
While unconscious, Eragon has a dream, possibly him going away like foretold in Angela's prophecy, The passage says: The Ra'zac burned the farm and injured Garrow, and Saphira carried him and Eragon into the village. Eragon and Saphira manage to escape danger due to Saphira kidnapping Eragon and hiding in the Spine, but Garrow is not as fortunate. Two hooded figures, the evil Ra'zac, enter the town looking for Eragon's mysterious blue stone. Then, Roran leaves for a neighboring village for a job, so he can afford to marry Sloan's daughter, Katrina. He raises the dragon in secret, and names her Saphira.

Dragons are a species thought to be extinct, with the exception of Galbatorix's second dragon. Several weeks later, after a trip to the Spine, Eragon witnesses a baby dragon hatch from inside the "stone". Roran and Eragon are cousins, but see themselves more as brothers. Garrow has a son named Roran, who is about seventeen and also lives on the farm. Garrow's sister, Selena, left the day her son, Eragon, was born Eragon's father is unknown. Eragon arrives at his home, a small farm, where his uncle, Garrow, awaits him. At that moment, the blacksmith, Horst, pays for the meat, and Eragon offers to work for him in exchange. The butcher, Sloan, at first accepts the stone but refuses when he mentions the Spine. He brings it to the butcher shop in Carvahall to sell in exchange for some meat. The book begins with a fifteen-year-old boy, Eragon, finding a mysterious blue stone in The Spine, an untamed range of mountains near the small village he calls home, Carvahall. After his first dragon was killed by Urgals, Galbatorix fell into madness, stole a new dragon, Shruikan, twisting the dragon's mind with dark magic, and betrayed and destroyed the Riders and their dragons with the help of thirteen other Riders called the Forsworn.

Galbatorix was once one of the legendary Dragon Riders - the long-gone peacekeepers of Alagaësia.


Įragon takes place in a land called Alagaësia, over which rules the evil, twisted king, Galbatorix. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter.
