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Rise of the Riders
Eragon rose from his bed, he sat up and stared out of his window to see the sun, barely visible, creeping up slowly from beneath the horizon. It was too early for anyone else to be awake, Saphira would still be asleep, and he pondered whether to wake her up but wisely decided against it. Instead he decided to freshen up and go for a walk. He bathed, and got dressed and left his room. He walked down the corridor to the giant oak door, large enough for two dragons walking side by side and three dragons to fly through one above the other. Eragon stepped outside and looked upon the vast land that lay before his eyes. With a forest roughly ten miles to the west and the river Brom half a mile to the east, ten miles beyond which lay another forest. Some distance behind the hall he could see the magnificent Eldrvarya Mountains, named for the appearance they took when the sun set upon them.
He looked forward and saw the cliff at the northern end of the island, nearly fifteen miles away. This was where he, Saphira and the elves which accompanied him had decided would be the place to raise the new dragon riders. Eragon and the elves had travelled east for days, following the river Edda until it opened out into a colossal lake (Which they had named Oromis), roughly the length of the distance between Teirm and Belatona and roughly the width of Belatona and Furnost. At the centre of this lake was an island untouched by man, no cities or any indication of humans, dwarfs or elves. At the northern end there was a clearing roughly twenty miles wide and fifteen miles long, at the end of the clearing, furthest away from the cliff, they had built a great hall made of Lapis Lazuli and strengthened with spells into the edge of the forest, on top of which lay a sapphire dragon.
The hall was 500m long and 400m wide. It could hold 1000 rooms but that was not the plan, living quarters would be no larger than 10x5 rooms and classrooms would be 20x10, there would have to be guest rooms and dining rooms, taverns, a grand hall, blacksmiths and many more shops. Eragon hoped that the students would take over the shops from previous backgrounds at first, it would be easy with very few riders to start with but in time he would hire the best around to look after the shops so that the riders could focus on training, luckily, Nasuada had decided to give him some of the money earned from selling Galbatorix's treasures. Nasuada had even given some of the more interesting artefacts to Eragon, including some of the dangerous ones that he had seen during his inspection of Uru'Baen.
The areas outside would have a landing strip, sparring grounds, archery ranges, place for practising magic and more but the largest would be the dragon hold, it was yet to be built but Eragon and Saphira envisioned a colossal tower, visible for miles in all direction too only dragons and riders and people with special clearance such as guests and future workers. It would be made of stone and would have square rooms with one open wall, through which dragons could come and go, each dragon would be allotted a space to begin with, the newest at the top and the oldest at the bottom. There would be a spiral staircase running through the centre so that riders could visit their dragons. Of course, staying there would be optional, if a dragon wished, he or she could move out into caves away from the main hold. Eragon suddenly stopped as he heard a call from Saphira through their mental links; at this point he turned around and walked back towards the hall.
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