“The Inheritance Cycle Book Club, Episode Thirteen” Has Officially Arrived! Listen Now!

By Robert Cox September 17, 2011 Brisingr (Book), Eldest (Book), Eragon (Book), Inheritance (Book 4), The Inheritance Book Club 159 Comments

The Inheritance Cycle Book Club is a podcast-styled read-through of Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr aimed at refreshing fans and entertaining new readers as we venture toward the release of Inheritance. Each of the twenty episodes will discuss set portions of the books, in order, and will tackle the events of each reading, theories arising from the reading, and more. Join us for our adventure through the series!

Episode thirteen marks the beginning of BRISINGR the final released novel in the series… which means that INHERITANCE is getting really close! The thirteenth installment of Shurtugal.com’s Inheritance Cycle Book Club Podcast has finally arrived! Our latest episode tackles the first several chapters from Brisingr, discussing the important events of this week’s set of reading. Join us as we discuss the Roran and Eragon’s Amazing Helgrind AdventureTM, including the death of the Ra’zac, Katrina’s rescue, and Eragon’s secret side mission! Plus we tackle some fantastic fan questions and theories related to this section in our spoiler section at the end of the podcast. Be sure to read along as we read through all three books over the next twenty weeks

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Brief Outline for “Shurtugal.com Presents: The Inheritance Cycle Book Club, Episode Thirteen”:

  • Introduction! Your hosts are Mike Macauley (Shur’tugal, Lytherus, The Inheritance Almanac), Lauren Zurchin (Lytherus),Chris Addison (Shur’tugal), and special guest Helen Beddis (Theory Expert)
  • Lauren was trapped on top of a mountain by a wild herd of goats bighorn sheep in Montana but she survived and is back!
  • Eragon and Roran begin to act like brothers again
  • The duo saves Katrina and kills the Ra’zac (with help from Saphira, of course)
  • Eragon secretly saves Sloan and “punishes” him
  • Hosts discuss some observations from this reading — facts to keep in mind going forward
  • We give this week’s sweepstakes word! (Yes, Mike remembered!)
  • We want your feedback!
  • The spoiler-free portion of the show ends with a spoiler warning as we begin to discuss our spoiler-ridden theories!
  • End of episode thirteen!

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  • Bestinshow1995

    I thought Galby couldn’t know his true name because it would be so terrible it would kill him or he would go mad. didn’t it say that in Brisingr at one point?

  • Manurocks1945

    can anyone tell me what are these official episodes

  • Sherry B

    I wonder if the vault of souls is a place for the souls of the riders who’s eldunari  have been kept.

  • I thought of Helen’s theory before, but I have to disagree with it right now. I mean it’s VERY cool, but I don’t know… I’ve just never wanted Roran to use magic.

  • I wonder if the word “scrying” actually came from “skypeing”? LOL

    ~Waleed K~

    • Sherry B

      Scrying has been around for hundreds of years.  I wonder if Skypeing may have come from Scrying

  • Roran and Eragon’s little “guy conversation” about girls reminded me of how my uncle questioned me that way once xD but I felt very sorry for Eragon here because he seems to have just as much difficulty finding a mate as Saphira.

  • Best intro Chris has had so far 😛

  • Schoey

    You mention in the podcast that Big Twenty is gunna be released on Monday’s? Were is it? I’ve been hanging out for it for three days now. haha 😉

  • Coasterking

    does anyone out there know where i can get a copy of eragon that christopher and his family published that wont cost me close to $2,000

    • I don’t even own one!  They’re hard to find for less than 1500

      • Coasterking

        that makes me feel better

  • CraigW

    I know its more work for you guys but the longer episode was great this week, i listen at work and for me i could listen all day to your discussions, good to have Lauren back.

  • CraigW

    I know its more work for you guys but the longer episode was great this week, i listen at work and for me i could listen all day to your discussions, good to have Lauren back.

  • CraigW

    I know its more work for you guys but the longer episode was great this week, i listen at work and for me i could listen all day to your discussions, good to have Lauren back.

  • CraigW

    I know its more work for you guys but the longer episode was great this week, i listen at work and for me i could listen all day to your discussions, good to have Lauren back.

  • Anonymous

    I have to disagree with your interpretation of Eragon’s feelings reguarding war and death. I don’t think that he is getting lost in the joy of killing; on the contrary, it makes me think he may be developing Post Traumatic Stress from the fighting he is involved in, after all he is still only around 17 or 18. To me it seems like Roran is more comfortable with killing out of the two, though he hates it too.

  • Anonymous

    I have to disagree with your interpretation of Eragon’s feelings reguarding war and death. I don’t think that he is getting lost in the joy of killing; on the contrary, it makes me think he may be developing Post Traumatic Stress from the fighting he is involved in, after all he is still only around 17 or 18. To me it seems like Roran is more comfortable with killing out of the two, though he hates it too.

  • Coasterking

    are you guys still planing on having a brisinigr replica made for christopher? would love to see that.

  • bigmike

    Is that your new official title now Chris?

    • Nope.  I can’t remember any of it.  Much too long!

      • bigmike

        AWE. To bad. I was especially fond of the “Conveyor of Yals” part. Cause I talk like that as well. I say you should get a name tag for it. That would be EPIC walking around in waliworld wearing it or something and be all like ” Yeah, I know Im Beast.”  😛  

    • Nope.  I can’t remember any of it.  Much too long!

    • Nope.  I can’t remember any of it.  Much too long!

  • Yasir Ahmad

    about the ra’zac – I didn’t care when they died but looking at it from a moral point of view… humans are their food source just as some animals are for humans (non-riders). Does this really make them evil or does it just give humans a reason to hate/fear them? In my view, their killing is justified in self-defense / to save other human lives in the future but I would not call them evil.

    • bigmike

      Them eating the humans isnt evil, them killing the humans just for the fun of it.

      • juss a guess

        well there are some people that kill animals for fun, is that evil to?

  • Kek73

    This is regarding the comment ~ 46 minutes that someone should have been able to fully heal Murtagh’s back wound. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the wound was dealt by Zar’roc. It seems that the rider’s swords usually had magical effects imbued in them. The sword named misery may have dealt wounds that never fully heal… just a thought.

  • Kek73

    This is regarding the comment ~ 46 minutes that someone should have been able to fully heal Murtagh’s back wound. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the wound was dealt by Zar’roc. It seems that the rider’s swords usually had magical effects imbued in them. The sword named misery may have dealt wounds that never fully heal… just a thought.

  • Tabitha K.

    I listen to the podcasts at work most of the time and for some reason “It’s Shurty” stuck itself in my brain this morning. I was walking around talking to the dogs (I work at a shelter) going “Iiiiiiiit’s Shuuuuuurty!” I think everyone thought I was nuts.

  • Anonymous

    please make these available to download onto ipod!! that would be AMAZING! or if it already is can someone tell me the link??:)

    • iLoveDragons

      You can already get these on iTunes. There’s a link in the article. That’s how I listen to the podcasts. 

      • Anonymous

        thank you so much!!:) (dont know how i missed that earlier…)

  • Anonymous

    please make these available to download onto ipod!! that would be AMAZING! or if it already is can someone tell me the link??:)

  • AryaRose

    Totally loved this week being 2 hours. 😀  I like the long episodes, more time for discussion and laughs 😉  Can’t wait for this week’s episode!

  • Kdtdragon89

    Hey Mike,
    You should listen to the audiobook version of Brisingr.  The reader makes Saphira sound like Yoda, lol.

  • Kdtdragon89

    Hey Mike,
    You should listen to the audiobook version of Brisingr.  The reader makes Saphira sound like Yoda, lol.

  • Kdtdragon89

    Hey Mike,
    You should listen to the audiobook version of Brisingr.  The reader makes Saphira sound like Yoda, lol.

    • JustPlainEric

      I love the audiobooks.  I got my dad into the series by letting him listen to my audiobooks.

  • Footballjim81

    ive reread Eldest and I think i might have figured something important
    Blagden said to Eragon  on page 545
    By Beak and Bone

    Mine Blackened Stone
    See Rooks and crooks
    And Bloody Brooks
    i belive its refering to a couple of things
    By Beak and Bone and this the razack

    Mine Blackened Stone i believe this is referring to Helegrind

    See Rooks and crooks i belive this is refering to  a Rook ( like a CASTLE in chess ) to a passageway to the CASTLE in Uru Baen. or the Vault of Sauls and a crook being a robber like how brom was a crook stole saphiras egg

    And Bloody Brooks idk but Im thinking its some sort of blood bath wich in the end can result in the Varden finding the final dragon egg

    • Footballjim81

      some how and someway these are all related I think and theres possibly some tunnel in Helegrind that can lead to the castle idk what but I think this a riddle put in by a riddle master in Blagden and another thing im thinking of is y he shriekes wyrda all the time

    • AryaRose

      Love the theory!! Can’t wait to see if it comes to anything in book 4 XD

  • Anonymous

    I had a dream last night and Nasuade appeared before me, well…it was a ladt who I imagined to be Nasuada, and she proclaimed herself as the next rider. (My mind then boggled.) This doesn’t really have anything to do with the podcast, but I thought it was worth sharing. Maybe I’m looking forward to book 4 a bit ‘too’ much. That, or I need to cut down on the coffee. It’s not even good coffee.

    • Me

      Ha ha nice one. I had a dream where I read a summary of Inheritance… It involved some weird plot twists that didn’t make any sense, but ended with Galbatorix getting crushed by a mountain.

      • Anonymous

        Crushed by Utgard mountain? Now that would be fitting 😉

    • I love reading!!

      I had a weird dream where greeni hatched for Eragon, so that he had 2 dragons.

      • Anonymous

        I also had one of those dreams. but it was bizarre. eragon and Arya had gotten the green egg, and they were both flying. Eragon was on Saphira and Arya was in a helicopter, they were tossing the egg back and forth while Galbatorix was chasing them.

      • Anonymous

        I also had one of those dreams. but it was bizarre. eragon and Arya had gotten the green egg, and they were both flying. Eragon was on Saphira and Arya was in a helicopter, they were tossing the egg back and forth while Galbatorix was chasing them.

        • Me

          Best dream yet ha ha 😀

        • bigmike

          did Galby stop to tie his boots and one of them miss the egg just above Galbi, the egg falls toward him and just before it reaches him, he looks up in time to get smacked in the face with it? cause i saw something like that in my dream…….

        • bigmike

          did Galby stop to tie his boots and one of them miss the egg just above Galbi, the egg falls toward him and just before it reaches him, he looks up in time to get smacked in the face with it? cause i saw something like that in my dream…….

        • bigmike

          did Galby stop to tie his boots and one of them miss the egg just above Galbi, the egg falls toward him and just before it reaches him, he looks up in time to get smacked in the face with it? cause i saw something like that in my dream…….

    • AryaRose

      There is no such thing as anticipating book 4 too much. I mean it’s been 3 years since Brisingr

      • Anonymous

        That’s a good point! 🙂

  • Gabe C.B

    Okay I agree that Murtagh isn’t responsible for what has happened to him, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a selfish bastard.  He would rather a thousand die before he or thorn suffer a scratch.  In Eragon he executed a man that shouldn’t have died.  He might not have wanted to become an all powerful monster, but he certainly isn’t sad that it happened…

    • juss a guess

      you should consider that he didnt have a great childhood, maybe thats why he is the way he is, is kill or get killed in other words he has been forced to fight for his survival since he was born.

  • Kova

    I know the reasons for islanzadi’s death have been discussed, and I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but I think her dying would show some needed insight into arya’s character.

    Also, with eragon’s moral quandary about killing Sloan, and your mention of Harry potter, it reminded me of a line from book 7, something like, “we are fighting against the man who blasts people out of his way when they are of an inconvenience to him,” and I thought that Eragon did the right thing in not killing Sloan, but the correct reason was never addressed in the book.

  • Kova

    I know the reasons for islanzadi’s death have been discussed, and I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but I think her dying would show some needed insight into arya’s character.

    Also, with eragon’s moral quandary about killing Sloan, and your mention of Harry potter, it reminded me of a line from book 7, something like, “we are fighting against the man who blasts people out of his way when they are of an inconvenience to him,” and I thought that Eragon did the right thing in not killing Sloan, but the correct reason was never addressed in the book.

  • Kova

    I know the reasons for islanzadi’s death have been discussed, and I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but I think her dying would show some needed insight into arya’s character.

    Also, with eragon’s moral quandary about killing Sloan, and your mention of Harry potter, it reminded me of a line from book 7, something like, “we are fighting against the man who blasts people out of his way when they are of an inconvenience to him,” and I thought that Eragon did the right thing in not killing Sloan, but the correct reason was never addressed in the book.

  • Nick

    Hey Mike,

    everyone needs to talk more about ‘Doctor Who’, I’m missing those awesome tangents from the podcasts.

    In the UK, Episode 11 of Series 6 was shown on Saturday. Personally I preferred Series 5. However, this series is still better than Series 3 and 4, although several leagues behind 1 and 2.

    Got to love Doctor Who!

    (PS. Tortchwood Series 4 was tepid, Series 2 and 3 were good though) 🙂

    • Bah, your blasphemy is not welcome here :/

      • bigmike

        Shut your mouth boy, your going to catch flies. And people can say what they will on here. That is what I love about this site.

    • Tabitha K.

      I miss the Doctor Who tangents too!

  • A half page summary, and yet this is the longest podcast so far… Gawd, Helen, you talk too much!

  • Claire14

    OH MY GOSH!! They read out my comment!!!! AHHHHH!!!! 🙂 I am sick so that just made me feel so much better!!

  • Fairth

    Can someone that doesn’t have the ability to use magic figure out a true name?  It would make sense that they could because it looks like what it takes is to learn a lot about the subject of the search.

    As a side note, wouldn’t it be much more difficult to find the true name of a living being than it would an object or a language?
    The Ancient Language is different because it is tied to magic, but to learn the true name of a thing (object, language, etc.) you would need to know a general history of it (from which would learn its purpose and other things).  A being, on the other hand, has much more depth than that.  How is that being on an emotional level?  What does the being know?  Any religious beliefs?  And most importantly, what motivates the being to do what he/she does?

    -Fairth

    • Comett

      I don’t imagine you need to be a magic-user to find a true name – but you need to have magical skill to use it in any way.  I would guess that the majority of non-magicians wouldn’t understand the concept of a true name.  Perhaps someone a little more in the know, like Jeod or even Roran, would have an okay shot at it though.

      And thinking about the complexity of finding the true name of a human vs and object is interesting.  I would have thought, at first glance, that finding the TN of a human (or living being) would be more difficult.  But objects don’t have histories, personalities, intentions… objects are just there, and they serve a function.  So perhaps it varies.  Makes you wonder how the name of everything was found originally haha.

    • AryaRose

      I’m not so sure that only a knowledge of the general history of a language would be enough to discover it’s true name, at least not on its own.  Languages are always changing and adapting and branching off into other dialects and such.  Words that meant one thing in Shakespeare’s time mean something completely different now.  While I don’t know if the Ancient Language changes like this I imagine that it’s identity is somehow affected by the intentions and of those who use it both for communication and magic.  Of course I could also be totally off. Only Christopher knows 🙂

  • Guest

    I want to see the Chris’s summary! Can you post it in the comments?

    • I guess I could post it (enjoy!):

      Brisingr starts a couple of days where we left off, scoping out the ra’zac lair

      Terrible self-mutilation is witnessed as another form of religion in Alagaesia.

      Eragon now using a staff after ra’zac was stolen

      Saphira gave ultimatum to Nasuada about letting Eragon attack the ra’zac. 14

      Roran and Eragon discuss the killing of other men, whether or not it troubles them

      Eragon begins to teach Roran how to use magic!

      Eragon and Roran discuss their relationships with their womensss

      They compare bruises (lol)

      Roran tries to get Eragon to eat meat

      They suit up for the assault on helgrind! (Roran holding his hammer behind Eragon on saphira)

      Hidden entrance to helgrind

      The ra’zac get jacked up

      Sloan (!) and Katrina are found in the lair

      Torkenbrand brought back up. I like.

      Eragon sends away saphira, Katrina, and roran to go deal with last ra’zac and sloan

      Ra’zac says “No. If I fall to your staff, let Galbatorix deal with you as he will. He has more heartsss than you do”

      P 65. “He has almost found the name. Big theory

      He kills him. His race is done forever(????? Theory anyone)

      Bring sloan down mountain using magic.

      End part 1 of brisingr

      • Anchal Jain

        Lol – “Eragon now using staff after ra’zac was stolen.”

        I feel like he meant zar’roc 😛

        • Yep.  I read that and was like…hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

        • Yep.  I read that and was like…hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

      • Comett

        short and to the point 😉 love it!

      • Anonymous

        My goodness, that is hilarious 🙂

  • Sesshy

    wow I always enjoy the podcast. Just to let you know you did get my name right. My dad decided when I was born that he liked the way it looked spelled that way. lol

  • Sesshy

    wow I always enjoy the podcast. Just to let you know you did get my name right. My dad decided when I was born that he liked the way it looked spelled that way. lol

  • Sesshy

    wow I always enjoy the podcast. Just to let you know you did get my name right. My dad decided when I was born that he liked the way it looked spelled that way. lol

  • Sesshy

    wow I always enjoy the podcast. Just to let you know you did get my name right. My dad decided when I was born that he liked the way it looked spelled that way. lol

  • Sara Francis

    I recall reading an interview with Chirstaphor that if Murtagh was ever given  contridicting oders that ‘smoke would come out of his ears and then he would explode.’
      
       Also  about the name of dragon theory. if it was the name of the dragon leader at the time of the pact, then his name mighthave an influence over the pact between the Dragons and Elves. If that were the case I could see the apeal to the psychopathic King.

  • Tim G.

    Does anyone else feel like if Roran uses magic to stop the falling wall it would utterly destroy his character? He’s so epic for the very reason that he does what he does WITHOUT magic.

    • Anchal Jain

      It is possible that it could be a spur-of-the-moment thing, purely out of his desperation. I wouldn’t be surprised if he would never be able to do magic again in the future (unless maybe there was a similarly urgent situation).

      • Fairth

        I don’t think that this theroy is very likely.  That said, I love the idea of having someone in the book that can use magic that takes energy from wild magic but can only use that magic in in desperate (aka wild) moments rather than at will.  This would be a great way to give Roran magic without giving up what makes him so cool.

        • Helen Beddis

          I imagined it one of two ways, either he does it then but can never do magic again or he learns a little bit as a back up but doesn’t use it regularly, a bit like how he can fight with a sword and use a bow but chooses to use his familiar hammer.

          • Meh, one of the reasons Roran is so badass is because he doesn’t use magic. We have very few characters now who cannot use magic, and I’m kinda hoping it stays that way. Or, perhaps those iconic seven words Brom said that Mike loves so much were “Don’t let that wall fall on Roran”, and this is the perfect time to use that particular spell 😛

          • Me

            That would require a tremendous amount of foresight… but be really awesome. 😛

          • JustPlainEric

            Brom always did have a tremendous amount of foresight… 😛

          • BlueBiscuit

            Just had a crazy thought. What if Vrom’s 7 words are Galby’s true name. He could have know he was dying and said it anyway and maybe he has uncursed them somehow by dying before the spell killed him.

      • AryaRose

        I totally get where you’re coming from Tim G.  I think though that maybe if he does use magic to save himself in that situation from the excerpt that he may prefer not to use magic again.  Just based on my perception of his personality, he strikes me as one who may be a little weireded out by the concept of magic to some degree and would prefer to accomplish things by his own hands and not through the use of a spell

  • Anchal Jain

    Helen’s theory about the stone-moving spell and the falling wall totally blew my mind! It sounds totally brilliant and I am excited to see if it’s true or not. Nice thinking Helen, as usual!

    • Helen Beddis

      Thanks! 🙂

  • XxxX

    Nasuada is gonna die!!!

  • XxxX

    Big Twenty on Nasuada!!!!!! 

  • Lil Uhura

    Just a thought here Mike, but it could be possible that Galbatorix is looking for the name of the ancient dragon leader because he has his eldunari in his hoard and hasn’t broken him yet.  As an ancient being he would be a far more formidable opponent than most dragons, plus there’s also the additional hurdle of no one actually knowing his name in any language save for that of the dragons. 

    • AvaAnnaZ

      I love your name!! I presume that you’re a trekkie like me. 🙂

      • Lil Uhura

        Oh yeah!!  Lil’ Uhura was originally the name of my cat.  She was neglected and abused by her previous owner, so I wanted to give her a name that really meant something positive.

      • Lil Uhura

        Oh yeah!!  Lil’ Uhura was originally the name of my cat.  She was neglected and abused by her previous owner, so I wanted to give her a name that really meant something positive.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if murtagh has ever considered that his best friend, tornac, gave his life so murtagh could be free of empire, maybe murtagh will try to escape in his name.

    did anyone else notice that chris’s mic was echoing a bit, it doesnt normally do that.

  • bromandsaphira

    “Have you ever been in Barnes and Noble when their making their cookies?! soo good! I highly reccomand the peanut butter cookie.”
    haha…i cracked up at that part!

  • bromandsaphira

    “Giant blue sparkly dragon thingy”
    haha, love you guys!
    “So i’m reading this in starbucks, and my jaws just dropping…”
    Ha, epic
    “How do you decide what’s your last limb? You know, how does that work?”
    aaah Lauren…
    “there are people in real life who enjoy the taste of blood and think their vampires…”
    “Must be a twilight fan…”
    go Chris!
    “We need to have a conversation with Christopher about how he comes out with these insults…”
    good one.
    “It seems like Eragon had a harder time killing the animals he had to eat than freeing the slaves.”
    good point. 🙂
    “I’m gonna bring a stick into a gunfight..”
    “Stupid boy.”
    🙂 hehe, agree with you guys….eragon’s stupid…
    “You certainly can’t argue with a dragon. you’re gonna lose your head or limb or suffer third degree burns…”

    • I wasn’t saying Eragon is stupid. 😉

      • bromandsaphira

        okay, well he’s not stupid…but like Brom was always telling him, he just needs to think things through a bit more. don’t get me wrong, i love Eragon, but sometimes i just want to go into the books and yell at him…oh, and give him a sword and say, “dude, taking the sword and go kick some butt.”

    • I wasn’t saying Eragon is stupid. 😉

    • I wasn’t saying Eragon is stupid. 😉

  • bromandsaphira

    anyone have the podcast words for episodes 1-10? Someone, maybe my mom, accidantly threw it out, and now its lost in a garbage heap somewhere…please help!!!

  • bromandsaphira

    anyone have the podcast words for episodes 1-10? Someone, maybe my mom, accidantly threw it out, and now its lost in a garbage heap somewhere…please help!!!

    • All of the old episodes are online still.

    • All of the old episodes are online still.

    • All of the old episodes are online still.

    • Wayne

      my sister through out sweepstakes words after episode 6, had to re-listen to all the episodes, lol, not that that was a bad thing.

  • bromandsaphira

    can i just say that it is SO COOL that we have fan guests on the podcast?! SOOO amazing! wow. this really just proves how amazing all of you guys are…wow. thanks for making the long wait for book 4 so fun and exciting. Helen B, must admit, I am a little envious, but I’m really happy that you’re on this podcast! so awesome!

  • Aplussoccerkid

    What is VOS is all of Galby’s eldunari. That would be a twist.

  • Coasterking

    just sent an awsome email for you guys for next week hope you like it u better i put a lot of thought into it

  • Anonymous

    Izlandzadi definately survives in book four because in Eragon’s guide to alagaesia, he talks about her in present tense.

    • Coasterking

      did not catch that what part is this happen in?

      • Rebekka

        I have a good feeling that Arya will die. Eragon is so obsessed with her, and I doubt that Arya will ever grow to love him, so I think that for Eragon to get over Arya, she would need to die.
        Another thought that I had was what if the true name that Galby is looking for is the true name of the dragon race?

    • Well that blows a huge hole in their theory…

      And notches another check next to Helen’s!

  • Victor

    i don’t think roran survives due to using magic himself. a whole wall collapses on him so the energy needed to protect himself would kill him anyway. i think someone else might push him away or pull him out using magic themselves.

    • daniel

      he doesnt need to suspend the wall in mid-air. just slow it down enough not to crush him to death. he probably will be injured but eragon was very close so he could heal instantly.. Or- just thought of this- he senses that roran is casting a spell which is draining energy, transfers energy into roran keeping him from dieing.  

  • Coasterking

    why was there no sweepstakes word?

    • Anonymous

      There was.

      • Coasterking

        i did find it thanks though

        • Hahaha, don’t scare me like that.

          • Coasterking

            fell asleep listining to this the first time so i missed it and then thought it was omited. so for the scare 

          • Man, even I got scared for a second there..

  • Anonymous

    My favorite section of this reading was when Roran and Eragon were showing off their scars. Every time I read that, I burst out laughing. I love it so much.

  • Cste95Guitar

    In answer to Lauren the reason Galbatorix was able to guess Murtagh’s true name after him being away was because galby broke into his mind and examined all his memories. Murtagh tells Eragon this when they meet again.

  • AvaAnnaZ

    Woah the show was absolutely the best so far. Everybody was great, and it was lovely to have Helen B. Thank you so much for such a great start to the weekend.

  • AvaAnnaZ

    Wicked. Listening now…

    • AvaAnnaZ

      It’s really nice to have someone from Britain on the show. 🙂

    • AvaAnnaZ

      It’s really nice to have someone from Britain on the show. 🙂

  • Bertimus

    wow! Hellen B is amazing. Good work on the rock spell theory.

    • Helen Beddis

      Thanks Bertimus!

  • Helen Beddis

    I loved being on the show, thanks for having me on. It didn’t feel like I said much but I’m so used to listening to your voices a couple of times I forgot you could hear me too!!

  • Helen Beddis

    I loved being on the show, thanks for having me on. It didn’t feel like I said much but I’m so used to listening to your voices a couple of times I forgot you could hear me too!!

  • Helen Beddis

    I loved being on the show, thanks for having me on. It didn’t feel like I said much but I’m so used to listening to your voices a couple of times I forgot you could hear me too!!

  • Helen Beddis

    I loved being on the show, thanks for having me on. It didn’t feel like I said much but I’m so used to listening to your voices a couple of times I forgot you could hear me too!!

  • Helen Beddis

    I loved being on the show, thanks for having me on. It didn’t feel like I said much but I’m so used to listening to your voices a couple of times I forgot you could hear me too!!

    • Anonymous

      hey helen, just listened to the podcast and was intrigued by your theory about roran using magic, mainly the part where u said we know roran survives cos hes in the king cat chapter, but i jst re read it and there is no mention of roran in there?

      • Helen Beddis

        Hi Hazza

        I’ve just double checked my facts and Roran is standing next to Angela during the King Cat chapter.

        • Anonymous

          iim sitting here laughin my head off now, jst looked at it again n seen it, right there in black n white, right in front of me lol, feel rather dippy now seein i read it 3 times jst to see if roran was mentioned n completely missed that, so i stand corrected n thank u for correctin me, stil the wanderin bout islanzadi tho

          • Helen Beddis

            I didn’t mention Islanzadi dying because I don’t think she will.

          • Anonymous

            no u didnt but the others did lol, i here u may be goin to bath to see c.p, im also thinkin of going seein that i live in devon

          • I, for one, think Thorn will die and that will have a profound affect on Murtagh’s mind and it will change his true name and release him. (Then it’ll be up to him to decide if he wants to help.)

          • Helen Beddis

            Bob I fear you may be right but I hope not, I want them both to escape Galby’s evil enslavement unscathed.

          • Anonymous

            i think that they will change there true names and escape and in realising that he is losin his hold galby, havin thorns eldunari will destroy it leavin murtagh to be the man lonely on the shore in eragons premonition

          • Daniela

            No way! Kill Murtagh, if there is no other way, but not Thorn 🙁 *sob*

  • Anchal Jain

    I used to love Murtagh, but I really have a hard time liking him now after how he has responded to his fate. At the end of the day he enjoys his power, more than he dislikes doing evil things. We see this when he senselessly kills Hrothgar, and also when he blatantly rejects the idea of killing himself.

    You can add me to the list of people who don’t like Murtagh (anymore).

  • hoke

    so stoked for inheritance to come out. luckily it will be at my school book store so i dont have to drive like half an hour to the nearest mall to get it november 8

  • Aww, awesome intro Chris!

    • Mike made that up and informed me of the title seconds before we started, lol

      • bigmike

        I thought it was on the were cat big twenty comments. its on the last page at the bottom.

      • bigmike

        I thought it was on the were cat big twenty comments. its on the last page at the bottom.

      • bigmike

        I thought it was on the were cat big twenty comments. its on the last page at the bottom.

      • bigmike

        I thought it was on the were cat big twenty comments. its on the last page at the bottom.

  • Sorry for the slight delay (I wanted to be done a couple hours earlier) it was a bit LONGER than I expected. Those guys sure now how to talk!

    I think I’m gonna go pass out now.