On the Dragon Riders
Jul. 5th, 2020 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So Mara and I got to talking about how in Eldest, Eragon is fully ordained as a Rider after he gets finished doing the whole mind-meld thing with the forest, and completes the "know all and see one" task that Oromis gave him to do. And while Eragon's human, he can't do this activity at all. He's completely inept at it, because for whatever reason he can't see the forest for the trees, if you'll forgive the saying. Yet, in Eldest, pretty much immediately after Eragon becomes all elfified, he's able to instantly become one with the forest and its inhabitants on the first try. There's no lead up, no building of suspense, no failure over and over again until something finally clicks and he gets it - no, he goes in full tilt and just succeeds.
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