i wonder what galbys trying to find the name of?

yeah it says the name not a name

yeah i think it is a name of something very powerful because the razac said the name not a name if he said that. eragon might as well say that galby is trying to find the true name of his socks

no it was an example to show that galby is not looking for a name he is looking for the whitch means that it is a name of power

it could be eragons true name

i don't think that it is eragons true name it's probally the name of the al

or the true name of alagaisia

Now that would be scary, if he got the true name of alageisia he could control the land and with the energy from the eldunari's he could raise mountains or create a huge storm or flood to destroy the varden etc. he would be nigh unstoppable i would say.

That would be really bad. If he could control the land, there really wouldn't be any way to stop him. Also if he's searching for the name of the ancient language, the results of him finding it would be devestating. Being able to control the language that basically controls magic would be a huge power. There might even be a wy for him to control the peopkle speaking that language since he has controlr of the language itself. I wonder if the name he is searching for could have anything to do with the rock of kuthian and opening the vault of souls. Maybe Galby knows about it.

ha that would destroy that theory right there if it doesn't lol but don't all things have true names no matter what they are?

oh I think I see what your saying. Alagaesia as a whole can't have a true name but everything in it does. And i suppose that's probably true because the land is so different. I can't see th Hadarac Desert have the same name as Du Weldenvarden evn as a whole picture.

Excuse me but what does AL means?Also could be the true name of a god?

well galby probally thinks that he is stronger than a god so if he found evidence of one he would try to enslave it and the god gets mad and kills galby

That would be a nice end...for everyone except Galbatorix

no like say when ever a peasent says guntera is a stupid name he gets hit with lighting then galby would be told and then galby tries it fails in taking over the god and the god makes him sing in front of the varden and then makes his head explode

yeah i am crazy it doesn't make to me anymore either

It has always seemed to me that everything has a True Name, but the name of the world would be something so profound that it would actually take lifetimes and lifetimes to piece together, to find it would mean having knowlege of the entire history of the entire world, knowlege of how every single thing in it works and why, knowlege of everythings reason for being, and the ability to put that together like pieces to a puzzle until it fit together into something that could be described in the Ancient Language. Even the elves could likely never find it, even the most ancient ones.

I agree with those who say its likely he is trying to find the true name of the Ancient Language, the name of all names if you will, since by controlling that everything that has a name (which would be everything) would fall under his control. The way the Ra'zac says "The" name suggests it, the Ra'zac couldn't be any clearer about what "The" name is because there is no way to really explain it, or because it had oathes forced on it to prevent it from telling anyone what Galbatorix was trying to learn the name of. (I refer to those wretched creatures as it.. as I don't know what else to call them XD)

[color=#00FF00]I don't think that the world has a true name. Even if it did it would probably be harder than the name of the AL to find.
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yeah but it would be cool

yet evreything has a name in the al

I agree with you...

with me or gnomenesigh?

or maybe he quoted you to show he didn't belive you

i know but i think i am right but you think i am wrong i wish you would agree with me so other people might

brom said evrything has so brom agrees with me ha

Nobody will ever have entirely the same opinion, even if she did agree with you that doesn't mean anyone else would. I'll agree that it could be impossible for the world to have a true name, if it did it could be that it would constantly change. any way you look at it finding a true name for the world would be impossible.

Really whenever you make a point I do have to say that no real evidence is provided to prove your point, you have your opinion, be satisfied with that, gomenesigh has her opinion and has a right to it. it could be that none of us are right, we wont know for some time. so getting into a heated war over it is little more than a time sink

ok i might start a topic about it though

I'd like to point out that people are always changing too. You have emotions, thoughts, opinions and a personality all of which change over time. Physically electricity,blood and body fluids are moving throughout the body. Cells are constantly being made, blood filtered, heart beating, lungs expanding, muscle contracting, hormones being released ..... well you get the idea. A person's body is ALWAYS changing so I can't see that being an obstacle to having a true name, after all Sloan is a person, his body is constantly changing and he has a true name. A tree falling down, a person or even thousands of people dying is not going to have a significant impact of Alagaesia just like losing a cell or even million cells has little effect on the owner of the body.

yeah he i was trying to think of a good example but i couldn't i'll start a topic

ok i posted it just now

Everbody says that Galby is trying to find the true name of the AL. Didn't Brom say that someone only needed to find the name of the language to control it.

i started a topic about and not many people or posting there so please post this there

well you said that you were done talking about it so i started a topic and i just asked you to post that theory there

i think it is almost certain that galby is looking for the true name of the al

agreed

what else could it but the true name of the al

[quote=gomensigh]First of all a million cells dying at once would have an impact on you and if you forget the elves say that your true name can and probably does change which means if the entire world had one (which it doesn't) it would change as well.

You have also yet to comment on the fact that even if it did have a true name the elves cannot find it at all. They only know what has happened to Alagaesia since they have been there and since humans and elves and maybe even Raz'zac all come from different lands they don't even know what else is in the world. Unless they go to every place successfully and learn a thousands of years of history about each place, finding the true name is impossible.[/quote]

You wouldn't notice a million cells dying at once, at most that is a small friction burn, there is likely to be more dead cells on the bottom of your foot either way it certainly wouldn't affect your true name. I didn't say that Alagaesia's true name couldn't change I said that events like half a city burning would have very little effect on the land and so very little effect on the true name. Not knowing someone's entire history is not a barrier for being able to find someone's true name, after all Eragon found Sloan's true name without knowing his entire past. Thirdly there is no limit to the length of a true name, Alagaesia's true name could be hundreds of words. Anyway the point I was making was that Alagaesia has a true name. I don't think that anyone will find that True name because it's probably very long and may involve words in the AL that are unknown to elves, dwarves and varden.

1. I'm talking about the true name of alagaesia not the world.
2. Eragon said the elves call this place Mirnathor and they do, he didn't say that the true name was Mirnathor. Elves themselves have two names, there is their true name which they keep to themselves and their other name which they and others use.

I see your point, your saying that inanimate objects can't have true names. It would be a bit pointless for a twig to have a true name, but then again Rhunon says that brinsingr might be the true name of eragon's sword which suggests that inanimate objects have true names. Now I don't know what to think.

Exactly, when does is it stop? A branch is called a branch but does that branch have a true name of is it just a branch. A better example is that fire is called brisingr but if I started a fire would that particular fire have a true name different that other fires that was unique to it as well as being called brisingr. Expanded is a hill just called a hill or does it have a unique as well. See my confusion.

That's not what I meant, I meant that you can describe it in the AL as a branch and that is it's true name, however it would also be the true name of different branch does each branch have a UNIQUE true name as well. Like how Eragon's sword could be called a sword (in the AL) however it also may have the true name Brisingr. Which is why I'm confused.

so alegasia can have a true name

cool some one agrees with about the true name of alegaisa

i was the one who sugested it in the frist place

where? if i had known i wouldn't of started a topic

brom say evrything not somethings evrything has a true name

i gues so

1. Brom could have lied.
2. Brom could have meant that every cell does have a true name just like every branch does, but that that true name is the same one shared by every other branch or cell.
3. Brom didn't consider your interpretation of his words when he said them.

IF he found the true name of alagasiea, he could make an earthquake where the varden are

but they would be affeceted by it too.