Eragon: a *super* partial spoiler part two

Now that I’ve finished Eragon, I can’t wait to get my hands on Eldest. It cuts off at a crucial point where you definitely know there’s going to be a continuation, and you’re dying to know what happens next, until you realize you need the next book. It makes your throat parched with thirst for more, only to know that the next oasis is still another day away.

Note: for the UMPTEENTH time, SUPER SPOILER UP AHEAD. And a big part of it is the storyline.

Actually I wasn’t too far off from the ending already. So correction: at the time of the first super spoiler post, it was about 80% already. At this point, after entering the Varden, trouble brews up pretty quickly. The Twins are definitely bitches, seeing how they sulk just because Eragon wouldn’t join their little club of magic users. Saphira gets to know the werecat Solembum, and there’s more politics here since you have the elven kind, the dwarven kind as well as humans here in the Varden. But I suppose with complicated beings come complicated ties.

Hehehehe *eevil snickers* I guessed right. Murtagh has the Forsworn’s blood. He’s actually the son of Morzac, the first Forsworn who betrayed the riders to fight for Galbatroix. But through no fault of his though; his mother must have been whack when she saw something in Morzac. And not like Morzac was ever a good father, I mean heck, he even abused his own son just because he was drunk. I really pity Murtagh for having such a hard life. But that is what makes him level headed and with this he and Eragon survived. Unfortunately, the Varden had to imprison him because he refused to have his mind read. I don’t hold it against him though, since he has been through a lot of harsh circumstances where the choices were either killed or be killed. While he was in captivity he was actually quite content with sitting in the jail, although having been treated properly and given plenty of reading material.

Arya strikes me as a very calm, collected elf with proficiency in both the sword and spells. As Eragon and Murtagh saved her from the Shade, Durza, the three of them had some real problems shaking off the Urgals (or the power-upped versions called Kulls) and for some strange reason, Eragon keeps thinking of how beautiful Arya is. No surprise there, she’s supposed to be hot. I mean to the extent where Saphira would get jealous? No wonder Eragon was laughing.

The testing was a good one. The magic test was purposely made impossibly difficult by the Twins, I suppose this was how they were planning to get back at him. And the swordfight (as the swordsmanship test) was conducted by Arya, so I expect a splendid array of moves and maneuvers. When the movie is out, that is.