Weekly Trivia 1: The Eragon Edition
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Your trivia question this week comes courtesy of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle.
In the novel Eragon, our protagonist finds an egg which eventually hatches into a beautiful blue dragon.
Your question (for a sweet prize) is: How did Eragon's dragon Saphira get her name?
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10 thoughts on “Weekly Trivia 1: The Eragon Edition”
The dragon chooses the name saphira from a list of names eragon provides.
He gets list from Brom
When Brom tells them about dragons and the Dragon Riders, he tells them about the names of the former dragons before the fall of the order. One of the names, was Saphira, a name of one of the former dragons. So when Eragon shares the list of names with her, and she chooses Saphira.
The answer is very simple. Eragon and his dragon travel to the tall Mountains of Jasmine. Suddenly, it starts to rain…but it’s no ordinary rain…it’s rain that changes colour. Whenever this mysterious rain touched the flesh of the dragon, it turned Saphire. Now, you may be thinking that this is where she gets her name, but no, that’s too lame. Why would you name someone based on what colour rain turned when it made contact with them? So, this magic rain eventually formed a hole in the ground. The curious pair jumped down the hole, where they discovered this massive underground kingdom. The inhabitants of this empire all were mini-dragon like creatures! All with their own unique symbol and power. The duo were greeted by this odd looking dragon with a sun on his forehead. He explained that he would be their “light at the end of the tunnel” aka their “guide.” His name was Beacon. So Beacon took them to the king, who had the symbol of a bear (which represents leadership and courage) on his forehead. Evidently, his majesty was also known as the “Ursa Major.” The ruler examined the young dragon, and explained that in time, she will grow a symbol on her forehead, which would represent her special power, and she should be named accordingly. Miraculously, the young dragon grew a saphire on her forehead, at that exact moment. Ursa Major smiled, and concluded that her name shall be Saphira, and Eragon shall wait to see what her power becomes, but in the meantime, he can make educational guesses.
So ladies and gentlemen, that is the story of how young Saphira got her name. Clearly, I haven’t read the book. XD
Nice response! I haven’t read the book either, but this story seems so cool!
Is this really what happened? I haven’t read the book yet so I don’t know. Is the dragon’s reason for chosing Saphire based on her scale being sapphire?
Thanks Jane! Yea, it does seem really interesting!
In the first book, when Eragon asked Brom about dragons and the Dragon Riders, he asked him about the names of the former dragons before the fall of the order. Amongst them was Saphira, the name of Brom’s former dragon. Later, Eragon shares the list of names with her, and she chooses Saphira
Eragon tells Saphira all the former names of the dragons before the fall of the order that he learned from Brom. The dragon then chooses Saphira from the five. Love this book and am lookong forward to finishing the series.
Haha I was honestly confused for a moment because I read through the book recently and didn’t remember this part at all XD