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ELDEST
Book Two of Inheritance




CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
 As always, this book is for my family.
And also to my incredible fans. You made this adventure possible.

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 Synopsis of Eragon,
Book One of Inheritance


EragonтАФa fifteen-year-old farmboyтАФis shocked when a polished blue
stone appears before him in the range of mountains known as the Spine.
Eragon takes the stone to the farm where he lives with his uncle, Gar-
row, and his cousin, Roran. Garrow and his late wife, Marian, have raised
Eragon. Nothing is known of his father; his mother, Selena, was GarrowтАЩs
sister and has not been seen since EragonтАЩs birth.

Later, the stone cracks open and a baby dragon emerges. When Eragon
touches her, a silvery mark appears on his palm, and an irrevocable bond
is forged between their minds, making Eragon one of the legendary
Dragon Riders.

The Dragon Riders were created thousands of years earlier in the af-
termath of the elvesтАЩ great war with the dragons, in order to ensure that
hostilities would never again afflict their two races. The Riders became
peacekeepers, educators, healers, natural philosophers, and the greatest of
spellweaversтАФsince being joined with a dragon makes one a magician.
Under their guidance and protection, the land enjoyed a golden age.

When humans arrived in Alaga├лsia, they too were added to this elite
order. After many years of peace, the monstrous and warlike Urgals killed
the dragon of a young human Rider named Galbatorix. Driven mad by
the loss and by his eldersтАЩ refusal to provide him with another dragon,
Galbatorix set out to topple the Riders.

He stole another dragonтАФwhom he named Shruikan and forced to
serve him through certain black spellsтАФand gathered around himself a
group of thirteen traitors: the Forsworn. With the help of those cruel dis-
ciples, Galbatorix threw down the Riders; killed their leader, Vrael; and
declared himself king over Alaga├лsia. In this, Galbatorix was only partly