Murtagh Morzansson

On semi-hiatus. 18+ ~ "When you teach them—teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it harder to do what you know is right." ~ Inheritance, "A Sea of Nettles", page 737 ~ Other blogs @ dragonheartstring360, andraste-preserve-us, dailydragon08, and were-all-idjits-here. Requests are closed.

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Masterlist

My AO3 *** My Inheritance Cycle community, Murtagh Protection Squad

Series

Dark Legacies Masterlist (reader insert version) Six years after Galbatorix's fall, Eragon's Rider Academy sits on a now fully restored Vroengard - but you and your black female dragon, Gormlaith, didn't arrive there like most other students. While many others arrived with brand new hatchlings and undeveloped magical talents, you and your dragon endured six months of strife as you hid from masked vigilantes who seem to want you dead and Gormlaith as their property for unknown reasons. As they terrorize all of Alagaesia hunting for you, with Gormlaith's ties to an evil that once plagued the land before, you're given a wide berth by elves, staff, and students alike until you meet someone who has also paid dearly for someone else's sins. Will your and Murtagh's forming friendship prove a boon or a an anchor that only drags each other further into the depths in the years to come?

The masterlist for the OC version of this series can be found here!

One Shots & Drabbles

First Meetings -> Imagine meeting Murtagh and Thorn for the first time when you come to Eragon's Rider Academy.  

Safe & Warm -> Murtagh keeps the reader safe and warm on a stormy day.

Badass & Beautiful (request) -> “I would like one where the reader has a more masculine build and thinks  that she can't be thought of as small or feminine and murtagh proves her  wrong”

Dance With Me -> At a ball celebrating the fourth anniversary of Galbatorix's death and  Nasuada's coronation, you and Murtagh have a little trouble function  seeing each other all dolled up while also dealing with those who still  haven't forgiven Murtagh for his past deeds.  

Sick Day -> Imagine Murtagh taking care of you when you’re sick

Beach Day -> Imagine taking Murtagh and Thorn to the beach for the first time.

Let Me Take Care of You (AO3 link) -> Murtagh takes care of you as you recover from being attacked with a poisoned blade during battle.

Imagine Murtagh offering to heal any and all minor injuries because he likes and is protective over you

Headcanons

Traveling with Murtagh Headcanons

More Traveling with Murtagh Headcanons (staying at an inn together edition)

Murtagh Taking Care of You When Sick

Murtagh Realizing You're Not Doing Well Mentally & Taking Care of You

Modern!Murtagh Headcanons Part 1

One Shots & Drabbles

Echoes of Shadow (request/AO3 link) --> A short drabble taking place after the fourth book (so beware of spoilers), elaborating on Murtagh and Thorn's lives exploring the wilderness and the bond between them now that the king is dead.

Headcanons

Random Murtagh Headcanons

[murtagh-thorn]

Semi-hiatus check in (tw: mention of chronic illness, cancer, burnout) -

hi, everyone. I’m still here and still regularly checking my notifications a few times a week. Still on a bit of a sabbatical due to some health issues. The last few years have been a lot health wise with a bit of a cancer journey (been in remission for almost 3 years now) + dysautonomia diagnoses that caused some pretty massive burnout and I just really needed a break from everything. I’m hoping to get back into writing soon, but can’t promise a date I’ll be back and will probably have to kind of dip my toe into things again vs going full force immediately with consistent posting once I get back. But just wanted to say my DMs are always open to chat and thank you so much for still giving me likes and follows and reblogs while I’ve been away. I appreciate every single one of you and hope to be back soon 💛

- Mags

[dellanir]

Aesthetic: Murtagh & Thorn on their travels

edit request for @ithr1ng

[murtagh-thorn]

Peeking out of semi-hiatus to say that, according to Christopher Paolini’s latest TikTok, Disney+’s Eragon show is officially in development (which he says is the stage before pre-production + actual production)!

TikTok - Make Your Day

[katamine01]

An oldie, but still a good one

[itsadragonaesthetic]

A demon possessed me and told me to paint Saphira. So here we are. Got the sketch down and did the first dark colors today hopefully I can keep this momentum and not neglect my homework at the same time uwu.

Also I'm doing this in gouache and not watercolor cuz its all I have and I'm broke uwu.

And yes I draw birds as my warm up. What about it

[dia-viller]

I hope someone who knew Selena finally tells Murtagh how much he takes after her. He worries so much about being Morzan’s son that he forgets he is Selena’s son, too

Eragon knows about Selena from Jeod and Oromis but Murtagh remembers her only from his own memories

[ithr1ng]

briefly returning from my hibernation to give you a sketch before running away again

[winterchildd]

Murtagh and Thorn🐉

This took me almost three months to finish, I am proud of how it turned out but I also think I could have given Thorn's scales a bit more justice. Color it's not really my thing, I'm always so afraid of messing up, but it just my second try at drawing dragons so I have plenty of time to improve ahaha

I love Murtagh and Thorn, their bond is so sweet, they are so patient with each other, they really look like brothers🥺 reading Murtagh (I've not finished yet so no spoilers in the comment eheh) made me hate Galbatorix on another level, how could he do all that horrible things to them! It's atrocious, poor little Thorn. I really hope they will be happy at the end, but I quite have a bad feeling, don't ask me why, maybe is just 'cause I love them so much ahaha

[murtagh-thorn]

Putting this blog on semi-hiatus for a bit while I deal with some burnout and getting some unhealthy habits (my sleep schedule is fried lol) in order. I hope to be back soon and will still be regularly checking my DMs and comments, I just won’t be posting as much for a little bit, but do have plans to come back fully and post more content hopefully soon! Thank you all for the follows and your patience 💛

[murtagh-thorn]

Murtagh making fun of Eragon for being helpless/hopeless around his love interest, but then he’s tightening all the lids on the jars and/or putting them above where they can reach just so they have to ask him for help, and Eragon’s like “WAT”

[murtagh-thorn]

I can’t see either Eragon or Murtagh being big fans of haunted houses (especially Murtagh), but do we think either or both of them are hopeless enough to go through one with a love interest to see if they’ll hold their hand/they’ll get to play protector a little bit?

[ithr1ng]

Oth Orum

[murtagh-thorn]

Stupid question (I haven’t read the books in a while): would Murtagh have been next in the line of succession if Galbatorix had never been defeated, but died, and Murtagh hadn’t made a run for it? I know he said in Eragon that his 18th bday was this big dinner with Galbatorix to try and recruit him, but would that have involved making Murtagh is heir? From what I remember, that conversation seemed more like he was just trying to get Murtagh to fill Morzan’s shoes and there wasn’t really any mention of heirs/succession. Maybe this was obviously stated somewhere but I can’t remember. Galbatorix didn’t seem to have any family to speak of (definitely no kids) and I know he’s immortal, but I can’t imagine him not having some sort of contingency plan just in case.

I know in the Murtagh book, he mentioned that was treated as a “favored son” in public (while of course he and Thorn were abused in private), but I’m just curious if it was made official anywhere. I guess that also depends on what kind of lord Morzan was, but we don’t know that either.

Also just keep thinking in general about how Murtagh (and Thorn by extension) really did suffer from the ultimate smear campaign from the most powerful man in the land at the time and it’s devastating how much it worked (looking at you, Eragon). Like it’s so narcissistic abuse coded and as someone who grew up with a parent like that, it’s devastating to read.

[murtagh-thorn]

Masterlist

My AO3 *** My Inheritance Cycle community, Murtagh Protection Squad

Series

Dark Legacies Masterlist (reader insert version) Six years after Galbatorix’s fall, Eragon’s Rider Academy sits on a now fully restored Vroengard - but you and your black female dragon, Gormlaith, didn’t arrive there like most other students. While many others arrived with brand new hatchlings and undeveloped magical talents, you and your dragon endured six months of strife as you hid from masked vigilantes who seem to want you dead and Gormlaith as their property for unknown reasons. As they terrorize all of Alagaesia hunting for you, with Gormlaith’s ties to an evil that once plagued the land before, you’re given a wide berth by elves, staff, and students alike until you meet someone who has also paid dearly for someone else’s sins. Will your and Murtagh’s forming friendship prove a boon or a an anchor that only drags each other further into the depths in the years to come?

The masterlist for the OC version of this series can be found here!

One Shots & Drabbles

First Meetings -> Imagine meeting Murtagh and Thorn for the first time when you come to Eragon’s Rider Academy.  

Safe & Warm -> Murtagh keeps the reader safe and warm on a stormy day.

Badass & Beautiful (request) -> “I would like one where the reader has a more masculine build and thinks  that she can’t be thought of as small or feminine and murtagh proves her  wrong”

Dance With Me -> At a ball celebrating the fourth anniversary of Galbatorix’s death and  Nasuada’s coronation, you and Murtagh have a little trouble function  seeing each other all dolled up while also dealing with those who still  haven’t forgiven Murtagh for his past deeds.  

Sick Day -> Imagine Murtagh taking care of you when you’re sick

Beach Day -> Imagine taking Murtagh and Thorn to the beach for the first time.

Let Me Take Care of You (AO3 link) -> Murtagh takes care of you as you recover from being attacked with a poisoned blade during battle.

Imagine Murtagh offering to heal any and all minor injuries because he likes and is protective over you

Headcanons

Traveling with Murtagh Headcanons

More Traveling with Murtagh Headcanons (staying at an inn together edition)

Murtagh Taking Care of You When Sick

Murtagh Realizing You’re Not Doing Well Mentally & Taking Care of You

Modern!Murtagh Headcanons Part 1

One Shots & Drabbles

Echoes of Shadow (request/AO3 link) –> A short drabble taking place after the fourth book (so beware of spoilers), elaborating on Murtagh and Thorn’s lives exploring the wilderness and the bond between them now that the king is dead.

Headcanons

Random Murtagh Headcanons

[murtagh-thorn]

New and improved master list ✨

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I don't know if it's official Canon but I've always pictured Murtagh as having really dark brown almost black eyes.

I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to get to all my asks - but according to my copy of the books, in Eragon he's described as having dark brown hair, but I think in Eldest he's described as having black hair. I could've sworn I remembered some interview where Christopher Paoini said that was a bit of a typo/oversight on his part, but he never confirmed which exactly is Murtagh's official hair color (I guess because they're so similar). As far as his eyes, all we get in both Eragon and that Murtagh 2 sneak peek was "dark eyes." If anyone knows of a place where it specifically said either brown or grey eyes, please reblog and let us know (although I think the "grey eyes" thing just came from confusion over the movie actor).

[murtagh-thorn]

Hey! I‘ve been enjoying you’re content for quite a while and I thought you might be the person to know this: I’m thinking about doing a Bachel cosplay, yet I’m kind of struggling to remember all the details. I remember the bird skull necklace, the red lips, the dagger and the knotted dress (maybe somewhat crocheted?) can you or your followers think of more I could include? Thank you so much 🫶

ooohhh very nice (and i'm so sorry it took me so long to get to this, you might've even done the cosplay already >.<)! i think she had some sort of claw thing she wore as well like the one i've pictured below.

Unless I'm just tripping lolol someone please tell me if I am, but I could've sworn I remember her wearing something like this and Murtagh lowkey hating it. But feel free to reblog with additions y'all <3