#glaedr

[katamine01]

Thud. Bright as a flaming sun, the dragon hung before Eragon and everyone clustered along the Crags of Tel’naeir, buffeting them with gusts from its mighty wings… It was far larger than Saphira, large enough to be several hundred years old, and proportionally thicker in its neck, limbs, and tail. Upon its back sat the Rider, robes startling white against the brilliance of the scales.

Closeups under the cut! Eragon fanart in 2026 I guess

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

World of Eragon - Glaedr by Divebound Studio

[akasika]

Oromis and Glaedr are my faves from Eragon fandom BUT it's so hard to design them! My hands can feel only Warcraft elves. Does somebody has any ideas....

[toomanydaggers]

I honestly love the fact that True Names in IC can be incredibly long. Glaedr’s is several sentences. That must be so useful, because even if someone had his true name, they’d be sitting there trying to supercalifragilisticexpialidocious their way into victory.

[the-wanderer]

Stunning art by Jeff Brown Graphics for the Broken Bindings editions of The Inheritance Cycle (Christopher Paolini; World of Eragon)

Links — Jeff Brown Graphics

[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.

[thearunadragon]

I love how most of the fandom has collectively agreed that they love Oromis but he should NOT have been teaching children.

Great character. Horrible teacher.

Like, I adore my miserable elf man and his golden dragon! But stop poisoning teenagers holy morzan

[twinterrors29]

I do love the Star Wars narrative parallels you can draw in The Inheritance Cycle, because it seems to be more or less following the Luke-I-Am-Your-Father route after the end of Eldest when Murtagh reveals that he's Eragon's brother, making them both sons of the evil Emperor's Attack Dog (now replaced by the unwilling Murtagh)

but then you have the scene in Brisingr paralleling the start of Return of the Jedi where Luke goes to confront Yoda about his parentage and why he and Obi-Wan didn't tell him the truth

and instead of confirming it, what happens is the equivalent of Yoda telling Luke that no, actually, Leia's only his half-sister, because Padme was cheating on Anakin with Obi-Wan

which took me OUT when I first read it when book three came out