Aha, you caught it! Yes, this conversation canonically takes place in the AL and is translated.
On the one hand, it'd be nice if that was explicitly stated...but on the other hand, in every appearance so far Eragon has been speaking the Ancient Language. So I can buy Eragon/the Eragon Narrator not considering it important to say "Also this conversation took place in the Ancient Language, like most of Eragon's conversations".
All Eragon gave him about the dragon was "black," and he can't honestly say he hasn't seen a black dragon
Frankly he could say "I have seen a black dragon" while meaning Shruikan who he did see at some point in the past. Using the AL to avoid people lying to you has, um, problems. Also it's just so typical that Arya noticed absolutely nothing about Verja other than that she has black scales. It fits with the thing from Verja's perspective in the egg where she's noticing that elves approach her eager for power.
The line made the most sense from Verja in my eyes. She has an EldunarÃ, so it makes sense that she'd recognize one.
I agree! I also liked that she didn't say the elven word for it, she communicated the impression of an Eldunarà the way a dragon would.
As for the trans vibes... you know, now that I look at it, Thorn's narrative is kind of trans, even if I don't think he particularly objects to his assigned gender. He was forced from birth into a role that never suited him, and is now thriving as he is allowed to discover himself.
I hadn't thought of it that way myself. It certainly functions as an allegory (And better than some intentional allegories for trans people), though. Assigned Living Weapon at Birth, but actually an artist!
Yes, yes she is... but development-wise, she's somewhere in the preteen/adolescent phase, so "cute" is a dirty word.
Too late, I still wanna snuggle her. Because she's cute. And also Saphira would literally roast me alive and laugh about it.
Indeed, which considering the Star Wars parallels in the cycle, would seem to imply that the Riders were more Sith than Jedi.
I'm of the opinion that the Sith are more moral than the Jedi, honestly. They're intended by the narrative to be evil, but they're stacked up against people who's entire watchword is "Let's pretend we don't have any emotions at all".
But since we are meant to see the Sith as evil, it is telling that the Riders resemble them.
That aside, though, it's really more of a reflection on the difference between how Murtagh was trained and how elves train
Yeah. There's a huge issue in Inheritance with elves assuming that the way they do things is automatically the best way regardless of context. This is a good way to comment on the topic.
I didn't want to go into the whole weapon thing, but swords are an awful choice for a weapon on dragonback if your dragon is any larger than a horse. Lances have potential, bows have potential, any kind of munition that can take advantage of gravity has potential, but the only reason you should be using a sword is if there's some small threat the dragon can't engage without throwing you off.
A fourteen-year-old child, even. She was thirteen at the start, and though I never really mentioned her birthday, it was probably sometime during Chapter 5.
Whoops, my mistake. But you realize that makes this worse (In terms of Arya/Eragon's morality), not better? Like, Eragon himself was 15 when he started and turned 16 during the war. He's that willing to just assume a girl younger than he was needs to be killed out of hand? What a creep.
And it's going to feed very well into the next chapter.
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Date: 2022-04-18 04:12 am (UTC)On the one hand, it'd be nice if that was explicitly stated...but on the other hand, in every appearance so far Eragon has been speaking the Ancient Language. So I can buy Eragon/the Eragon Narrator not considering it important to say "Also this conversation took place in the Ancient Language, like most of Eragon's conversations".
All Eragon gave him about the dragon was "black," and he can't honestly say he hasn't seen a black dragon
Frankly he could say "I have seen a black dragon" while meaning Shruikan who he did see at some point in the past. Using the AL to avoid people lying to you has, um, problems. Also it's just so typical that Arya noticed absolutely nothing about Verja other than that she has black scales. It fits with the thing from Verja's perspective in the egg where she's noticing that elves approach her eager for power.
The line made the most sense from Verja in my eyes. She has an EldunarÃ, so it makes sense that she'd recognize one.
I agree! I also liked that she didn't say the elven word for it, she communicated the impression of an Eldunarà the way a dragon would.
As for the trans vibes... you know, now that I look at it, Thorn's narrative is kind of trans, even if I don't think he particularly objects to his assigned gender. He was forced from birth into a role that never suited him, and is now thriving as he is allowed to discover himself.
I hadn't thought of it that way myself. It certainly functions as an allegory (And better than some intentional allegories for trans people), though. Assigned Living Weapon at Birth, but actually an artist!
Yes, yes she is... but development-wise, she's somewhere in the preteen/adolescent phase, so "cute" is a dirty word.
Too late, I still wanna snuggle her. Because she's cute. And also Saphira would literally roast me alive and laugh about it.
Indeed, which considering the Star Wars parallels in the cycle, would seem to imply that the Riders were more Sith than Jedi.
I'm of the opinion that the Sith are more moral than the Jedi, honestly. They're intended by the narrative to be evil, but they're stacked up against people who's entire watchword is "Let's pretend we don't have any emotions at all".
But since we are meant to see the Sith as evil, it is telling that the Riders resemble them.
That aside, though, it's really more of a reflection on the difference between how Murtagh was trained and how elves train
Yeah. There's a huge issue in Inheritance with elves assuming that the way they do things is automatically the best way regardless of context. This is a good way to comment on the topic.
I didn't want to go into the whole weapon thing, but swords are an awful choice for a weapon on dragonback if your dragon is any larger than a horse. Lances have potential, bows have potential, any kind of munition that can take advantage of gravity has potential, but the only reason you should be using a sword is if there's some small threat the dragon can't engage without throwing you off.
A fourteen-year-old child, even. She was thirteen at the start, and though I never really mentioned her birthday, it was probably sometime during Chapter 5.
Whoops, my mistake. But you realize that makes this worse (In terms of Arya/Eragon's morality), not better? Like, Eragon himself was 15 when he started and turned 16 during the war. He's that willing to just assume a girl younger than he was needs to be killed out of hand? What a creep.
And it's going to feed very well into the next chapter.
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