Maybe! I was thinking closer to Inuit, but if you want to interpret them as Niddings, be my guest.
And that's the core of Eragon's problem right there, really. He doesn't think about things and he has zero insight - into himself, or anyone else. Let alone lacking the slightest bit of empathy for other people, he apparently managed to find his True Name without learning a damn thing about the sort of person he is.
I feel like this whole situation showcases a weakness of true names: because they are relatively short summaries of a person, they hold little nuance in their literal meaning. Eragon didn't see the truth about himself in his true name because it has nothing to do with his morality, only his fate, so it doesn't depend on and isn't affected by whether or not he's a good person. He is Wyrdskyldr, Fatebound, regardless of whether that fate is for good or ill.
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Maybe! I was thinking closer to Inuit, but if you want to interpret them as Niddings, be my guest.
And that's the core of Eragon's problem right there, really. He doesn't think about things and he has zero insight - into himself, or anyone else. Let alone lacking the slightest bit of empathy for other people, he apparently managed to find his True Name without learning a damn thing about the sort of person he is.
I feel like this whole situation showcases a weakness of true names: because they are relatively short summaries of a person, they hold little nuance in their literal meaning. Eragon didn't see the truth about himself in his true name because it has nothing to do with his morality, only his fate, so it doesn't depend on and isn't affected by whether or not he's a good person. He is Wyrdskyldr, Fatebound, regardless of whether that fate is for good or ill.