Chapter 1: "Welcome to Alagaësia"
Welcome to Alagaësia, friends or as the elves of Du Weldenvarden would say; "Kvetha Fricaya". You may be wondering who I am, and because of that I shall tell you, my name is Carn, son of Roran Stronghammer, son of Garrow. I myself am a father, to Leo and he has succeeded me, as I succeeded my father as Earl of Palancar Valley many years ago.
I sit here, in my house in Carvahall by the fire for warmth, as my father and grandfather did before me, wanting to make some use of my twilight years in Alagaësia, and so I have decided to record what has happened over the course of the last century, so that the future generations may see what my father fought for.
As I write this here and now, the races of Alagaësia reside in a decade's long time of peace, coexisting with one another for the advancement of all. It was not always like this, and this is the where the war my father fought in comes into the picture. Many years ago, 98 years to be precise, our beautiful land of Alagaësia was run by a dark ruler called Galbatorix and his twisted creature of a Dragon Shurikan. For over a century, he ruled from his dark citadel in Uru'Baen, once Ilirea of the elves, and throughout the land poverty, famine and cruelty reigned supreme. A war was raged by an alliance of the free humans, dwarves and elves named the Varden against the dark king in the hope that one day they might be able to strike him down. This dream looked unlikely for many years until the appearance of a new Dragon Rider, free from Galbatorix's control. His name was Eragon and his is my uncle.
With the hope that the hope that the appearance of my uncle provided, the Varden fought against the empire openly for the first time, and mounted an offensive into the lands Galbatorix commanded. The campaign lasted over a year, and with many losses, and eventually they reached the summit of their ambition. Uru'Baen. The Varden attacked the city, led by my uncle, and Galbatorix's army head on, in order to give Eragon the chance along with his eleven companions the chance to sneak into the citadel and kill Galbatorix. Little is known of what occurred in that citadel, but one thing happened for sure. Eragon killed the evil king, Galbatorix.
It is 98 years since the evil king was struck down by Eragon, and in doing so the land of Alagaësia was freed from the bitterness and the corruption of Galbatorix's reign. In its place, peace and harmony have existed over the past century. Now that we have paid respect to the deeds of the fallen as well as of Eragon, lets us turn to the story of the past century.
As my father would say, the great Roran Stronghammer, "come sit with me, son. I have a damn good story for you".
Hello, I am JamesIC and I am going to be writing a fanfiction based on what I would like to see in a possible book 5, should it ever come.
The first two chapters, in order to create the basis of what has happened over the past century will be written from the point of view of someone recording their thoughts, in this case being Roran's eldest son, Carn.
Thank you for reading.