Maybe that would have been the Sithi of Tad Williams? I've heard of them as an inspiration, at least.
And yes, I'd expect such relationships to be much more easy-going; after all, the elves have all the time to join with people they actually like. If there were to be hostility, I'd expect it to be between different cities or different groups in society, not everyone trying to manipulate everyone (and how would that have started, anyway?).
We don't even find out at what point the two of them will stop ageing - it's stated in book two that Eragon is still going through puberty, or at least implied. Will he stop ageing any further when he hits, say, 25? And if so, why that particular age?
That's a very good question! With Oromis, we don't get much about how old he is physically, apart from "neither young nor old", and Galbatorix lost Jarnunvösk when he was around twenty, so he isn't exactly representative, either. The impression I got myself (which isn't exactly based on much) was something like 25 to 30. As for why it's that age... maybe because it's old enough to be quite adult, but not old enough to be "old" in any sense? (shrugs)
For the child characters, it'd almost be worth it to wait until societal attitudes change, I think. They've got all the time to wait that out, at least.
It was actually kind of easy to miss that a year passes between the end of the war and the end of the book given how dreadful the pacing is. I noticed nobody ever celebrates or even mentions a birthday at any point.
Yeah, I mostly pieced it together from the passage of the seasons, which Paolini's better at mentioning, at least.
He really should know when further tinkering will just break previous canon. I just hope he won't do the same with To Sleep...
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Date: 2025-05-25 08:04 pm (UTC)Maybe that would have been the Sithi of Tad Williams? I've heard of them as an inspiration, at least.
And yes, I'd expect such relationships to be much more easy-going; after all, the elves have all the time to join with people they actually like. If there were to be hostility, I'd expect it to be between different cities or different groups in society, not everyone trying to manipulate everyone (and how would that have started, anyway?).
We don't even find out at what point the two of them will stop ageing - it's stated in book two that Eragon is still going through puberty, or at least implied. Will he stop ageing any further when he hits, say, 25? And if so, why that particular age?
That's a very good question! With Oromis, we don't get much about how old he is physically, apart from "neither young nor old", and Galbatorix lost Jarnunvösk when he was around twenty, so he isn't exactly representative, either. The impression I got myself (which isn't exactly based on much) was something like 25 to 30. As for why it's that age... maybe because it's old enough to be quite adult, but not old enough to be "old" in any sense? (shrugs)
For the child characters, it'd almost be worth it to wait until societal attitudes change, I think. They've got all the time to wait that out, at least.
It was actually kind of easy to miss that a year passes between the end of the war and the end of the book given how dreadful the pacing is. I noticed nobody ever celebrates or even mentions a birthday at any point.
Yeah, I mostly pieced it together from the passage of the seasons, which Paolini's better at mentioning, at least.
He really should know when further tinkering will just break previous canon. I just hope he won't do the same with To Sleep...