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post Feb 6 2008, 08:36 PM
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does anyone have any info on the 3rd eragon book?
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post May 23 2008, 11:22 PM
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Here's an excerpt from book 3. Courtesy shurtugal.com



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"Light and Shadow"
(An excerpt from Brisingr, Book 3 of the Inheritance Cycle)

Saphira kneaded the soil beneath her feet. Let us be off! Leaving their bags and supplies hanging from the branch of a juniper tree, Eragon and Roran clambered onto Saphira’s back. They wasted no time saddling her; she had worn her tack through the night. The molded leather was warm, almost hot, underneath Eragon. He clutched the neck spike in front of him—to steady himself during sudden changes in direction—while Roran hooked one thick arm around Eragon’s waist and brandished his hammer with the other.
A piece of shale cracked under Saphira’s weight as she settled into a low crouch and then, in a single giddy bound, leaped up to the rim of the gulch, where she balanced for a moment before unfolding her massive wings. The thin membranes thrummed as Saphira raised them toward the sky. Vertical, they looked like two translucent blue sails.

“Not so tight,” grunted Eragon.

“Sorry,” said Roran. He loosened his embrace.

Further speech became impossible as Saphira jumped again.

When she reached the pinnacle of her jump, she brought her wings down with a mighty whoosh, driving the three of them even higher. With each subsequent flap, they climbed closer to the flat, narrow clouds that extended east to west.

As Saphira angled toward Helgrind, Eragon glanced to his left and discovered that, because of their elevation, he could see a broad swath of Leona Lake some miles distant. A thick layer of mist, gray and ghostly in the pre-dawn glow, emanated from the water, as if witchfire burned upon the surface of the liquid. Eragon tried, but even with his hawklike vision, he could not make out the far shore, nor the southern reaches of the Spine beyond, which he regretted. He had not laid eyes upon the mountain range of his childhood since leaving Palancar Valley.

To the north stood Dras-Leona, a huge, rambling mass that appeared as a blocky silhouette against the wall of mist that edged its western flank. The one building Eragon could identify was the cathedral where the Ra’zac had attacked him; its flanged spire
loomed above the rest of the city, like a barbed spearhead. And somewhere in the landscape that rushed past below, Eragon knew, were the remnants of the campsite where the Ra’zac had mortally wounded Brom. He allowed all of his anger and grief over the events of that day—as well as Garrow’s murder and the destruction of their farm—to surge forth and give him the courage, nay, the desire, to face the Ra’zac in combat.

Eragon, said Saphira. Today we need not guard our minds and keep our thoughts secret from one another, do we?

Not unless another magician should appear.

A fan of golden light flared into existence as the top of the sun crested the horizon. In an instant, the full spectrum of colors enlivened the previously drab world: the mist glowed white, the water became a rich blue, the daubed-mud wall that encircled the center of Dras-Leona revealed its dingy yellow sides, the trees cloaked themselves in every shade of green, and the soil blushed red and orange. Helgrind, however, remained as it always was—black.

The mountain of stone rapidly grew larger as they approached. Even from the air, it was intimidating.

Diving toward the base of Helgrind, Saphira tilted so far to her left, Eragon and Roran would have fallen if they had not already strapped their legs to the saddle. Then she whipped around the apron of scree and over the altar where the priests of Helgrind observed their ceremonies. The lip of Eragon’s helm caught the wind from her passage and produced a howl that almost deafened him.

“Well?” shouted Roran. He could not see in front of them. “The slaves are gone!”

A great weight seemed to press Eragon into his seat as Saphira pulled out of her dive and spiraled up around Helgrind, searching for an entrance to the Ra’zac’s hideout.

Not even a hole big enough for a woodrat, she declared. She slowed and hung in place before a ridge that connected the third lowest of the four peaks to the prominence above. The jagged buttress magnified the boom produced by each stroke of her wings until it was as loud as a thunderclap. Eragon’s eyes watered as the air pulsed against his skin.

A web of white veins adorned the backside of the crags and pillars, where hoarfrost had collected in the cracks that furrowed the rock. Nothing else disturbed the gloom of Helgrind’s inky, windswept ramparts. No trees grew there among the slanting stones, nor shrubs, nor grass, nor moss, nor lichen, nor did eagles dare nest upon the tower’s broken ledges. True to its name, Helgrind was a place of death, and stood cloaked in the razor-sharp, sawtoothed folds of its scarps and clefts like a bony specter risen to haunt the earth.

Casting his mind outward, Eragon confirmed the presence of one of the slaves, as well as the two people whom he had discovered imprisoned within Helgrind the previous day, but to his concern, he could not locate the Ra’zac or the Lethrblaka. If they aren’t here, then where? he wondered. Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock. How does it get enough light to live?

Saphira answered his question by perching on a crumbling spur several feet to the right. As she did, she lost her balance for a moment and flared her wings to steady herself. Instead of brushing against the bulk of Helgrind, the tip of her right wing dipped into the rock and then back out again.

Saphira, did you see that!

I did.

Leaning forward, Saphira pushed the tip of her snout toward the sheer rock, paused an inch or two away—as if waiting for a trap to spring—then continued her advance. Scale by scale, Saphira’s head slid into Helgrind, until all that was visible of her to Eragon was a neck, torso, and wings.

It’s an illusion! exclaimed Saphira.

With a surge of her mighty thews, she abandoned the spur and flung the rest of her body after her head. It required every bit of Eragon’s self-control not to cover his face in a desperate bid to protect himself as the crag rushed toward him.

An instant later, he found himself looking at a broad, vaulted cave suffused with the warm glow of morning. Saphira’s scales refracted the light, casting thousands of shifting blue flecks across the rock. Twisting around, Eragon saw no wall behind them, only the mouth of the cave and a sweeping view of the landscape beyond.

Eragon grimaced. It had never occurred to him that Galbatorix might have hidden the Ra’zac’s lair with magic. Idiot! I have to do better, he thought. Underestimating the king was a sure way to get them all killed.

Roran swore and said, “Warn me before you do something like that again.”

Hunching forward, Eragon unbuckled his legs from the saddle as he studied their surroundings, alert for any danger.

The opening to the cave was an irregular oval, perhaps fifty feet high and sixty feet wide. From there, the chamber expanded to twice that size before ending a good bowshot away in a pile of thick stone slabs that leaned against each other in a confusion of uncertain angles. A mat of powder-gray scratches defaced the floor, evidence of the many times the Lethrblaka had taken off, landed, and walked about thereon. Like mysterious keyholes, five low tunnels pierced the sides of the cave, as did a lancet passageway large enough to accommodate Saphira. Eragon examined the tunnels carefully, but they were pitch-black and appeared vacant, a fact he confirmed with quick thrusts of his mind. Strange, disjointed murmurs echoed from within Helgrind’s innards, suggesting unknown things scurrying about in the dark, and endlessly dripping water. Adding to the chorus of whispers was the steady rise and fall of Saphira’s breathing, which was overloud in the confines of the bare chamber.

The most distinctive feature of the cavern, however, was the mixture of odors that pervaded it. The smell of cold stone dominated, but underneath it, Eragon discerned whiffs of damp and mold and something far worse: the sickly-sweet fetor of rotting meat.

Undoing the last few straps, Eragon swung his right leg over Saphira’s spine, so he was sitting sidesaddle, and prepared to jump off her back. Roran did the same on the opposite side.

Before he released his hold, Eragon heard, amid the many rustlings that teased his ear, a score of simultaneous clicks, as if someone had struck the rock with a collection of hammers. The sound repeated itself a half-second later.

He looked in the direction of the noise, as did Saphira.

A huge, twisted shape hurtled out of the lancet passageway. Eyes black, bulging, rimless. A beak seven feet long. Batlike wings. The torso naked, hairless, rippling with muscle. Claws like iron spikes.

Saphira lurched as she tried to evade the Lethrblaka, but to no avail. The creature crashed into her right side with what felt to Eragon like the strength and fury of an avalanche.

What exactly happened next, he knew not, for the impact sent him tumbling through space without so much as a half-formed thought in his jumbled brain. His blind flight ended as abruptly as it began when something hard and flat rammed against the back of him, and he dropped to the floor, banging his head a second time.

That last collision drove the remaining air clean out of Eragon’s lungs. Stunned, he lay curled on his side, gasping and struggling to regain a semblance of control over his unresponsive limbs.

Eragon! cried Saphira.
 

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ProudLeechLover   3rd eragon book   Feb 6 2008, 08:36 PM
flardnarf   BRISINGR will have a first printing of 2.5 million...   Feb 7 2008, 06:46 PM
ProudLeechLover   OH! thanks!   Feb 7 2008, 08:04 PM
yrrnotelekktric   ohhh boyyyyyyyy, i cant wait for this day. i shoul...   Feb 7 2008, 11:25 PM
MichelleYue   QUOTE(yrrnotelekktric @ Feb 7 2008, 10:25...   Feb 10 2008, 05:25 PM
yrrnotelekktric   QUOTE(MichelleYue @ Feb 10 2008, 02:25 PM...   Feb 10 2008, 06:20 PM
Insurmountable   oh i can't wait.   Feb 7 2008, 11:28 PM
ProudLeechLover   i SO think that eragon and arya should SO hook up...   Feb 10 2008, 06:28 PM
yrrnotelekktric   QUOTE(ProudLeechLover @ Feb 10 2008, 03:2...   Feb 10 2008, 07:28 PM
Flyinryan874   Blah I only read the first one. I should go get th...   Feb 11 2008, 10:40 AM
ProudLeechLover   QUOTE(Flyinryan874 @ Feb 11 2008, 10:40 A...   Feb 11 2008, 01:02 PM
S-Majere   Oh man, my brother just bought the movie on blu ra...   Feb 13 2008, 01:12 PM
ForgiveTheSinner   I thought the third book was called Inheritance O....   Feb 17 2008, 11:06 PM
yrrnotelekktric   ^no, Inheritance is the name of the Trilogy.   Feb 17 2008, 11:17 PM
ProudLeechLover   QUOTE(yrrnotelekktric @ Feb 17 2008, 11:1...   Feb 18 2008, 11:08 AM
absinthe   bump The 3rd book, Brisingr comes out on Septembe...   Apr 26 2008, 04:26 PM
Insurmountable   QUOTE(absinthe @ Apr 26 2008, 05:26 PM) b...   May 13 2008, 08:24 PM
doiink   OMG ERAGON LOL. shit I don't remember anything...   May 13 2008, 06:28 PM
absinthe   wait, wth. it's september 20th not 30th.   May 13 2008, 08:51 PM
JokeInsideJoke   i cant wait, the movie was so unlike the book, but...   May 14 2008, 09:21 AM
absinthe   ^ ew, are they? I bet that's gonna be horrible...   May 14 2008, 12:32 PM
JokeInsideJoke   i was really dissapointed   May 14 2008, 02:25 PM
dreamstar7   QUOTEi SO think that eragon and arya should SO hoo...   May 20 2008, 04:49 PM
JTFLxtatic   Wow. I didn't know there was another book... O...   May 22 2008, 06:33 PM
JokeInsideJoke   ^ that is always a good idea i dont like how th ...   May 22 2008, 07:20 PM
absinthe   QUOTE(JokeInsideJoke @ May 22 2008, 05:20...   May 22 2008, 07:49 PM
JokeInsideJoke   then maybe they should make a little pocket sized ...   May 23 2008, 09:04 AM
absinthe   ^ That works, too!   May 23 2008, 01:30 PM
JokeInsideJoke   thats me, always thinking   May 23 2008, 03:19 PM
absinthe   Here's an excerpt from book 3. Courtesy shurtu...   May 23 2008, 11:22 PM
JokeInsideJoke   ^   May 28 2008, 09:22 AM
absinthe   bump. it's almost cominggggggggggggggggggg   Aug 29 2008, 01:36 PM
technicolour   YESSSS! I am SO looking forward to this!   Aug 30 2008, 11:21 AM
absinthe   I have seriously been counting down the days, if n...   Sep 16 2008, 12:04 AM
technicolour   QUOTE(absinthe @ Sep 16 2008, 12:04 AM) I...   Sep 16 2008, 01:17 AM
absinthe   QUOTE(technicolour @ Sep 15 2008, 11:17 P...   Sep 16 2008, 01:40 AM
technicolour   SERIOUSLY, DAMMIT. QUOTEOATHS SWORN . . . loyalti...   Sep 16 2008, 01:54 AM
absinthe   763 pages of absolute f**king goodness ( i hope )   Sep 16 2008, 08:26 PM
technicolour   IM PRAYING. Lately I've been let down with bo...   Sep 17 2008, 01:48 AM
absinthe   shit, i'm going to be sooo disappointed if the...   Sep 17 2008, 04:23 PM
technicolour   Those slackers are uuber slow and updating all the...   Sep 18 2008, 01:39 AM
absinthe   Me too! QUOTEPaolini graduated from high sch...   Sep 18 2008, 10:51 PM
technicolour   I have so much respect for this dude. This books a...   Sep 18 2008, 10:57 PM
absinthe   I know. But i'm okay with that! I still mi...   Sep 19 2008, 06:05 PM
technicolour   BROM! Oh, man. The Gandalf of the story. MAYBE...   Sep 19 2008, 06:22 PM
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absinthe   ugh, lucky. i have a baby shower to go to. way to ...   Sep 19 2008, 07:52 PM
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absinthe   haha, i agree. i knowwwwwwwwwwwwwww. oh lord...   Sep 19 2008, 11:16 PM
technicolour   He's cute in the boyish-looks-but-i'm-sure...   Sep 19 2008, 11:20 PM
absinthe   check out the video! his nerdiness is......hot...   Sep 19 2008, 11:29 PM
technicolour   Aw, he's cute. ANDZOMFGIBOUGHTMYCOPY. I am ...   Sep 20 2008, 11:57 AM
absinthe   Same here. I just started to read it now, but I st...   Sep 21 2008, 06:24 PM
technicolour   I read the first section about Eragon before it go...   Sep 21 2008, 08:12 PM
absinthe   wait, the Nasuada part? at the beginning? /lost ...   Sep 21 2008, 10:23 PM
technicolour   LOL He writes the books in sections. First secti...   Sep 21 2008, 10:44 PM
absinthe   do you like how he does that?   Sep 21 2008, 11:15 PM
technicolour   NO. He always switch's POV right as something ...   Sep 22 2008, 01:01 AM
absinthe   hahaha, i hate when books do that. f**k. i liked h...   Sep 22 2008, 01:07 AM
technicolour   LOL me sneaking in reading time is staying up unti...   Sep 22 2008, 05:32 PM
absinthe   wow, holy shit. why don't i remember that? ugh...   Sep 22 2008, 05:38 PM
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absinthe   hahaha. i hate how now when i read the book, i vi...   Sep 22 2008, 11:30 PM
technicolour   MMMMM But he's a mighty FWWWINNNEEE visualiza...   Sep 22 2008, 11:33 PM
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absinthe   Oh man. I could totally imagine P. Jackson working...   Sep 23 2008, 12:16 AM
technicolour   OMFG HE IS GOING TO WRITE BOOK 4. http://en.wikip...   Sep 26 2008, 10:16 PM
absinthe   how far are you?   Sep 28 2008, 07:17 PM
technicolour   Page 641. If you haven't gotten to the part ab...   Sep 28 2008, 11:55 PM
absinthe   He better f**king get resurrected. BUT DON'T T...   Sep 29 2008, 04:04 PM
technicolour   I AM *pinches fingers* THIS CLOSE TO BEING DONE, D...   Sep 29 2008, 08:12 PM
absinthe   QUOTE(technicolour @ Sep 29 2008, 06:12 P...   Sep 29 2008, 11:09 PM
Tomates   wait...there are 3 books? I only thought there was...   Sep 29 2008, 08:20 PM
technicolour   NOOOOO! Eragon = 1 Eldest = 2 Brisingr = 3 4...   Sep 29 2008, 08:32 PM
technicolour   Finiiiiissssshhhhheeeeeeedddddddd! SO GOOD. ...   Sep 30 2008, 12:16 PM
absinthe   shit! ok! ..dude, is it me or are Roran...   Sep 30 2008, 04:35 PM
technicolour   I skipped the last one. Just flat out skipped it. ...   Sep 30 2008, 11:38 PM
absinthe   I laughed out loud literally. haha. ok, so i...   Oct 1 2008, 09:54 PM
technicolour   YEAAAHH, I know it was a smidge predictable but at...   Oct 1 2008, 10:55 PM
absinthe   LOL. ok, so i just finished it. 1.dude, although ...   Oct 2 2008, 12:23 AM
technicolour   1. IKNOWRIGHT?! I was super sad. :( 2. YESSSS...   Oct 2 2008, 01:12 AM
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technicolour   GREEEEENNNN! THEY SHOULD MAKE IT GREEEEN! ...   Oct 2 2008, 05:39 PM
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technicolour   THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD MANY AND MANY BABIES. MANY. F...   Oct 2 2008, 06:17 PM
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technicolour   Purple would be good color. Purple is the color of...   Oct 2 2008, 06:51 PM
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technicolour   OMG WHY WOULD HE LEAVE? There isn't a good eno...   Oct 2 2008, 07:06 PM
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absinthe   haha, tricksters! you really think it's g...   Oct 2 2008, 09:35 PM
technicolour   Give or take. To write. Edit. Re-edit. Final edit....   Oct 2 2008, 09:36 PM
absinthe   I think it's going to take longer. So which ...   Oct 2 2008, 09:43 PM
technicolour   This one. By far. I was on the edge of my bed stay...   Oct 2 2008, 10:20 PM
absinthe   haha really? i think Eragon is my fave. wouldn...   Oct 2 2008, 10:23 PM
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