#murtagh (inheritance cycle)

[everythingloveandanimated]

Something I love thinking about, Murtagh’s interactions with Ismira when she’s older.

He talks to her like she’s a young lady in the court, like how he did with Essie. He listens intently to her, comments appropriately, gives advice and gentle correction, sometimes gives comfort.

When she’s five or seven years old, he teaches her how to dance. Starting by letting her stand on his feet so she can get used to the feeling of how her legs are supposed to move.

Depending on her height, he levitates her so that she is eye-level with him. She holds his jerkin or shirt in her fist while he keeps a hand at her back to move her along with him.

As she gets older, he teaches her some of the more complicated steps, a spin here while he moves in the opposite direction. He teaches a dance with moments where the lady does something different than the man, but they still stay in harmony.

Sometimes he’ll sing a song from court while they dance. Sometimes he’ll make up his own.

He loves treating his second cousin/niece as he would a lady of the court. To him it’s a game, but it’s also a respect to her station as daughter of the Lord of Palancar Valley.

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Ismira laughs and giggles with delight during these dances. Sometimes she gets nervous when learning a new step. But Murtagh is always patient with her, teaching her how to properly put her feet, teaching her how to count the beats of a rhythm.

The spins and dips are her favorites. She loves the motion. She feels carefree as she twirls and safe when Murtagh catches her in his arm.

Once she has the dances of Carvahall under her belt, she helps her family help Murtagh brush up on the dance steps for upcoming festivals. While she loves dancing with her father, mother, Uncle Eragon, and her friends, there’s a certain grace, poise and dignity when she dances with Uncle Murtagh. She truly feels like a lady of the court.



[annoyingbird22]

dragon riders are the horse girls of fantasy

[dia-viller]

Eragon and Murtagh

"Eragon" - illustrated edition by Sidharth Chaturvedi

[neamhsmess]

The dragons are named like this because:

- Saphira: basically because she's blue

- Thorn: terrible past, ptsd, claustrophobia, he's literally as red as blood, his rider is a magnet for troubles, a name a guarantee

[juice-enjoyer]

normal about this guy. murtagh ily

[kaijuerotica]

this meme has an intended audience of approximately 3 people

[irithyllians]

murtagh and nasuada

[dragodraws1]

Murtagh Fanart!

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

[uluthrek]

inheritance cycle modern au in which all of the dragons are horses which makes eragon the underdog horse girl, saphira the underdog girl horse and brom the disgruntled and disillusioned horse trainer who doesn’t believe in the validity of this sport until he sees the ✨bond✨ eragon has with his horse saphira who is still as blue as she is in canon (don’t ask that‘s just how it works, if you question this, i‘ll track your ip).

and galbatorix is the aggressively eastern european horse girl dad who had some sort of hip injury that brought his eventing career to an abrupt end and now he must vicariously live through his protégé, murtagh, lest he kills himself. and thorn is the very expensive horse galbatorix bought for wish fulfillment purposes and murtagh and thorn are so horribly traumatized by all the stress and pressure of defeating little kids at the pony finals that they ✨bond✨.

oromis and glaedr are their direct opponents and galbatorix nancy kerrigan‘s them (oromis dies like he does canonically because honestly, hunters be like that) so murtagh can get his ribbon. and then there‘s the big final competition and eragon, underdog wonder magic horse girl, goes toe to toe with murtagh, tortured champion to be, and they have this epic horse battle (an 80cm clear round but the atmosphere is very intense) and eragon loses. but then brom delivers this epic speech about idk man like success and passion and whatnot and then he dies which gives eragon the final push to defeat murtagh but OH NO, thorn is HURT from being OVERWORKED and murtagh has an epic horse peril breakdown and tearfully tells galbatorix he‘ll withdraw.

so galbatorix goes „fuck the kid“ and gets shruikan (the very bad very big black warmblood stallion that shows up in every horse girl movie) to best eragon HIMSELF (but not before locking nasuada, the animal rights activist that murtagh has struck up a tentative romance with, in a porta-potty). and then him and eragon compete and it‘s INTENSE (meanwhile, roran and katrina have a sub plot about capturing a flock of runaway ducks that is constantly being cut to during that climactic scene) and shit is looking DISMAL for poor eragon until a vision of brom and also his dead mother, because this is a proper horse girl movie and not some bibi und tina bullshit, and that gives him the strength to defeat galbatorix.

and then he wins and thorn doesn’t die and someone frees nasuada from the porta-potty and she gets to punch galbatorix in the face. and fírnen (who is a horse but also still green) emerges during the post credit scene and meets arya and sets up a cash grabby amazon prime spinoff series and roran and katrina successfully capture the ducks and everyone is happy and there is no more horse peril.

the whole thing takes place in exactly one horse show afternoon. it makes such perfect sense actually you can fit everyone in. nar garzvog‘s at the grill and makes hot dogs. islanzadi does nothing but drink cheap wine and bitch from the sidelines. angela mans the beverage stall and tells everyone who wants to listen (or doesn’t) that toads don’t exist. solembum is the raccoon on her shoulder who violates all fda guidelines by simply existing. orrin is nasuada‘s bitter ex boyfriend who pretended to be vegan for years so she‘d like him only to be dumped for murtagh and his emo swagger in a heartbeat. orik is a shetland pony.

[next-gazelle]

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

[to-forgive-is-divine]

Some wild shit happens in the Inheritance cycle. There's armies of soldier who can't feel pain laughing like madmen. A bunch of dragons' names get erased from REALITY. A dwarf woman cuts one of her fingers off after learning of the death of her son. Roran leaps into a carriage from HORSEBACK. Murtagh fights with an enchanted fork. I could go on and on.

[dia-viller]

Brisingr special edition by The Broken Binding

Art by Jeff Brown and art direction by Eon van Aswegen

[guys-in-distress-database]

"He found himself reliving his ambush and capture in Tronjheim. Being bound hand and foot, the Twins forcing him to ride through countless miles of dark tunnels..." (Murtagh, Ceunon: Chapter V)

I don’t post my art often, but this was a very special piece to me that I’ve been wanting to make for a while.

Murtagh’s kidnapping in Eldest has given me brainrot for the last 10 years. It is my favourite GID scene that has never been described or shown in any major capacity. The mystery of it makes it all the more interesting to me.

So I decided to draw my take on it! Where he’s betrayed by the Twins, who turn him over to the Urgals and tie him up for the long journey back to Galbatorix. I really wanted to capture his terror at the prospect of going back and be as accurate to the books’ descriptions as possible.

Also thanks to @scarletfish8eta for the amazing bruise tutorial. It really helped me up my pain-drawing game!

[the-wanderer]

[mothdoly]

favorite inheritance cycle characters and how i pictured them when i read the books with 12

[satorugojjo]

if you ever feel like your character names aren’t original or cool enough, just remember that Christopher Paolini named his dragon rider protagonist Eragon - which is just dragon spelled with an E