New news on book four

[Melantha]

i thought id post this up for anyone who dident get the recent email from CP today i hope you guys dont mind



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Kvetha Fricäya! Greetings Friends,
and a very belated Happy New Year!

I know that it's been months since my last newsletter, but I wanted to tell you that I've been hard at work and think about you, my readers, daily.

The holidays were unusually busy. Most years, my family and I spend the time quietly at home, but this year several friends came to visit. We shared long conversations, great food, and a special outing to the Museum of the Rockies—better known as dinosaur central.

Since the New Year, I've been working with renewed determination to finish the manuscript of Book Four. The story is unfolding much as I've always imagined, but, as usual, I find myself adding scenes I hadn't anticipated when I plotted out the book. Although it's taking me longer than I'd hoped to get my vision on the page, I think it's worth it. This is going to be the most exciting and action-packed book of the entire series.

Last month I watched the Doctor Who specials from last year. Wow! For those of you who follow the travels of the Doctor, you may have caught a reference to him in Brisingr. This year brings a new actor to the role of Doctor, and I look forward to seeing how he portrays him. He has a big scarf to fill.

I recently spoke with John Jude Palencar, the cover artist for the Inheritance series. He told me that he's been painting the green dragon for the cover of the fourth book. I can't wait to see it! John is immensely talented, and I always enjoy seeing how he interprets the creatures from my world.

This is going to be a newsworthy year for the Inheritance cycle, with lots of big announcements coming up. And I'm excited to tell you that the Brisingr paperback is now in stores. As always, Alagaesia.com and Shurtugal.com will post the latest developments.

Now, back to the book for me. At the moment, I'm in the middle of a really interesting section. It contains a one-sided game of knucklebones, an evil assassin, bags of flour, a water-born battering ram, streets lined with lead, a knife in the back, and the death of a character.

Yes, I'm killing someone off. Horrible, isn't it?

May your swords stay sharp!

Christopher Paolini

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I still havent diegested the news but hay its 4:00am where i am i may reread this later and post my thoughts but

what do you guys think?

[Tismri]

He's working on finishing it. Yay! There's a lot going on in what he's writing right now. I wonder who he's killing off. My money's on Orik.

[Trinn]

Orik! Noooo. Then we'd have to go through a whole dwarf election again. 0_0 I think maybe Arya... or Elva.

[Tismri]

I don't think it's Arya. I guess it could be Elva. Or maybe Roran...now that I think of it, there are so many possibilities.

[Melantha]

LOL GALBATRORIX will die hopefully
Murtagh maby doing something noble like taking a bullet(not literally)for eragon

for some reason i thought of Elain Horst's wife because shes pregnant and there was that hole thing where eragon was meant to see her and do some magic to make her better but he never did..?

as for the other things
"a one-sided game of knucklebones" - could involve Angela
"an evil assassin"- um ..some one trying to kill Nasuada?
"bags of flour" - i have no idea
"a water-born battering ram" um attacking and underwater city gate?
"streets lined with lead" - something to do with magic?
"a knife in the back" - could be a metaphor or literal

[Tismri]

The water-born battering ram probably has to do with the attack on Dras-Leona, since they have that gyhugic lake right next to the city.
The way he phrased the paragraph about it all makes it seem like all these things are happening at the same time, so I doubt it's Galbatorix who's dying right now. I wonder if we get to talk to the evil assassin! That would be cool...maybe the death of the character means the assassin's plan is fufilled...and maybe it's someone in the Varden, and that would explain the "knife in the back" part.

It just crossed my mind...what if Garzhvog is the one to die? It would cause an interesting dispute among the Varden, if the Urgal leader is killed somehow.

[arwyn]

I also read that some of the chapters will be from Murtagh's POV. SWEETNESS!!

[alcansorepublic]

my moneys on Eragon, Arya, and Galbatorix. All three will DIE MUWHAHAHA

[Tismri]

Whoop! I was just checking out Shur'tugal.com recently. There is a three-part interview with CP while he was a Comic Con posted on there, in which he answers a lot of questions. A couple of things I was particularly interested in: CP just wrote about "Eragon being left hanging bloodied by manicles" and "a character dies a very bloody death involving spikes." By the way it was phrase in the interview, we may assume these events happen close to each other. I suspect this possiblity:

Murtagh captures Eragon and takes him to Uru'baen. There, Galbatorix tosses him into the dungeon and tortures him for a while, then leaves him to contemplate his fate. Arya and Roran, and possibly Saphira if she wasn't captured as well, attempt a rescue operation in which I'm thinking Murtagh dies by falling on a bed of spikes.

[alcansorepublic]

Cp will be a hole. He will have the elfs discover if you split a hydrogen atom, destructive things happen and the elfs split 20 of them. Nuclear Armageddon happens and EVERYONE in alagaesia dies!!!!

except for me... You know why


because I had my tray table up and me seat up in the full-up right position