My name is Orcus and I am an assassin. I own safe houses in Teirm, Gil'ead, and Uru'baen. I make the most money in Gil'ead and Teirm because there are often traders who need someone to "aggressively negotiate" with some of the competition or the Empire wishes a dissident to "disappear". My most memorable kill was when I tried to assassinate a man who lived in Teirm because he had amassed massive debts and was a secret agent for the Varden. Before I got to him, he escaped there on a ship and burned Teirm's docks to the ground.
As a result, I was dragged before the king himself. There he gave me an important mission that would keep me from being killed for my failure: Go to Surda, capture this man Eragon, and bring him back alive to the king. I had to accept for my own sake. I managed to get into Surda OK but then I had problems. My contact had attempted to kill the leader of the Varden and as a result, he had to kill himself so they could not capture him. The resulting attempt made my jopb difficult but over the course of several days, I learned that Eragon was not in Surda or the Empire. No one knew where he was at all.
Then all the sudden I learned that the Varden was marching to the burning plains where it was rumored that Eragon would be there. I made to the plains in time to see a sapphire blue dragon fly towards a ship that looked suspiciously familiar. I glimpsed a view of the rider and I was shocked. It was Eragon but he looked like an elf. Then I recognized the ship! My previous target had escaped on the ship that the dragon had flown towards! I stealthy crept toward the ship, threw a rope with a padded hook on the end onto the railing, and ascended the rope aboard the ship. I quickly saw my target on the other side of the ship facing the plains. I could see three men on deck: the captain, a man with a beard and hammer talking to the captain and a brawny man who looked like a blacksmith. I quickly drew a throwing knife and readied it aiming for the target when the man with the hammer noticed me! I quickly threw the knife at the target hitting him in his chest as he turned around and threw myself overboard. I quickly ran for my life towards my horse. I nearly made it before the man with the hammer started chasing me. I turned around and recognized his face. He was Roran, an outlaw and worth 10,000 crowns alive or dead. I quickly elected to capture him. After all, he had apparently spoken with Eragon so he must have known him. I drew my custom sword. The blade was thin and was about 2 feet long but strong and I could slice a man's arm off before he even noticed it. He drew his hammer, which I noticed had bits of dried blood caked on the end of it. He swung his hammer at me and I dodged it and hit him with the flat of the blade stunning him long enough for me to drop my sword and punch him in the face. He dropped to the ground unconscious and I took that opportunity to tie him up with some rope I had on me.
I then placed him on the back of my horse and started riding towards my camp. Roran did not regain consciousness until about an hour after dusk. Then I began my "questioning" which lasted for about 3 hours. I then knocked him out again and rode toward the Varden's camp where I secretly looked for Eragon's tent. I finally found it and left a note on the ground beside it. The note said that I had captured Roran and if he wanted to see him alive, he should meet me at Gil'ead in 3 weeks. I then rode back to my camp, packed up and set off for Gil'ead.