It's official. The third book of the Inheritance Cycle is entitled Brisingr and has a picture of Glaedr facing right on the cover. The book itself is black.

http://alagaesia.com/

“BRISINGR is one of the first words I thought of for this title, and it’s always felt right to me. As the first ancient-language word that Eragon learns, it has held particular significance for his legacy as a Dragon Rider. In this new book, it will be revealed to be even more meaningful than even Eragon could have known.”
-C.P.

In case you didn't already know, it will be released September 20th.

*someone sticky please*

wow that is awesome im glad you posted that so now the book is coming out on the 20th! that is awesome

HA!!!!!! I WIN!!!!! I TOLD ALL OF YOU IT WOULDNT BE EMPIRE BUT YOU DIDNT BELIEVE ME!! IN YOUR FACE!



p.s IMNC, DRs can make stuff in local news & anouncments and eragon news stickies themselves

P.P.S 5500th post

well i didnt believe it would be empire...

oh, so its not the "e" theme anymore... oh well... wonder how "brisingr" is gona be like..

I couldn't have been happier to be proven wrong. I like the new cover as well as the name for the book! (Now if only the book would come out sooner...)

Whatever happened to the green cover? I thought we had confirmed long ago that it was going to be green with a green dragon facing to the right.

now THAT is definite. They can't go without Greenie!!!

my thoughts exactly--but whatever--its still a cool cover. should be good. sorry--It WILL be good. amazing.

The 3rd book was probably going to be called the Empire and be green, but then CP found out he had to split it, and quickly made up the cover and saved Greenie for last.

that sucks--was hoping to see who the new DR was.....well, maybe we do, but at the end. bet Eragon goes back for more training, maybe they die...

I don't care who is on the cover but I don't like that name. It has to start with "E"!!!

I like the name it sumirises all his experiances in one word!
The dragon on the front cover looks really cool too. But is kinda looks like he has a beard...

That's no surprise. Remember, Glaedr is old. Old guys have beards.

Yeah, an old and wise dragon like Glaedr has better things to do with his time than shave.

I don't like the name either. It sounds really lame. It's also embarrassing and makes you sound like a fool when you tell others. At least for me.

One Positive though: The cover looks outstanding. Just as well, because it made up for the distinct laziness in not making up a fresh picture.

I hope its good. Hopefully CP has realised how flawed the first two books were (especially Eldest) and decided that he would try and fix up his mistakes by having four books and making sure the story is consistant, doesn't copy the Star Wars plot flat out, and adds a bit more originality.

I don't think they should do the 12:01 am release though. It's definitely not another Harry Potter.

If the release does come out at 12:01am I will be there to receive the first copy.

i will try, but if its a school night, my mom might not let me.



lol....not the way i would have thought of it, but....

But dragons arent supposed to have beards it makes them look undignified! Besides the book tittle isent as bad as some of the ones I have suggested to my friends. You just have to say it like you know what your saying!

What are you talking about? A neatly trimmed beard makes everyone look dignified!
Besides, Brisingr isn't that bad a name if you don't get hung up on the matching thing. And it has more symbolism than Empire.

from what we here, yes, it does. hope he makes it good--it better mean a lot to Eragon, for the title to be it. DONT' SCREW IT UP, HERE ME!!

That is sooo cool!! I never thought that Arya would become a Rider. This is sooo unexpected.

what?

And its all a matter of opinion what you think a beard make people look like. Personally i think that a beard that is small kinda looks really dumb. No offense to any one. But i dont think that a full beard would look any better on a dragon then a neatly trimed one.

The whole beard thing was mostly a joke...
I wonder what Brisingr will mean.(Besides "fire" of course)

were not sure wether or not thats really going to happen, its just a theory.

guys i think Brisingr is Eragons true name and he will find it out at the end of the book just like in the eldest he found he was the son of morzan

Well, probably because the title means more to eragon than just a simple spell.
I don't think it is his name because he is named after a dragon rider, and that's symbolic enough. That wouldn't be much of a climax to the book-"By the way, your true name is Brisingr" How exciting.

that wouldnt have to be the climax of the book.

Yeah, I know, but that would be a pretty strange "real name".

i agree.

having the word fire as a true name would be kinda strange in the first place, and for all i know, i would think that a true name would be longer than that.

cp said "it has held particular significance for his legacy as a Dragon Rider. In this new book, it will be revealed to be even more meaningful than even Eragon could have known." also maybe there was something fishy when he was able to use magic in Daret using brisingr without knowing the word

[quote="kotorchief"]Well, probably because the title means more to eragon than just a simple spell.
I don't think it is his name because he is named after a dragon rider, and that's symbolic enough. That wouldn't be much of a climax to the book-"By the way, your true name is Brisingr" How exciting.[/quote]


yeh that would be dull. since i was thinking in my head u saying "by the way, ur true name is Brisingr" in a dull monotone voice lol sorry didnt mean to butt in but when i seen that i had to laugh and post

That's what I was thinking of when I wrote that. :)
It could be something like an element he identifies with, if that makes any sense.

I dont think that is his real name because it said that learning your true name broke and destroyed some people. I dont think that Brisingr as his true name would make such a big impact.

It CAN'T be his true name as it is already the true name of 'fire'. Two different entites cannot share the same true name.

[color=#FF0000]Aeraldi[/color] is right. It can't be Brisingr since that is the name for fire. It can be bla bla brisingr bla bla, with any amount of bla in between, but it can't be solely Brisingr. Brisingr has enough importance to not have a hidden meaning... I mean it was his first spell, dragons breath fire, Burning Plains, etc.

so wait, when does brsingr come out, i have a guess of Sep. 20th 08

You are exactly right. September 20, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. in the United States. And notice that it's now Saphira's News, not Eragon News.

guess? you mean you looked it up... >.> we all pretty much know that and I provided a link so people can find out more stuff, including the date.

Louis did, I think in the Announcements section.

I posted the list of release dates for each country.

Nevermind. I knew it was someone on the staff...

YES I DID I DID I DID!!!

whom do you think it is?

eragon 1st? vrael? or is it someone we totally dont know???? ooooh!!!

no, i agree. The whole splitting it into two parts was unnecessary. one big one would have been fine. but he'll get a LOT more money this way.

... and make alot of fans mad along the way!

Eragon Meets a God in Brisingr

Hang on a moment...isn't that stretching the story just a little to far? I mean wouldn't the god have dethroned the evil king? Or maybe the god is controlling Galbatorix? In any case, I think its stretching the fabric of the laws of Alagaesia a bit too far. Inheritance is about to enter the realms of really out of this world.

Actually, I'm looking forward to Brisingr. But not for the thrill of the read, of adventure. I'm looking forward to Book III for a completely different reasons - to point out all the flaws. I rub my hands in anticipation. I know that this book will be full of mistakes and plot holes and the like, just by reading the spoilers.

Also, I'm peeved at Paolini for taking 3 years and more to finish Brisingr. And its only 700 pages. I mean, seriously. Robert Jordan, the author of the amazing Wheel of Time series which knocks Harry Potter off his over-spoiled backside and is only a step below Lord of the Rings, can churn out a 800, 900, 1000 page novel in a year. And the quality of his work overall is amazing. And Paolini...well, I suppose we can't really fault him. He is a novice at writing after all. Somehow, I don't think he's been working on the book very hard, else he's a slow typer.

Also, I am very annoyed that Paolini doesn't maintain better contact with his fans. (I don't consider myself one, but still).

I could ramble on forever here.

Give it a rest, critics are good to have, because then there is something to talk about. And I believe that the "god" thing does sound quite stupid.

...Annie... that was MY argument... how many times have I told newbs to look at the sig... now I must tell you. Look at the sig.

ANNIE!!! DO YOU HAVE YOUR HEAD ON RIGHT?! BLASPHEMING AGAINST GREENIE?! *GASP*

Maybe the fourth will follow the pattern, since he didn't want to use up his last 6 letter "E" word on the division, but he wanted to save it for last. *shrugs*

i got so excited when i saw that there was a spoiler
WHAT KIND OF A SPOILER WAS THAT!?!?!?!?!
yeah, it will be interesting to guess like which god it is
but i thought it would be something better then that!

thank u for posting that! now i know what day to be up at 1 in the morning to be the first to buy the book! (just kidding)

that surprises you how? to him we may just be a pay check or we may be people that he trys to please you figure it out!

lol

If there's one thing I'm hanging out for it is the fact that I am wondering whether or not CP actually is going to come up with his own ideas in this next book. He has ripped of just about every fantasy book and somehow turned it into his own. Don't take me wrong though, I think CP is a great guy, but many people say he has commited bookwriting crime, which I think he hasn't!!! *confused face(BBCode says "Your confused face has failed") Yes, yes I know. . .

lol

then you could look at it like this: we have the best of most major books all in one cycle. is that so bad?

(i can just see annie coming and posting her washing machine cycle here lol)

XD That seems likely, but I suppose that we do have like all the best major books in one cycle. Nice thinking there *thumbs up*

thanks

now all we need is someone to come here and start complaning and we have the jump-start no one wants...

lol too true so who wants to complain right now? The doors are open. . .

comes in starts complaining lol

Woah wicked! Maby it is the god? Could also be somone totaly unmentioned so far.

how useless...

oh the other enemy i can think of is murtagh...
or is it someone new?

I can already sense another failure coming - I don't like this, because CP suddenly throws this at us - there was no cluues in he previous two books or anything.

He should have made the new enemy someone that we know - built up the clues like Palpatine in Star Wars Episodes I, II, III. How Lucas did that is absolutely genius.

All I can say is - goody, looks like I'll have a wail of a time analysing Book III.

Well, a NEW enemy will....do, what? I have no idea. Whats the point--he's got freakin Galby and Murtagh, and the entire empire--he killed a shade, what else can there be? He likes to laugh alot? *sigh* I'm growing continually more disillusioned, CP. LAME SPOILER!! It wouldn't let me watch it, though. Whatever.

Yeah, Sauron, you'll have an absolute FIELD DAY with Brisingr....I'd love to see you critique CP's book to his face.

Oh, I'll have more than a field day...

Heck yeah will I critique Inheritance to CP's face. All I need are the plane tickets and CP's address.

How long was it between the first two? The years have gotten hazy...
Yeah, CP definitely needs to learn how to promote his books better, that's a pretty dumb "spoiler". And is this new character just going to pop out of the ground? Because he already has quite a few villians to play with. My guess is that when he lengthened the "cycle" he needed something to advance the story, make it longer or somesuch.

Hey guys, don't be too hard on him. You have to take into account, the amount of time it takes, to write a book of that kind of size. Not to mention when they get writer's block, and don't forget the editing and spell-checking.

I agree books just don't come out every year. At least he is giving us somthing to look at.

Robert Jordan churned out a 1000 page Wheel of Time book in a year. I think its just laziness on CP's part.

Book 4: The Shadow Rising
Book 6: Lord of Chaos