spells and all that jazz- reading eragon (by christopher paolini) aloud to y'all (4)

sorry this isn't a live! i had an itch to read and i couldn't stream so decided to just record - hope this is ok, and this certainly isn't permanent
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note: this is an excerpt from the offical synopsis of Eragon

Eragon--a fifteen-year-old farmboy--is shocked when a polished blue stone appears before him in the range of mountains known as the Spine. Eragon takes the stone to the farm where he lives with his uncle, Garrow, and his cousin, Roran. Garrow and his late wife, Marian, have raised Eragon. Nothing is known of his father; his mother, Selena, was Garrow's sister and has not been seen since Eragon's birth.
Later, the stone cracks open and a baby dragon emerges. When Eragon touches her, a silvery mark appears on his palm, and an irrevocable bond is forged between their minds, making Eragon one of the legendary Dragon Riders.
The Dragon Riders were created thousands of years earlier in the aftermath of the elves' great war with the dragons, in order to ensure that hostilities would never again afflict their two races. The Riders became peacekeepers, educators, healers, natural philosophers, and [REDACTED]. Under their guidance and protection, the land enjoyed a golden age.
When humans arrived in Alagaësia, they too were added to his elite order. After many years of peace, the monstrous and warlike Urgals killed the dragon of a young human Rider named Galbatorix. Driven mad by the loss and by his elders' refusal to provide him with a new dragon, Galbatorix set out to topple the Riders.
He stole another dragon--whom he named Shruikan and forced to serve him through certain black spells--and gathered around himself a group of thirteen traitors: the Forsworn. With the help of those cruel disciples, Galbatorix threw down the Riders; killed their leader, Vrael; and declared himself king over Alagaësia. In this, Galbatorix was only partly successful, for the elves and dwarves remain autonomous in their secret haunts, and some humans have established an independent country, Surda, in the south of Alagaësia. A stalemate has existed between these factions for twenty years, preceded by eighty years of open conflict brought about by the destruction of the Riders.
It is into this fragile political situation, then, that Eragon is thrust. He fears he is in mortal danger--it is common knowledge that Galbatorix killed every Rider who would not swear loyalty to him--and so Eragon hides the dragon from his family as he raises her. During this time, Eragon names the creature Saphira, after a dragon mentioned by the village storyteller, Brom. Soon Roran leaves the farm for a job that will allow him to earn enough money to marry Katrina, the butcher's daughter.
When Saphira stands taller than Eragon, two menacing, beetle-like strangers called the Ra'zac arrive in Carvahall, searching for the stone that was her egg. Frightened, Saphira kidnaps Eragon and flies into the Spine. Eragon manages to convince her to turn back, but by then his home has been obliterated by the Ra'zac. Eragon finds Garrow in the wreckage, tortured and badly wounded.
Garrow dies soon afterward, and Eragon vows to track down and kill the Ra'zac. Eragon is accosted by Brom, who knows of Saphira's existence and asks to accompany Eragon for reasons of his own. After Eragon agrees, Brown gives him the sword Zar'roc, which was once a Rider's blade, though he refuses to say how he acquired it.
Eragon learns much from Brom during their travels, including how to fight with swords and [REDACTED]...

And there is where we are starting in today's upload! There is a bit not included in the synopsis, so if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment or chat in the premiere chat if you are there when that is happening.