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Published: March 12, 2023, 6:04am

NEW YORK - Christopher Paolini will have new adventures out this fall from Alagaësia and the world of Eragon, featuring the Dragon Rider Murtagh.

Random House Children's Books announced Wednesday that Paolini's "Murtagh," a standalone novel that takes place a year after the events of "Inheritance Cycle," will be published Nov. 7 with an announced first printing of 2 million copies. According to Random House, the novel is an "epic journey into lands both familiar and untraveled" as Murtagh and his dragon Thorn confront a "mysterious witch."

"'Murtagh' is the novel I've been waiting to write for over 13 years," Paolini said in a statement.

"It's a deep dive into the life of our titular character and his dragon, Thorn. Here you'll find mystery, magic, and revelations as Murtagh attempts to answer some of the deepest questions in the land, as well as those of his own life," he said. "I've had a ridiculous amount of (sometimes devilish) fun writing MURTAGH, and I can't wait for readers to experience it for themselves. Welcome back to Alagaësia!"

Paolini, 39, had yet to turn 20 when his debut novel "Eragon" made him one of the world's most popular fantasy writers. His four "Inheritance" books - "Eragon," "Eldest," "Brisingr" and "Inheritance" - have sold more than 40 million copies, according to his publisher.

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Christopher Paolini returns to world of Eragon with 'Murtagh'

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NEW YORK - Christopher Paolini will have new adventures out this fall from Alagaësia and the world of Eragon, featuring the Dragon Rider Murtagh.

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Eldest is a young adult fantasy novel by Christopher Paolini. The second book in The Inheritance Cycle saga, it follows the main character as he learns how to ride dragons and protect his lands from the wicked king of a corrupt empire. It was first published in 2005 when Paolini was just a teenager, and it won numerous awards, including the 2007 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award. The series has since been optioned for feature film, although the movie adaptation of the first book, Eragon, didn't do as well as expected. Paolini's hometown of Paradise Valley, Montana, inspired much of the scenery in the saga.

The protagonist is a boy called Eragon Shadeslayer. He's fifteen years old and lives in the fictional village of Carvahall on the continent of Alagaësia. He once found a stone in the mountains that turned out to be a dragon's egg. When the dragon hatches, Eragon calls her Saphira. They bond voluntarily for life. Eragon is now known as a Dragon Rider.

At the end of Eragon, Eragon has joined a rebel resistance group called the Varden. They stand against the evil king, King Galbatorix, with some success, but they're not yet strong enough to defeat him. Some of Eragon's friends go missing, and he's desperate to find them again. Eldest begins just as this first battle against King Galbatorixends.

Although Eragon does well in the battle, he knows he's untrained and weak. There's little he can do against the king on his own, and he hasn't been training with dragons for very long. When the king of the Varden, Ajihad, is ambushed and executed, Eragon knows he can only help the resistance if he develops his special skills.

Eragon travels to a special mountain range, Du Weldenvarden, to complete his Dragon Rider training. Although these mountains are inhabited by dwarves, it's elves who will complete Eragon's tuition. The dwarves welcome Eragon into their home because they know he's trying to defeat King Galbatorix.

Although some people question what's so special about Eragon and why they need him for the war effort, most know that Eragon is the only person who can match King Galbatorix's skills with dragons. King Galbatorix used to be the best Dragon Rider, but his power corrupted him. As a result, any resistance effort without Eragon is futile. The elves promise to push Eragon to his limits and make him the best Dragon Rider he can be.

While Eragon stays in Du Weldenvarden, the elves teach him everything they can about combat and magical theory. They let Saphira fly with trained dragons so that she can learn all about air-to-air combat and work on her navigation skills. Although Eragon and Saphira usually train separately, they still spend a lot of time together to strengthen their bond.

Meanwhile, Nasuada, Ajihad's daughter and the new leader of the Varden, declares she's moving their forces across the continent to prepare a strike against the Empire. First, however, she must secure money and resources. Now that the Varden are making their final preparations, Eragon knows he must complete his training as soon as possible. The problem is that Eragon is only human, and old wounds from the earlier battles are making his training difficult.

To help Eragon with his journey, the elves endow him with some of their own characteristics. He inherits their strength and some of their magical abilities through a blood oath celebration. Although Eragon is still mortal and mostly human, he'll be able to withstand tougher opponents and he'll last longer in the sky. The injuries he's plagued with disappear, and his confidence in his own abilities is renewed.

In the meantime, Saphira finds a dragon she wants to mate with. This dragon, however, isn't interested in her, and Saphira's distracted by her feelings. And, now that Eragon's feeling better, he develops a crush on a local elven girl, Arya. She's elf royalty, and he knows he shouldn't love her, but he can't help obsessing over her.

When word reaches Eragon that he must leave the elves sooner than expected, he takes his chance and tells Arya that he loves her. Arya is cruel and dismisses him. Broken-hearted and unable to complete his training, Eragon leaves the elves feeling more despondent than ever before. Only Saphira can bolster his spirits, but she too is broken-hearted.

Eragon and Saphira spend much of the book traveling to reach the Varden forces. When they finally track down the camp, they realize that it's under attack by the king. Together, Eragon and Saphira assist the Varden, but many of their friends perish in the fighting. Meanwhile, the king's best Dragon Rider rises, and he plans on killing Eragon.

Eragon must bolster his courage and challenge the king's Dragon Rider. The rider turns out to be Murtagh, Eragon's old friend, who the king forced into his service after capturing him. Murtagh can't kill Eragon, and the king's army retreats for now. Now that Eragon knows Murtagh is his primary enemy, he doesn't know how to move forward. The decisions he makes and the path he chooses form the basis of books three and four.

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Eragons journey continues. He meets with the queen of the elves and trains as dragon rider. He discovers that his brother is in leagues with. Galbatorix

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Eldest is the second novel in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and the sequel to . It was first published in hardcover on August 23, 2005, and was released in paperback in September 2006. Eldest has been released in an audiobook format, and as an ebook. Like Eragon, Eldest became a New York Times bestseller. A deluxe edition of was released on September 26, 2006, including new information and art by both the illustrator and the author. Other editions of Eldest are translated into different languages.

Eldest begins following several important events in Eragon. The story is the continued adventures of Eragon and his dragon Saphira, centering on their journey to the realm of the Elves in order to further Eragon's training as a Dragon Rider. Other plots in the story focus on Roran, Eragon's cousin, who leads the inhabitants of Carvahall to Surda to join the Varden, and Nasuada as she takes on her father's role as leader of the Varden.

Reviews pointed out the similarities between Eldest and other works such as The Lord of the Rings, while praising the themes of the book, such as friendship and honor. Several of these reviews commented on the style and genre of Eldest, while others considered the possibility of a film adaptation similar to the first film.

Eldest begins three days after the events of the preceding novel, , in the dwarf city of Tronjheim, inside of a hollowed mountain named Farthen Dûr. Farthen Dûr is in the southeastern part of Alagaësia, the fictional continent where the Inheritance Cycle takes place. Throughout the novel, the protagonists travel to many different places: Ellesméra, the elven capital city in the forest Du Weldenvarden, on the northern portion of Alagaësia; Carvahall, a small town located on the northwestern part of Alagaësia in Palancar Valley; and Aberon, the capital of Surda, in the southern portion of Alagaësia.

Characters

The story is told in third-person through protagonists Eragon, Roran, and Nasuada. Eragon is nearly always accompanied by his dragon Saphira. Due to the multiple points-of-view, multiple stories take place concurrently, and the protagonist characters do not meet often. Several other characters return from , including Arya (the elf warrior, daughter of the elven queen), Orik, Roran (Eragon's cousin and a major character), Ajihad (the leader of the Varden, who dies and is replaced by his daughter Nasuada), and Angela (the herbalist). Some new characters are introduced in Eldest, such as Oromis and his dragon Glaedr. Murtagh appears briefly as a minor protagonist but then reappears later as a primary antagonist with his dragon, Thorn.

Plot summary

Eldest begins as Ajihad, the king of the rebel Varden force, is ambushed and killed, while The Twins and Murtagh are assumed dead. Ajihad's daughter Nasuada is elected to command the Varden, and decides to move them to Surda and oppose the Empire openly. Eragon and Saphira decide to travel to the forest Du Weldenvarden to be trained as a Dragon Rider by the elves. The dwarf king, Hrothgar, adopts Eragon to his clan and has his now foster brother, Orik, accompany him to the forest. There, Eragon meets the stranger who had contacted him, revealed to be a Rider, Oromis, with his Dragon Glaedr, the only Dragon and Rider secretly alive. However, both are crippled, and so cannot fight Galbatorix directly, choosing to pass on their knowledge. Eragon and Saphira are taught the use of logic, magic theory, scholarship, and combat, among other things.

However, having received a back injury in the previous book, Eragon is beset by agonizing seizures, which debilitate him. He also struggles with his romantic feelings for Arya, while Saphira has similar struggles toward Glaedr. Arya becomes aware of his feelings, and distances herself from him, not to interfere in his education, while Saphira is violently rejected by Glaedr. Eventually, in an ancient elven ceremony, the Agaetí Blödhren, Eragon is affected by powerful magic, turning him into an elf-human hybrid, and healing his back injury. He makes another romantic attempt on Arya, but she gently rejects him, and leaves to rejoin the Varden.

Meanwhile, unknowing of all of this, Eragon's cousin Roran plans to marry Katrina, daughter of Sloan, the village butcher. While the village is at peace, they are unexpectedly attacked by Galbatorix's soldiers and the Ra'zac, who had killed Roran's father, Garrow. Roran fights the soldiers with a hammer, which becomes his signature weapon. The Ra'zac and most of the soldiers escape, saying that they want information from Roran. The entire village then sets up defenses, and during a second invasion, the Ra'zac escape again. One night, Roran wakes up to find Katrina being attacked by the Ra'zac, who sneaked into the house. They seriously injure him and capture Katrina. Sloan, revealed to be in league with the Ra'zac, is then flown away by them, along with Katrina.

Torn between chasing after Katrina and staying behind to defend his home, Roran rallies almost the entirety of the village to travel to Surda and join the Varden. On the way, they journey to Teirm, where Roran meets Jeod, Brom's friend, who informs him about Eragon, and decides to go with them. With Jeod's help, they steal a ship, and journey toward Surda by sea.

Meanwhile, Nasuada struggles under the burdens of leadership. She hatches a plan to fund them by selling magically-crafted lace, to alleviate their financial troubles. She also meets Elva, a child supposedly blessed by Eragon in the previous book. Eragon is revealed to have botched the blessing with poor phrasing, accidentally forcing Elva to feel the pain of others. Elva uses her abilities to save Nasuada from an assassination attempt. Nasuada eventually learns that Galbatorix is fielding a massive army against them, and sends for help from the dwarves and Eragon.

Eragon has a prophetic dream of the coming battle, and decides to interrupt his training to aid the Varden in battle. Oromis consents and provides him with numerous gifts to help him, but insists he return to finish his training after the battle. He journeys with Saphira and Orik to the Varden's camp, reuniting with Nasuada and Arya, and meeting Elva, promising to rid her of his failed blessing. The Varden are then joined by an army of Urgals, who seek an alliance with them after being freed of Durza's control.

As the battle begins, it goes poorly for the massively outnumbered Varden. Roran and the dwarves arrive mid-battle, and begin to turn the tide in favor of the Varden, but an unknown Dragon Rider unexpectedly arrives and kills Hrothgar. Eragon engages this Rider, who proves an even match, and unmasks him, revealing him to be Murtagh. Murtagh reveals he was kidnapped by the Twins, who had betrayed the Varden. After the dragon, named Thorn, had hatched for him, they were both forced into loyalty by Galbatorix. Meanwhile, the battle proceeds, with the Twins revealing themselves and causing massive losses among the Varden, until Roran kills them.

Murtagh and Eragon resume their fight, with Murtagh easily defeating Eragon through magic. He shows mercy to him, on account of their old friendship, but takes Eragon's sword Zar'roc, which he claims to be his inheritance, revealing that he and Eragon are brothers.

Ultimately, the Varden win the battle. The book ends as Roran asks Eragon for help in rescuing Katrina, to which he agrees.

Eldest received generally negative reviews, and was met with criticism similar to Eragon for its derivative nature. School Library Journal noted that Eldest lacked originality, but would still find reception among fans. It also acknowledged that themes of Eldest are based generally on the works of other writers. BookBrowse also criticized Eldest, but said, as School Library Journal noted, that nothing the reviewers can say will stop some children from reading the book. Entertainment Weekly rated Eldest as one of the worst five books of 2005, calling it a "700-page drag." The Boston Globe gave a negative review for Eldest, criticizing the very low points and for "drama that rises to a wet pop." The Christian Science Monitor gave Eldest a C+ grade. Similar to other reviews, it criticized the long plot and its similarities to The Lord of the Rings and , as well as the lack of humor. The review commented that Roran, one of the secondary major characters, had the best part of the book. SFSignal also gave Eldest a poor review, giving it one out of five stars. The main reason of this was for its dull pace. The SFSignal review, like The Christian Science Monitor, did say that Roran had the "strongest sequence" in the book.

However, there were also some more positive reviews of Eldest. Bookmarks magazine saw Eldest's similarity to other works, but said that Eldest displayed more emotional depth than . Publishers Weekly also gave a positive review for Eldest, praising the revelations in the final pages. Barnes & Noble gave a positive review for Eldest, in particular for its style, characters and themes such as friendship, forgiveness, responsibility, and honor. Eldest won the 2006 Quill Award in Young Adult Literature. Eldest also was nominated for a British Book Award in the Children's Book of the Year section, the Disney Adventures Book Award, the Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Young Adult Book Award, and the Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award.

Several themes in Eldest have been noted. A Barnes & Noble reviewer praised the honor, friendship, responsibility, and forgiveness in the book. The reviewer called these themes "age-transcendent". School Library Journal commented on how Eragon looked for a definition for good and evil. A third review, while not identifying any specific themes, said the author was "layering his themes" to make the book more exciting. Another review praised the story for the themes of power, family, and maturing. Paolini commented on the theme in Eldest of vegetarianism:

"One of my goals as an author is to explore various aspects of human nature. It's my job, then, to attempt to understand why people act, even if it differs from my own point of view or practice, and to present those reasons to the best of my ability. The actions and beliefs of my characters are not necessarily my own."

There are also themes of religion and atheism, the dwarves being highly religious, the elves being atheists, and Eragon, growing up without a religious background but a set of superstitions, wondering if there are higher powers.

Eldest falls in the genre of juvenile fiction and fantasy. Reviews often commented on how Eldest borrowed from the fantasy genre. Other reviews criticized and praised the writing style of the author. Los Angeles Times, while noting that the writing was more mature, criticized the novel for being inconsistent. An Entertainment Weekly review was negative toward the story because it was slow-paced, while The Washington Post said Eldest needed to be shortened. A reviewer from The Boston Globe said:

"He is to English as a bad dog to a chainsaw: he worries it, and worries it, and devastation spreads around him."

On the other hand, Barnes & Noble called the writing style fluid and Children's Literature praised the story for being richly detailed. Kirkus Reviews compared the story to a patchwork of fantasy elements and characters, then concluded that it, despite being derivative, was exciting and held together well.

A deluxe version of Eldest called the "Limited Edition" was released on September 26, 2006. It was published by Random House. The deluxe edition included an excerpt of , a poster of Glaedr (which would become the cover art for Brisingr), the history of Alagaësia, art by Christopher Paolini, and a list of characters, places, objects, and dwarf clans. The deluxe edition was also released in an Ebook format.

Eldest has been published in forty-one countries, several translations from English into different languages have been made. Translations for languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, and Serbian have appeared. Worldwide Eldest has several publishers including Gailivro, which publishes the Polish and Portuguese Eldest, and Gramedia Pustaka Utama, the publisher of the Indonesian translations.

An omnibus of and Eldest was published on July 8, 2008 and included then-unseen manuscripts by Paolini.[citation needed ]

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Eldest is the second novel in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and the sequel to . It was first published in hardcover on August 23, 2005, and was released in paperback in September 2006. Eldest has been released in an audiobook format, and as an ebook.

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Christopher was homeschooled by his parents. As a child, he often wrote short stories and poems, made frequent trips to the library, and read widely. Some of his favorite books were Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, Frank Herbert's and Raymond E. Feist's Magician (now available in volumes one and two), as well as books by Anne McCaffrey, Jane Yolen, Brian Jacques, E.R. Eddison, David Eddings, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

The idea of began as the daydreams of a teen. Christopher's love for the magic of stories led him to craft a novel that he would enjoy reading. The project began as a hobby, a personal challenge; he never intended it to be published. Before he began writing Eragon, he plotted out the entire adventure. He found that doing some of the same things as his characters allowed him to better understand their world, as well as to think of descriptions that otherwise would not have occured to him. To this end he forged his own knives and swords, made chain mail, spun wool, camped in the Beartooth Mountains, made his own bow, built survival shelters, learned to track game, fletched arrows, felled trees, hiked, and camped. In short, the books embody a great deal of his experience of living in Montana.

His work also combined elements gathered from research and from his imagination. He read a huge amount of folklore while growing up, ranging from the Brothers Grimm to , Nordic sagas, and the , along with contemporary fantasy and science fiction. In addition, he learned about weaponry, food, clothing, and customs from the Middle Ages, which is roughly the era he envisioned Eragon living in. Armed with that information, he daydreamed the scenes with his characters. Then he took pen to paper and tried to recreate those images with words.

Christopher was fifteen when he wrote the first draft of Eragon. He took a second year to revise the book, and then gave it to his parents to read. The family decided to self-publish the book and spent a third year preparing the manuscript for publication: copyediting, proofreading, designing a cover, typesetting the manuscript, and creating marketing materials. During this time Christopher drew the map for Eragon, as well as the dragon eye for the book cover (which now appears inside the Knopf hardcover edition). The manuscript was sent to press and the first books arrived in November 2001. The Paolini family spent the next year promoting the book at libraries, bookstores, and schools in 2002 and early 2003.

In summer 2002, author Carl Hiaasen, whose stepson had read a copy of the self-published book while on vacation in Montana, brought Eragon to the attention of his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. Michelle Frey, executive editor at Knopf, contacted Christopher and his family to ask if they might be interested in having Knopf publish Eragon. The answer was yes, and after another round of editing, Knopf published Eragon in August 2003. The book immediately became a New York Times Best Seller.

After an extensive United States and United Kingdom tour for Eragon that lasted into 2004, Christopher began writing his second book, which continues the adventures of Eragon and the dragon Saphira. Upon publication of Eldest, in August 2005, Christopher toured throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, and Italy.

In December 2006, Fox 2000 released the movie adaptation of Eragon in theaters around the world.

Early in 2007, as Christopher was writing Book Three, he realized that the plot and characters demanded more space than could fit into one volume and that a fourth book would be necessary to give each story element the attention it deserved. What began as the Inheritance trilogy became the Inheritance cycle. Book Three, Brisingr, was published on September 20, 2008.

In 2009 Christopher wrote Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia-an illustrated tour of the most interesting peoples, places, and things in Eragon's world. It was published in November of the same year.

Book Four, Inheritance, published November 8, 2011, completes the story that Christopher envisioned years ago when he first outlined the adventure. His tour for Inheritance took Christopher across the United States and to Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, The Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand.

In 2011, the Guinness World Records recognized him as the "youngest author of a bestselling book series."

Christopher is grateful to all his readers. He is especially heartened to hear that his books have inspired young people to read and to write stories of their own. His most recent release is The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm. He is currently working on several projects set in other worlds. His debut science fiction novel, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, is now available.

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Christopher fue educado en casa por sus padres. De niño solía escribir historias cortas y poemas, hacía visitas frecuentes a la biblioteca y era un ávido lector. Algunos de sus libros favoritos eran Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher de Bruce Coville, , de Frank Herbert, y Mago aprendiz y Mago maestro, de Raymond E. Feist, así como novelas de otros autores como Anne McCaffrey, Jane Yolen, Brian Jacques, E.R. Eddison, David Eddings, y Ursula K. Le Guin.

empezó siendo parte de las ensoñaciones de un adolescente. El amor de Christopher por las historias y la magia de la literatura le incitó a escribir el tipo de novela que él mismo disfrutaría leyendo. El proyecto comenzó como un pasatiempo, como un reto personal, no con la intención de ser publicado. Antes de empezar a escribir Eragon, Christopher se dedicó a planear de antemano todo el argumento de su aventura. Se dio cuenta de que hacer algunas de las cosas que hacían sus personajes le ayudaba a entender mejor su mundo y a crear descripciones que, de otra manera, no se le hubieran ocurrido nunca. Por esta razón forjó sus propios cuchillos y espadas, tejió cota de malla, hiló lana, acampó en la Montañas Bearthooth, confeccionó su propio arco, construyó refugios de supervivencia, aprendió a rastrear animales, fabricó flechas, taló árboles, viajó a pie y acampó. En pocas palabras, sus libros encarnan gran parte de su experiencia viviendo en Montana.

Su trabajo también combina elementos procedentes de la investigación y de su propia imaginación. De pequeño había leído una gran cantidad de literatura folclórica, desde los Hermanos Grimm a , pasando por las sagas nórdicas y , así como literatura contemporánea de fantasía y de ciencia ficción. Además, había aprendido mucho sobre armamento, comida, ropa y costumbres de la Edad Media, que es más o menos la época en la que imaginaba a Eragon viviendo. Provisto de toda esa información, empezó a soñar despierto con diferentes escenas y personajes. Un día tomó papel y lápiz y trató de recrear esas imágenes con palabras.

Christopher tenía 15 años cuando escribió el primer borrador de Eragon. Se tomó un segundo año para revisarlo y entonces se lo dio a leer a sus padres. Su familia decidió autopublicar el libro y entre todos dedicaron un tercer año a preparar el manuscrito para su publicación: edición, revisión, diseño de portada, composición del manuscrito y creación de los materiales de márketing. Durante este periodo, Christopher dibujó el mapa para Eragon y el ojo de dragón que iría en la portada (y que actualmente aparece dentro del libro editado por Knopf). Enviaron el manuscrito a la imprenta y los primeros libros llegaron en noviembre de 2001. La familia Paolini dedicó el siguiente año a promocionar el libro en bibliotecas y librerías, y en colegios durante el año 2002 y principios del 2003.

En el verano de 2002, el autor Carl Hiaasen, cuyo hijastro había leído una copia del libro autopublicado mientras estaba de vacaciones en Montana, llamó la atención sobre Eragon en su editorial, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, una marca de Random House Children's Books. Michelle Frey, editora ejecutiva en Knopf, contactó a Christopher y su familia para preguntarles si le interesaría que la editorial publicase Eragon. La respuesta fue que sí y, después de otra tanda de correcciones, Knopf pubicó Eragon en agosto de 2003. El libro se convirtió inmediatamente en superventas del New York Times.

Tras una extensa gira de Eragon por EE. UU. y Reino Unido, que duró hasta 2004, Christopher empezó a escribir su segundo libro, , que continúa con las aventuras de Eragon y la dragona Saphira. Tras la publicación de Eldest, en agosto de 2005, Christopher se fue de gira por EE. UU., Canadá, Reino Unido, España, Alemania, Francia e Italia.

En diciembre de 2006, Fox 2000 estrenó la adaptación cinematográfica de Eragon en cines alrededor del mundo.

A comienzos de 2007, a medida que Christopher escribía el tercer libro, se dio cuenta de que el argumento y los personajes demandaban más espacio del que un único volumen podía darles y que sería necesario un cuarto libro para dedicarle a cada elemento de la historia la atención que merecía. Lo que había empezado como La Trilogía de El Legado se convirtió en el ciclo de El legado. El tercer libro, , se publicó el 20 de septiembre de 2008.

En 2009, Christopher escribió Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia, una guía ilustrada de las gentes, lugares y cosas más interesantes del mundo de Eragon. El libro se publicó en noviembre de ese mismo año. (N. de T. : Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia está disponible únicamente en inglés).

El cuarto libro, , fue publicado el 8 de noviembre de 2011 y completa la historia que Christopher imaginó años atrás, cuando esbozó la aventura por primera vez. La gira de Legado le llevó a lo largo y ancho de los EE. UU., así como a Canadá, Francia, Alemania, Italia, República Checa, España, Países Bajos, Australia y Nueva Zelanda.

En 2011, Guinness World Records le reconoció como el "autor más joven de una serie literaria superventas".

Christopher se siente muy agradecido con todos sus lectores y le emociona especialmente saber que sus libros han inspirado a gente joven para leer y escribir sus propias historias. Su publicación más reciente es El tenedor, la hechicera y el dragón. Actualmente, Christopher está trabajando en varios proyectos situados en otros mundos, incluyendo una nueva novela de ciencia ficción. .

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Eragon is a book about a poor farm boy who lives in Alagaesia.One day Eragon finds a sparkling rock.this rock turns out to be a dragon egg. When the egg hatches Eragon sets out to restore the glory of the dragon riders.

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This book takes place after the Inheritance Cycle.Murtagh and his dragon Thorn are forced to suffer the consequences of their role in Galbatorixs evil reign.Hated and alone they are exiled to the outskirts of society.