YES. This is one of my biggest gripes with the worldbuilding, second to the fact that nothing really fits together at all. There's no sense of history anywhere, least of all among the humans. No superstition, no history, no stories, no "my grandfather used to say", nothing.
No stories, no family histories, no anecdotes passed down through families, no sculptures or carvings or depictions of Dragons or Riders anywhere.
Galby's war against the old Rider Order happened 100 years ago. People who were alive at that time have children and/or grandchildren who are alive now. Where are the old folks telling their grandchildren "my father used to tell me about watching the dragons over the hills at sunset", or the grandchildren showing off the dragonscale-inlaid silver spoon they inherited from their grandparent, who bought it from a wandering elf ("That was before the War, of course"). Nobody except Brom complains about the Usurper-King, or how "old King Angrenost, now he was a king who knew how to act like a king."
There are no children who play make-believe, re-enacting famous battles between the Dragon Riders and Forsworn, using sticks for swords and blankets for dragon-wings.
"No fair, I was Forsworn last time!"
"Yeah well I'm older, so I get to be the Rider."
"Let your cousin be the Rider, Roran."
"Aww but Dad!"
"Eragon, don't stick your tongue out."
"Sorry Uncle Garrow."
Hell, Eragon didn't even know he was named after the very first Rider! That would be like a person named Charlemagne not knowing about, well, Charlemagne
(On an unrelated tangent, why does everyone in fantasy only have unique names? Nobody confuses Tom the Smith with Tom the Tailor or Tom the Baker, because there is only one Tom in the entire world)
The world can have exactly zero dragons in its entire history, and the absence of dragons would not have any effect whatsoever.
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Date: 2025-05-10 12:45 pm (UTC)YES. This is one of my biggest gripes with the worldbuilding, second to the fact that nothing really fits together at all. There's no sense of history anywhere, least of all among the humans. No superstition, no history, no stories, no "my grandfather used to say", nothing.
No stories, no family histories, no anecdotes passed down through families, no sculptures or carvings or depictions of Dragons or Riders anywhere.
Galby's war against the old Rider Order happened 100 years ago. People who were alive at that time have children and/or grandchildren who are alive now. Where are the old folks telling their grandchildren "my father used to tell me about watching the dragons over the hills at sunset", or the grandchildren showing off the dragonscale-inlaid silver spoon they inherited from their grandparent, who bought it from a wandering elf ("That was before the War, of course"). Nobody except Brom complains about the Usurper-King, or how "old King Angrenost, now he was a king who knew how to act like a king."
There are no children who play make-believe, re-enacting famous battles between the Dragon Riders and Forsworn, using sticks for swords and blankets for dragon-wings.
Hell, Eragon didn't even know he was named after the very first Rider! That would be like a person named Charlemagne not knowing about, well, Charlemagne
(On an unrelated tangent, why does everyone in fantasy only have unique names? Nobody confuses Tom the Smith with Tom the Tailor or Tom the Baker, because there is only one Tom in the entire world)
The world can have exactly zero dragons in its entire history, and the absence of dragons would not have any effect whatsoever.