Another poem collection from me (obviously). This time, I'm trying to put...
Once, long ago, the elf Maerzadí had a premonition that he would accidentally kill his son in battle. Rather than live to see it happen, he committed suicide, saving his son, and at the same time proving that the future isn’t set. Short of killing...
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An experiment in writing.
Not quite poetry, and not quiet a story... rather, perhaps something in between.
But, ah, it is cryptic prose!
More info...Summary: It has been one hundred years...one hundred years since Eragon Shadeslayer, the tyrant of Alagaesia was hurled from his throne after murdering his entire family, after the wicked elves poisoned him in his sleep. One hundred years since the slant-eyed Tartars bridged the Edda River and drove into Alagaesia, conquering Surda and breaking the Empire. One hundred years since the dwarf fanatic Nado and his general Gannel took an army to Du Weldenvarden and drove the elves to near extinction.It has been seventy five years since the Urgals drove the humans from Palancar Valley, seventy five years since the wild dragons came from over the sea to wreak havoc on the land. It has been sixty years since the werecats came and destroyed a clan of Urgals, giving themselves a kingdom, and fifty years since the rogue Rider Arthain, master of the slave dragon Khargal drove through werecats and into the forest, gathering up an army of Urgals to further decimate the elves. Forty-five years since he succeded. Forty years since the great plague tore through the city-states of Teirm and Kuasta, allowing them to be ravaged by the wild dragons.
It has been thirty years since the northmen burst from the snows to take Palancar Valley, bathing the land in blood. Thirty years since Bleda the Tartar conquered Teirm and tamed a dragon, bringing peace to the north, only to have the dragons come gain, locking the land in a furious war. Twenty years since rebels threw the Tartars from Surda, sacking Aberon. Fifteen years since the Urgals defeated the northmen and drove them to the northern snows, slaughtering entire tribes. Ten years since Arthain, Alagaesia’s last Rider, attacked Osilon to take the sword of Galbatorix, slaying all but fifty of the elves.
This land has become a hell, a pit of offal and blood, a land where the strong grind the weak beneath their boots, where man fights for himself and himself only. The land has become a place where the people, the common and the lowborn, are treated like little more than animals. They call out for help, for water and light—and even those are taken from them. The land has become a place of shame, of death, of innocent blood spilled by cruel warlords. It has become a land forsaken by the gods. It has become a land of misery
We need a king. We need a man who can unite us and give us salvation. We must hope. For if we lose hope, then truly have we lost everything.
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They were fools, and they died fools. And like all fallen fools, their names would be sung by the bards for a hundred years to come.
One hundred years after the cataclysmic Fall, the traitorous king Galbatorix rules Alagaesia atop his palace at Uru'baen, his black dragon Shruikan at his side. He rules his kingdom with an iron fist, sucking the life from its inhabitants, crushing them into desperate misery while his own power grows yearly.
Yet in the midst of this, a boy will find the hope that can bring his land salvation from the evil that closes in around it. He will travel the length and breadth of Alagaesia, fight men and monsters and Shades, find love, save the Empire, and finally, like all heroes, fall to his faults and become what he hates the most: a tyrant.
This is the story of a boy who went from miserable thrall, to fugitive of the Empire, to hero of the rebels, to saviour and king, and finally to the tyrant who plunges Alagaesia into yet another era of barbarism and darkness.
This is the story of Eragon. This is the story of a hero.
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Summary: One boy, one dragon and darkness waits...
The lost story behind Murtagh's childhood and his life. How a young boy, confused and alone grew up under the king then finally escaped. His journey to find a safe haven for himself and his companions where they can resist the king but remain hidden from the Varden and other rebels. Follow Murtagh from hovel, to castle, to wilderness, to mansion and finally to join Eragon and find the Varden.
Will be followed by Misery and Master.
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Aris, is not your common Nardan. He is a bright, ambitious, young man, but will the fruits of his mind be the very downfall of him in an epic adventure that tests you to your very core?
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Summary: Once, long ago, the elf Maerzadí had a premonition that he would accidentally kill his son in battle. Rather than live to see it happen, he committed suicide, saving his son, and at the same time proving that the future isn’t set. Short of killing yourself, however, you can do little to change your destiny, since you don’t know what choices will lead you to the particular point of time that you saw. ~Arya Dröttningu
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Summary: This is the journal of people questioning the world. The World has opened up to them and spoken Its powerful words. Through them It speaks.
This might be one of the best things I have ever written.
More info...The story of Eragon, the First Dragon Rider, and of the white Dragon, Bid'Daum.
As a Great War rages between Elf and Dragon, ravishing and changing the land of Alagaesia, a gifted young Elf named Eragon is banished from Ellesmere and his beloved home for crimes that he did not commit. Wandering alone among the peaks and forests of the Spine Mountains beyond the realm of DuWeldenvarden, Eragon stumbles across a lone Dragon egg. From the egg hatches an ivory white Dragon, who will become Eragon's only friend and ally. Through tragedy, banishment, wilderness, racial hatred, and war, Eragon and his beloved, wise Dragon Bid'Daum struggle to restore peace between their vengeance-filled races. But can such an unlikely pair bring peace to a warring Alagaesia?
More info...A secret kept a millenium now released in horror unto the unsuspecting world. Darkness yearns to meld with the light once again. And now the chains that bind that unyielding darkness are revealed. A single boy must rise to his calling and guard the first of the Shadow Gates.
More info...Summary: For years the abnormally short elf named Erendel has desired to journey across the continent of Cellestiem. At long last he has mustered the courage to leave his beloved home in a quiet dell. But the first leg of the epic journey turns out to be more dangerous than even the elfling had imagined....
Join Erendel as he travels across the his homeland, battles creatures from the demonic realms, becomes embroiled in a quest that will take him beyond what anyone imagined, and even comes face to face with the most astounding truth he has ever known. This is Erendel's legacy. This is the legend of an Elfling.
More info...All of the forces of Alagaesia are on the move, ready to bring this conflict to an end. Galbatorix continues to use Murtagh for his dirty work, though Murtagh is fervently trying to find a way out of his bonds. The Elves have moved into the Empire and are prepared to strike from the north, as the Varden prepare an assault from the south. Eragon must finish his education before he will be ready to take on Galbatorix, or all of Alagaesia will be doomed. Can Eragon and Saphira best the tyrannical mad King, or will they fail, throwing all of Alagaesia into anarchy and chaos?
More info...Thinking he would remember nothing, they returned him to the human world—but Tam was forever changed. He lived at an inn where beings both human and not came through, and knew more about them than he would have liked to.
But Tam's knowledge could very well cost him his life, he realizes, as he is kidnapped, once again, with only a human girl to save him. The Folk begin to believe that only through sacrifice can they become once again powerful, by knowing emotion again... More info...