Inheritance

Content Warning: This section of the guide contains descriptions of imprisonment, torture, and enslavement. 

Nasuada continues to resist the torture that Murtagh inflicts on Galbatorix’s orders. The king reveals that he wants to control all magic in order to create a more egalitarian society, where creatures could do no more than cast benign spells. While Galbatorix is away, Murtagh secretly visits Nasuada and tells her about his past. Nasuada wonders whether he may become an ally.

When Murtagh visits again, he seems hopeless and defeated. Nasuada urges him to resist Galbatorix instead of obeying the king mindlessly. Later, when her jailer returns and feeds her, Nasuada pretends to fall and steals a metal spoon that she then hides in her shift.

Eragon and Saphira fly over the ocean and encounter a Nïdhwal, an ancient sea monster. It tries to catch them, but they escape unscathed. However, they soon find themselves closer to the storm. They struggle against the wind and rain almost to the point of exhaustion, until they finally spot the mountains of Vroengard on the horizon.