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With the release of Murtagh: The World of Eragon I have been scouring Ao3 looking for Murtagh-centric fics and haven’t come up with much, at least fics that are completed, which is criminal.

Specifically, the tag “Murtagh Morzansson Needs a Hug” has 19 works and that is the only “Canonical” Freeform tag Murtagh has on Ao3

It is 5 am and I am half asleep so I can’t add much right now except

YES

So I have a “What if Eragon stayed in Alagaesia” AU cooking up and had a couple of questions

Would Murtagh have had his break down at Ristvak’baen if he was travelling with Eragon? If they were inside together Murtagh might wait until he could be alone then scream,

OR

If he and Thorn arrived at the Tower first and Eragon and Saphira arrived just as Murtagh started screaming, Thorn would tell Eragon to wait and let Murtagh scream himself out first. But when Eragon goes to comfort Murtagh, would Murtagh just get all prickly and slam his walls up, or just be so exhausted that for once he didn’t care about Eragon seeing him so vulnerable?

Would the ordeal with the Draumars had gone the same way? Ending with Murtagh and Eragon and their dragons being tortured and broken to bend to Bachel’s will? Would Eragon and Saphira pull out? Or would Eragon resolve not to leave his brother in danger again?

I do acknowledge the fact that if Bachel had been able to capture Eragon, she would have devoted a lot of her torture sessions to him. She would’ve passed over Murtagh similar to the way she passed over Uvek.

Or, she would dedicate time to them both because you can never have too many dragon riders as your thralls. I feel like Murtagh would feel mostly guilt for dragging his younger brother into this torment and danger, but a small part of him may also be glad that they had now have an acute shared experience.

While Murtagh relives his repressed/most painful memories, Eragon is tormented by his biggest failures and his insecurities. Being the most senior Rider, have so much power and influence and and having so much riding on his decisions and choices and successes

( a very interesting plot point between the brothers would be what do they think of Bachel’s visions about Murtagh and Thorn. You have Eragon who came onto the scene unknown, untrained and untested, and now he has the most prestige and respect amongst all the races of the land. On the other hand, you have Murtagh who has been eclipsed by his father‘s shadow and judged by his own dark and bloody deeds, has precious few allies, and is universally scorned and hated. Murtagh wants his chance for prestige and respect, but questions how it will come about.

also Thorn and Saphira agree how all kinds should worship the race of dragons while Murtagh and Eragon shake their heads at their soul partners’ vanity)

(Back on track) It would be fun/heartwarming to see the brothers battle against the creatures of the mountain, battling through repressed memories and fears and Bachel. Murtagh may or may not get as injured (I’m personally rooting for getting the same battles as he did in canon just for the angst), but it would be very interesting if she posed a complicated challenge for Eragon as well. (Eragon gets a pretty serious wound of his own. And mentally berating his stubborn brother to “just sit still so I can heal you blast it! Alín is fine and you really don’t need to explore that big gaping chasm over there!”)

When they are safe in Illrea, the brothers talk a bit about their experience. Eragon asks if what they went through, was like what Murtagh and Thorn went through when they were Galbatorix’s captives. Murtagh says the methods were similar, but Bachel was far worse. Eragon fears how much of his knowledge has been passed down the ranks of Bachel’s network. Murtagh does note that the situation is very grave, and they will need to prepare quickly and act smartly. He also makes a point to talk with Umaroth about what he knows. …unless Eragon brought Umaroth with him… would he make that a habit of caring Umaroth with him? He definitely kept Glaedr close by.

Anyway, that’s my idea dump/ramble. Any feedback would be welcome and appreciated.

Late Night Thoughts

I just finished reading the third book of Eragon from the inheritance cycle and a wave of emotions has hit me towards the end. The twists omg.

Mini spoiler ahead for the second book of the Inheritance Cycle, Eldest. You have been warned.

I haven't felt like this since Murtagh returned in the second book. The amount of happiness I felt when he was revealed to be alive is immeasurable.

Eragon finding out that the world is not flat is the most amusing thing to me and I love every moment of it.

So I'm feelin bored and need to make sure my skill don't get rusty so send me your OC's to draw! Wings of fire preferably but any dragons really, they're my specialty lol

Listen, I love the inheritance cycle dearly but what the hell was that Arya x Eragon crap? The points in the narrative where he pines for her desperately were so painful to read, so constipated and unnecessary. Give me them being badasses together, but miss me with the “romance” of it is all I ask

I'm curious what the actual consensus is on this, please feel free to share your reasons in the tags! This series I've been slowly working on for years has a large-ish main cast ranging from ages 6 to 20, and aside from one possible one-sided crush, I currently have no plans for any of them to date each other, now or in the future. And I've often wondered how much of an effect that knowledge would have on reader interest.

I guess the question for the shippers out there comes down to, "Is romantic shipping the only kind of shipping the majority will accept, or are people willing to see how characters interact simply as really close friends?" (Or, as in some cases, people who don't get along but are stuck together XD)

... That miiiiight be Christopher Paolini's house.

I am currently facing HUGE problems in my everyday life. Like, how am i going to cope with all the shit going on? How am i gonna LIVE when none of my friends care about the Glorfindel fic I read last night, why Rosekiller and Dorlene are my favorite Marauders ships (Wolfstar, Jily and Jegulus too, dont shoot me), the thousand reasons why Tony should have survived Endgame, why Eragon is obsessive over Arya? Huh? What is a fangirl supposed to do these days?

Hello I saw your requests were open, could you draw the dragon Thorn from the inheritance cycle please?

I havent actually read inheritence cycle, but ive heard its really good! I hope i did him justice :3

The first ones based off the physical description alone, and the seconds from the cover

Artblocks one hell of a killer, man

I just hope I'm not going to cry for the events in the book 😩😅

if you have told teenage me that there's a WHOLE ASS BOOK DEDICATED TO MURTAGH i would've crumbled in tears. which i am close to anyway.....i hope to buy it when i finish inheritance....

Oh, I can totally see that 😂

After Morzan's death Galbatorix must've been a real pain in the ass

Durza: Galbatorix?

Galbatorix, crying: He used to call me that

Durza: it is your FUCKING NAME

* sobbing *

Rereading Eldest:

Eragon: Let me kill you it be noble.

Murtagh: hell no! but also join me... also I will let you go after my silly villain speech. Also I hate the fact that you are nothing like me.

If Murtagh killed Eragon he would be a mental disaster for the rest of his life.

If Eragon killed Murtagh... he would be all profound grief and sadness before moving on after several good cry sessions.

I'd like to give my two cents to defend elves, cause I think the existance of these creatures opens the door to a super interesting conversation about human existance.

So, little premise, according to European folklore, elves and humans were created, at the beginning of time, on the same day of the same substance. The creator made these creatures very similar to each other, but he gave each one different gifts.

For the Elves he granted immortality, and their destiny was to remain in the world until the end of days; for this reason they have enormous affection for nature and know, better than men, all its creatures, with whom they live peacefully. For the same reason, they received the gift of divination and prophecy, and were made to remain eternally young and supremely wise.

Men were created mortal, but they were given the gift of shaping their life, adapting it to the vicissitudes of the world, in which they would spread out in search of something they would never find.

To make this search more bearable, the creator wanted humans to live only for a short period of time. Their destiny ended with death, but what awaited them next, even the elves did not know.

In this distribution of gifts, the elves were not sure if they had received the best part.

Men's lives were a mystery, so they were always watching them and they were testing them. Perhaps the elves envied the uncertainty in which those beings so much like them lived. Hence the legend of the demons, fallen/dark elves.

With this basis down, do you really want to blame elves' detachment and lack of participation in the human history? They're not a different race, even if they look a bit like us, they're a completely different species, like humans and dragons. Like we wouldn't inferfere too much with, idk, a dragon war, neither the elves are obligated to participate in ours. And here it opens the reflection.

Think about it, us humans were given mortality, we KNOW our life is fragile and that we're not strong enough to survive on our own. Yet, we don't unite, we don't adapt to nature but we take over it like WE are the SUPERIOR ones, we are always in search for power and we make wars for it. We should have evolved even better than elves, because we now the real value of life, and some of them even envy us for it. Yet, they're the ones who dispose of their unlimited time in a good way, so I'd say they are superior. There's nothing wrong with it either, we should know we're not the better species out there, look at our planet...

We love to blame our situation on someone higher than us, huh? (speaking as an agnostic)

It would even go against elves' NATURE to inferfere too much with us.

Fantasy is made to reflect on our word, but it does not mirror it. Elves are not there to resemble human condition, they are there to make us think about a condition above us, and how it would be if we emulated it.

I'm back to reading Eldest after not reading for weeks. and it's the point when I'm asking does christopher paolini want me to hate the elves??

I don't know why this makes me sob

In the Eragon-verse it's implied that dragons are already semi-cognizant within their eggs and can choose when to hatch. Which just makes it all the more wild and kind of heartbreaking that Thorn hatched for Murtagh when he did? Like, what was his fetal thought process? Wow, this guy's got problems! Anyone gonna join him in having an absolutely awful time? And then Thorn didn't wait for an answer.

What if Eragon being a dragon rider was somehow a proof of his trustworthiness?

Murtagh is so anxious not to be known and hated for who he is and yet when Eragon asks him who he is he says, "Murtagh" as if using an alias just isn't the done thing when you're running away and trying to remain unrecognized. Fortunately for him Eragon is still a clueless bumpkin at this point and is like, "Never heard of you. Bestie."

I need a personal Murtagh in my life fr

Murtagh: Meets a child in a tavern

Child: I hate this girl in town

Murtagh: lol yeah fuck that bitch stab her with a fork.

I love the batshit storytelling power of tabletop games.

Things my players have done in our campaign so far:

- Left Glaedr's eldunarí to freeze outside because they used him as an eye for their snowman and then forgot about him while they ran off to do their mission

- My werecat player traumatized the thirteen year old dragon rider student by giving him a "prophecy" about how he is destined for great things, but he was going to be betrayed by the person he trusts the most (he pulled that completely out of his ass).

- My dragon player has made a pact with the weird groundskeeper/janitor around campus to fuel her kleptomaniac tendency, and steal a gem from my blacksmith player. More on that to come.

- They did some absolutely heinous things to a pack of Shrrg in their first combat encounter. RIP.

- They adopted one of the Shrrg after they doomed him to a slow death of starvation by shattering his teeth (horrible). They healed him, and charmed him into being a friend, and then forged him a new set of magically enchanted steel dentures, so now he is going to be a permanent party member!

- They essentially ignored the main quest (a mysterious circle of destruction and mutated Shrrg that suggest a magical detonation in the same vein of the Vroengard explosion/the Galbatorix explosion only a few miles from the school) in order to go on a new self imposed sidequest of... Well.

- First the party cajoled Saphira into dragging back a Christmas tree.

- The bard (my boyfriend irl) has an antagonistic love-hate relationship with Glaedr (somehow) and spontaneously invented the holiday Christmas in universe while trying to convince Glaedr to sub in as a Christmas ornament. Glaedr refused.

- The whole party, now on board, convinced all the other eldunarí to be Christmas tree ornaments. Glaedr eventually caved and agreed to be the tree topper (the most prestigious position for the most important eldunarí, of course, they told him).

- They decided to name the holiday Gladmas in his honor.

- They came up with the (completely original) idea of a Gladmas icon- a man on the back of a beautiful glittering red dragon, who visits all the little children and leaves them presents. They came up with a plan to use all the eldunarí to power a hasten spell to get them around the world in one night. And they know just the perfect duo to pull this off! The only rider around with a red dragon who would fit the bill!

- So next session is going to be a side quest to convince Murtagh to become Santa Claus.

glad to see murtagh's still living his worst life in the new book

blood-oath celebration glow up

it was not lost on me that nasuada wore murtagh's colors in the last chapter