If you asked Paolini he'd probably just give you some BS about how Oromis was too weak and crippled to be of any use.

Yeah, and we have already seen how disabled characters in this saga can do nothing great except making the protagonist look good. You are disabled? I am sorry, you are either a villain or completely useless.


and they're apparently quite capable of choosing to hatch for the corruptible (Morzan) and the mentally unstable (Galbatorix).

Yeah... Just look at our least favorite dragon Saphira. She hatched for a fucking psychopath like Eragon. And if we really want to go this way, Saphira is very horrible herself, and I would personally consider it more a punishment than a gift to be mind-linked to someone (something?) like her.


Even Saphira murdering a messenger by roasting him alive is referred to as an "accomplishment". (Instead of, y'know, a warcrime).

Oh, ehi! Speaking of the devil! I so wish people would have called her out and exposed of callous and horrible she is.


But who else can teach the new recruits how to stare at ants and do yoga for hours on end?!

Dwarven goats are cooler anyway ù.ú