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=== Literature ===

* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'' is one of the worst of the lot, featuring two horses being led for weeks on end through a ''mind-bogglingly vast desert'' without a word of mention as to how they were doing except for a few lines describing Eragon lifting water up through the sand for them to drink, presumably leading them to eat sand. While you can give a horse all the food and water in the world, and they'll still need rest in order to avoid collapsing from exhaustion or overheating. One sporker reached the conclusion that they were "Zombie Horses", mentioning that it was lucky the horses were already dead or else the conditions would have killed them. The exact logistics of the trip (and why it is impossible) can be found [http://eragon-sporkings.wikispaces.com/part_twentyseven here].

* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'' is one of the worst of the lot, featuring two horses being led for weeks on end through a ''mind-bogglingly vast desert'' without a word of mention as to how they were doing except for a few lines describing Eragon lifting water up through the sand for them to drink, presumably leading them to eat sand. While you can give a horse all the food and water in the world, and they'll still need rest in order to avoid collapsing from exhaustion or overheating. One sporker reached the conclusion that they were "Zombie Horses", mentioning that it was lucky the horses were already dead or else the conditions would have killed them. The exact logistics of the trip (and why it is impossible) can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20120702205058/http://eragon-sporkings.wikispaces.com/part_twentyseven here].

** Making it worse, there are comments before and after on how impossible it is for horses to cross a desert and mountain range that quickly without rest. This is casually disregarded. Murtagh believed that the horses would die halfway through. Someone at their destination seems to view it as one of Eragon's more impressive feats as a [[Dragon Rider]].

** And in ''Brisingr'', Eragon and Garzhvog run for days on end only stopping to sleep and eat every couple of days, if that (though Eragon is basically [[Our Elves Are Better|half-elf]] at this point and Garzhvog is a [[Our Orcs Are Different|Kull]] - both races have been established as having superhuman endurance).