most of them. And Murtagh.
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We Are as Mayflies: The Elves, in relation to humans. Also, the Riders, if they live long enough.
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Savage Wolves: Shrrg are gigantic wolves that inhabit the wilderness of the Beor Mountains. They grow to the size of horses and have fangs like sabers, prey on ferocious giant boars that grow to be even larger than them, and pose a considerable danger for travelers crossing the mountains.
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The Lancer: Roran increasingly adopts this role in the Varden and the narrative structure of the series itself.
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: You only name your child Galbatorix if you want him to grow up to be evil. Morzan isn't nearly as obviously evil, but it still has a sinister edge to it.
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Badass Normal: Roran is one of the few normal humans among the main cast, but he still manages to achieve many impressive feats, including slaying 193 men in a single battle and even defeating the tertiary antagonist by bear-hugging him to death, moments after that antagonist killed the immortal elf queen in single combat.
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Evil Tower of Ominousness: Helgrind. Also, from the little description given, Uru'baen sounds like one, or at least Galbatorix's stronghold there.
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Author Appeal: Arguably the elves, particularly Arya (whose beauty is oft-mentioned in the narration, and leaves Eragon in awe). However, Paolini says his favourite race is the dwarves (he often speaks a bit in Dwarvish when he goes to IRL events).
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Author Avatar: According to some, Eragon is Christopher Paolini and Angela is, well, his sister Angela. Paolini himself admits that Angela is based on his sister, and that Eragon "started out" as an autobiographical character before eventually developing into his own character.
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Giant Flyer: Besides the dragons (obviously), there are the Fanghur from the Beor Mountains and the Ra'zac's adult form, the Lethrblaka.
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Unmanly Secret: Referenced in the thoughts of the Varden leader Nasuada in Inheritance when she thinks about how certain men within her army have revealed things about themselves to her that would be surprising given that their outward loves seemed to be only "wine, women, and war," such as a tendency to memorize romantic poems.
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Purple Prose: Surroundings and settings tend to be somewhat excessively described. Noticeably less in Brisingr, and to a lesser degree, in Eldest. Happens in-universe when Orik drinks faelnirv – he claims it gives you "the gift of loquacion", but rather than making him talk a lot, it makes him speak this way.
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Snowballing Threat: Brom's tale of Galbatorix's conquest describes Galbatorix and the Forsworn growing stronger with every kill, which leads into the reveal that they were enslaving the Eldunarí from the dragons they were killing.
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Rebellious Princess: Arya, to some extent.
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The Only One
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The Only One: By the last book, Eragon is the last sane, free Dragon Rider left after Brom is killed by Durza and Murtagh is enslaved by Galbatorix, who mind controls him into killing Oromis and Glaedr. Though at the end of it, Murtagh is freed and Arya becomes a rider as well, and there are more eggs to be hatched.
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Mentor Occupational Hazard: Multiple times. Brom is killed protecting Eragon from the Ra'zac. Murtagh's swordmaster Tornac was killed helping him escape from Galbatorix sometime before Murtagh met Eragon. It also happens doubly late in the third book when Eragon's second mentor Oromis and Saphira's dragon mentor Glaedr are killed in battle by Murtagh and Thorn. Durza's Start of Darkness was the death of his sorcerer mentor Haeg. The boy's attempt to avenge his master ended in disaster when the spirits he summons overwhelmed him, turning him into a Shade. Happened in Horst's backstory when his mentor Bartrum died when Horst was 15, forcing him to find a new master to complete his training.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: "Eragon" is "dragon" with one letter changed, but then Paolini retconned this into "era gone by".
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A Wizard Did It
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A Wizard Did It: The Ancient Language.
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Magic A Is Magic A
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Magic A Is Magic A: The abilities and limitations of using the Ancient Language to preform magic is quite consistent throughout all 4 books. Directly stated rules are almost never broken, and if they are it's generally acknowledged as an extremely unusual occurance. The main complaint about the system is that the first book has glaring gaps in relatively obvious uses of magic, such as killing enemies with basically no effort or the existence of magical wards against such attacks. As a result the later books (the second in particular) have a lot of explaining to do both in developing various concepts that were entirely ignored and, more importantly, explaining why no one ever mentioned any of those things to Eragon in the first place. There is some justification in that Eragon's magical education in the first book comes from Brom, who had an incomplete education himself and was also teaching Eragon numerous other skills (like reading and swordfighting) while on the road the entire time. Still, this doesn't really explain why Brom would leave out something as incredibly critical like a magical ward (leaving Eragon vulnerable to being killed by any sort of magical attack), or why no one ever mentions something as apparantly important as Wards to him when preparing for battles. It's explained that The Twins lied, saying that he already knew how to use wards, but from the second book on it's made clear that EVERYONE in battle is under some sort of magic protection and it's mentioned repeatedly, despite them never being mentioned in the first book.
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Gift of Song
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Gift of Song: The elves celebrate the "Blood-Oath Celebration", a massive party dedicated to honor the bonding of elves and dragons together, every 100 years, and it is by far their most important celebration. Each attendant is highly encouraged to present some sort of offering (usually a craft of some kind) that is deeply personal. Eragon, Arya, and Islanzadi all present songs as their gifts to the celebration.
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Fictionary
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Fictionary: Christopher Paolini invented three languages for the series: the Ancient Language (spoken by elves and magic users, based on Old Norse), Dwarvish (mostly made up by Paolini), and the Urgal language (as of Brisingr, still limited to mainly a few words). There also exists another language spoken by the nomads, but it hasn't been given any detail yet, except for clarification that adding "-no" to the end of a person's name is an honorific. The Ancient Language is similar to English but not entirely the same, so partly crossing over into conlang (although full rules of grammar have yet to be provided), while the dwarven language is far less similar to any pre-existing ones. A common criticism is that the Ancient Language and the Dwarven Language are simply encoded English with a few archaic word orders thrown in to spice it up. This is improved upon slightly in later books. He also drops a huge clanger when Oromis talks about Eragon's screw-up with Elva, where he applies idiosyncratic rules of English, wrongly, to his fictional language. (Just for the record, "May you be shielded" is not in the past tense).
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Aloof Big Brother
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Aloof Big Brother: Murtagh is the older, stronger, smarter, more pragmatic, more cynical, more experienced half-brother of Eragon. The only area in which his younger brother has him beat is mental health.
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Straw Character
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Straw Character: An argument is presented between representatives of the religious Dwarves and atheist Elves. The Dwarf is emotional ranting, while the Elf is calm and wise. Downplayed, however, in that the Elf deliberately picked the fight, knowing that she could stay calm since she had no stake in it.
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Idiot Ball: Neither the heroes nor villains are safe from this.
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Idiot Hero
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Idiot Hero: Eragon's youth and lack of education shows on occasion, such as when he makes a grammatical error in the Ancient Language that turns his blessing into a curse.
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide: During one battle, Blödhgarm gets control of an enemy mage's mind, forcing him to kill himself with magic.
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Unpleasant Parent Reveal: Subverted in the second book. Eragon is told by Murtagh that he is the son of Morzan, the last of the Forsworn and overall bad person. As it turns out, however, while his mother was Morzan's wife, his father is actually Brom.
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
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Yazuac, Carvahall, Du Weldenvarden and... Sharktooth?!
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Healing Hands
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Healing Hands: Healing magic is used often in the series, and most magic is channeled through the user's hands. Since it's established early on that doing something by magic costs the same as doing it normally, healing can be particularly tiring because you're accelerating weeks of recovery into seconds. It's also shown that past a certain point you can't just apply this trope - once an injury gets complex enough - i.e. multiple ruptured organs - you need either more magical juice than any one person or a lot more specific magical vocabulary, and if you don't have that, they're hosed.
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Heroic Bastard
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Heroic Bastard: Eragon is one, the son of Selena and Brom. One could argue that this applies to all Elves, as they don't marry, since while a commitment to another can last hundreds of years it rarely persists through all of their immortal life. However, as a result they don't even really have the concept of "legitimacy," and view it as a pretty silly human notion. Eragon angsts a bit over this after he first hears it, but he's told that his parents actually considered themselves married, assuaging this a bit.
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Unequal Rites: Magicians have independent power, sorcerers enslave spirits for power, wizards and witches gain power from charms...
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The Ageless
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The Ageless: Dragon Riders, elves, dragons, and possibly Shades are all immortal unless killed violently. Notably, Dragon Riders are only immortal if their connection to their living dragons is intact; it's implied that the sheer grief kills many of them if that connection is severed.
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Deuteragonist
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Deuteragonist: Roran Stronghammer in Inheritance Cycle, with Eragon as the protagonist and Murtagh as the tritagonist, according to Word of God. Other possible interpretations include Eragon > Saphira > Roran, Eragon/Saphira > Roran > Murtagh, and Eragon > Roran > Nasuada.
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Kick Them While They Are Down: Murtagh does this to a slaver named Torkenbrand, killing him.
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Black-and-White Morality: The Varden and Elves are good, The Empire is evil. Eragon tries to give this a significant amount of thought, as a number of characters point out that he's fighting because other people told him to, however right they may be. Finally, he reaches the conclusion that The Varden is still good, despite the suffering they cause and the lack of obvious evidence against the King, because Galbatorix is immortal and they're preventing the suffering that will come with another century of his reign. After a significant amount of angst, Eragon then comes to the bizarre and defeatist conclusion that he has to cross the ocean to train the next generation of riders. He left behind civilization, everything he fought for, the chance to shape the creation of the next major golden age, and the chance to get into Arya's (the only woman for whom he could hold genuine affection) tight leather pants. He's also very clear about the fact that he'll never come back, despite the fact that it's very clearly a journey that could be easily made once or twice every few years, even accounting for the strain on Saphira.
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Too Awesome to Use: Brom's ring contains so much energy that Eragon tries not to use it unless necessary, just in case. He is later forced to expend all of it to tear down the walls of Dras'Leona.
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Some Call Me "Tim"
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Some Call Me "Tim": The true names of werecats are strange spitting, hissing, growling noises, though humans know them by names such as Solembum and Shadowhunter.
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Elva in Eldest (A Wizard Did It). Also there's Thorn, born close to a year after Saphira yet is nearly as large as she is when he's first confronted at the end of Eldest, although this is only because Galbatorix did it, Thorn is still mentally only a few months old despite having the body of a grown dragon, which is mentioned to be very confusing and painful for him.
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Super-Soldier
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Super-Soldier: The soldiers Galbatorix deleted the capacity to feel pain from are able to continue fighting long past the point at which normal humans would be incapacitated.
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God of Fire
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God of Fire: The dwarven god of fire is Morthothal. In dwarven mythology, he and his brother Urur (god of winds) were said to have worked together to create the dragons.
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Humble Pie: Glaedr swears up and down to Eragon and Saphira that there is no way, not in a million years, that the Vault of Souls could possibly contain Eldunari. When it turns out to contain not only those, but dragon eggs as well, he is at once overjoyed, triumphant and shocked, but also has to eat a heavy amount of crow. It turns out that Oromis, Glaedr, and several other dragons and riders agreed to store the remaining free Eldunari and eggs deep underground and placed a memory enchantment over everyone in Alagaësia to the exception of the next free dragon and rider (Eragon and Saphira) to prevent Galbatorix from learning about it and taking them for himself. It's unclear exactly why the possibility of how they were hidden the way that they were (deep underground) never occurred to him, though it's implied to be part of the memory enchantment keeping his thoughts away from the Vault.
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Motor Mouth
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Happens in-universe when Orik drinks faelnirv – he claims it gives you "the gift of loquacion", but rather than making him talk a lot, it makes him speak this way.
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Logical Weakness
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Logical Weakness: Elva can deliver breaking speeches due to her knowledge of what pains everyone...so Galbatorix just stops her from speaking with a spell to begin with.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Twice, in Brisingr: The two women Angela asks Eragon to bless. After receiving the blessing, the two go on their own journey without appearing again. Eventually, one of them reappears in the next book when she saves Roran's life during the Battle of Uru'baen, but there is still no mention of why she was there and if there was a specific reason. The soldier wounded during the Battle of the Burning Plains who, after getting hit by a catapult shell, becomes able to see the energy that impregnates living beings and the one stored inside gems.
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Psychic Powers
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Psychic Powers: Anyone who can use magic also gains the ability to touch other minds via a Mind Probe. It is also mentioned that non magic users can have this ability too (then called "Mindbreakers"), although so far the only mentioned case of this is with dragons (who technically are magic users, but not at will).
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Eldritch Abomination: Galbatorix' dragon is so insanely huge Eragon initially thinks it's part of the castle. He has a minor freakout when he figures it out, and it's revealed that Galbatorix is artificially forcing him to grow far beyond when he should have stopped.
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Atop a Mountain of Corpses: A scene in the third book has Roran standing triumphantly atop a pile of 193 slaughtered mooks.
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One-Hit Polykill: When Eragon is attacked by a team of Dwarf assassins in Brisingr, he decapitates three of them with a single blow.
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The Chosen One: When Saphira hatches for him, Eragon becomes the first new Dragon Rider in a century, as well as a symbol for all those who oppose Galbatorix.
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Mind Rape: Often used by the Big Bad. Also done by the Twins on Eragon – they just don't care about the pain they cause as long as they got what they wanted to know. In fact, the Twins do it to everyone who shows up amongst the Varden.
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: Morzan, Eragon the first Rider, and Brom after the first book. Also, as it turns out Selena, mother of Eragon and Murtagh.
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Psychic Static: This technique can be learned by just about anyone with the right willpower to block psychics. It seems to be widely used in governments, to prevent any rogue Mindbreakers from stealing important information.
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Dangerous Forbidden Technique: * In Eldest, Eragon gains the ability to draw energy from living beings that aren't Saphira, which can kill the other being. Brom teaches him how to perform it on some insects without telling him about the killing part because he wants to drive home how terrible the price of this magic is. Eragon feels as if he himself had died over and over, since you need to psychically inhabit the mind of the target first. Traditionally, Dragon Riders only were told about it once their training was already complete, so their masters could avoid teaching it to Riders who would abuse it. Thanks to Galbatorix's Obviously Evil status, the Riders didn't tell him about it, making it one of the few abilities Eragon has and he doesn't. Later, at the Battle of the Burning Plains, Eragon uses it on an injured horse who was dying anyway. Later on, in Brisingr, Eragon partially replenishes his own energy and that of his belt by taking energy from some animals that are about to be killed and eaten by the Varden, and he has to stop since the experience is so horrifying.
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Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom
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Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: A being's true name in the language of magic is a true and comprehensive description of themselves, although how long they do or don't get isn't clear since none are explicitly described in the text. The ancient wild dragons didn't have formal names as such, as they were more animalistic in mentality that humans, elves or bonded dragons. Instead, the "name" of the dragon who negotiated the end of the elf-dragon war is given as a running description of his attributes, history and notable deeds.
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The Bus Came Back
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The two women Angela asks Eragon to bless. After receiving the blessing, the two go on their own journey without appearing again. Eventually, one of them reappears in the next book when she saves Roran's life during the Battle of Uru'baen, but there is still no mention of why she was there and if there was a specific reason.
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Mighty Glacier: Dwarves, being formed from stone, are heavier and slower than other races, even being slower on average than humans, but not so slow as to pose no threat in combat. Dragons lean towards this as they get older, growing gradually bigger but losing mobility.
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Outliving One's Offspring
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Outliving One's Offspring: Delwin's son Elmund is killed in Eldest by a stray thrown spear while Delwin himself is killed by a catapult during the Final Battle to take Urû'baen in Inheritance.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Galbatorix, a former Dragon Rider who turned evil, destroyed the other Riders and took over/is trying to take over the world.
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Men Are the Expendable Gender
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: In the entirety of the four books, only a single named female character dies.
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Screw You, Elves!
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Screw You, Elves!: Paolini's elves are essentially Tolkien's written in detail - they're incredible magicians, immortal unless killed, so enlightened towards animals that they're all vegetarians and use animal-cruelty-free products, and so in tune with nature that they spend their time singing flowers into being and turning trees into their homes. But this all ends up fueling animosity towards them, since no other species has the luxury of being as ethical as them, and their attitudes end up breeding resentment. The dwarves in particular, see themselves as the elves without the high-mindedness, since they're also long-lived and incredible artisans. Murtagh makes a speech about this at the end of Eldest, basically saying that they're a bunch of cowards who oppress humans.
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Proud Warrior Race: The Urgals are Orc expys, very much a Might Makes Right Blood Knight race where the strongest among them fight to lead the group.
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"Not So Different" Remark: The heroes have committed some distasteful actions of their own, such as poisoning Galbatorix's army before a battle. Lampshaded by Elva, who points out to Eragon "Galbatorix would approve." when he tries to forcibly remove her powers after botching the job the first time.
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Hand Blast
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Hand Blast: The first display of magic in the series is Durza shooting a bolt of red light from his hand to kill Arya's horse.
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13 Is Unlucky
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13 Is Unlucky: Galbatorix had 13 Forsworn, Riders that turned traitor and joined his ranks. Their leader was Morzan, Murtagh's father.
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Stealth Mentor
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Magic can be used for any number of mundane purposes. One such example is that when Oromis gives Eragon a razor for shaving, it cuts Eragon so badly that he devises a spell for shaving and from then on shaves in that matter. This is something that is explored in some detail, and even commented upon by certain other characters who fear magic and are disturbed by Eragon's unnatural clean-shavedness even at hours of the day when it wouldn't be normal. Whether or not Oromis did this on purpose to get Eragon to discover the spell is left up to the reader to ponder, though it is indicated that magicians have used such methods with their apprentices in the past. If apprentices didn't tap into their magical power on their own, then the magician would set them some mundane task such as moving a large pile of rocks until they finally grew so frustrated that they unconsciously tapped into their magic for the first time.
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Took a Level in Badass Eragon. Special mention during Eldest, in which he is trained to nearly the level of a full Rider in a fraction of the time it should have taken. Roran. In the same title that Eragon is taking his level in badass, Roran is doing the same - going from simple farmer to fighter of Ra'zac and badass leader of the entire village of Carvahall.
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Foreshadowing: In Eragon, Brom mentions that with every Dragon Rider Galbatorix and the Foresworn killed, they grew stronger. This winds up setting up The Reveal in Brisingr about the enslavement of the Eldunarí, one of the sources of Galbatorix's strength.
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Can't Argue with Elves: Paolini's Elves are pretty, magical, and incredibly long-lived, and subsequently under the impression that they know everything, and they're very happy to tell outsiders that. This arguably ends up working against them, as it's fuel that leads to other races resenting them and sowing the seeds that helped Galbatorix go undefeated for a hundred years.
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Angela, who comes out with random nonsequiturs frequently. In her spare time, she tries to prove that toads don't exist.
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One-Man Army: Eragon ends up this by Eldest, not even counting Saphira, trusted to turn the tide in massive battles all by himself. With his super-strength, super-speed, massive swordfighting skill, magic-casting, mind-reading, and more, it's a fair appellation. Any elf is this in comparison to humans, so Arya and Blodgharm count. The Riders were this formerly.
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Distressed Damsel: Arya, and later Katrina. And later on, Nasuada. Arya makes very clear that once she's out of the physical woods, she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself.
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Our Vampires Are Different
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Our Vampires Are Different: Shades are thin, pale-skinned creatures with unnatural strength and strong magical powers, who are created when a person is possessed by a dangerous spirit not unlike a demon. And while they can briefly be disembodied by severe injuries, the only way to kill them for sure is with a stab through their heart. Luckily, they're very rare.
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Ye Goode Olde Days
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Ye Goode Olde Days: Everybody is always rambling about how awesome the days before Galbatorix were.
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I Am Who?: Eragon's identity is a closely kept secret until Brisingr wherein it's revealed that he is the son of Brom.
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Life Energy
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Life Energy: Used to fuel magic.
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Single Tear: Paolini is fond of having characters shed a single tear, such as when Eragon dreams of Arya in her cell in Gilead, where she cries a single tear that is described as shining "like a liquid diamond."
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Action Duo
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Action Duo: Rarely does someone fight alone in this series. Starting off, it's Eragon and Brom, then Eragon and Murtagh as they make their way to the Varden, with Eragon being the Action Hero and Brom and Murtagh being the more experienced Action Survivor. In Brisingr, Eragon and Roran partner up to destroy the Ra'zac, Eragon and Arya take down the shade Varaug, Eragon and Angela infiltrate Dras'Leona in the hidden passages underneath it, and even in the confrontation with Galbatorix, Eragon and Arya go together to face him.
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Reduced to Dust: In Inheritance, this is the grim fate of the enemy magician who fights the magician Carn who accompanies Roran to capture the city of Aroughs. Both kill each other via magic at the same time, Carn's corpse left blackened and withered. Carn, however, kills the enemy magician with an especially grim spell that drains all of the water from his body, leaving nothing but a fine grey dust which settles over the water.
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Cool Sword: The swords forged by the Elven smith Rhunön, which are used almost exclusively by Dragon Riders. These swords, made from a type of Thunderbolt Iron known as brightsteel, are light in the user's hand, eternally sharp, never stain, and are typically colored the same as the dragons whose riders they are forged for.
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Hollywood Tactics: Everyone sucks at battle-planning, doing things no sane person who has at least played a Total War game would do, like having archers and siege weapons shoot into a melee, abandoning a perfectly good defensive position to meet a smaller enemy force in the open field, and having heavy infantry charge a great distance. Slightly justified in that many attackers are magicians, who don't need to be in the melee themselves to kill mass amounts of people, and who can only be killed if the Varden were to either send their own magicians or fight through the smaller enemy force until they reach them.
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Left-Justified Fantasy Map: The variant with sea to the south as well.
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Handicapped Badass: The High Priest (or is it Priestess?) of Helgrind is missing both legs, both arms, the lower half of their torso, and part of their tongue. This in no way diminishes the fact that they are one of the most dangerous foes that Eragon faces. And not only because of the army of fanatics they command. The Priest turns out to be capable of immobilizing him, Arya, and Solembum at the same time with their mind, something even Durza and Varaug weren't able to accomplish.note Varaug was able to do something similar to Eragon, Saphira, and Arya, but they were able to fight back against him; against the High Priest, Eragon is barely even able to shield himself. Even Murtagh and Galbatorix needed to use magic to accomplish the same task, whereas the High Priest was able to do it with pure willpower. If Angela hadn't managed to No-Sell the Priest's mental attack, a good part of the main cast would have all been killed by someone with barely enough remaining appendages to talk.
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Elva, being the emotional manipulator that she is, purposefully uses this tactic against Eragon, telling him that Galbatorix would approve of his actions. This leaves him badly shaken and questioning his morals. Why he didn't come to this revelation right after what he did to Sloan is anyone's guess.
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Nose Tapping: A traveling trapper does this when sharing rumors about there being a Rider in Alagaësia.
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Genericist Government: For some reason, Galbatorix is 'King' of the Broddring Empire and nothing is really described about how the government works, save for the fact it's "evil". Slightly explained by the fact that Galbatorix has used his immortal status to be on the throne for hundreds of years, and it's likely that there's no one left who remembers how a line of succession or anything else works without Galbatorix at its head.
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Hero Insurance: Eragon, being the poster boy for the Varden, has a license to kill, maim, and destroy as much as he pleases. Possible subversion in Brisingr when Eragon finds a man that he had previously stolen from and pays him far over the original price with gold, while he says he really didn't mind, considering how Eragon used them and that he destroyed the rest before leaving Carvahall anyway. Definite subversion when Eragon refuses to kill Sloan, citing that it isn't his right, and Orrin and Nasuada both agree that the power to kill isn't something they want him to have. He may have a license for it in the sense that he's the hero and can't be put to death or exiled, but his higher-ups will definitely have a punishment in mind if he goes too far, and there are enough people who are more skilled with magic than he is that they can check him fairly effectively once he's away from the public eye.
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Hidden Elf Village: Ellesméra.
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Think Nothing of It: In Brisingr, Angela the herbalist tells Roran this after he thanks her for healing the injuries on his back from whipping. She then changes her mind and says "Or rather, think something of it, but do not consider it overly important. Besides, it amuses me to have tended injuries on both your back and Eragon's."
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Deliver Us from Evil: Eragon's mother. When the series starts, all we know is that his mom has been dead for a while, and that she ran away from his dad who was some kind of evil person. Then we find out his dad was The Dragon and his mom was a Dark Action Girl whose incredible devotion to him was only overruled by her desire to see her second child live a better life, away from his Archnemesis Dad. It's played with in that Eragon's father is actually Brom, and Selene's Heel–Face Turn was a result of her love for him, then their child (Morzan's rarely letting her see Murtagh helped as well).
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The punishment of Sloan drew from this. When Eragon wonders whether he was justified in his punishment or if he should have just killed Sloan, Orrin and Nasuada – who have a concept of divine right to rule, and who Eragon reports to directly – tell Eragon that he was correct: he can punish people, but lacks the authority to sentence them to death, and he's so powerful that the moment he begins to play God he'll need to essentially be put down. The right to sentence death is reserved for Orrin and Nasuada themselves, in being the King of Surda and Leader of the Varden respectively. Nasuada, being female, has to go to great lengths to prove herself capable of leading the Varden.
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Bond Creatures: Dragons, who forged a contract with humans and elves hundreds of years ago that allowed them to forge unique mental bonds and prevent interspecies war. A dragon and their Rider have bonds that stretch very deeply, and the death of one often has negative effects on the survivor.
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Scars Are Forever: While magic healing is good enough that it generally leave scars, some injuries are so grievous they leave them. Eragon and Murtagh both end up with massive scars across their backs from swords that laid them open at the wrong time, and Eragon's is even cursed enough that he ends up having agonizing muscle seizures.
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Orcus on His Throne: Galbatorix, while strong enough to wipe out the Varden by himself, decides to spend his time in the capital city, Uru'baen. Lampshaded when Nasuada thinks about how Galbatorix's pride is the only thing keeping the Varden from being destroyed.
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Face–Heel Turn
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Face–Heel Turn: Murtagh, the Twins, and Sloan. Although Murtagh didn't do it voluntarily.
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Split Hair
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Split Hair: Noticeably averted where, while training a dragon rider to care for his weapons properly, an actual metalsmith points out that you don't want that sharp an edge on most blades. Being that fine of a point also weakens the metal by making it so thin it can cut hair, meaning the sword in question wouldn't last very long before being damaged beyond the point of usability as a sword rather then a mace.
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: If you know someone's true name, you can use the Ancient Language to compel them to do your bidding, but your orders have to be very specific. This was how Murtagh was able to allow Eragon to remain free at the end of Eldest — "Galbatorix ordered me to try to capture you, and I did try." In latter installments, it becomes obvious that Galbatorix has modified his orders to prevent this sort of thing, but the fact that Murtagh is still able to flee at all indicates that the orders are now something along the lines of "Capture him if at all possible, but flee if you can if it becomes obvious you can't win at the moment."
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Mayfly–December Romance
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Mayfly–December Romance: Eragon and Arya. (Interestingly, Arya once indirectly described such a relationship to be viewed by the elves as similar to paedophilia on the elves' part. And it's implied that the perfect elves may not be right about everything after all.)
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Retcon
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Retcon: A couple of details (see BFS on this page for an example) were changed, generally for the better. Mostly averted with regard to the actual storyline.
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Megaton Punch: This becomes a specialty of Eragon in the later books. Being in fights constantly and now super-strong from Rider training, he's even described punching through men's shields and still stoving in their chests with single, powerful hits. It's subverted in Brisinger, though. He pulls one, and mangles the bones in his punching hand and even is worried he won't be able to heal them for a moment.
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Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Discussed in the last book regarding swordplay. Eragon ends up sparring with and repeatedly losing to his elite elven bodyguards, and Arya points out that since he's been fighting human soldiers who don't have very much experience at all, let alone competence, he's gotten used to not having to really try.
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The Ace
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The Ace: Arya and Angela are both good at magic, physical combat, and related skills, but Angela is a Plucky Comic Relief character most of the time.
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Bald of Authority
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Bald of Authority: Ajihad, who has a beard but no hair, is the leader of the Vardan.
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Forgiveness: Something of a theme in the series. In Eldest, after Saphira apologizes to Eragon for giving him the cold-shoulder throughout most of the book because she was infatuated with Glaedr, Eragon tells her that "Family members forgive one another, even if they don't always understand why someone acts in a certain way. You are as much my family as Roran."
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Tonight, Someone Dies: In addition to Ajihad dying in the book's first chapter, Hrothgar at the end of book two. In book three, Master Oromis, the Old Master. Glaedr survives in his Eldunari but is physically dead, and exists merely as an Eldunari in the final book, when Islanzadi dies as well.
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Royally Screwed Up: The people of Palancar Valley descend from King Palancar, who was Royally Screwed Up, including Eragon and Roran.
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Aerith and Bob: We have characters named Garrow, Eragon, Roran, Helen, Sloan, and Selena all from the same out-of-the-way village. Eragon's name is at least noted as odd (he's named after an elf). This occurs with place names as well-as noted by a reviewer of Brisingr in The Sydney Morning Herald (an Australian newspaper), it was strange to see fantastical names such as Uru'Baen alongside more commonplace names such as Lithgow. Word of God states that this is because of many cultures having inhabited the land and left behind place names, which has a reasonable basis in the real world. Yazuac, Carvahall, Du Weldenvarden and... Sharktooth?! The Eragon Sporkings point out in the dissection of Eragon that most, if not all, of the important people have exotic names. Thus, it would follow that the characters themselves are aware of this, which explains why two protagonists who need to sneak into a city choose ordinary names (by Earth standards) and that their obvious unimportance is why the guards wave them on through when they give their names. Somewhat justified for the same reason as the place names, but to a larger degree: most humans have fairly human names, like Angela, Helen, Katrina, and Sloan. It's elves, dwarves, urgals, dragons, and other races who have "weird" names, and makes sense given that the cultures that inhabit the land are far from homogenous and usually stay strictly within their claimed territory on the continent. As for the "important" names, most important characters are magic users (which is rarer in humans than in other races) or nonhuman entities, so it makes sense that few of them have human names.
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Sadistic Choice: Roran is forced to make one when he is punished for insubordination. He can take a lighter punishment and be discharged from the Varden's army, or suffer a more severe one and be allowed to continue serving. He goes with the second.
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Imposed Handicap Training: Towards the end of the series, Eragon and Arya are sparring to keep their edge in time to fight Galbatorix. Arya pulls out every distracting trick she can think of, including making Eragon Distracted by the Sexy, so as to toughen his mentality in case Galbatorix starts to use illusion magic, he will be able to remain focused on his goal.
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Cool Boat
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Cool Boat: The Dragon Wing, which is described as being designed to be the spearhead of the Imperial Navy, only to be commandeered by Roran and the Carvahall villagers, who use it to make their escape south to the Varden and Surda.
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Knight Templar
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Knight Templar: Nasuada and Eragon, arguably, and the Varden in general. In fact, all the factions (both good and bad) have traits of this, except the dwarves.
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Subverted
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Subverted later when Nasuada wins the Trial of the Long Knives - a kind of ceremonial game of chicken with inflicting knife cuts - and ends up with seven fairly deep and hideous cuts on her forearms. Since she refuses to have them healed by magic, they end up scarring, and she eventually leans into the subversion by wearing clothing that will show them off, since they further establish her badass credentials.
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Weirdness Magnet
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Weirdness Magnet: Eragon. Lampshaded by Saphira:
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These Hands Have Killed
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These Hands Have Killed: After Eragon heals the baby Hope in Inheritance, he says that his hands are too bloody for that type of work.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Murtagh all the way. Elva also seems to be leaning in this direction after her curse was broken and she was able to use her empathetic powers without direct cost to herself.
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Mind Probe
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Mind Probe: The main psychic power. Unfortunately, this particular ability can be used for Mind Rape.
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Concentration-Bound Magic: Magic in the series is the application of the magician's will upon energy to do things they otherwise wouldn't be able to or accomplish them much faster than would normally be possible. Intent is very important and getting distracted can cause the magic to have an entirely unwanted effect. Originally, all magic was non-verbal, but the Ancient Language that magical incantations are said with was created to make things easier. Non-verbal magic is still possible, just considered very dangerous if one isn't well-practiced at magic. Even with the incantations, intention still matters a lot and the same word or words can have different effects based on this. For example, brisingr, the word for fire, can be used to actually set something on fire, but can also be used just to create a light that follows the magician around. A duel between wizards is considered especially dangerous and generally a spellcaster won't even attempt to use magic against enemy magicians unless they've taken control of their minds first, which in turn involves guarding their own mind against magical intrusion.
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Indo-European Alien Language
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Indo-European Alien Language: In the early books, the Ancient Language apparently follows exactly the same grammatical constructions and rules as English. In Eldest, Oromis reveals that Eragon's application of English rules to the Ancient Language resulted in him cursing Elva rather than blessing her (just for the record, "May you be shielded" is not in the past tense).
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Faint in Shock: Eragon faints when his mentor, Brom, is fatally stabbed. But then, he faints at the end of almost every chapter.
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Both Sides Have a Point: In Inheritance, Orrin and Nasuada get into an argument over the viability of the Varden continuing their alliance with the Urgals that has shades of this. Orrin argues that, given the age-old hatred and antipathy towards Urgals, the Empire is succeeding in painting the Varden as villains for allying with the Urgals (since the Empire was effectively able to hush up their previous alliance with the creatures) and as a result, Imperial cities are choosing to resist to the bitter end rather than surrender to enemies allied with what they see as monsters, which is costing the Varden more lives to capture Imperial territory. Nasuada argues that since the Urgals have upheld their side of the alliance honourably, turning on them for no other reason than prejudice would just result in the Varden gaining another enemy, and that if they don't try to temper the Urgals' more warlike tendencies, the cycle of violence between their races will resume the moment they no longer have a common enemy in Galbatorix.
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Dragon Rider: Almost the whole premise of the series, to the point that Rider is a proper noun. Eragon is one, naturally. Also, Oromis, Murtagh, and Galbatorix count. Brom, Orik, and Arya have also ridden Saphira at various points, and Brom was also a Rider before his dragon was killed. Arya becomes one at the end.
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Wrecked Weapon: Despite the wards Eragon placed on it, the falchion he uses for part of Brisingr winds up shattering when a blow is deflected and the blade hits a wall.
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Keeping the Handicap: Eragon is left with a nasty and painful back scar from his fight with Durza. He decides against having it removed at first, feeling like it's become a part of him. Ultimately, it's removed when Eragon is enchanted by the Agaeti Blodhren. After she wins the Trial of the Long Knives, Eragon offers to heal Nasuada's deeply scarred arms. She declines on the grounds that she needs to keep the scars to prove that she won and is worthy of being ruler.
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New Powers as the Plot Demands
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New Powers as the Plot Demands: This ties in with Instant Expert. It becomes way more obvious with the compressed movie adaptation ("OMG I GOTZ MAGICK?!"), but is well explained by Eragon training and gaining strength and education over the months to years in which the books take place.
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Alien Blood
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Alien Blood: Bluish-green on the Lethrblaka, black on the Urgals.
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Boom, Headshot!: Subverted with Durza when Murtagh shoots him in the head; he just reappears somewhere else (though it's clearly painful).
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Rent-a-Zilla: Shruikan is absolutely ENORMOUS. The narration shows that Eragon has a bit of trouble understanding that the gigantic black thing behind Galbatorix's throne is one creature.
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Evil Redhead: Shades. In fact, being transformed into a Shade gives the victim crimson hair.
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We Can Rule Together: In Brisingr, Eragon receives this offer from his father Morzan...but A.) It was only a nightmare (Morzan had long been dead.) and B.) Morzan wasn't really his father; he just thought that he was, until he later learned otherwise. Later, Galbatorix offers this for Nasuada when she's his prisoner. Unsurprisingly, she refuses.
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Signature Device: Each dragonrider is gifted a specialized sword colored to match their dragons, and a scar where they touched their dragon.
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Sorcerous Overlord: Galbatorix is a powerful magic user and also the ruler of the Broddring Empire.
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Grand Theft Me
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Grand Theft Me: Spirits like to do this to unsuspecting spellcasters. If they succeed, a Shade is created.
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Fallen Hero: The Forsworn are a group of 13 Dragon Riders who turned traitor and joined Galbatorix; chief among them was Morzan, Brom's Evil Former Friend and father of Murtagh.
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Elves vs. Dwarves: They aren't exactly best friends, but they do get on better than most Elves vs. Dwarves do, although arguably only due to a common enemy. The huge desert between them probably helps matters as well. They also have a kind of kinship as the two 'ancient races' that inhabited the continent before humans arrived.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: In Brisingr, Arya doodles something about a lonely god in the sand in reference to Doctor Who. Paolini mentions this in the afterword. He says he did it because he's a fan of the Doctor. "And to those who got the line about the lonely god, all I have to say is that the Doctor can be anywhere at any time, even alternate dimensions. Hey! I'm a fan too!" In Inheritance there's another Doctor Who reference. Angela, the herbalist, is knitting a blue hat with runes around the edge. When asked what the runes say, she responds: "Raxacori— oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean anything to you anyway." There is a planet in Doctor Who called Raxacoricofallapatorius (it's where the Slitheen come from.) In Inheritance there are lots of Doctor Who and other references, such as Solembum mentioning a box that was bigger on the inside. Morn is named after a regular patron of Quark's bar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, himself a Shout-Out to Norm from Cheers. Some people and places are named after people that Paolini knows, for example Angela (his sister) and Palancar Valley (named after the artist who does the cover art). "Barges? We don't want no stinking barges!"
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: As a general rule, none of the heroes' brilliant plans are explained onscreen beforehand.
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Luke, I Am Your Father
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Luke, I Am Your Father: The ending of Eldest has Murtagh inform Eragon that they're brothers, the sons of Morzan. Near the ending of Brisingr, Oromis and Glaedr instead inform Eragon that they're only half-brothers, and his real father is Brom, though they still share a mother.
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Magibabble: Oromis gets quite in depth about the rules of magic. Justified in that learning magic in the setting is basically learning an entirely new language while simultaneously learning about the properties and limitations of using that language to preform magic. Its misuse can easily result in the death of the magician, those around the magician, or other catastrophic consequences. Oromis is explicitly teaching Eragon about the language and its full powers and limitations, so going into depth is important (if potentially uninteresting to some readers).
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Taking You with Me
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Taking You with Me: Eragon's move that finally unhinges Galbatorix is to cast a spell, along with the power of the dragons, that causes him to feel every feeling that he's evoked in others throughout his life, both good and bad. The agony of it is so terrible that Galbatorix eventually decides he just can't take it anymore and declares "Be not!" in the Ancient Language, annihilating himself and producing a nuclear blast of energy that very nearly destroys Eragon and everyone else with him and would have likely destroyed a large portion of Uru'baen as well had they not been so far underground and had Eragon not cast the appropriate protective spell.
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The Chains of Commanding: Trianna says it's wise Eragon doesn't want to be king, because a king is simply a man imprisoned by his duties.
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Test of Pain
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Test of Pain: The Wandering Tribes of the Hadarac Desert, introduced in Brisingr, has "the Trial of the Long Knives", a ritual/ceremony to resolve leadership disputes where the opposing parties must cut themselves with a dagger to see who can endure more injuries without giving up or passing out. The one who can sustain the most cuts wins.
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Word of God
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This occurs with place names as well-as noted by a reviewer of Brisingr in The Sydney Morning Herald (an Australian newspaper), it was strange to see fantastical names such as Uru'Baen alongside more commonplace names such as Lithgow. Word of God states that this is because of many cultures having inhabited the land and left behind place names, which has a reasonable basis in the real world.
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Left Field Description
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Left Field Description: The narration is filled with this sort of thing. Examples include "Movement flickered through it, like the swish of a bird across a clouded moon" and "Slippers flashing beneath her dress, like mice darting from a hole."
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Redshirt Army
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Red Shirt Army: Inverted with Eragon's Dwarven bodyguards in Brisingr. The Mauve Shirt Kvîstor is killed while the other three generic ones survive.
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Letting Her Hair Down
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Letting Her Hair Down: After she arrives in Ellesmera, Arya stops wearing a leather band in her hair to show how relaxed she is.
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Killed Off for Real
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Killed Off for Real: Many, many characters. Glaedr just happens to have survived by giving away his 'heart of hearts'.
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Protagonist Title
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Protagonist Title: Eragon and Murtagh.
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Heroic Resolve
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Heroic Resolve: Roran uses a lot of this to survive being given 50 freaking lashes!
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Discussed in Brisingr. It's noted that if Eragon were killed by the dwarves as one clan attempted, his dragon Saphira would "fill Farthen Dûr with a sea of our own blood."
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Thunderbolt Iron
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Thunderbolt Iron: All Riders' swords are made from an extraterrestrial metal that Rhunön named "Brightsteel", and it has special properties that she would expand and enchant on top of to make the swords unbreakable, sharper than normal, and far thinner than typical swords, which allowed the Riders to perform legendary feats with them.
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High Fantasy
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High Fantasy: Its scale and scope may certainly remind a reader of a certain other series.
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The Gods Must Be Lazy
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The Gods Must Be Lazy: This is the base argument for the Elves' atheism. (Aside from the lack of evidence for "miracles.")
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Patchwork Map
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Patchwork Map: On the inside covers of the books.
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Creation Myth
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Creation Myth: According to the dwarven calendar in the deluxe edition of Eldest, the world was created 8000 years ago by several gods, after they vanquished the giants.
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Turned Against Their Masters: Spirits, which can be summoned by sorcerers to accomplish magical feats, will do this at the first opportunity if the sorcerer isn't capable, to create shades.
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Failure-to-Save Murder: In their first clash in Brisingr, Murtagh mentioned that he and Thorn were savagely tortured by Galbatorix when the latter found out Eragon had killed the Ra'zac, since had Murtagh taken Eragon and Saphire captive at the end of Eldest, it wouldn't have happened.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Four examples: Firstly, Murtagh heavily criticizes Eragon's (and the Varden's) moral stance and allegiance at the end of Eldest, going so far as to say that Galbatorix isn't bad enough to earn what Eragon's doing to the Empire. Secondly, Sloan gives Eragon a massive tongue lashing in Brisingr when he encounters him, complete with lots of fantasy swear words. Thirdly, after Eragon attempts to heal Elva of her curse, he makes a mistake and only succeeds in making it painless, leaving Elva still empowered but no longer shackled down with a desire to help others, turning her into an Anti-Hero. Shortly after, he decides that she isn't mature enough to handle such power and tries to take it from her, whereupon she puts him down and tells him he's behaving as Galbatorix would. And fourthly, a soldier in Feinster complains about Eragon "taking glory for himself" by disrupting the peace and slaughtering even those who have been forced to serve the Empire.
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I Know Your True Name
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I Know Your True Name: Used in conjunction with Words Can Break My Bones. In Inheritance, before Angela the herbalist kills the high priest of Helgrind, she tells it that it should know her name, and then whispers her name in its ear. We don't get to hear what it is, but whatever it is is enough for the priest to emit a sustained, horrified shriek before Angela says "Oh, enough already!" and stabs it to death.
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You Are Not Alone
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You Are Not Alone: Both Brisingr and Inheritance end with Eragon and Saphira at first feeling a sense of loss and emptiness, but then realizing that they are not alone and they both have people to help and guide them, as well as people of their own to help and guide.
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Denied Food as Punishment
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Denied Food as Punishment: In Inheritance, Nasuada suspects that Galbatorix might do this to her after she kills her jailer. Instead, he does something so much more horrifying that she likely can barely think of food when it's over, let alone eat any.
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Fictional Age of Majority: The age of majority in Alagaësia is 16. Eragon has his 16th birthday in the first book, but lets it pass without comment due to his grim circumstances at the time.
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I Have Many Names
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I Have Many Names: Dragon riders and Eragon in particular pick many nicknames up from their peers. Dwarves - and subsequently the Varden, who've spent a lot of time with them - call them "argetlam", or "silverhand," for the silver patch riders have on their hands. Elves call them "shur'tugal," which is their invented word that means "dragon rider." Eragon picks up the name "Shadeslayer" after killing Durza. And the Urgals dub him "Firesword" after seeing him in action with his and call him that in his presence and without.
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Unusual Euphemism: Sloan's tirade about Eragon features a veritable barrage.
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Either/Or Title
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Either/Or Title: Brisingr and Inheritance have alternate titles on the cover pages: Brisingr, or, The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular Inheritance, or, The Vault of Souls
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Our Dragons Are Different
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Our Dragons Are Different: They appear to be fusions of both western and eastern depictions, being long and serpentine, but still four-legged and monstrously strong, and they are also creatures that bond themselves to the first individual who touches them.
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Soul Jar: The Eldunari are biological to dragons, though they only really exhibit this trope when they are disgorged. If an Eldunari is disgorged, it essentially contains their consciousness in its entirety, and anyone touching it can see into their heads, regardless of what mental defenses they have. If a dragon dies with the Eldunari still within them, the Eldunari will decompose, but if disgorged, the dragon will remain alive and confined to it.
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Hollywood Atheist: Zigzagged. Arya goes out of her way to pick a fight with the dwarven priest regarding religion. However, none of the other elves display this. Orimis simply explains that they disbelieve in any afterlife, gods or miracles as a result of lacking evidence, but would change their minds if presented with some that was convincing.
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Elaborate Underground Base: The dwarven capital, Tronjheim, is a city built like a small mountain inside the crater of a much larger extinct volcano so tall the top is inaccessible, even to dragons, making it only accessible by underground tunnels.
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Lightning Bruiser
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Lightning Bruiser: Some races have supernatural strength and speed compared to humans. Elves were blessed by their magical compact with the dragons, and Ra'zac are humans' natural predator. Human Dragon Riders will experience strength and speed growth over time, but nowhere near Elf levels. Shades, however, being possessed by spirits, can be difficult even for elves to keep up with and stand against. Kull might also count; they can run as fast as horses and are tough enough to fight five men at once.
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Medieval Universal Literacy
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Medieval Universal Literacy: Zig-zagged. Eragon is initially illiterate because, although Uncle Garrow was literate, as a farmer in a small village in the middle of nowhere he never really had any use for the skill and so didn't bother to teach it to his son and nephew. Eragon spends part of one chapter about halfway through the first book learning to read.
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Dark Magical Girl: Elva.
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Words Can Break My Bones: The Ancient Language, being the language used for magic, is perfectly capable of killing you. If mishandled, it can also kill its unwary user.
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Idiosyncratic Cover Art: Each novel in the series introduces a new, differently-colored dragon as a character. This dragon gets his/her picture on the cover of the book, and the book is the same color as his/her hide. The only exception is the golden dragon, who debuts one book before he appears on the cover.
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Come to Gawk: In Inheritance, Sloan believes that this is what Eragon wants when Eragon comes to visit around the end of the book, but he's off-the-mark. Eragon had forgotten Sloan was there until he spotted him, and feels so guilty about thoughtlessly bringing Sloan's daughter, Katrina, there when he knows that he can't see her that he restores Sloan's eyes, which had been pecked away by the Ra'zac.
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Barbarian Hero: Roran ends up checking a lot of the boxes for this, though it may not be immediately obvious. While he's not an outright barbarian, he is from very humble and uneducated circumstances and frequently thrown into conflict with the strongest foes of his era. But while he doesn't have magic or training to rely on, he does have a signature weapon, his considerable strength, a keen and calculating mind, and an endless refusal to give up that ends up pitting him against some of the strongest warriors of the realm and coming out on top. He even gets numerous shirtless scenes and a beard.
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Poke in the Third Eye: Powerful magicians are best not spied upon...
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Love Is in the Air: Blödhgarm gives off a scent that attracts women, which distracts Nasuada when they meet. She gets over this through thinking about an acrid-tasting candy she once ate.
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Think Unsexy Thoughts: In Brisingr, when Nasuada meets Blödhgarm, she is distracted by his appealing scent. Elva advises her to think about the bitter taste of horehound, which clears her head.
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Ambadassador: Arya, in no small part due to her inhuman abilities that make her far more competent than any normal human could ever be.
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Changeling Tale
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Changeling Tale: These are apparently very common among human-folk. Thus, when Elain is having a child and Eragon asks Arya the elf to assist, she does so, but is very careful not to interfere too much because people fear her intentions. Then, when the child is born with a cleft lip, Eragon is called upon to heal the child. Before he takes the child away, he consents to allow the village healer Gertrude to accompany him into the tent where he goes to heal her, as he is mindful of Arya's warnings about fear of changelings. He knows that her presence will reassure the villagers.
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Functional Magic
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Functional Magic: Basically follows an Inherent Gift structure (though Dragon Riders get a Gift for free), but combines it with Rule Magic in that mages must memorize various magic words for things and then combine them to create spells. Magic in this world also only reduces the time something takes, not the energy – meaning that something like creating lace, which is low energy but time consuming, would be easy, while something like mining gold, which is both high energy and time consuming, would be incredibly difficult. You still have to have the Inherent Gift, but even that's limited by the fact that you'd need incredible stamina to even consider more high-level or high-utility spells.
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Veganopia
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Veganopia: Elven society, and more a Vegetanopia. Justified somewhat in that it's difficult to eat something when you can hear its thoughts and literally feel its fear as it dies.
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Start of Darkness
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Durza's Start of Darkness was the death of his sorcerer mentor Haeg. The boy's attempt to avenge his master ended in disaster when the spirits he summons overwhelmed him, turning him into a Shade.
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: Angela's sword Tinkledeath. All of the Riders' swords are this. All regular steel blades are no greater than cottage cheese in combat with a Riders' sword, and the elf who makes them uses a special kind of metal called Brightsteel, which gives the swords increased sharpness and durability - said characteristics are either partly due to, or further enhanced by the fact that magic is heavily used in the forging process.
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Made of Explodium
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Made of Explodium: Dwarven lamps in Tronjheim are lit with pure heat and light. When the lamp is broken, all of it is released at once, sending anyone unlucky to be in the vicinity flying.
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Assassin Outclassin'
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Assassin Outclassin': During Brisingr, Eragon is attacked by a group of Dwarven assassins. Most of them are killed by Eragon himself.
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Protective Charm
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Protective Charm: Magical wards are a vital and ubiquitous part of warfare. Since magic can let a skilled practitioner kill someone from a mile away, people of importance are always given wards - specially cast spells done by a magician - to protect them from magical damage at any distance and physical damage within an inch of their bodies. This lets them operate without fear of magical slaying and often provides an important layer of protection in the heat of battle. However, since the damage of a blocked attack will deplete your magician's energy and a strong one risks killing them, warded people are still incentivized to protect themselves robustly. Mundane groups of soldiers in a battle are also warded by assigned spellcasters to prevent a skilled practitioner from killing them en masse. When one on the Varden's side is overcome during a battle, the men he's assigned to start dying in droves as enemy spellcasters get their hooks in them. Eragon himself starts placing them around people he cares about, such as Saphira, Arya, Orik and Roran. He notes that it's a risk, but he'll be more upset if they get killed.
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Psychic Block Defense: The Ra'zac are naturally shielded against mind powers, which makes them horribly effective assassins because they can't be detected. Murtagh is easily able to shield his mind against psychic attacks; the only person who has breached his mind is Galbatorix, and the only way he did this was by threatening Murtagh's dragon Thorn.
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Not Quite Dead: Murtagh and the Twins.
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Expy
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Expy: The series has gotten a lot of accusations for this, with critics claiming that the series is Star Wars in a fantasy setting and/or ripping off scenes or entire plots from other series.
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Geas
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Geas: A character who swears an oath in the Ancient Language is incapable of breaking it (though they only have to obey the letter, not the spirit). What is more, a person can be compelled to swear such an oath by someone who knows their true name. There is an out, however – if who they are changes so much that their True Name in the Ancient Language changes, all oaths they've sworn using it up to that point are null-and-void.
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Covered in Mud: In Eldest, Eragon has a seizure caused by a cursed injury to his back. He's feeling terrible already because of the seizure and because it was in front of his teacher, but he becomes especially embarrassed when he realizes that rolling around on the ground caused him to get his clothes (which were new and a gift from the elves) covered in dirt/mud.
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The Load
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The Load: Eragon himself in the first two books, as he always has to either become unconscious or be saved by someone in order to get anything done.
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Offered the Crown: Eragon is given the chance to become king of Alagaësia, but quickly turns it down. Nasuada takes over instead.
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Old Master
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Old Master: Oromis fills the Yoda role in this story, being a reclusive elderly master and survivor of the destroyed order who mentors Eragon as much as he can in the scant few months they have to work with.
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Exact Words: Early on in Eldest, the Varden Elders want Eragon to swear fealty to the Varden as part of their plot to turn Nasuada into their Puppet Queen. However, as Eragon only promised them that he would "swear fealty", he is able to swear fealty to Nasuada specifically, leaving the Elders shaking with impotent rage.
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Who Wants to Live Forever?: A source of angst for Eragon. Somewhat alleviated by the fact that there's a whole race of immortals who will live through it with him.
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Groin Attack: One of the things Galbatorix is actually definitely guilty of.
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Cain and Abel: Eragon and Murtagh. Who is who depends on your personal interpretation.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: The Varden (rebellion) is good, while The Empire is evil. The Varden does have its bad eggs, however, and Inheritance explores the fact that once Galbatorix is defeated, there's still a vast Empire to rule over, most of which just consists of ordinary citizens who were subjugated (or even thrived!) under Galbatorix's rule, given that since most of them can't use magic, they just lived their lives like ordinary people.
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Anti-Magical Faction: Galbatorix has the ultimate goal of restricting all magic use, though he doesn't wish to wipe it out entirely. He claims that magic is the great unfairness in the world, as someone either can or cannot use it; there is no learning to use magic, and non-magic users have absolutely no defense against magic users, who can kill them or seriously maim them on a whim. Even Nasuada, who is incapable of magic herself, admits that that's an opinion they share.
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My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That
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My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Saphira knows what Eragon is thinking when he looks at Arya . . .
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Mundane Utility: Magic can be used for any number of mundane purposes. One such example is that when Oromis gives Eragon a razor for shaving, it cuts Eragon so badly that he devises a spell for shaving and from then on shaves in that matter. This is something that is explored in some detail, and even commented upon by certain other characters who fear magic and are disturbed by Eragon's unnatural clean-shavedness even at hours of the day when it wouldn't be normal. Whether or not Oromis did this on purpose to get Eragon to discover the spell is left up to the reader to ponder, though it is indicated that magicians have used such methods with their apprentices in the past. If apprentices didn't tap into their magical power on their own, then the magician would set them some mundane task such as moving a large pile of rocks until they finally grew so frustrated that they unconsciously tapped into their magic for the first time. Nasuada hits upon the idea of using magic to mass produce lace as a means of supplying the Varden with capital.
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Cast from Stamina: Ordinarily, magic works like this. Except for dragon riders, who can borrow their dragon's stamina (and dragons have plenty to spare). Skilled magic users can borrow stamina from the local wildlife (killing it in the process if they aren't careful). Except for people who get hold of an Eldunari, who can borrow a dead dragon's stamina, which is substantial considering they have no body to be using up energy at any given time. To the extent that, since magic can't lie, if you cast something that requires too much energy, you can't stop it and can simply die from exhaustion. This also limits fighting ability, which is why many magicians have developed several low-energy killing spells ("pinch the Carotid artery," for example.)
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Distracted by the Sexy: Blödhgarm gives off a magical-composed scent that causes women to be attracted to him. When Nasuada meets him in Brisingr, she finds herself distracted during their conversation until Elva advises her to think about the taste of horehound.
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Rival Turned Evil: Murtagh, after his capture and Mind Rape.
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Spider-Sense: Eragon's gedwëy ignasia (Shining Palm, the mark he got from becoming a Dragon Rider) sometimes itches when he's just barely missing something significant nearby. For instance, when he's about to be attacked it quite often itches, and having a werecat sneak by at the edge of Eragon's sight seems to have triggered it another time.
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War Is Hell: Though the series has endured criticism for glorifying war, the characters regularly discuss how fighting and killing stains both their hands and their souls, how it gives them nightmares and troubles them during the day besides and try to find ways to resolve conflicts peacefully when they can. Multiple male characters struggle with the impact of (unnamed) PTSD on their presentation as men in a masculinity-means-strong society, and the torture most of the main women go through definitely leaves a mark.
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Unskilled, but Strong: Dragons are capable of performing feats of magic of such scale they might as well be miracles. Unfortunately, dragons are incapable of using the Ancient Language to cast magic and can only use the wordless variation that is entirely dependent on their intentions and mindset at the time, the results are often unpredictable based on that, and they can't even access their innate magic save in specific circumstances often brought about by strong emotions.
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Surprise Party: In Brisingr, after Eragon returns to the Varden's camp and gets settled in, he heads off with Nasuada to what he thinks is going to be a boring dinner of political conversation with nobles who want to fawn over him and his dragon Saphira. But when Nasuada opens the flap to the tent, it turns out to be a surprise party arranged by her and Eragon's adoptive brother Roran featuring most of the villagers of his hometown of Carvahall and many other people he knows and likes (but not Arya, for some reason).
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Creepy Child: Elva. She has the voice of an adult.
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Attack on the Heart: The only way to kill a Shade is to stab them through the heart, as any other method will just temporarily disembody them until they recover their physical form.
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Hoistby His Own Petard: One of the assassins attacking Eragon in Brisingr gets killed when he raises his arm to stab Eragon and his dagger catches a lamp, which explodes; the assassin winds up taking most of the force killing him.
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Fed to the Beast: After being caught trying to scout a secret passage into Dras-Leona, the cultists of Helgrind try to inflict this on Eragon and Arya by feeding them to newborn Ra'zac hatchlings. Since the cultists considered the Ra'zac living gods, they felt it was the only fitting punishment for the unforgivable blasphemy of killing the previous creatures.
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Altar the Speed: Roran and Katrina in Brisingr. Of the Shotgun Wedding variety.
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Youngest Child Wins: Eragon has had a much nicer life than his analogue.
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Dying Curse: The last Ra'zac's final request is for Eragon to pass on legends of how the Ra'zac were feared. Eragon declines, deciding that the information it gave isn't enough to be of value. It curses him, saying "May you leave Alagaësia and never return!" This chills him, since it had previously been foretold that he would leave Alagaësia forever, and indeed, at the end of the series it becomes true.
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Name Amnesia: When the dragons learned that the thirteen dragons of the Forsaken had turned against their own kind and were actively helping the Forsaken to kill and enslave their own kind, the free dragons grew angry. They gathered their power and performed one of their inexplicable works of magic. Somehow, they stripped the Thirteen of their names. From that moment on, no one could remember, read, write, or speak any name belonging to those dragons. Common names, true names, nicknames, everything. They could not even say "I like this" or "I dislike that", because to do so would be to name themselves.
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Doomy Dooms of Doom: Angela the herbalist in Eldest:
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Department of Redundancy Department: This crops up from time to time, such as ""Sorry," apologized Brom", "If you are watching me, Eragon, then my end has come and I am dead", and Arya being described as "raven-haired" and then a sentence later being described as having a face "framed by black locks", among others.
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Fork Fencing: Murtagh does this in the story "The Fork" in The Fork, The Witch, and the Worm: he finds himself in a fight without a weapon, enchants a fork with a spell to prevent it from breaking and uses it to defeat sword-wielding mercenaries, and then presents it to a young girl so that she can keep it to defend herself when needed. (She names it "Mister Stabby.")
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Attack! Attack! Attack!: Battle strategy of the Urgals. It usually works, given their physical advantage over the other races.
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Shown Their Work: While working on the novels, Paolini sometimes spent hours at a time researching on the Internet something like different types of seaweed. He discusses this in an interview with his editor available as a bonus on the audio edition of Inheritance.
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Lethal Harmless Powers / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Life Energy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Literal Genie / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Living Forever Is Awesome / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Longest Pregnancy Ever / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Love Is in the Air / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Ludd Was Right / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Luke, I Might Be Your Father / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Luke Nounverber / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Luxury Prison Suite / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Macho Masochism / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Made of Plasticine / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Mage Marksman / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Mage Species / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Magic A Is Magic A / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Magic Misfire / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Magic Music / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Magical Girlfriend / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Magical Incantation / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Magically-Binding Contract / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Malevolent Mutilation / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Many Spirits Inside of One / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Meat Versus Veggies / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Memory Gambit / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Men Don't Cry / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Mentor Occupational Hazard / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Meta Power / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Metamorphosis Monster / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Metaphorically True / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Mexican Standoff / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Miles to Go Before I Sleep / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Military Mage / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Misery Poker / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Monster Fun Facts / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Motivational Lie / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Motive Decay / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Muscles Are Meaningless / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
My Blood Runs Hot / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
My Secret Pregnancy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
My Skull Runneth Over / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
My Species Doth Protest Too Much / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
My Suit Is Also Super / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Name Amnesia / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Named After First Installment / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Named Weapons / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Namedar / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Nephewism / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Never Learned to Read / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
No Conservation of Energy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
North Is Cold, South Is Hot / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Not Always Evil / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Not Quite the Right Thing / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Notable Non Sequitur / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Odd Job Gods / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Offered the Crown / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Omnicidal Maniac / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
One-Hit Kill / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Only the Creator Does It Right / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Only You Can Repopulate My Race / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Oracular Urchin / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Orcus on His Throne / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Order Reborn / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Orphaned Etymology / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Orwellian Retcon / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Our Dwarves Are All the Same / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Our Elves Are Different / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Our Giants Are Bigger / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Our Mages Are Different / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Our Orcs Are Different / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Our Spirits Are Different / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Parrot Exposition / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Patchwork Map / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Peerless Love Interest / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Plot Detour / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Pointy Ears / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Poison and Cure Gambit / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Poke in the Third Eye / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Polite Villains, Rude Heroes / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Power Crystal / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Power Fist / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Power Profit Potential / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Power Tattoo / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Prophetic Names / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Protagonist Title / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Protected by a Child / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Protective Charm / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Psychic-Assisted Suicide / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Psychic Static / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Public Domain Artifact / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Punctuation Shaker / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Purple Prose / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Rape, Pillage, and Burn / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Really Royalty Reveal / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Really Was Born Yesterday / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Rebel Leader / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Recruiting the Criminal / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Red Shirt / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Reduced to Dust / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Rejection Ritual / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Religion of Evil / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Reluctant Warrior / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Remember the New Guy? / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Rescue Introduction / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Revealing Skill / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Rival Turned Evil / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Rousing Speech / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sacrificial Lamb / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Said Bookism / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sanity Has Advantages / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sapient Steed / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Savage Wolves / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Saved from Development Hell / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Scars are Forever / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Scientifically Understandable Sorcery / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Self-Insert Fic / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Semantic Superpower / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Shoot the Messenger / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Siege Engines / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Signature Device / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Simplified Spellcasting / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Single-Minded Twins / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Single-Species Nations / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Single Tear / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sins of Our Fathers / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Situational Hand Switch / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Skeleton Government / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Skirts and Ladders / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Smells Sexy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Some Call Me "Tim" / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sorcerous Overlord / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Soul Jar / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Spider-Sense / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Spiritual Adaptation / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Split Hair / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Spy Catsuit / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Squishy Wizard / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Standard Fantasy Races / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Standard Fantasy Setting / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Starfish Language / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Starter Villain / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Strangled by the Red String / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Stronger with Age / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Super Identikit / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Supernatural Aid / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Supporting Leader / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Surprise Party / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Surprisingly Improved Sequel / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Sword Fight / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Synchronization / int_e199d649
 TVTropesForum
seeAlso
Inheritance Cycle
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Take Away Their Name / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Teacher/Student Romance / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Team Prima Donna / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Technicolor Blade / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Teeth Flying / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Terror Hero / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Test of Pain / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Artifact / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Blacksmith / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Call Knows Where You Live / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Dead Have Names / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Dragons Come Back / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Dulcinea Effect / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Emperor / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Empire / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The First Cut Is the Deepest / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Game of the Book / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Gods Must Be Lazy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Heavy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Kingslayer / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Magnificent / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Maze / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Noun Who Verbed / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Older Immortal / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Stool Pigeon / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Strength of Ten Men / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Watson / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
There Is Another / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
These Hands Have Killed / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
They Call Him "Sword" / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Think Happy Thoughts / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Think Nothing of It / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Think Unsexy Thoughts / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
This Is Reality / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Throwing Off the Disability / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Throwing Your Sword Always Works / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Thunderbolt Iron / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
To Serve Man / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Tortured Monster / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Tough Leader Façade / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Town with a Dark Secret / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Trapped in Villainy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Tuckerization / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Two-Part Trilogy / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Tyrannicide / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Ultimate Blacksmith / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Undressing the Unconscious / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Unholy Holy Sword / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Unknown Character / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Unmanly Secret / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Unpleasant Parent Reveal / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Unpopular Popular Character / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Unseen No More / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Vagueness Is Coming / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Video Wills / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Villain Override / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Villainous BSoD / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Virgin Tension / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Visionary Villain / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Wartime Wedding / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Weapons Kitchen Sink / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Weasel Mascot / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Well, Excuse Me, Princess! / int_e199d649
 Wereworld
seeAlso
Inheritance Cycle
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Wild Magic / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Wise Tree / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Wizard Duel / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Wizards Live Longer / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Words Can Break My Bones / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Words Do Not Make The Magic / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Worth Living For / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Wrecked Weapon / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Write Who You Know / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Wrong Context Magic / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
You Are the Translated Foreign Word / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
You Can Talk? / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Young Adult Literature / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters / int_e199d649
 Anti-Shurtugal
seeAlso
Inheritance Cycle
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Cliché Storm / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Cast From Stamina / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Children Are Special / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Hate Fic / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Pursued Protagonist / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Slave Mooks / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
The Order / int_e199d649
 Inheritance Cycle
hasFeature
Upgrade Artifact / int_e199d649