#post murtagh book

[everythingloveandanimated]

So Murtagh doesn’t seem to know that Eragon is permanently off the continent of Alageasia. He can never come back. I have a feeling that when he does find out about this, he’s going to be a bit miffed, but then when (for the sake of the scene) it’s revealed that Eragon swore fealty to Nasuada and became a adopted family member of Durgrimst Ingeitum and promise justice/vengeance for the murder of Hrothgar, he’s going to go from miffed to angry.

Angry that Eragon is skirting the line of being an Oathbreaker, is never held accountable for it and gets a pass because of his heroics, while Murtagh is an actual oathbreaker who is hated and had to suffer under the oaths he made under duress.

Angry that Eragon left the Empire in a delicate state of transition not thinking of the full ramifications of his absence.

Angry that loosing a powerful and trusted magic wielder is what may have pushed Nasuada to force magic users join Du Vrangr Gata and swear fealty to her, or have them drugged to the point where they can’t use magic.

Then, he remembers his time as Bachel’s prisoner. The drugging, the torture, barely remembering how much he regretted not reaching out to Eragon for assistance… How he wished he had swallowed his pride and desperately wanted Eragon and Saphira to save him and Thorn.

The hot bludgeon of his anger turns into a lance of betrayal which burns hot before smoldering and cooling into betrayal-sadness which leaves him feeling hollow.

Numbly, he realizes that even if he had asked Eragon to help him investigate Nal Gorgoth, he wouldn’t have come. For the second time in his life when he wanted to be rescued from forced servitude, Eragon couldn’t, wouldn’t come to his aid. (He turns away from the argument with Eragon, mounts Thorn and flies away to cool down)

Worse still, with Galbatorix, Murtagh wanted rescue, but knew Eragon wouldn’t be able to win in a fight against Galbatorix to save him. The King was too powerful, Eragon had a limited though impressive arsenal of magic when Murtagh was kidnapped back to Urû’baen.

At Nal Gorgoth with Bachel, Eragon was far more powerful and Murtagh had confidence that if Eragon did come a rescue would have been successful.

He knew Eragon going to Urû’baen would be futile; he believed Eragon would triumph in Nal Gorgoth.

But it didn’t matter.

He laments on Thorn that his friend turned half brother turned enemy turned ally would never be there for him the way he needed him to be.

The echoing chasm of loneliness and betrayal had never felt so bitter nor made him feel so hollow. He (and Thorn) was well and truly alone.

#murtagh morzansson #thorn inheritance cycle #eragon bromsson #murtagh book #post murtagh book #(at this point he is still working with Nasuada but has he doubts and reservations about a relationship for them

[saphira-approves]

Something something professional artist jargon something something insert art knowledge here—whatever I want to talk about the book covers

So you’ve got Eragon, with a 3/4 portrait of Saphira; she’s giving a benevolent side eye with almost a Mona Lisa smile, she’s got that gleam in her eye, she’s looking at you but not head on—listen, this was the whole reason I picked up the book in the first place when I was eleven, she was so clearly full of life and personality and I just really wanted to meet her. It’s a really good glimpse of her character before even opening the book. She’s engaging you, but also maybe judging you a little bit, and she has a lot of thoughts but she’s going to keep them to herself for right now, thank you.

We’re skipping Eldest for right now because I have a point to make. Shush.

For Brisingr, we get a perfect side portrait of Glaedr, the grumpy old man. He’s not even side-eyeing the viewer like Saphira does; he is eyes forward, goal-oriented, noble and regal and, unless you’re worth his time, not really going to bother with you because he has Important Business to attend to. He is The Last of the pre-Fall dragons, his Rider is The Last of the pre-Fall Riders, he represents a bygone era that will never fully be resurrected, but can still inspire the present to fight for the future; he is no longer fully his own dragon, but a Relic, a Memory, a Symbol. He’s not anxious about it the way Eragon or Saphira might be; he has grieved for a century, he couldn’t be anxious about it if he tried. But he knows that keeping his integrity intact is important, and so this is how he presents himself: Noble. Regal. The Survivor. The Last.

Fírnen graces the cover of Inheritance, bookending the original series by almost perfectly mirroring Saphira—and seriously, it is so satisfying to line the books up with these two at the ends. Though he’s got a 3/4 profile like Saphira, Fírnen is much more reserved. No Mona Lisa smile, no mischievous gleam in his eye; he simply looks at you, and you look back, and you wonder what he’s thinking. He is, in fact, a lot like Arya—anyone who’s read the previous three books up to that point and hasn’t been spoiled for the ending might be able to guess, just from this portrait, who the final egg would hatch for. It’s also a perfect expression for the Final Book, with the fate of Alagaësia and the dragons hanging in the balance: what world does this mysterious dragon emerge into? A war-torn apocalypse? A hard-won victory? What does his future entail, and thus, what do the futures of our favorite characters entail? You ask him so many questions, but all he will ever do is stare deep into your soul with his somber, too-knowing gaze.

And now for the main event:

My beautiful precious son, the red-scaled Thorn, staring you down from the covers of both Eldest and Murtagh. I have loved the cover of the second book ever since I first picked it up, and my appreciation has only grown with time; needless to say I was very excited when the Murtagh cover dropped, and I got to see both of my favorite characters in one place. For both of these, Thorn takes the same stance: a full-frontal combative position, looking You, The Viewer directly in the eye, daring you to judge him, daring you to get in his way. I’ve always had my own opinions about what lay behind this show of force, and the context we get in Murtagh does not disappoint. He may be terrifying, he may be the scourge of the war, but underneath all that, Thorn is terrified. He’s traumatized, he’s claustrophobic, his body is too big for his age; he is painfully young still, and yet treated like a dragon ten times his age because that’s how he looks. He’s also sweet, and playful, and cares so much about his Rider, and wants desperately to keep Murtagh safe and happy. Just like Murtagh, he hides all of that—the fear and the softness both—behind a visage of ferocity, playing into the fears and preconceived notions people have of him, warning enemies away so they can’t get too close to what will actually hurt him. He dares you to try. He’s terrified you will try. He will fight tooth and nail if you do try.

#why does tumblr keep tagging this post as mature when i hadn’t even posted it yet??? #IM not labeling it mature what is going on #is saphira too sultry or something #murtagh spoilers #anyway yeah i just wanted an excuse to talk about thorn’s character in the book covers #i love him okay #i may disagree with john jude palencar about what a dragon looks like #but i CANNOT deny he is extremely good at giving dragons personality #at some point i may to shruikan and vermund also i just mostly wanted to yell about thorn #there's definitely parallels to be drawn between shruikan and thorn but also vermund and glaedr #...sigh. yeah i guess i'll be doing them at some point in the future #inheritance cycle #christopher paolini #murtagh (inheritance cycle) #thorn (inheritance cycle) #saphira bjartskular #glaedr (inheritance cycle) #fírnen (inheritance cycle)

[nailsinmywall]

eragon (inheritance cycle) ⚔️

#annual eragon art post #eragon #murtagh #arya drottningu #inheritance cycle #orik #oromis #nasuada #orrin ??? does he have a tag #king orrin? #orrin of surda? #ORRIN #solembum #i believe in gigantic elves #eragon shadeslayer #murtagh morzansson #if orik is supposed to look different i am sorry i dont have my eragon books with me rn and dont remember how exactly he's described😭

[i-dont-actualy-like-oatmeal]

WHEN THAT ONE ALBUM FITS FITS PERFECTLY WITH THAT ONE BOOK SERIES

#it's #the inheritance cycle #and #listen to the river #by #the collection #specifically Birds #that one song fits #Eragon #Roran #murtagh #so well #especially the very ending #i'm so crazy #text post #books #bookblr #roran stronghammer #eragon shadeslayer #writing

[tiredneutron]

lol first thing I see when I open Murtagh is a typo

So keen to finally read this tho

Edit: so I’ve been corrected, ‘divers’ isn’t a typo and was the intended word Christopher wrote. I’m just not familiar with it, so I’ll be googling words before I post about future ‘typos’ XD

#Murtagh #inheritance cycle #the inheritance cycle #I will be using the tag #murtagh spoilers #for any posts about the book

[thequeerlibrarian]

A cozy evening with reading & tea 😍

#booklr #bookblr #books #my post #murtagh #eragon #christopher paolini #fantasy books #book recs

[eliza-makepeace]

murtagh book thoughts

okay, it's been a while since i finished the murtagh book, and i've managed to figure out in coherent thoughts what it made me feel. it's coherent thoughts but it's not a coherent exposition, so you're warned.

in terms of the story, how its divided and all of that -- i liked the first half of the book very much. very enjoyable, murtagh's dealing with his past and his issues, trying to find where the stone comes from, we see his and thorn's bond... fun stuff. some parts are heartwrenching, but in general, it's interesting and enjoyable. still, it feels a bit like a videogame, where you have to get to point a, to point b, to point c in order to get your objective. and as much as i appreciate the new depths of worldbuilding paolini takes us into in "murtagh", i still feel like it's not "proper" worldbuilding.

by that i mean it feels like one of those old western movies where you know the characters can't walk too far away because what you think is a long field is actually a painted wall. the concepts are there: lyreth, the girl who fancied him at court... but you try to look a bit further into them and they're hollow.

the second half of the book, when they meet bachel and chaos ensues... not really my cup of tea. and it's not because i don't like storylines like that, where there's an interesting and fucked-up female character, cults and so forth. that's actually a pretty interesting idea, if only it had been properly executed. personally, my biggest issue with it is that murtagh already had gone through this. he'd already gone through having his agency taken from him, having to do horrible deeds because he can't help it, feeling hopeless and used... and i'm not complaining about this decision because murtagh is my poor little meow meow (although he is). i'm complaining because i feel like it reduces his experiences with galbatorix to nothing. back in inheritance, him being galby's name slave was the worst thing that could and had happened to him. now? bachel's worse. but it's the same principle. and i still think galby had more reason to be worse mentally and in terms of identity, for murtagh, than bachel was.

it also erases all of the healing and character development he'd gone through in the first half of the book. you could argue "oh, now that he's experienced freedom he can deal with bachel better than he could with galby" but i don't really agree and i don't really care. what's the point in destroying him in the ic, putting him relatively back together in the first half, and then obliterating him again (and worse, apparently) in the latter half. and then he's sad, and tired and devastated, but less so than in inheritance (which doesn't make sense if bachel was worse for him than galby), when he sees nasuada again.

the irony that murtagh's bond with alín feels more organic and natural than his with nasuada.... not in terms of characters being alike, just in the way it's written. paolini could've bothered with showing scenes of m and n at farthen dur, bonding, "courting" as he put it, so that the rest of their relationship actually has a strong base for the rest of the ic (giving a proper explanation which originally isn't there because the ic is in eragon's pov and not murtagh's), and so that their reunion is far more meaningful because it shows nasuada and him knew each other, actually bonded with each other before murtagh was kidnapped in eldest, to the point of developing romantic feelings for each other. if paolini hadn't put murtagh in random side quests throughout the book, he could've shown this and it would've worked better imo.

personally i think we didn't get enough tornac, or selena. i think murtagh should've pondered more about what it meant that eragon was brom's kid. what it meant about selena, how that changed murtagh's perception of her as a person. i'm a bit tired she gets reduced to just being his and eragon's mom, and it seems like that's the only way paolini wants them to see her too. murtagh seeing his mom like an individual, a person with her lights and shadows, with her depth, might have been an interesting thing and a new way to see himself as her son. every time paolini is about to reach something interesting with his characters, he changes course and i think that's a shame.

#i haven't finished with this yet btw #i'm posting it bc i have nothing else to add rn but i will come back to this #murtagh book #murtagh spoilers #christopher paolini

[ithring]

Headcanon: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Murtagh is a man that has survived. It is not just a statement, he has survived more than most people will ever survive in their lifetime.

It is important to note that he has survived being a slave to someone and having no free will what so ever. Within Inheritance he breaks that cycle that was to Galbatorix, by being selfless and caring for another person. While that was growth it was a not completed cycle when it came to terms of growth. Spoilers under the cut for Murtagh, vague but still there.

In Murtagh, his will is tested yet again by Bachel. Bachel attempted to break him all over again, and attempted to get him to swear fealty to her the same way the king had but much, much worse. He would have been a corpse of himself and there would have been nothing left of who he was. She wanted to use him for her purposes. He did not give in despite the amount of torture that the witch made him suffer through. He was subjected to dreaming dreams that were nightmares and events that happened to him throughout his life that impacted him. They were memories that quite literally broke him open and he didn't talk to anyone about that were brought to surface. His mother calling him a beautiful boy, his father calling him a brat because he made noise playing as child before Murtagh accidently set fire to a wooden horse that ended with Morzan slicing open his back with Zar'roc. Bachel used these dreams and memories in an attempt to break him. It was an attempt to make him suffer, to make him be broken open and to lose faith in everything. The memories go deeper than just his father cutting him open with his blade. They are ones of Thorn suffering when he was a hatchling, and how he was brought up. There are memories of Tornac's death, the day that Murtagh escaped. There are memories of Murtagh's first kill, and how he had to do it to survive. These memories also highlight the amount of misery that Murtagh went through throughout his life. It is important to note that, Murtagh has learned to accept what has been done to him. He has learned to accept these events because they are apart of him. He has learned to accept he could not change his fate, that these things happened for a reason. Even though he hates what happened, Thorn chose him. Thorn has told him, he wouldn't have chosen another person. The dragon chose to hatch for him because they were meant for one another. This being said, Murtagh has survived over and over and over again, and went from a man in misery, to a man that gained his freedom because of his will to do things for himself. He does things now because it is his choice. He does not want anyone else controlling his choices or Thorns, and he will not allow that to happen anymore. This being said Murtagh I believe also shows the signs of complex post traumatic stress disorder. There is evidence from the memories within Murtagh of CPTSD, along with his behaviors with the book. However I will say this, he has learned to begin to cope with it on his own, and considering the day and age of the series, medical treatments we have is not avaliable to fix him like we would. Thorn is a huge reason that he has been able to manage things after everything has taken place. Even if he is a dragon, Thorn is his support system and someone that he can depend on no matter what. I will also say that the blood brother he made with an urgal is also a huge factory of him admitting he needs the help from people. Murtagh admitted he needed help in this one because he was drowning bad in this. He will always have this disorder, no matter how well he manages it. It is apart of him and it is not something that is diagnosed in his time but is a present thing and is apart of him.

#( headcanons. ) #tw murtagh spoliers #do not reblog this post #anyway i have a lot of thoughts here after reading the book and this is one of them #this is a huge thing here and i rambled

[everythingloveandanimated]

And on this episode of what I want to see in a future World of Eragon book…

Eragon or Nasuada killing Yarek.

Whether it’s by chance or because they are looking for him they cross path with Yarek (most likely the former since Murtagh would be happy to never cross paths with the snake-weasel again).

Eragon: do you need or want him alive?

Murtagh: (thinking it would be good to know what Yarek knows, but also knows Yarek is not going to tell him anything) No.

Eragon makes with the lethal stabbing.

Eragon: That’s for your plot that took my brother away from me

*****

Nasuada: do you think we will be able to glean the information out of him?

Murtagh: No. Even if you tried to get into his mind, it’s most likely as strong as my own.

Nasuada: Very well then. (stabs Yarek) For my father, and for Murtagh.

Murtagh is very surprised by Eragon slaying a man out of revenge, especially for his sake.

Murtagh gets touched to be included in Nasuada’s vengeance for her father’s death.

#they’ve got his back your honor #shamelessly continuing to post my desires for future world of eragon books #world of eragon #inheritance cycle #murtagh morzansson #nasuada #eragon shadeslayer #yarek murtagh book #murtagh book

[saphira-approves]

Just got an email that my Murtagh pre-order has shipped. I sense that my ability to be a normal human being has suddenly declined significantly.

#and the illustrated edition of eragon too ig #that’s also happening #i just want to see my boyyyyyyy #give him to meeeeeeee #LET ME HOLD MY BOYYYYYYYYY #saph speaks #tangentially inheritance cycle #murtagh (inheritance cycle) #oh lord are we gonna have to establish a new tag #murtagh the character. murtagh the book. #IF i post about the book i WILL be tagging spoilers #hm i should make a separate post about that. just a sec

[francforever]

Screaming crying

#feel free to ignore this #BUT I LOVE THIS BOOK SERIES #and i need to post about it #I love these chunky fantasy books 🥲 #and I can’t wait to get another chunky book #and Murtagh was my favourite character #time to reread this series #eragon #the inheritance cycle

[inheritance-cycles]

Murtagh book plot prediction

Arya, finally getting a chance to rest and take care of her needs now that Eragon is several continents away and she doesn’t have to constantly worry about the world ending: 😌

Arya, when Eragon’s older bro appears out of nowhere to involve himself in the latest End Of The World Plot and force her to intervene: 😖

#inheritance cycle #eragon #eragon shadeslayer #the inheritance cycle #arya drottningu #inheritance cycle books #arya #christopher paolini #crack post #murtagh #saphira #nasuada #eragon bromsson #fanart #murtagh morzansson #murtagh book

[ashleybenlove]

Super duper worried that Esvar is gonna die at some point. IDK why but I just have a feeling.

I'm in chapter Uniforms, in the 200s.

#ashleybenlove posts #The Inheritance Cycle #Eragon #Murtagh #Murtagh spoilers #I read on kindle so IDK if the actual physical books are different #in terms of pages

[tiredneutron]

I did it! I FINALLY finished Murtagh!

It was awesome. Loved the way Christopher developed his and Thorn’s character, and the story was intriguing and (hopefully!) hints at us getting more content of a similar sort in the future. I’m definitely keen to see more of Murtagh if possible

#I can also now remove my blocks on the Murtagh tag XD #I’ve seen 0 posts about the book because I was filtering all possible tags for it #hopefully I can catch up on some posts about it because I’m keen to see what y’all thought about it #murtagh #christopher paolini

[thequeerlibrarian]

I can't believe we got a new Eragon book!

#booklr #books #murtagh #eragon #fantasy books #christopher paolini #my post

[ivorydragoness44]

This was at the bottom of a Barnes & Noble email. I just thought it was cute.

"Christopher Paolini heard the dragon's roar and answered with a novel -- the epic journey of a fan-favorite character: Murtagh. Set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle, this is a novel that'll stay with you until the end of time. Something wicked is lurking near Alagaësia, so pre-order now to be one of the first to find out what's out there."

#murtagh #murtagh morzansson #murtagh book #christopher paolini #the inheritance cycle #I seriously thought that I posted this lol it was in drafts still #I swear I talk about other things 😂 #Something wicked is lurking near Alagaësia? It's probably me making sure that no one harms Murtagh or Thorn tbh