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Synopsis of Eragon and Eldest

Eragon—a fifteen-year-old farm boy—is shocked when a polished blue stone appears before hion takes the stone to the farm where he lives with his uncle, Garrow, and his cousin, Roran, outside the se of Carvahall Garrow and his late wife, Marian, have raised Eragon Nothing is known of Eragon’s father; his mother, Selena, was Garrow’s sister and has not been seen since Eragon’s birth

Later, the stone cracks open and a baby dragon eon touches her, a silvery ed between their on Riders He nae storyteller, Brom

The Dragon Riders were created thousands of years earlier in the afterons, in order to prevent their two races fro each other The Riders became peacekeepers, educators, healers, natural philosophers, and the greatest of all on uidance and protection, the land enjoyed a golden age

When huaësia, they too were added to this elite order After on of a young human Rider named Galbatorix The loss drove him mad, and when his elders refused to provide hion, Galbatorix set out to topple the Riders

He stole another dragon—whoh certain black spells—and gathered around hiroup of thirteen traitors: the Forsworn With the help of those cruel disciples, Galbatorix thren the Riders; killed their leader, Vrael; and declared hiaësia His actions forced the elves to retreat deep within their pinewood forest and the dwarves to hide in their tunnels and caves, and neither race now ventures forth from its secret places The stalemate between Galbatorix and the other races has endured for over a hundred years, during which all of the Forsworn have died from various causes It is into this tense political situation that Eragon finds himself thrust

Several ers called the Ra’zac arrive in Carvahall, searching for the stone that was Saphira’s egg Eragon and Saphira on’s home and murder Garrow

Eragon vows to track down and kill the Ra’zac As he leaves Carvahall, the storyteller Broon and asks to accoon Rider’s sword, Zar’roc, though he refuses to say how he acquired it

Eragon learns ht with swords and use o to the port town of Teirm and visit Brom’s old friend Jeod, who Brom thinks may be able to help them locate the Ra’zac’s lair In Teirm, they learn that the Ra’zac live soon also has his fortune told by the herbalist Angela and receives two strange pieces of advice from her companion, the werecat Solembum

On the way to Dras-Leona, Broroup dedicated to overthrowing Galbatorix—and that he had been hiding in Carvahall, waiting for a new Dragon Rider to appear Twenty years ago, Bro from Galbatorix and, in the process, killed Morzan, first and last of the Forsworn Only two other dragon eggs still exist, both of which remain in Galbatorix’s possession

In and near Dras-Leona, they encounter the Ra’zac, who on A h drives the Ra’zac away With his dying breath, Brom confesses that he too was once a Rider and that his slain dragon was also named Saphira

Eragon and Saphira then decide to join the Varden, but Eragon is captured at the city of Gil’ead and brought before Durza, an evil and powerful Shade who serves Galbatorix With Murtagh’s help, Eragon escapes fro with him the elf Arya, another captive of Durza’s and an ambassador to the Varden Arya has been poisoned and requires the Varden’s medical help

Pursued by a contingent of Urgals, the four of theiant Beor Mountains, which stand over ten o to the Varden—to reveal that he is the son of Morzan Murtagh, however, has denounced his dead father’s villainy and fled Galbatorix’s court to seek his own destiny And he tells Eragon that the sword Zar’roc once belonged to Murtagh’s father

Just before they are overwhelon and his friends are rescued by the Varden, who live in Farthen Dûr, a hollow mountain that is also hoon is taken to Ajihad, leader of the Varden, while Murtagh is imprisoned because of his relation to Morzan

Eragon hter, Nasuada, and is tested by the Twins, two rather nasty on and Saphira also bless one of the Varden’s orphan babies while the Varden heal Arya of her poisoning

Eragon’s stay is disrupted by news of an Urgal arh the dwarves’ tunnels In the battle that follows, Eragon is separated froer than any hu open his back from shoulder to hip At that moment, Saphira and Arya break the roof of a cha enough for Eragon to stab him

through the heart Freed froals are driven back

While Eragon lies unconscious after the battle, he is telepathically contacted by a being who identifies hies Eragon to seek him for instruction in Ellesméra, the elves’ capital

When Eragon wakes, he has a huge scar across his back Dish sheer luck and that he desperately needsAnd at the end of Book One, he decides that, yes, he will find this Togira Ikonoka and learn from him

Eldest begins three days after Eragon slays Durza The Varden are recovering froh, and the Twins have been hunting down the Urgals who escaped into the tunnels underneath Farthen Dûr after the battle When a group of Urgals takes theh and the Twins disappear in the fray The Varden’s Council of Elders appoints Nasuada to succeed her father as new leader of the Varden, and Eragon swears fealty to her as her vassal

Eragon and Saphira decide theywith the Cripple Who Is Whole Before they go, the dwarf king, Hrothgar, offers to adopt Eragon into his clan, the Dûrgrial rights as a dwarf and entitles him to participate in dwarvish councils

Both Arya and Orik, Hrothgar’s foster son, accoon and Saphira on their journey to the land of the elves En route, they stop in Tarnag, a dwarf city Soon learns that one clan in particular does not welcome him and Saphira—the Az Sweldn rak Anhûin, who hate Riders and dragons because the Forsworn slaughtered so many of their clan

The party finally arrives in Du Weldenvarden, the forest of the elves At Elleson and Saphira meet Islanzadí, queen of the elves, who, they learn, is Arya’s mother They also meet with the Cripple Who Is Whole: an ancient elf naon, Glaedr, have kept their existence hidden from Galbatorix for the past hundred years while they searched for a way to overthrow the king

Both Oromis and Glaedr are afflicted with old wounds that prevent the and Oromis, as captured and broken by the Forsworn, is unable to control large a seizures