ArtOfAlagaesia

As the Riders and the Foresworn clashed above Vroengard, a life and death struggle was playing out between two former friends on the outskirts of the city. A man atop a crimson dragon, and a man atop an aquamarine dragon dueled above the battlefield that had once been the peaceful home of the Dragon Riders. Everything seemed to unfold in the blink of an eye. One moment, Brom and Saphira were actually winning. Saphira had Ragnarök's neck her jaws and was on the verge of killing the crimson dragon. The next, it all came tumbling down. Brom felt Saphira tense up and roar in pain, and he felt as if a hot shard of metal was bring driven into

The cool evening air rushed past them as they soared through the rapidly darkening night sky over Alagaesia's central plains. The young man sitting atop the dragon's back snickered as he read a scroll, one of many that they carried in their saddlebags. "Oh, this is rich! Vrael is worried that the fruit being sent to the troops isn't ripe enough! He wants the elves to cast ripening spells to make sure they don't get anymore sour apples!" The amethyst dragoness upon which he rode snorted a cloud of black smoke and sparks, clearly not amused. You know you shouldn't be reading those. "Yeah well, if they're gonna give us such mundane assignment

near future, after GalbaCorp shut down the Dragons, sentient AI taking the avatar of said fantasy creature, on the ostensible idea of danger to humanity.  GalbaCorp rules most of interconnected virtual worlds, collectively known as Alagaesia. Eragon: 'Gold Miner' player who downloads seed file of the Dragon Saphira from Internet and keeps it on his system, initially hoping his poor family can profit from it. Saphira: last free Dragon; originally kept as seed file on Arya's system on behalf of her Elf faction; autonomously develops. Brom: senior computer expert who contacts Eragon in-game and eventually in real life to help him. Arya: young h

Chapter 5 a new home After a month at sea we found land. Emradra had grown big enough to fly and almost too big for the boat. He could not breathe fire yet. He had to fly or swim during the day and was only able to come on the boat when it was anchored for the night; I often went flying with him. When we had set up a base camp on the beach Emradra and I set off to such for a food source and place to build a city. With Shuriken’s advice we had adapted a horse saddle into a rider’s saddle. “Look at that hurd of animals over there” Emradra said by thought speak.  We flew closer and I saw they looked like a cross b

SPOILERS AHEAD: do not read unless you have read all of the Inheritance cycle or do not care about spoilers.   Chapter 7 The Nest This chapter is told from Flin’s point of view. I had been put in charge of setting up and maintaining camp when Palowood and Emradra had left. Some of the elves were unhappy about a dwarf being in charge but they kept to themselves. We had set up camp just off the beach and near a river.    When Palowood and Emradra had left they had not come back today. The next day I sent out a search party lead by an elf called Anurin after the famous dragon rider. Two days later they returned with surpr

SPOILERS AHEAD: do not read unless you have read all of the Inheritance cycle or do not care about spoilers.   I am The Traveler; I wish to tell some of the stories in my life this is the story of Emradra and Palowood. This story starts before I met them from Palowood’s prospective. Chapter 1 Hiking Sometime before the death of Morzan I (Palowood) ran a risky trade business between my people and the Dwarves along the Edda River. That was before I met the two beings that would push my destiny in a different direction. As an elf I was uneasy in the mountains however I had some free time while the dwarves unloaded our cargo and loade