Chapter 1
Nightmare of Gil'ead
This was the first time that Erisdar had stepped onto the plain outside of Du Weldenvarden since his parents, the king and queen, had been murdered on their way to Ceris. Tialdarí hall had a new king, as Erisdar himself had been deemed too young to ascend to the throne at that time, even though he was 30 years of age; but even if that weren't true, he had made himself unfit to be king as he had slaughtered thousands of innocent people to kill his parents' murderers.
Gil'ead was the main trading point between du weldenvarden and the rest of the Algaësia, even though 40 years earlier it was the main barracks to the empire and its tyrant king, Galbatorix. But after the "incident" it was forced to be a barracks again, as it became more under populated than the town of therinsford.
Erisdar had been a dragon rider for 10 years at this point and he was the strongest and fastest elf in ellesméra, but even that couldn't help his parents. The killers were human, two archers and a spell caster, and as soon as they did their deed, Erisdar went straight at them. But his dragon, Éldegín, was in Ellesméra. So he pursued on foot until they got to Gil'ead. The anger and upset had clouded Erisdar's thoughts; he couldn't remember who had committed the crime. So he made everyone guilty.
The slaughter lasted for three days before Erisdar's dragon found out and stopped him and took him back to Ellesméra. By this time only 50 people had survived the horrible slaughter, a mix of magic and sword-fighting, were preparing to evacuate the city. But the killers were dead that's all that mattered to Erisdar.
Later that day Erisdar was forced to hand over his riders' sword, the sword he had created himself after years of teaching by Rhunön-elda, the master weapons smith, instead he was given a sword only 6 elves had ever wielded. All those elves were the ones had been banished for treason or a genuinely horrific crime. Erisdar's body sank as he held it. "I'm the seventh," he thought. Plenty of people had been exiled, but none with such a close connection with the royal family. The thing that hurt him the most though, was being stripped of the last name Dröttning, the name his family had carried out for centuries. Then, he was told to leave Du Weldenvarden and never come back. On his way out of Tialdarí hall he saw his younger sister. Without speaking he said, "Sorry I have wronged our family, hopefully when you're old enough you shall be on the throne." He could feel the sadness emanating from within his sister so he said "mother and father's killers shall not walk on the ground again, as they have passed to the void as well." And after that he left and didn't look back.