@KhoHow are they using a domain before level 7?

It's a game mechanic. You can see it as: you get to add a new domain at Level 14 and then every 7 levels after.
Or you can see it as: every 7 levels sustains a new Domain, and your initial Domain becomes sustainable at Level 7 (though usable before).

@Rtron@Mardox@Hael

You need to understand; I sort of genuinely loved the first book when I read it. Past tensed, loved. Was it a blatant rip off of Starwars with some LOTR mixed in? Yeah, but it felt... I dunno. Higher stakes. The last dragon egg... a city hidden in the mountains... a shade.

It felt real. It felt like someone who had found something and they were way over their heads. The writing was stilted at times, but looking past it's obvious sources, the tale was good palatable fantasy fair.

As time went on, NOTHING mattered and rather than grow or branch out or chang things up, Paolini clung to the same safe series of tropes, themes and cliches to define his book.

Eragon isn't the last dragon rider. Sapphira wasn't even the last dragon egg. Eragon is the son of the bad guy. A certain teacher was actually his father all along. Eragon gets a powerup. Eragon gets ANOTHER powerup. Eragon goes super saiyan, and so forth.

Him defeating the Razac was bitter sweet. Was happy he got his revenge, but it just felt... lacking.

By third book, he now fully well has a lightsaber and he puts down a fucking shade, A SHADE, with as much pizzaz as me taking out the trash on tuesday. The same feat required a long struggle, a climactic build up, and dropping a goddamn giant crystal on it to kill it in the first book.

Hell, even dragon death meant little mow. They get a damn gem to chill out with in. And how many are those left? Hundreds. How many eggs? Well over a hundred.

When I read that part of the 4th book, I had to put it down. I knew what was coming: more powerups. I didn't return to the book for well over two months.

When Galbartorix whipped out his McGuffin of evil, the Name, I seethed in anger. Because of COURSE we had to make the stakes about the entirety of reality. When Eragon defeated him and took the Name for himself and more or less became God... I gave up. Made a list of what I thought would happen and skimmed the rest of the book. Was right on every one of them.

Dwarves and urgals became dragon riders. The love interest became dragon rider. Eragon left the continent. Ect. Ect.

The series almost killed any love I had foe dragons. Instead of treating them as creatures of awesome might, they became commonplace. Instead of being powers, they became just another weapon. Instead of being characters with growth... I could file each one under a trope role.

I could forgive the first book for its stolen plot and cliches; it filled me a sense of wonder and excitement I had not read since Cornelia Funke's Dragonrider. By book two it was gone and I was being slammed by philosophy by someone who obviously thought they were clever by having just taken a college course.

By book four, the author was pissing on the memory of the grave book one and the innocent, guilty pleasure it was.

I like powerful characters. I like fight sequences and fantasy. I even like cliches and tropes. The Inheritance Cycle suceeding in failing to do all of those correctly. After book one, never do you feel again that the stakes mattered, that consequences matter, or that they'll even be a struggle. It's just... all handed to the hero chosen by fate apparently. I felt cheated and betrayed.

@DawnscrollI heard that the Nazis weren't very nice either.

I liked Eragon when I was -- eight. But...I am not eight any more.

I still totally disagree that it's a rip-off of Star Wars, though. I think that they both just use a lot of basic tropes/cliches -- SWs itself was very derivative of 50s Samurai movies and the like (and as you can tell from the fact that Paoloni looks at a book on how to make Japanese swords when he wants to write about western European ones -- Paoloni likes Japan). It was still a load of fun, though. Unlike Eragon (nowadays, anyway).

Honestly, I agree with Dawnscroll. The first book was fun to read and for young me it introduced a new, interesting view to dragons and such.

But the second book was just a drag. I still don't fully understand how I got through that as it was pretty much more than 100 pages of world building in the most boring way ever.

I barely even remember what happened in the third book. Except that I found the idea that an elf, who never forged a sword in several hundred years and took an eternal vow to never do it again, managed to control a foreign body and use that body to forge a weapon. Then as cherry on the cake of 'what...?' the smith proclaimed that it was the best sword she ever made! After that I just dropped the book and never returned to it.

And I still don't regret that decision.

@Kho So it was what I was thinking. In my list of 99 portfolios, I started counting new domains on level 14 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@Legion02I loved the second one most of all. Maybe I just had really bad taste. Yeah...had. Ha ha. Ha.

Then again, you better hope I don't have bad taste. 'Cause I like all your writing.

@Legion02I loved the second one most of all. Maybe I just had really bad taste. Yeah...had. Ha ha. Ha.

Then again, you better hope I don't have bad taste. 'Cause I like all your writing.

It wasn't written bad. Not in the sense that 50 shades or twilight is written bad. It's just that the second book to me was pretty much 1 big info dump. It makes a very detailed and big world, I'll give him that. But there was barely any plot advancement. I like a well-filled world, but the sense of mystery was completely gone.

*****HIGH-KEY COLLAPSES*****

Anyway, there we go! Lots of words! Still no sheet for fairies!

I feel like I should note that there's surprisingly little reflection in this post on the events that have taken place in most of page 7, but this is for plot and time reasons. I've really been having a thrilling ride with the posts that have come up recently and I hope this fits in to the mood of epic creation that we've had over the last few days.

@Antarctic TermiteDo you mind if I jump ahead of the First Sculptor? As you know, my plan needs a fair number of sculptors to work.

@Fabulous Knight



Anyway goodnight everyone I can't anymore

@Rtron, I have a quick comment to make about your usage of Brush Beasts. Take a little look at this:



The image you used for Grot shows that humans are the perfect size to pop into his mouth like candy. I would not say that there's much distortion based on distance in terms of size. So, he's pretty big. But in your post you described him picking up Brush Beasts (which wouldn't cower. They're like cows in terms of intelligence, and cows don't do much of anything even when patiently queued for the slaughterhouse) and chowing down on them in only a couple of bites. Take a look at this:



As luck would have it, humans are about the size of their mouths, too, but their mouths are tiny compared to their bodies. Do you see what I'm getting at? Brush Beasts are bigger than Grot. Even if he attempted to eat a baby Brush Beast, it would be like a human trying to eat a dachsund. You'd be better off chowing down on Feathered Slouches like ham sandwiches than Brush Beasts.

Slough doesn't have much going for her or her creations when it comes to interactions between them and other gods or their creations, but Brush Beasts deserve some respect for their size. They're ludicrously huge and tough. Even something I've got planned, which is absolutely enormous, would not attempt to kill a Brush Beast even if it could.

@Lugubrious Do you think it would be possible for a tribe to escalate the thing and try to live on its back life a bunch of fleas?

@Lugubrious Do you think it would be possible for a tribe to escalate the thing and try to live on its back life a bunch of fleas?

If by escalate you mean scale or climb, yeah, potentially.

@LugubriousDo goats exist?

A really terrible awesome pun is riding on them.

@LugubriousDo goats exist?

A really terrible awesome pun is riding on them.

They would exist on the Gilt Savannah or in the Mahd River Valley, yes.

@Rtron, I have a quick comment to make about your usage of Brush Beasts. Take a little look at this:



The image you used for Grot shows that humans are the perfect size to pop into his mouth like candy. I would not say that there's much distortion based on distance in terms of size. So, he's pretty big. But in your post you described him picking up Brush Beasts (which wouldn't cower. They're like cows in terms of intelligence, and cows don't do much of anything even when patiently queued for the slaughterhouse) and chowing down on them in only a couple of bites. Take a look at this:



As luck would have it, humans are about the size of their mouths, too, but their mouths are tiny compared to their bodies. Do you see what I'm getting at? Brush Beasts are bigger than Grot. Even if he attempted to eat a baby Brush Beast, it would be like a human trying to eat a dachsund. You'd be better off chowing down on Feathered Slouches like ham sandwiches than Brush Beasts.

Slough doesn't have much going for her or her creations when it comes to interactions between them and other gods or their creations, but Brush Beasts deserve some respect for their size. They're ludicrously huge and tough. Even something I've got planned, which is absolutely enormous, would not attempt to kill a Brush Beast even if it could.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT'S THE KING IN BLACK.

*screams internally as he hides behind Clarent*

That's uh... that's the Big Bad from a past RP. Same image.

@Rtron

Elementals were persuaded to join that horde of chaos? And they're storm djinn? Those already exist, and they're just the elementals who control weather. We'd better watch out guys, because Grot is the new guy in town and now he can make it rain!

Nah, in all seriousness they'd be more like this guy from the creation sheet on elementals. I haven't made elementalism yet so there's no way mortals could fight or command beings like that yet, but since it seems to have Vestec who personally went around enslaving creatures I'll go along with djinn making up a part of Grot's army.

I too still want to make a Slough day contribution. Have planned out what the post will be and everything; just need to actually write it. But up next I also nominate Jvan, and since that seems to have a lot of support I think we'll go with that.

@DawnscrollThe King in Black, eh?

Sounds like he'd have been bros with the King in Red. They could hang out with the Emperor in Gold, too. Although they might feel a bit inadequate.

@Kho

By the way, I'm hungry for some Khookies from that last collab.