Inheritance Cycle: Difference between revisions

* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]: Carvahall receives a lot of trouble from this trope even after Eragon leaves.

* [[Can't Argue with Elves]]: Since Paolini's Elves are pretty and magical, they know everything and are very happy to tell you that.

* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: Trianna says it's wise Eragon doesn't want to be king, because a king is simply a man imprisoned by his duties.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|When Glaedr tells Saphira to "keep her heart safe" before she and Eragon leave to go help the Varden fight the Empire's army in Eldest. Later revealed that he was referring to a special magic stone every dragon has called an Eldunari which is basically their source of magical power and where their souls go if the Eldunari is removed from their bodies, they're also the source of Galbatorix's power, so that's quite a big gun.}}

* [[The Lancer]]: Roran.

* [[Left Field Description]]: All the time.

* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: After she arrives in Ellesmera, Arya stops wearing a leather band in her hair to show how relaxed she is.

* [[Life Energy]]: Used to fuel magic.

* [[Rage Against the Mentor]]: [[Farm Boy|Eragon]] constantly complains about [[The Obi-Wan|Brom]] keeping secrets from him.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Arya, to some extent.

* [[La Résistance]]: The Varden.

* [[Retcon]]: A couple of details (see [[BFS]] on this page for an example) were changed, generally for the better. Mostly averted with regard to the actual storyline.

* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: Prior to the release of ''Brisingr'', Christopher Paolini announced that a major character would die at the end of the book. That character was {{spoiler|Oromis, the [[Old Master]]. Glaedr survives in his Eldunari but is physically dead.}}

* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: {{spoiler|Brom's ring.}}

* [[To the Pain]]: Eragon's threat to a soldier early in the first book.

* [[Trilogy Creep]]: What was once a "Trilogy" is now a "Cycle."

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