There isn’t any news about the fourth and hopefully final brick, because it’s all being kept hush-hush. However, shurtugal.com have had several interviews with him in the last few months, and reading through his responses to reader questions is hilarious. Especially when he obviously pulls an answer ouf of his ass when the question’s asked, rather than actually thinking about it.

For example, his response to a question about scrying and telepathy:

Scrying involves reproducing the light at one location at another. The information required to do this is conveyed via electromagnetic radiation (visible or not) from point A to point B. By scrying another place, what a magician is doing is, essentially, funneling a stream of photons encoded with the visual information from his target to his own location, then reproducing that visual information on some sort of reflective surface—or even in his own eyes, if he’s particularly skilled. Since photons weigh next to nothing, moving them across great distances requires only a negligible expenditure of energy, although it does get slightly harder to scry the farther away your target is. None of this happens consciously, of course, but that’s the basic mechanism underlying the spell.

2. Because scrying relies on electro-magnetic energy, a spellcaster in Alagaësia could scry a dark room and see what it contained, if they knew enough to convert infrared radiation into visible light. By extension, lead, or other similarly dense materials, can block attempts to scry through them, which is why certain caves in Alagaësia are impervious to scrying . . . at least when using normal methods. There are even more advanced techniques, which I won’t go into here.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

Especially when his answers to so many other questions of magic are thoroughly unscientific.

Who ... wants information like that? And really, why explain something based on a "real" phenomenon for which there is no explanation?

Now that I’m fresh from watching the movie, all I can say is: What kind of IDIOT doesn’t figure out that Brom’s a dragon rider? Seriously! He knows how to make a freakin’ dragon saddle!

And it became even clearer than before that dragons and humans have a totally unequal partnership. XP

Honestly, the thing i hate the most about Paolini is how magic/ancient language is NOTHING but a simplistic (and silly) plot device

Oh, you can only speak only the truth in the Ancient Language
Oh, if you swear in the language your sworn and can’t do anything about it
Oh, so you’re name can suddenly change and break free of the oath

The aforementioned devices have been used before, better and also made a lot more sense
Paolini’s just using it as a convenient (and as i said silly and facepam-worthy) plot device

Also, its pretty amusing how paolini want moar and more of the two tales hes mashing together in his book
Paolini: Weeeee, lets give Eragon an active LIGHTSABER!

And i don’t believe he changed his story from the course of Star Wars in any way by writing Brisingr
All it did was… nothing (?)
SPOILERS (feels awkard)

Also i don’t see the heart of hearts (or whatever they’re called) as anything new or unique
They’re basically akin to Elf/Magical-esque stones which guide the hero, albeit in a different way
Magic Stone: shines forth a beam of brilliant light to lead the hero
HoH: You go that-away!!

/End possible rant
i kinda enjoyed that!
You could say my biggest problem with Paokini is with his lack of ANY originality (and also the aforementioned plot device usage he has no shame!!)

EDIT: Whoops… forgot a chunk of text >_<

Eragon: I’m the rider and I say we go!
Saphira: But I’m roughly ten times larger than you and can bite you in half Liu-kang style….
Eragon: If the rider dies, his dragon falls too! (I love the convenience)
Saphira: In that case if you don’t listen to me I’ll eat your family and friends!

(Personally i feel bad for Saphira, she’s possibly the only character in the series I actually have any emotion for, she is after all, a big badass dragon!)

Wow. Epic Failsauce™ on the main site… I have no words.

Puppet, what in the world are you talking about?

Shurtugal’s mainsite?

Was it on the “Accepting and Rejecting feedback article?

I saw it; the posters dropped every single foul word in the book. Including the n word and the c word. Multiple times. It was unpleasant.

If you really want to see, she posted again… But I wouldn’t recommend it…

It doesn’t matter. I’m willing to bet that they were just throwing around an offensive term.

Oh yeah! I knew that, for some reason…isn’t someone on the site Indian (as in India)? I don’t know if I’m misremembering….

That…is not who I was thinking of. I don’t know why, but for some reason I was thinking SWQ was Indian…?

Well I can’t say it comes as a shock… But what the hell?! Runes don’t take THAT much imagination, do they? Just doodle and you’ll get enough! Ugh.

aww nobody’s talking about my epic rant T_T

And @Willow… I’m Indian

Yeah, I’m ethnically Indian, but where did you guys get Canadian from? I think I’ve mentioned that I live in SoCal before…

Which is really pathetic if I was complaining about being cold.

facepalm

Yes, it is pathetic. Wuss :P

On the other hand, we’re all wusses compared to the freaks from Minnesota. Woops, did I say freaks? I er, meant beloved leaders, manly men whom we adore!

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They will hunt you down. :D

Indeed. loads shotgun

We can’t use guns to hunt people? D:

Snow ain’t no thang compared to heat.

This is true. Snow is fun, and in cold you should wrap up warmly, which is also fun, but heat is annoying and itchy and harder to solve.

This is true. Snow is fun, and in cold you should wrap up warmly, which is also fun, but heat is annoying and itchy and harder to solve.

Exactly. From my experience, cold climates interfere in your day-to-day life more(especially with transportation) but hot climates are more physically difficult/unpleasant.

Indeed. loads shotgun

Don’t make me stab you with a icicle. D:<

I’m….er… one-eighth Hispanic. Not that it matters. I’m about as average-American as they come.

Har har. Don't mess with the Azns.

5/8 English, 1/8 Irish, 1/4 French. 1/1 Irish

This is how Irish blood works as far as fractions go.

Hey, one of the presidents of Ireland was a (very) distant relative! Even same last name! So nyah :P

So handy.

Whatever.

@SWQ
Ah, a fellow country(wo)man!

And when do we propose to move back on topic?
My rant needs spurious attention!!!!

Is thinking I’m amused… they’re all attacking each other, even though I made the original comment! My work here is complete. Bwahahahaha.

*Stabs with icicle *

Lets move this discussion to Absolutely Random. :P

Here you are:

IT HAS BEEN DELETED. Yay! End of confusion. :D

(I hope you don’t mind LaLa. I was just trying to assist. :D)

WOw, this is going to kill me

Hotly copied from me: (nevermind the extreme complication above XD)

Honestly, the thing i hate the most about Paolini is how magic/ancient language is NOTHING but a simplistic (and silly) plot device

Oh, you can only speak only the truth in the Ancient Language
Oh, if you swear in the language your sworn and can’t do anything about it
Oh, so you’re name can suddenly change and break free of the oath

The aforementioned devices have been used before, better and also made a lot more sense
Paolini’s just using it as a convenient (and as i said silly and facepam-worthy) plot device

Also, its pretty amusing how paolini want moar and more of the two tales hes mashing together in his book
Paolini: Weeeee, lets give Eragon an active LIGHTSABER!

And i don’t believe he changed his story from the course of Star Wars in any way by writing Brisingr
All it did was… nothing (?)
SPOILERS (feels awkard)
(show)

Also i don’t see the heart of hearts (or whatever they’re called) as anything new or unique
They’re basically akin to Elf/Magical-esque stones which guide the hero, albeit in a different way
Magic Stone: shines forth a beam of brilliant light to lead the hero
HoH: You go that-away!!

/End possible rant
i kinda enjoyed that!
You could say my biggest problem with Paokini is with his lack of ANY originality (and also the aforementioned plot device usage he has no shame!!)

EDIT: Whoops… forgot a chunk of text >_<

ah, the beauty of everyone using a forum at the same time
sigh

I fear to do anything now…
(Yipes, the topic is going to go off-topic!! Save it lolcat!!)

Lala, please delete your extra one? I found your other post of the rant. Also, yay lolcat!

But…but… your rant is still in this page in two separate places! Aiiiii!

Kill one, kill one, lest too much awesome rantage destroy the page :O

Kill one, kill one, lest too much awesome rantage destroy the page

Kill one before they can breed!

Can we move back on topic, instead of discussing the reproductive habits of rants? (besides, everyone knows they reproduce by budding)

It’s kind of funny to think how much I begged my parents to get me Eldest, only to read it and be bored out of my skull. There’s twenty bucks gone that I’ll never get back.

I think my feelings on eragon are well known.

Now someone had a rant?

Honestly, the thing i hate the most about Paolini is how magic/ancient language is NOTHING but a simplistic (and silly) plot device

Well on a fundamental level, tech and magic are both plot devices. But PaoPao does it poorly.

Also, its pretty amusing how paolini want moar and more of the two tales hes mashing together in his book
Paolini: Weeeee, lets give Eragon an active LIGHTSABER!

If his tale had been truly unique, that could have been a cute homage. As it is… just shows how little he thinks outside the box.

The only things that really happened in the book:
1. Rhorin’s waif is rescued

Just like how Luke rescued his sister’s love at the beginning of RotJ?

2. Oromis dies (im pretty sure everyone knew he was doomed the moment he was introduced… )
And possibly

Like Yoda at the beginning of RotJ?

3. The whole dwarf affair

Ummm…. don’t know enough about it to compare it to RotJ

Also i don’t see the heart of hearts (or whatever they’re called) as anything new or unique
They’re basically akin to Elf/Magical-esque stones which guide the hero, albeit in a different way

Hm – Why does that have a certain RING to it? THE sounds OF it are so familiar. I hope those who got it right away don’t LORD their knowledge over me.

I lawled at the use of “fag” as a verb. I’m filing that one away for “you’re so gay” banter with my cousins come the holidays.

Why does that have a certain RING to it? THE sounds OF it are so familiar. I hope those who got it right away don’t LORD their knowledge over me.

snicker

I would reply but I don’t smoke so I don’t see what fags have to do with it.

hey, I am bike – curious and I find that offensive XD