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Inheritance Cycle
Varden/Elves/Dwarves/Urgals: Approximately 75 000
Galbatorix:                               Easily 120 000 all things considered (garrisons, bodyguards, border guards, supply train guards)

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Hello Anti-Shur'tugal, I am Immortal Drayk, this is my true first official project since I have joined. Like many on here, I've read Kris Norge's Tactical Analysis series, and I did enjoy it as I am a fan of military literature. It has also inspired me to write my own series based on it, but instead of describing what strategy I would use to defeat ( Read more... )

So I have been working on this prehistoric fantasy for a few years now, assuming all this time that carnosaurs and bipedal herbivores such as iguanodon had a similar range of motion to humans, and therefore would have no problem swinging massive clubs, stabbing with spears, and even using a sort of modified bow and arrow that a deinonychus could ( Read more... )

In an interview, CP says he "carries a sword with him everywhere around the house" (paraphrase). Something a little Freudian about that?

Paolini mentioned that supposedly, some Native American tribe would use ram horns to make bows for bow and arrow, so he applied that to his dwarves. I don't know about you, but in all the time I've looked up info on Native Americans, I've never heard that before...why do I have a feeling he pulled it out of his ass?

When I first read Eragon I knew it reminded me of something, I thought it was the usual suspects (Star Wars, LotR, etc.) but no. There was still that nagging feeling. Yesterday I thought I'd go check out the enemy (shurtugal.com), and they had pictures of cast for the film, out of curiousity, I had a look. Lo and behold, Jeremy Irons (such a wrong ( Read more... )