The Inheritance Cycle

''The hero of the story was a heartless, arrogant brat. I'm rather surprised no-one physically hurt him for saying things like "I'm the rider! I say where we go!" This would be fine if he were talking to a horse, but he was not talking to a horse. He was talking to Saphira, a dragon with the intelligence level of a human being. A woman, if you will. Put a human female in Saphira's place. "I'm your master! I say where we go!" Would you stand for the hero of a story doing that? It's nauseating. - Syera on SH.net, discussing the problems with Eragon''.

The Inheritance Cycle is an amazingly bad fantasy series written by Christopher Paolini.

It can be noted for its urple prose, bad characterization, nonsensical background, obvious theft of other storylines, poor grasp of physics and of course, its Gary Stu, Eragon.

In the interests of fairness however, the Inheritance Cycle is in fact a published work and therefore has a Word World and canon of its own, and technically comes under the jurisdiction of the PPC as a thing to be protected. The only problem with this theoretical possibility so far has been finding Agents willing to go into the damn thing and with the self-discipline not to kill Eragon himself as well as any fan characters etc. No doubt, however, given the Laws of Narrative Comedy, the amount Eragon has been ranted about means that an Agent or Agents will sometime soon volunteer for duty in this continuum. It's only a matter of time.

=List of Plot Elements Paolini has stolen=

Star Wars
Much of the plot of the Inheritance Cycle seems to be taken directly from Star Wars. In a nutshell: A simple farm boy raised by his uncle accidentally gains an item. People destroy his farm and kill his uncle in search of that item. He meets an old man (an exile from--and seemingly the last of--an ancient organization of peacekeeping warriors) who travels with him and becomes his mentor. The old man is eventually killed by evil people and the farm boy swears to avenge him. He meets a rebellion (an alliance of many different races) and helps them win a massive battle against overwhelming odds (of course, he's a major part of the battle). Then he goes off to a mysterious place for training by an ancient leader of above mentioned ancient organization of peacekeeping warriors. During the climactic battle of the second installation he finds out that the physically imposing second-in-command of the main antagonist is his father.

Pern
Telepathic Bonding with Dragons or related species.

Belgariad and Malloreon
A silver mark on one's hand that comes from touching a magic object.

The Lord of the Rings
=Sporkings=

Kippurbird is well known for her sporkings of the series.

=Agents Native to the Inheritance Cycle=


 * Arya Dragon