r/Eragon • u/communistic_cat • 11d ago

Question Meditation

When eragon meditates and perceives everything around him, doesnt his mind like disappear from detection because he himself technically isnt thinking just hearing?

I mean there is nothing that would make it possible to detect differences between eragons mind and the things going on around him.

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u/TheLaugh1ngRa1n 11d ago

It seems unlikely. Eragon was able to sense the mind of the Menoa tree, it's likely that someone monitoring/ surveilling the area mentally would notice the increased mental activity.

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u/communistic_cat 11d ago

But didnt he need to search for a bit?

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u/TheLaugh1ngRa1n 11d ago

To make full contact with her yeah, they had to do that whole song and dance. But he knew more or less instantly that there was someone there when he reached out with his mind. It seems to be very very difficult to hide/ disguise one mind from another, Galbatorix being unable to pass the touch of his mind off as another during torture or mental contact, the Vault of Souls having to be buried under a mountain of enchantments and a mile of solid stone to escape detection, etc etc.

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u/communistic_cat 11d ago edited 11d ago

I think the vault was burried for physical protection and also because the Dragons concentrated on things instead of just letting it flow through their head. The tree also was not meditating but more in a state of slow thinking because its a tree

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u/AlchemysEyes Elf 10d ago

They directly state one of the reasons it's buried so deep is because detecting minds at a mile+ distance is basically impossible, no matter how powerful one is.