I think it's more a mix of living longer and experiencing more. Sloan has no merit given to his true name because he's a simple peasant who lived in the same village despite being older than Eragon and experiencing different tragedies that Eragon will never have to deal with. Nope, having to face two different deaths, having to choose between a suicidal trip through mountains that claimed his wife that might claim his daughter or choosing the route that he's certain will ensure his daughter's survival (basically freedom vs living), having to be brutally tortured and lose everything in his life because of well-meaning but harsh choices, having to KNOW that his daughter is STARVING and possibly DYING all because he made the wrong choice, and then being denied even the chance to see if his daughter is alive and safe and maybe make some peace with her by someone who he hasn't seen since he fled the village after some suspicious activity in the village . . . All that gives him a 3-word true name.
Goddamn Paolini doesn't know a thing about people, does he? No, he just likes to oversimplify things.
Goddamn Paolini doesn't know a thing about people, does he? No, he just likes to oversimplify things.
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