I have been wondering for some time why Galby wasnt dead a long timeago. It says in the books that in a "wizards duel", if one contestant attacks before either mind is broken into, both contestants will die. Why did one of the riders back then sacrifice themselves to save the riders? Galby was really good at breaking into peoples minds, i know that. Still, you would think that at least osome of them could resist him for a few seconds!!

but them some kind of darker master would probably come out of the shadow to retake is place. He will most probably till somewhere in the last book at least.

but if there was some dark master, wouldnt he have overtaken galby? If he was going to take his place, why would he just not appear in the books? i mean, if that powerful a charactor existed, they probably wouldnt just have died out.

I am just saying an idea that I have. Galby has many puppets that he yses to make his evil deeds. Who say that there couldn't be someone that galby answers to in turn.

Thats a good point, but dont you think that someone at least would have noticed? I mean, there cant be that many entities that exist without people noticing. And if galby was answering to someone else, why did he send Murtagh into battle? I think they were sending the 2nd most powerful person they had, and if there was a dark master that would be galby himself.

well we think murtagh is #2 but we don't know so.

Aside from this whole dark master thing, wouldnt the riders have wanted to eliminate Galby anyway? He was killing all of them, and it would have only taken one moderatly talented rider to kill him with magic. About the Dark master thing though, if they didnt know about him in the first place, why wouldnt they have eliminated galby?

galby somhow got increadibly experienced increadibly fast and he had helpers.

But Experienced enough to be able to take over all of the Riders minds within a few seconds? Unlikely. Besides, he had to resort to swordfighting with Vrail because he couldnt break into his mind. So when Vrail was about to be killed, why didnt he Kill Galby with Magic?

well obviosly he didn't take them all down all at once but 1 by 1 he took them down and vrail tryed to kill galby but by then galby was more experienced than vrail and killed him.

Yes i know he was taking them 1by1, and Galby wasnt more powerful than Vrail. Vrail hesitated when he coul have killed galby. But when Vrail knew he had no chance, why didnt he kill Galby to try to save the others?

becuse vrail felt bad that he was killing a dragon rider

That Explains why he hesitated, but he knew galby would try to kill the rest of the riders and dragons, so you would he think he wouldnt like that.
I still dont see why one of the other riders who was being attacked by galby didnt just attack him with magic. maybe at first they would have resented killing him, but after he had killed so many riders...
It would have been a simple matter of 1 spell, boom, and they were both dead, since galby would have retaliated.

becuse they couldn't galby could stop the spell

no, that is the whole point of breaking into someones mind. if you dont do that, you dont know what kind of magic they ar egoing to use, so you cant counterract it. if you know it a few seconds in advance, then you can stop it. all a rider needed to do was attack galby with magic before they had their mind broken into. galby would retaliate, and they would both die

Thats true about having no story, but why couldnt this still happen? I mean,plenty of the elves would be able to resist Galby for limited periods of time, enabling them to attack him with magic. Whats stopping a powerful elf from doing this to Murtagh or Galby?

For #1 galby could have resisted their spell too
#2 they weren't very organised

About #1, thats not true. They can only stop the spell when they know the element that they are using, thats why the break into their mind. About #2, That may be true, but why cant it stilll happen?

Galby was Powerful! so were his helpers! theres almost no way they could have done that

I think some decent riders could have withheld for at least a few seconds! Thats all they would need to cast a fatal spell.

they couldn't galby could block stuff besides they were blocking galbys attack

But thats it!!!! THey wouldnt block GAblys attack! They would have a split second to kill Gablby before they died.

They had no chance they werent organized! His helpers were right with him! lots of dragonriders died and people lost hope

Well whats stopping an elf from doing it now? He doesnt have the Forsworn anymore, and Murtagh wouldnt go into battle with him. They would want at least one left if the battle failed.

becuse galby is POWERFULL! one elf cant do it he has the rasac to and sending out a elven army riskes galby finding out where they are.

Why cant one elf do it?? He needs about 1 second!! Can we have someone elses opinion on this please, instead of just us 2?

Your missing the point! galby is more powerfull than 1 elf Durza took over 3 elves with a small army Galby has a HUGE army and is stronger than durza

What does an army have to do with it?

Galby has and army to protect him thats what.

That doent have anything to do with him or Eragon. eragon faced Murtagh alone, with no help for Murtagh from his army... Why would it be different with Galby?

Murtaguhs army was in battle galby wouldn't need an army to kill a elf but he has one gaurding his city.

But he and whoever he is facing would be alone. armied would be no use in that situation. Again: IF YOU ARE READING THIS POST A REPLY FOR SOME NEW OPINIONS!

nobody seems to have any opinions

Ya your right, i wont post for a while and wait for a few people to talk. Please respond with yor opinion if you are reading this!

I agree with silver this topic is pointless i think sombody should lock it.

But still nobody has said why someone cant do this to Galby!! Everthing Oromis and Brom have said prove its possible, why dont they do it??

Because they can't
because
#1 Galby is super strong
#2 Eragon isn't very experienced yet
#3 Galbys got murtaugh
#4 the person who likes to laugh is there
#5 Galby has thousands of men gaurding the capital
#6 The Varden arent organized

I proved all of those dont matter! All you need is a grand total of about 2 seconds to kill Galby with a spell. If he retaliates you both die. All you need is a person who can kill with magic and can keep Galby out of their mind for about 2 seconds. They dont even have to waste Eragon. About Murtagh, if Galby dies he will be free.

1 elf could never pass all those things.

You dont get it. A normal elf goes up to fight Galby in battle. they cast a spell to kill Galby. Gably dies, because he cant block it. He might retaliate in his last few seconds, but they both die. Galby is gone, elf is gone(big deal).

Can somone else post and help me???

Dark spells cant block a spell that would kill you probably.. But your right about the wards. I had forgottton about those.

Well we don't know dark spells can't block magic

Thats beside the point,but what silverwolf said about the wards was right, i had totally forgotten about them.. Ok, topic pretty much over now.

ok then can somone lock it?