Inheritance Spork, Chapter 72: A Fitting Epitaph

[scavokretlaw]

So Nasuada is Queen, for no real reason. Eragon sticks around for a few days, helping weed out insurgents and cast spells to keep Galbatorix loyalists from interfering with the new queen. The usual things to weed out dissent and force everyone to adhere to their new monarch.

Comments

[anonymous]

I wish GRRM had written the final installment of this. Then we wouldn't have to put up with Eragon since he would be dead, which would vastly improve the story. Ah well.

[anonymous]

Eh, I give it four years before Nasuada turns into a tyrant if the disgruntled nobles don't kill her.

-Dragonturtle Monk

[ext_1521820]

Eragon changes the writing on Brom’s tomb to be a bit more dramatic

Seriously? Just going to change your beloved ("beloved") father's tombstone writing like it was a rough sketch of what you "really" wanted to say?

What is wrong with you, Eragon.

[rhyson]

Haha, the first thing Nasuada does as queen is order Eragon to do the exact same thing that got Galbatorix labelled as evil. Nice, Paolini, very nice.

Though the crystal preservation isn't as stupidly unrealistic as one might expect. In China, they found a mummy who was buried in a tomb dug out of extremely thick, heavy clay soil, where pretty much no fresh oxygen seeped through for three-thousand years and the mummy didn't look half bad. They found watermelon seeds in her esophagus and determined she died from a heart attack. But it would have to be some strong crystal to hold back the initial rotting.

But it's probably just an accident, not like, I don't know, actual research. And there's the loophole in Saphira's magic, where she did say he won't be ravaged by time, or something like that.

[epilogueexile]

"Haha, the first thing Nasuada does as queen is order Eragon to do the exact same thing that got Galbatorix labelled as evil."

...Raise taxes?

[rhyson]

Yep, haha. Taxes of brain-washing and slavery.