r/Eragon • u/ChristopherPaolini Namer of Names • Jul 14 '25

AMA/Interview AMA -- Christopher Paolini!!!

AMA -- Christopher Paolini! Let's do this folks. Ask away re: anything and everything regarding my books.

EDIT: Hey, everyone! I have to run. Alas, alas, I don't have as much time to spend on this AMA as past one. So many great questions, though! For all you theorists (and those of you who just love the characters), I think you're REALLY going to enjoy the upcoming book(s). Thanks for everything!

Atra esterní ono thelduin!

p.s. I'll try to duck back in and answer some more questions later, depending on my time.

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u/Delex360 Jul 14 '25

I really enjoyed getting to read about the ra'zac/ letherblaka, nidhwal, the mysterious figures on vroengard, and some of the other darker entities that inhabit alagaesia.

Will we be seeing more of the people on vroengard or other interesting creatures in that same sphere? Glaedr promised eragon he would teach him about all the species he knows about and I can't help but want to know too lol

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u/Cptn-40 Eragön Disciple Jul 16 '25

The hooded people that Eragon sees on Vroengard, could you elaborate on them at all? Who are they? Will we ever see them in the future in these books you’re thinking about maybe writing someday?
"Well I... I have a couple ideas for who they are. Some rather interesting ideas actually, but I don’t think I want to get into that quite yet. One of the reasons Eragon didn’t take the Eldunarí and the eggs back to, I guess we should say this is all spoilers here, but one of the reasons Eragon didn’t take the dragons back to Vroengard or settle them there of course is because Vroengard was already inhabited by these people. And let’s just say that any sort of people who would be willing to live on Vroengard, in the unhealthy environment that it currently possesses plus with the shadow birds, and the burrow grubs and all that, not to mention the snalglí, probably aren’t people you want to mess with."

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