Eragon

The Inheritance Cycle

Content Ratings

Mild Romance

Eragon develops a reverent, largely unrequited emotional longing for an elf woman named Arya; the connection is romantically charged but never reciprocated in a physical way; romantic content is minor and secondary to the adventure.

Moderate Themes

Themes include the weight of inherited destiny, the loss of home and family members to violence, and the corrupting nature of absolute power; Eragon's grief over the death of a mentor is emotionally significant.

Moderate Violence

The novel features large-scale battles, characters being killed by Urgals, magic-driven combat, torture of a captured elf, and the deaths of significant characters; violence is frequent and occasionally intense but not graphically gory.

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old farm boy Eragon discovers a mysterious stone that hatches into a dragon, drawing him into an ancient legacy as a Dragon Rider and into a dangerous conflict with the tyrannical King Galbatorix. With his dragon Saphira and a storyteller named Brom as his guide, Eragon sets out on a journey that will change his world forever. A sweeping, action-packed epic fantasy steeped in world-building and classic adventure.