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Modern Inheritance Shorts and Snippets by WeirdPonytail
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
16 Jun 2025
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A collection of the shorter shorts, snippets, excerpts and ideas from the Modern Inheritance AU. Most, if not all of these began life on tumblr and after a quick vote, the people have decided Archive needs the extra lore and softer tidbits. Any necessary warnings will be added in the notes.
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- Part 1 of Modern Inheritance
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Harry Potter stranded in Alagaёsia by Scarze
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
14 Jun 2025
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Dark times are ahead for Alagaёsia. Harry finds himself in an unknown place he has never heard of. Will he learn what it means to finally lead his own life? Or does fate have other plans for him... Rated M for Language, gore.
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Ο Δάσκαλος της Ξιφασκίας by dragonriderofold
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
08 Jun 2025
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Τι θα είχε συμβεί αν ο Μέρταγκ δεν είχε μεγαλώσει στην Ουρου'μπαίην κι αν είχε από νωρίς γνωρίσει τη Ναζουάντα; Αν ο Άτζιχαντ είχε επιζήσει κι αν ο Έραγκον δεν είχε βιαστεί να εκμυστηρευτεί τον έρωτά του στην Άρυα; Αν ο Γκαλμπατόριξ είχε πιο ενεργό ρόλο στην πλοκή της Κληρονομιάς απ' ότι στα βιβλία; Τόσα κι άλλα τόσα μυστήρια θα προσπαθήσω να απαντηθούν σ' αυτή την ιστορία.
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The Fencing Master by dragonriderofold
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
04 Jun 2025
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What would have happened if Murtagh had not grown up in Urû’baen and had met Nasuada early on? If Ajihad had survived and if Eragon had not rushed to confess his love to Arya? If Galbatorix had taken a more active role in the Inheritance Cycle plot than in the books? These and many other mysteries I will try to answer in this story.
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In the heart of the elven forest, a young elf maiden grows beneath the weight of duty and silent longing. She avoids the palace’s familiar faces, drawn instead to two enigmatic figures—an elf lost in whispered melodies and a sorrowful human wandering toward the cliffs of Tel’naeír, where the last Dragon Rider and his wounded dragon dwell in exile.
Bound by unseen threads, the three share a quiet understanding, their loneliness weaving an unspoken kinship. And as the seasons bloom around her, the girl mourning a father lost too soon slowly becomes the woman fate has yet to claim. -
Never One Without The Other by DSBL
Fandoms: League of Legends, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
25 Apr 2025
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When the black king takes over Alagaesia, all hope is lost. Many years later, a mysterious armored dragon rider appears under the rule of the king. Will he be the one to be able to take down the king with the help of the Ionian Blade Dancer?
I really enjoy the storyline that takes place in Alagaesia, but I also really enjoy the lore that goes on in Runeterra, so I wanted to try my best to combine the two into an original story. Only the very beginning chapter(s) are inspired from other stories(mostly reversed life by Rainxoxo, check it out, amazing story). Formatting WILL look better here on AO3, so this would probably be the preferred place to read on.
College kid: don't expect consistency, posting this on FFN too (same names).
Let me know if you guys think of a better title for this story, I'm not completely set on this one so far.
Edit: I didn't really like the title "Secrets in the Shadows" so I've changed it, the new title feels more relevant to the actual story, as I want it to be more based upon the actual characters and not the main plot line of Alagaesia. -
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The target of the Blood-Oath’s magic isn’t who Eragon expected, but nor was it a surprise. However, that doesn’t mean he understands, and it certainly doesn’t mean he’s happy.
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- Part 1 of Blood Oaths and Curses
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The Path Least Chosen by Wolfyman123
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
08 Mar 2025
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Two hundred years ago, Vrael commanded Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Brightscales to leave Alagaësia on a mysterious mission. Now they have returned, only to find that the world they left behind is not the same one they remember. The Order is gone, decimated by a Rider called Galbatorix, and Eragon must fight for his home and face a past he once though he left behind.
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It's difficult to fight a war if you're on your own side, instead of fighting for one of the two warring factions.
Galbatorix and Morzan see that a bit differently.
Much to everyone else's frustration.Series
- Part 4 of Dragonwing-effect
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Losses and Gains by TitanGuildRegalia
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
11 Jan 2025
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It's another Eragon rewrite. I think you have all learned by now that though I thoroughly enjoy the individual characters, I'm not sold on Paolini's version of events. Eragon and Murtagh are raised in Morzan's castle, together, at least for a little while. Everything changes when Eragon is sent/taken away from the estate. He is an angry child, but when you're raised by a forsworn, there isn't much else you can expect.
This summary will be changed as the story goes on. As per usual, not following any sort of guideline and writing whatever comes out of my brain. I really should be focusing on Disparate Book II and Home, but this has been nagging at me and now I'm writing three stories and trying to keep them straight.
I fixed chapter three. Part of it got all jumbled when I was editing and I didn't realize. Sorry!
Eragon is ten at the start of the story and twenty when things really get going.
Eragon has poor mental health and develops severe PTSD. People with poor mental health make poor decisions and he makes a few of those. There aren't exactly any therapist running around. Things will be rough, but will get better. His mental health is a major factor in this story.
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The war has ended. Eragon is more determined than ever to rebuild the order of the dragon riders and create a lasting peace for all of Alagaesia. However, when Murtagh chooses to stay in the Broddring Kingdom at Nasuada's side, their hard won peace is thrown into jeopardy. With such tumultuous forces at play, Eragon has no choice but to stay in Alagaesia to protect the world he bled to create. Meanwhile, Arya struggles with her past and hopes for her future. Her wants war with her duty and conflict comes from all sides–her mother, her people, and even Eragon.
(An AU where everyone sticks around in Alagaesia instead of peacing out. Also Islandzadi lives.)
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"Mum had held her all night, almost too tightly to even breathe, silent, frighteningly silent. Never answering Arya’s sobbed questions of why, why, why?"
The King is dead. The Riders have fallen. The elves have retreated.
But all Arya can understand is that Da is gone. Da is gone, Da is gone, Da is gone....
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- Part 2 of Modern Inheritance
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Islanzadí's mornings have changed as of late. Instead of rising with the sun, she rises well before dawn to watch her daughter and Glenwing run their morning routine. It feels like the only way she can see some of Arya while the younger elf heals and wrestles with everything that came back with her, not to mention the blunt confession to her mother that she was not quite ready to truly forgive.
One morning, Brom joins Islanzadí to watch the two oddball elves and offers up some advice.
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- Part 21 of Modern Inheritance
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- English
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- 1,335
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 14
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- 149
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Arya and Glenwing are informed by others that Islanzadí was gravely wounded by Barst after the citadel has fallen. While Glen tends to her mother, Arya waits outside the tent and grapples with the prospect of losing her remaining parent only a handful of years after reconciling with her.
And then a particular bird drops from the damn sky.
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- Part 29 of Modern Inheritance
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A New Light in the Darkness by The_Wandering_Storyteller
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
28 Oct 2024
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Mercury Flynn is a thief capable of slipping past just about any magical defenses with ease, using her skill and her magic in an attempt to take down the system that killed her family. When the war against Voldemort began again, she turned her abilities towards causing mayhem for his people - but even the best can be caught, and she ends up being cast through the Veil of Death as a terrorist.
But the Veil is a gateway as much as a tool of death.
The spirits see her skill, her ability, her desire to fight, and offer her a simple deal: steal the green dragon egg from the tyrant king and bring it to the elves, and they will ensure the Veil cannot claim her soul.
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- Part 1 of The Light that Emerges from the Dark
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Eragon's New Beginning by thunder20
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
02 Oct 2024
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Having 'defeated' Galbatorix, yet losing himself in the battle, Eragon is willing to give up on life. He has nothing left to live for with the loss of Saphira, his mate Arya, and their unborn child.
The Eldunari have other plans.
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Inheritance Cycle Fluff A Series of One-Shots by RadiantArabianNights28
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
23 Aug 2024
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A Series of One-Shots with Eragon and his allies/family.
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Warnings and Ratings before each chapter if necessary . . .
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Romance/Family/Angst/Family/Hurt/Comfort/Adventure/Friendship/Crime…Series
- Part 14 of One-Shot Series:
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Oromis and Glaedr have a lucky chance encounter, leading to a confrontation with Islanzadí over her parenting and an argument centered on Ellesméra's most dysfunctional family.
Islanzadí makes a choice, and Arya makes one of her own.
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- Part 3 of Modern Inheritance
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"Eragon," Oromis chided, the sternness in his silken voice softened by the hand that was caressing Eragon's cheek as he spoke.
Eragon hadn't exactly taken part in Murtagh's plan to sneak off and find Oromis's scrying mirror, but he had covered for Murtagh's absence. Now, Murtagh had been caught, and they'd been separated.
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- Part 2 of The Brothers in Ellesméra
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The Brothers in Ellesméra by TheAmityElf
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
14 May 2024
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In this AU, the elves keep Eragon, Murtagh, Saphira, and Thorn safe from that nasty war with Galbatorix. They're just children, after all, and elves love children.
And if a child says they would rather leave and be unsafe, are their words really to be heeded?
Originally posted on Tumblr, this is just to establish the premise of the AU; future installments will actually explore narratives within the AU.
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- Part 1 of The Brothers in Ellesméra