Brisingr Summary #4

In this summary, I will first tell of what Eragon's brother Roran did, then Eragon's dragon, Saphira, and then Eragon himself. Roran accompanies a raid on a village captured by the empire, and after the boneheaded general he is under the command of almost gets them killed, Roran takes control of matters. Roran uses superior tactical skill, bravery, and leadership to defy his captain, beat the enemy, and slay nearly two hundred soldiers himself. This act of insubordination gets Roran literally tied to the whipping post in the end, taking fifty lashes, only so he could stay in the Varden. Directly after his flaying, Roran leads a force of half Urgals, and half men to do a small raid with purposes to unite the two races further. This is successful, until Roran provokes one of the Rams (term for a male Urgal) into a duel for dominance over the tribe. Roran wins, and all is settled. In the meantime, Saphira is getting bored around the Varden, with only a fake apparition of Eragon, cast to mislead possible spies as to Eragon's absence, to keep her company. She eventually hears of Eragon's attempted assassination, and flies for three days and nights straight to reach him. All the while, Eragon vows to avenge the murderers of his guard, and with the combined forces of Orik, they banish the clan responsible. Orik is elected king, and is crowned by a strange being, summoned in the ancient language, apparently a dwarven god. After the coronation, Eragon and Saphira fly directly to Du Weldenvarden (the realm of the elves) to seek guidance from Boromis, Eragon's master, on how to defeat Galbatorix. Instead, Eragon learns of his genealogy, discovering his actual father was not the evil Morzan, but his ex-guide, Brom. Even though brom is now dead, this knowledge helped Eragon understand himself better.