The Lethrblaka evade his fire and pierce his scales with their beaks, gaining the advantage. When a pair of Lethrblaka attack the clan, threatening to devour it completely, Ilgra wakes Vêrmund to fight them. She plans a trap to kill the dragon with a flood of water, believing that the water could extinguish his flame. Ilgra, a girl whose father was killed by Vêrmund, is filled with the desire for revenge and studies magic as a shaman's apprentice.

When its best warriors fail to kill Vêrmund, the clan learns to adapt, hiding in tunnels and leaving livestock for the slumbering dragon when he wakes. An Urgal bard tells him the ancient tale of Vêrmund, the Worm of Kulkaras, a wild dragon who feasts on an Urgal clan and its livestock and then settles in a nearby mountain. When Eragon asks if the memoir is true, she answers ambiguously.Įragon is disheartened when he fails to save two dwarves from a tunnel cave-in.

She has Eragon read a number of out-of-order chapters of a memoir she is writing, whose strange contents hint that she has the ability to travel to worlds beyond Alagaësia. The witch Angela, traveling with Elva, unexpectedly arrives at the Riders’ mountain. Victorious, Murtagh leaves to join Thorn and continue his search. Nonetheless, Murtagh evades their wards by enchanting a fork as a weapon. A fight ensues, and Murtagh is unable to directly subdue them with magic, even using the name of the ancient language, due to amulets given to them by a witch called Bachel. The mercenaries show evidence of having found it, but refuse to tell him the location, attempting to extort him for more money.

In it, a disguised Murtagh meets in a tavern with a group of mercenaries, whom he had hired to search for a legendary dragon-scorched battlefield.

Saphira convinces him to take a break and visit the Eldunarí, who show him a vision of Murtagh in Ceunon. The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm includes new characters and some already encountered in the original series, and tells of the many challenges Eragon and Saphira face as they establish the Dragon Riders in their new home far to the east of Alagaësia.Įragon struggles to keep up with the mundane administrative work required by his new role as leader of the Dragon Riders. Set in the world of The Inheritance Cycle a year after the events of Inheritance, it consists of three short stories, the second of which was penned by Paolini's sister, Angela. The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm is the first book in the Tales from Alagaësia series by Christopher Paolini.

The witch the worm and the fork