Subject: If you can stomach the Inheritance Cycle...
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Posted on: 2013-08-03 21:24:00 UTC

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8278587/1/When-the-World-Forgets

Does this look like a Sue? It's a fell-into-the-book story, apparently takes place 30 years after the conclusion of Inheritance.

A few things I've noticed in the first chapter:

1) Bad SPaG. Right in the first sentence: "Sometimes I forget about the power is possess."

2) We seem to be forgetting that Vroengard is IRRADIATED. Has been for a century, probably always will be.

2a) Eragon isn't training the new Riders on Vroengard anyway. He left Alagaësia and will never return.

3) The first-person narrator is unfamiliar with the canon. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

4) The narrator is also amnesiac, and can't remember her name. Also, slight case of speshul naming, since Eragon wouldn't name anyone Skye. He'd probably call her whatever the Ancient Language word for "sky" is, if I'm following the logic used.

4.5) Not really a bad thing or good thing, but I notice a lot of parrot exposition going on here. Metal Gear?

5) Eragon can't see the future. Only Angela can.

So, we've got canon inaccuracy, but SPaG, forgetting that a large island is lethal just to be on, a possible Sue, and a Dragon Rider because obviously that's where this was going.

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