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I was thinking about this post a lot.

No child ever sounds exactly like their parents. Word choice, tone and accent has a lot of work in that, but honestly? I think it's mostly because parents and children have a significant age difference between them, and voice changes over time. I mean, sometimes you can guess the person's age based on their voice.

But Morzan is a Rider. He doesn't change, or if he does, he does it very-very slowly. I have this headcanon that Brom was an old man because of the death of Saphira (since Jeod said that he looked exactly the same). The king probably had the same problem, Jarnunvösk's death made him older. But Morzan? Okay, give him some Banishing of the Names-related aging, but otherwise he's fine. Young and beautiful, as we've heard.

Here comes the personal part, where I tell you that I have a little brother (so little he could legally drink in the US). He and my father talks very differently, but damn me if I can tell from a single sentence which of them are talking. Their "reading voice" is very damn similar even today. The most significant difference is, that my brother can actually sing, had classes for it and he's better at keeping his voice even, so he sounds more "professional". Listening to them reading is like, a person sees the text for the first time, same person is now familiar with the text.

Back to our situation. Ajihad was Enduriel's steward, he'd probably met Morzan when he was working there (just like with Galbatorix). I would think, working in a place like that gave him PTSD for life. Maybe he's the kind of guy who remembers his trauma very vividly.

“You wouldn’t trust me anyway,” said Murtagh defiantly.

Defiantly. You can press some good anger and resentment into that. It has a kind of similar ring to the annoyed tone. We don't know shit about the circumstances of the meeting of Ajihad and Morzan, but if Morzan truly had alcohol and anger issues, then I'd say that Murtagh's tone up there came very-very close to Ajihad's memories. He seemed pretty upset afterwards – he knew about Murtagh's scar, he probably knew about his abilities too, then why was he so upset? Did that voice trigger something in him?

Okay, now I yeeted myself to fanfic island, but I think you understand my point.

(Also, it would be a kinda wicked trick from the king if he'd tried to pull some strings here and there to make Murtagh develop his father's way of talking.)

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Eragon is running after Arya because he's terrified of immortal life. Maybe that comes from his farmer mindset, that everything changes, except for him, and once his love dies, he'll be stuck in winter forever.

Murtagh on the other hand seems more concerned about the society and the opinion of literally everyone when it comes to courting Nasuada. Dude is either fine with immortality, or the fact that he grew up in the court of the Deathless King and still watched him die, might gave him the impression that he just signed up for elongated run in a young body. And damn, he does shit to make sure he won't see his 100th birthday

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very bad au idea: Galbatorix is not sending the ra'zacs to Carvahall to fetch Eragon, but Murtagh. You know, he has to prove himself, so he's very eagerly doing what he's been told, and since that thing in the arena and Cantos did not happen, he has just the "Galbatorix can talk very nicely" picture. Add maybe one Tornac and a squad of soldiers, since he *is* a nobleman, and also an important one, he can't just go off like that.

What I can see in my mind is a panicked Eragon running down the road, but instead of the farm burning, he finds a bunch of guys sitting around, maybe playing with dice, while Garrow and Murtagh are inside, both doing the "I am trying to be very polite here, can't you see that" talk. Bonus points for Murtagh kinda looking like the man who got Garrow's sister off her feet years ago lol

Their dynamics would have been so much different ohmy

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I just had a thought instead of working on my thesis lol

In Brisingr, Eragon pulled gold out of the ground to make three balls and then went around and handed out two, and made two rings out of the third.

Since Eragon did that with magic, we can assume that it was 99,9% pure gold, which is soft af. Also, Eragon doesn't know too much about any kind of metalworking (as seen in the chapter when Rhunön made his sword), let alone being a goldsmith, so he probably spent a good chunk of his evening with trying to turn that very soft gold into something useful.

We know that loopholes in spells are a Thing, so just. Imagine Roran's face when he does something and his ring suddenly flattens on one side? And he can't even re-shape it, because the spells on the ring make it impossible?

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some Inheritance cycle memes for the simple enjoyers (me)

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I guess ra'zacs like the hunting and such, but if I remember well, Quimby was already dead when they ate him. Which means that they are fine with eating whatever remains.

This Earth of ours have countless cultures, and some of them has/had the element where the dead was buried into the sky: corpse goes out, birds/other animals come, clean the bones and the bones then were dealt with in a way said culture was okay with it. There were various reasons why do this phenomenon exist; ie. living in a stone desert where wood is a luxury item and digging up the stone is ugh; or various religious reasons.

So picture this: someone gets to go to Alalea, and they find a flourishing human nation, without burial sites, living in symbiosis with lethrblakas and their human-eating babies.

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Lalala, I was flipping through Brisingr and

"It was different with Murtagh. Eragon knew Galbatorix had ordered Murtagh to capture, not kill, him and Saphira. No matter what I do, Eragon thought, he will not attempt to slay me . It was safe, then, Eragon decided, to heal Saphira. And, he belatedly realized, he could attack Murtagh with any spells he desired and Murtagh would not be able to respond with deadly force. But he wondered why Murtagh had used an enchanted object to cure Thorn’s hurts instead of casting the spell himself."

I am going to bite something

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The ra'zac said that Galbatorix was close to find it. If it was just written on a sheet of paper or carved into a piece of stone for everyone to read it, then he wouldn't have said that. It sure had some spells to guard it.

Who knows what kind of script was used? Maybe the Name could be written using a very simple glyph, like a circle or a spiral, and once he knew it was that, he might have spent a bit of time trying to solve it. (And if it is a simple glyph, I can see him being frustrated in the meantime bc he saw the Name everywhere, he knew it was that but he coudln't spell it >.<)

Why would anyone write the Name of the Names, really? Like. Shit like this should be remembered only by voice, and by few.

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An Inheritance Cycle story I'll probably never write, but this sucker doesn't want to leave me alone. Long story short under the cut.

Selena was said to be a super spy/assassin type of character, except that people knew about her. I mean, Jeod did, and Brom was a very secretive guy, I am pretty sure that Jeod didn't hear about her from him. And then Galbatorix named his secret service after her, because there was fear connected to the name 'Black Hand'. Thanks, Selena.

Okay, so the AU goes like this: Selena is a super spy/assassin. Nobody knows, who is she, what is she doing, who is she working for. Some people suspect the king, but then she shows up and asks someone else for a favour in a name of a lesser lord or something. She is changing like the weather, nobody knows what does she look like exactly. Want to hire her for a job? Good luck. You were able to get into contact with her? Consider the job as done and yourself as absolutely poor, because even her smallest service costs a fortune.

And then Brom meets her. They don't tell shit to each other, for sure, but the spark is there. So, things are going on their way, Eragon is born, but in this AU, there is no egg-race, Selena just hands the kid over to Brom and says that he'll be more safe with him. Their meetings are scarce, but Eragon gets to know his mama.

Until he's around six or seven years old. Because then something happens in Uru'baen, there is a big boom and a shitton of dead people in the castle. The king and Morzan are furious. A blue egg vanishes.

Mere days later – too soon, so Selena was already on her way when that shit went down – Selena comes to meet Brom and Eragon for the last time, with her eyes blindfolded, because then she'll be able to say that she didn't see them. She tells Brom that she has a husband in Uru'baen. Her and Brom's thing started on the ground that she was missing the night-time company, but she started to have feelings for him. But now, she has to go back to her lord, whom she had sworn to. She has to, because otherwise her other son will be hurt. She doesn't say names. Brom knows, that it's too dangerous.

It also dawns on him that most of the information he's got from her was via her husband. That guy must be a big shot in the Empire. They promise each other that if the Empire goes down by a miracle or something, they'll meet in the end, and if they still love each other, they'll find out what the hell to do.

Then time flies and war-wise most of the canon happens. There aren't much from Selena, but she still succeeds telling this and that to the Varden via secret letters and always changing ways. She was able to hand over some top-secret, very valuable information to the Varden. The communication is one-sided, though, they cannot reach her.

A bunch of victorious Varden are cheering in the occupied capital, when the news come that after the king's death, Morzan put down the sword without anything. He even kneeled on the ground and let himself be tied up, while Brom was trying to avoid having an aneurism. I mean, Brom wanted to kill the guy since forever. Their epic dramatic duel, however, was nowhere near to the end, when the king died. And it wouldn't be honourable to kill a surrendered soldier, especially if his son returned back from the palace right in the moment when he wanted to behead him. Nahh, he has to be the bigger guy.

If Brom is not able to kill Morzan in the battle, then he'd do that through a trial. Everybody is very happy to attend and throw in their two cents, Eragon understands all the hatred, but he still feels very uncomfortable because of all that combined hatred. And Morzan doesn't say anything, he takes it without a word, maybe corrects people here and there when they mess up listing his sins.

And boom, there is Selena. She comes, bows, smiles to Brom then says to Nasuada, that she was promised amnesty for her and her family for her services, and his son is in big trouble because of the occupation, so if they would be so kind to provide her the needed document, she is off already, she and her family won't mess with their schedule for the rest of the day.

Eragon is obviously overjoyed, that A) mama is alive; B) he gets to meet his big brother. So he obviously prods everybody to hurry up with that amnesty.

Document in her hand, the ink still wet, she turns on her heels and in front of everyone, she asks Morzan, that what does he know, where is their son. And Morzan answers. Then with a word, loosens the ties on him, stands up, and when people draw swords, he adds in a mocking tone, that pardon, I was granted amnesty just now via my wife, and as you've heard, my son is in grave danger, if you'd excuse us. Eragon, dear boyfriend-in-law, want to come?

It takes three seconds for Brom to realise, that Morzan meant him, and then he has to try very hard the second time that day to avoid an aneurism.

Anyway, they go, get Murtagh out of that dire situation, because it turns out that little children are actually pretty cute and able to melt a war criminal's ice-cold heart, so Morzan was a good dad this time, and he and Selena were blackmailed with him. That trouble thingy back then, that separated Selena from the other side of the family was when the king found out that his general's heart changed, and that Selena was also a double-spy, so boom, he took Murtagh away, and suddenly the parents were absolutely A-class thralls again. Idk if Murtagh was even out in the battlefield this time, or every stuff he did was handed over to Morzan, while he was in house arrest somewhere. (Does he even know how to fight or is he Orrin No. 2 with all the science?)

Anyway, Murtagh and Eragon bond over dragons in zero second and decide it's the best for them if they just leave their parents to be. Brom needs a bit of time and a bit more cajoling from Selena to loosen up, but in the end they are a traumatised and super messed up polycule. Morzan regrets that in the moment he says something and Brom answers with a mortifying secret from their childhood. They might end up in a fist fight. Selena doesn't say anything to them (too busy getting slate tablets), because in the end they kiss (and she has to make fairths).

That was the AU in a nutshell. I hope this one will leave me alone now. :') Thanks for coming to my story night, take care!

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Random person: I've always meant to ask, how did you come up with the idea to make Galbatorix feel all the suffering he'd ever caused?

Eragon: *starts sweating*

Elva: Yeah, I wonder too

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How heavy is a dragon?

Serious question, I am counting what kind of roofs could bear dragons.

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Okay so this post made me realise that either Carvahall or Roran's family is done for good. Like, in the beginning of the story, the village starts as maybe a bunch of free farmers living their best life away from a feudal lord. But by the end? They have Roran there in the edge of their village as a local noble. As a noble, he ought to not do certain stuff, like working on the field, or the other nobles would look down on his family. Meaning, Ismira wouldn't get a nice noble boy asking for her hand, and if she marries a farmer or a mercenary, her children wouldn't inherit her rank.

As for any future children: the same goes for all girls, and the boys' kids might still be nobles, but there is a slooow ramp downwards.

Unless one of them decides to go full lord and would do lordy things like offering help to struggling farmers in exchange for pieces of their freedom, until they are fully dependent from their lord – becoming the people you'd call peasants.

Which means: Roran's family either loses all wealth and name in max. two generations, or Carvahall slowly turns from a free village to a lord's possession.

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Murtagh said he doesn't know very much about the grammar of the ancient language. On the Burning Plains, however, he was able to translate his little speech about their parentage to Eragon, and he, who was fluent (or close to it) didn't notice any problems with that.

My question is. Did Galbatorix help him to come up with that translation beforehand.

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Last Six Sentences

Share the last six sentences you’ve written. Like this!

Thank you @sinvulkt for the tag! The past few days I was mostly editing, so I have no idea if these are really my last six sentences. Also, I like being ~mysterious~ so no translation for you here, haha. If you want to use any kind of translator: all personal pronouns should be he/him. (Hungarian has no grammatical gender, translators can't really deal with that.)

Last six sentences from an Inheritance Cycle story

– Újra és újra rácsodálkozom, milyen sok közös vonásod van apáddal.

Felfordult a gyomra. Utálta, hogy minden alkalommal meglepte, utálta, hogy csak azt nem tudta, mikor tudja oldalba bökni őt ezekkel a derült égből érkező hasonlítgatásokkal.

Utálta, ha megsimogatta, még jobban, hogy ez jólesett neki, hogy oda kellett telepednie a lábához. Azt akarta, hogy mindenki eltakarodjon végre, és úgy kezelje őt, ahogy szokta. A szidása legalább őszinte volt.

Tagging without any pressure: @kiir-bee, @weirdponytail, @andreacsenge, @oldfritz, @umunschaas, @3stike (except you, you must feel the pressure), @lordmorzan

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Let us all gather around the fire, let's find a bit of warmth in AUs.