Eragon left Alageasia with the future of a species in his hands, hoping to find a land to raise the dragons and train Riders at. And their search was successful, not long after they left they found an island at the center of a great ocean. The isle was tremendously huge and was a fitting place for the rebirth of the dragon species. They eventually built up a large city with buildings so enormous that dragons, no matter their size, could fly within. With the help of elves traveling back and forth to the island they turned a large formidable forest into cities with the elven technique only they could perform. And soon the island was a thriving kingdom and home for wild and bonded dragons.

Every year more and more eggs were shipped out to Alageasia, and more riders arrived with each season after lessons from the elves in Du Weldenvarden. With more and more riders arriving Eragon soon proclaimed that the riders have been restored and the dragons been reborn. But as years passed and the Riders and dragons remained at their new home, their existence began to turn to myths and stories told around a campfire. Not one was seen for hundreds and hundreds of years, up until an evil magician, disobeying the laws of the land set into order by Nasuada, found a dragon egg and forced it to hatch for him with dark spells of twisted magic.

His name was Callion and he soon became the most feared warrior in all the land, and also, though most people denied this title, dragon rider. He took control over Alageasia and amused himself by going to war with rebel armies. But during one war, which turned Du Weldenvarden into a dark and evil place, he disappeared when he went to fight an unknown enemy. Without Callion the races of Alageasia went to war with each other. The Urgals nearly went into extinction as well as the Dwarves. The elves were believed to have left the land in search of the, by this time period, mythical home of the dragons'.

Over the next course of a thousand years, another empire from across the seas to the west of Alageasia invaded the land and took over the entire country, sending the Urgals and Dwarves into hiding and putting the humans under the rule of Aodin, the king of the new empire. They took the city of Aroughs as the capital and renamed Alageasia and many of its cities to fit their desires. But most cities, still loyal to the old ways, rebelled against the new power and formed a revolutionary group called 'The New Varden' named after the group that brought peace to Alageasia, or as the new empire called it, Salazier.

The great city of Xeon, which used to be Feinster, the western coastal city, has the central command over the New Varden. Xeon's king, Xeno named with that title as was their custom to be named a name closest to the city they ruled. With the support of other rebel kingdoms, and secretly the Dwarves and Urgals, they have withstood the new empires attacks.

A group of Xeonian soldiers travel the land in hopes of finding the riders and elves so they could lead a war against the Empire. But what they find will throw their hopes out of control, but hope still remains when one of their own is transported, by a strange magical force, to a new world where he searches for help from its inhabitants. But on his quest he discovers parts of his life that he would have never have expected. But these events cause a dangerous power to awaken, one that no one, not even the Riders in their large numbers, can defeat.