Inheritance [antikvár]

In the Beginning: A History of Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr In the beginning, there were dragons: proud, fierce, and independent. Their scales were like gems, and all who gazed upon them despaired, for their beauty was great and terrible. And they lived alone in the land of Alagaesia for ages uncounted. Then the god Helzvog made the stout and sturdy dwarves from the stone of the Hadarac Desert. And their two races warred much. Then the elves sailed to Alagaesia from across the silver sea. They too warred with the dragons. But the elves were stronger than the dwarves, and they would have destroyed the dragons, even as the dragons would have destroyed the elves. And so a truce was struck and a pact was sealed between the dragons and the elves. And by this joining, they created the Dragon Riders, who kept the peace throughout Alagaesia for thousands of years. Then humans sailed to Alagaesia. And the homed Urgals. And the Ra'zac, who are the hunters in the dark and the eaters of men's flesh. And the humans also joined the pact with the dragons. Then a young Dragon Rider, Galbatorix, rose up against his own kind. He enslaved the black dragon Shruikan and he convinced thirteen other Riders to follow him. And the thirteen were called the Forsworn. And Galbatorix and the Forswom cast down the Riders and bumt their city on the isle of Vroengard and slew every dragon not