#ellesmera

[thearunadragon]

I can just see Eragon sad-walking through Ellesméra during his training when his back was really bad and just crouching awkwardly and shoving bits of random plants in his mouth like “maybe this will cure me…” in some sniffly sat wet-with-tears Eragon voice of misery.

[aldarquen]

“𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆, 𝐸𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑖𝑟.

𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠: 𝑎 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑; 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑗𝑎𝑑𝑒; 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚, 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠; 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠, 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑚.”

𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟗: 𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞

Happy Halloween! Recently I’ve been rereading the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and I was inspired by one of my favorite scenes; during the Agaeti Blodhren Ceremony in the Elvish city of Ellesmera, Eragon is dramatically turned into a Half-Elf. Even though it all happened at night and Eragon has much lighter hair, it didn’t stop me from dressing up as one of my favorite characters!

[lords-of-the-empire]

Evandar was kind of a dipshit

He’s fighting 1 single measly Urgal (not even a Kull!) and he’s losing, so when a raven “““randomly”““ (Elves can possess animals) pecks out the Urgal’s eyes (IE it’s blinded so no threat whatsoever to an elf), THEN he “wins” the fight. As a victory-lap he then blesses the bird.

We’ve talked a lot about what major douches Arya and Islanzadi are, but Arya never stood a chance with both parents like this

Ravens and crows are highly intelligent so it might just have been a bird with a grudge against that specific Urgal accidentally helping out a young and untrained prince Evandar out

And yeah according to extra stuff added in interviews, FAQs and such Evandar was Dellanir’s son, and Dellanir was Tarmunora’s daughter... making EVERY single elf rules since the bond to the Dragons 1 family, except for Islanzadi who was the mate of 1 monarch and the mother of another. “““““““““““elves elect their rulers”“““““““ sure bro

[inheritanced]

Du Weldenvarden (translated as "The Guarding Forest") was a massive forest that covered Northern Alagaësia. The elven capital of Ellesméra was hidden deep within the forest, as were the ancient elves that inhabited it.

[something-called-sno]

Went adventuring in the Redwoods today. Totally picked up a Ellesmera and Du Weldenvarden vibe walking among the towering trees and wood tunnels. ❤️

[lords-of-the-empire]

So apparently someone on Reddit correctly guessed what the Menoa Tree took from Eragon, and CP confirmed that they got it right but didn't say who they were or what was taken.

I’m seeing several posts about the Menoa planting the seed for another Menoa tree in Eragon, which is super fucked-up if true, and some comments in the relevant post where they discussed the confirmation that it may have been Eragon’s figurative “roots” to Alagaesia that were taken (which is also fucked but in a different way, if true).

Pest eller kolera, as we say in Swedish. Between these two I’m hoping for the roots, since roots can grow back. It’d be genuinely hideous for the Menoa to freaking stealth-inseminate Eragon just so there can be another massively assholeish tree somewhere else. Like Linnea, learn your fucking lesson already and stop cradlerobbing.

[lords-of-the-empire]

On Elven Ageing

It’s canon that elves were shown to the dragon eggs at age 20, and humans were shown to the eggs at age 10.

Going from this, I have 2 ideas on how elves age compared to humans:

1: 1 elf year = 2 human years (of development. Pretty simple, at age 10 an elf is as developed as a 5 years old human, at 30 (around the point where their magical boost starts to fade and they reach “of age”) they match a 15 years old human (which checks out since people used to be considered adults much earlier, also adds a certain horror to the war if 30 year old elves and 15 year old humans are considered a normal sight on an Alagaesian battlefield). This tapers of after a certain point; 100 year old Arya is not considered the elf equivalent of 50 (which I’m assuming is around the 5-800 year mark, accounting for individual competence, wisdom and experience). Maybe you need to divide it by 3-4 from age 60-99, then by 5 afterwards? It gets weird the older they get, since their mental growth probably isn’t also linear.

2: I’ve read here on tömblur dot com that helicopter-parenting stifles the mental development of a child. Considering how ancient almost all elves are, how late in life they have children, and how rare children are, it’s possible that a 20 year old elf is as physically developed as a human 20 year old would be, accounting for ancient dragon-magic, but far more naive and childlike in their general outlook. Innocent might be a better word, since they grow up in a society that even our most advanced IRL civilisations can’t compete with (in terms of individual wealth and living standard per elf; I imagine the larger scale of things IRL and the existence of multi-billionaires would skew statistics in our favour unless you don’t count them). This would mean that elves are the cranky old coots way they are because they’ve lived to ages no human has in our world, and their peers age with them instead of leaving lonely elders alive as their lifetimes of, say, 70+ years draw to a close.

[lords-of-the-empire]

I saw @saphira-approves  post about how Saphira is the protagonist and Eragon part of the supporting cast, and you know what? It’s absolutely true. As much as the elves, if not more, everything change that Eragon goes through is because of the dragons, and one dragon in particular. I don’t have anywhere to go with this, except that I remember reading the books and wishing Eragon would have thought about this – over decades of war and raids on Imperial territory, in a medieval setting, with an enemy that isn’t shy about conscription (and even without that, with boys being boys and dreaming of glory and adventure) odds are Brom and Arya and Orik have killed dozens, maybe hundreds of boys just like Eragon each. If Saphira had hatched for someone else (and if Eragon wasn’t Brom’s son/if they didn’t know who he was because of an obscured face) odds are Eragon would have either died during the Elven invasion or during the Burning Plains – because why else would you conscript so many soldiers, if not so they’ll bog down the enemy while your actual trained warriors go around the side? Eragon thinks about it like once or twice and is comforted by Saphira saying something about how she did choose him, but that’s such a shallow reassurance IMO. Everything about how other people treat him and try to win his approval for them - the gifts given by royalty, the elite training and access to the Ancient Language, the warm welcome he receives when visiting dwarven and elven lands, is due to Saphira’s choice.