as_sporkive | Brisingr Spork, Chapter 31: Blood on the Rocks, Part 2 (Reply)

the_bishop8 wrote in antishurtugal, 2017-09-07 16:36:00

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Brisingr Spork, Chapter 31: Blood on the Rocks, Part 2

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Here we are with part 2, which only covers Eragon's fight with a bunch of assassins. It needed to be split because we have a lot to talk about here.

Before we get into it, I want to list everything the assassins have going for them.

The have elven speed

They are warded against magic

They have double protection against mind attacks

They have daggers that ignore wards and cause a disintegration effect

There are 7 of them, so they outnumber our protagonist and his guards

Why are there no other dwarves with these abilities? Surely they’d be incredibly useful in the war. But nope, these guys never appear again as far as I’m aware.

It’s because these assassins have a specific purpose; to create a challenging fight for Eragon without being too difficult.

In other words, they’re just like every other potentially cool and useful thing Paolini only ever uses in one scene before they’re forgotten forever.

Well, with that in mind, let’s get into it.

Eragon leaves the room, but soon hears a scuffing noise behind him. He looks back and sees seven dwarves with knives running towards him as fast as elves, their feet muffled with rags and their minds hidden by magic. Of all the magical advantages they gave themselves, why didn’t they just muffle themselves with magic? If they had, Eragon probably would have died.

Seven dwarves, eh? Are their names Doc, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Bashful and Sneezy?

He tries to warn the three guards behind him, but “three of the strange dwarves grabbed the hindmost of Eragon’s guards and lifted their glimmering daggers to stab him.”

Why the hell are three enhanced assassins wasting their time on one normal guard? Why are they grabbing him, and why didn’t they already have their daggers lifted up to stab him before they reached him? Why don’t they try using their elven speed to run past the guards to take out Eragon before the biggest threat has a chance to defend himself?

So we can have a random redshirt death thrown in to make them look like a credible threat to Our Hero.

Faster than speech or conscious thought, Eragon plunged his whole being into the flow of magic and, without relying upon the ancient language to structure his spell, rewove the fabric of the world into a pattern more pleasing to him. The three guards who stood between him and the attackers flew toward him, as if yanked by invisible strings, and landed upon their feet beside him, unharmed but disoriented.

This paragraph right here is a prime example of why Paolini’s action scenes are so utterly boring. Not only is it ridiculously over-written, but there’s FAR too much description. The sentences are long and wordy when they should be short and snappy to give a sense of pacing and tension. Did you notice how it says Eragon does this “faster than speech or conscious thought”? But it doesn’t read as if he did it fast at all. It took him about 70 words, in fact.

Using magic without the language is supposed to be dangerous, and Eragon was told only to do it in the most desperate situations. This was a spur of the moment decision, but that just makes it worse. He used it to save some people he barely knows; people who are supposed to protect HIM, and it just makes him quicker to use it next time. The more he gets used to using it on a whim, the more it develops as a bad habit, but Eragon is never told that it was a mistake. A different author would have Eragon’s friends and mentors telling him that just because he saved people and nothing went wrong, doesn’t mean he should get in the habit of using this dangerous technique. Eragon would stubbornly refuse to listen, eventually leading to him causing a terrible accident, and maybe killing someone close to him.

Or Paolini could just ignore all of that, and let his protagonist do whatever he wants.

And word it so awkwardly that it’s almost impossible to tell what the hell is even going on.

Rewove the fabric of the world into a pattern more pleasing to him.

This line is so unbearably pretentious, it hurts to read.

And needless to say, this random new ability will never be used again.

Two assassins rush Eragon. Eragon drew his sword at some point, and parries their attacks. One of his guards rushes forward to attack the assassins.

Before Eragon could grab the dwarf’s hauberk and yank him back to safety…

Who’s supposed to be protecting whom here?

The guard dies, and Eragon gets to see the disintegration effect in action. Eragon gets really pissed off that this guy he barely knew died. He stabs the assassin so quickly, he’s unable to dodge, and dies instantly. The assassins are supposed to be the same speed as Eragon, so it’s a little harder to believe, as is the fact that no assassin tries to attack Eragon while he was doing this.

With all his strength, Eragon shouted, “Stay behind me!” Thin cracks split the floors and walls, and flakes of stone fell from the ceiling as his voice reverberated through the corridor. The attacking dwarves faltered at the unbridled power of his voice, then resumed their offensive.

…

No, I don’t buy it.

*adds Fus Ro Dah to Eragon’s growing list of random introduced out of nowhere special abilities* Seriously, look me in the eye and tell me this wasn’t a baldfaced ripoff of Skyrim. He even used the phrase “power of [the] voice”.

I definitely saw the resemblance when I was going over this. This book was released a few years before Skyrim though, otherwise I would have no doubt. Paolini even tweeted once about how his character reached level 267.

Damn, I really thought I was onto something there. GASP, maybe Bethesda ripped HIM off! Quick, get you lawyer on the phone, Chris!

Eragon retreated several yards to give himself room to maneuver free of the corpses...

Hey, corpses hindering movement is actually a thing for once! This is probably because they need the bodies after the fight, so they’re not allowed to disappear when they die. Seriously though, I have no idea why this came up out of nowhere. I guess I’ll just enjoy it while it lasts.

Because the Cycle is actually an RPG pretending to be a novel, corpses normally fade away after a few seconds. Or you can just walk straight through them.

The hallway is eight feet wide, so three assassins try to attack Eragon at once.

Afraid to duel with the dwarves as he would have if they wielded normal blades...

Something seems wrong with this sentence. Also, why doesn’t he just do what he always does, and trust his wards to protect him? The answer is because his wards won’t protect him in this case, Paolini just couldn’t bothered to give an explanation for why Eragon would dodge them without knowing that.

Eragon drove his legs against the floor and jumped up and forward.

Driving your legs against the floor causes you to jump? Wow! First the winking and now this! Paolini teaches you something new every day.

Did I mention this scene was hopelessly overwritten? Because it is. Also Paolini apparently thinks we’re all hopelessly stupid.

He spun halfway around and struck the ceiling feet-first. He pushed off, spun halfway around again, and landed on his hands and feet a yard behind the three dwarves.

I completely forgot that Eragon has spent his whole life training as a gymnast. That detail sure slipped my mind. He didn’t twist around though, so I’m pretty sure he should land facing away from them.

GAH! You can’t just do this sort of thing with no practise or training even if you DO have enhanced speed and reflexes! Also someone’s clearly been watching The Matrix. Will Eragon do a cartwheel while picking up a sword next?

Even as they whirled toward him, he stepped forward and beheaded the lot of them with a single backhand blow.

These assassins sure don’t act like people who are supposed to be as fast as Eragon. The other assassins behind him don’t even attack while his back is turned.

I should have mentioned this when the first assassin died, but why don’t these guys have wards? Oh, we learn later that they have wards against magic, but they don’t have wards against physical attack. The Ra’zac had the same problem, and the reason is presumably the same: Paolini couldn’t figure out how Eragon could beat these guys if they had wards against physical attack, so he wrote them without it and hoped that nobody would notice.

I noticed. You know, this plot hole (which shows up again in book four with the evil cultists) could have been fixed so easily. All he’d have to do is insert a line of exposition which states that wards are limited in that you can only protect against either magic or physical damage, but not both. At least then the things would have limits, period, instead of being a catch-all fix for damn near everything which might be dangerous to the heroes.

So, Eragon leaps over the bodies, actually twisting while doing so this time, and lands where he started. Now some of the other assassins attack, except their attacks miss (by centimeters) for some reason, only conveniently letting Eragon know that his wards aren’t working.

Eragon slips on some blood, and his head hits the floor. The assassins will get him now, right?

His three remaining guards sprang over him and swung their axes in unison, clearing the air above Eragon and saving him from the bite of the flashing daggers.

The story doesn’t tell you this, but Eragon was actually unconscious for a few minutes after he hit his head. His guards swung their axes over him the whole time, making it completely impossible for the assassins to get to him.

Apparently the super speed, super weapons and other super whoozits randomly stopped working so Eragon wouldn’t do us all a favour and die horribly.

Eragon recovers, and suddenly remembers that he can use magic. He tries it against the assassins, but again, they have wards against magic. It’s the opposite problem of the physical wards: without magic wards, the fight would be too easy.

Eragon tries attacking with his mind...for some reason. He hasn’t been able to sense them, so he tries using his mind to attack where they should be. For some stupid reason, this works.

If Eragon was fighting a ghost, this would be like having his hand pass through the ghost, but having his fist hit it. It makes no goddamn sense.

The spear skated off mental armor of a sort Eragon had not encountered before: smooth and seamless, seemingly unbroken by the concerns natural to mortal creatures engaged in a struggle to the death. Someone else is protecting them, Eragon realized. There are more behind this attack than just these seven.

Or the assassins know a magic that can protect their minds like that. Or they’re just that good at defending their minds. But Eragon’s conclusion is the correct one, because Paolini doesn’t realize that people can come to the wrong conclusions. This isn’t the type of thing Eragon should be figuring out in the middle of a fight either.

The assassins have just been standing around, politely waiting for Eragon to try all of this, by the way. So Eragon starts the fight back up again, and hits one assassin in the knee. Once again, the assassin doesn’t try to dodge, block, or parry his attacks, and neither do the other assassins try to attack Eragon while he does this.

Apparently this RPG has turn-based combat.

Eragon’s three guards move forward to take on the one Eragon injured. One of the assassins raises his shield in anticipation, because apparently they’re not keeping them raised at all times for some reason. Eragon decides he’s just going to cut through the shield and the arm at the same time, because apparently that’s something he does all the time.

For the first and only time in the whole fight, Eragon is caught off guard by the assassins speed, because the assassin tilts his shield slightly. This causes Eragon’s sword to be deflected into the wall, which breaks it.

Eragon drops his sword and grabs the assassin’s shield, trying to keep it between him and the knife. This makes the assassin completely unable to stab him, apparently.

Releasing the buckler with his right hand but still holding on with his left, Eragon drew back his arm and struck the shield as hard as he could, punching through the tempered steel as easily as if it were made of rotten wood. Because of the calluses on his knuckles, he felt no pain from the impact. The force of the blow threw the dwarf against the opposite wall. His head lolling upon a boneless neck, the dwarf dropped to the ground, like a puppet whose strings had been severed. Eragon pulled his hand back through the jagged hole in the shield, scratching himself on the torn metal, and drew his hunting knife.

...what? This chain of events confuses me. If he’s punching hard enough to go through steel, wouldn’t his fist go through the assassin just as easily? Why is steel the first thing to yield? Wouldn’t the assassin be pushed back first? Or wouldn’t his hand break? The last time he hit something super hard, he mangled his hands, so he put calluses on his knuckles to stop that from happening. Except I don’t get why that would stop his hand from breaking; why it allows Eragon to punch through steel with no problems.

It shouldn’t. Calluses aren’t “wards”, and as torylltales has explained in detail, they actually make your hands inflexible and make punching anything incredibly painful.

So Eragon gets into a knife fight with the last assassin, who was just patiently waiting for Eragon to finish fighting the last guy. Eragon stumbles on a body again, so he starts rolling on the ground to avoid the assassin, but luckily for him, the assassin accidentally hits one of the lanterns, which causes it to explode.

The explosion throws Eragon twenty feet away.

The blast had blackened a ten-foot length of the hallway with soot. Soft flakes of ash tumbled through the air, which was as hot as the air from a heated forge.

As usual Paolini shows us that he has no sense of proportion and seems to think using exact numbers for everything is interesting to read rather than dry and boring.

It leaves an explosion like that? How do the dwarves use these things regularly without fear? Why don’t they use these as weapons in the war?

Can’t have the dwarves upstage the perfect sparkly elves, I guess. Seriously, do the dwarves ever contribute anything particularly useful or unique to the war effort?

They only exist to add more cannon fodder to the sieges against cities. Even the werecats were able to act as spies at least.

The dwarf who hit the lantern dies from the burns. Eragon was just as close to the blast, but he was facing away from it, which means he’s mostly fine. He heals the burns he got on his back...actually, why doesn’t Eragon have wards against fire and explosions?

Good point. You’d think that would be his first priority given that he pals around with a fucking dragon.

After Eragon and his guards talk for a bit, Eragon asks them if they can identify the assassins. They find bracelets on them, which all have an amethyst that implies the Anhuin ordered the attack. We didn’t need the bracelets to guess that the Anhuin are the prime suspects, and they aren’t worth anything as evidence, so I’m not sure what the point of them is.

Also wearing an easily identifiable token which instantly links them to their clan while attempting to murder the most important guy in the entire country has to be the most idiotic thing you could possibly do.

With the side of his boot, he nudged one of the prismatic daggers the assassins had wielded. “The spells on these weapons and on the … on the men”— he motioned with his chin—“ men, dwarves, be as it may, they must have required an incredible amount of energy, and I cannot even imagine how complex their wording was. Casting them would have been hard and dangerous.…”

Eragon isn’t interested at all in learning the spells that the assassins used, even though they would be incredibly useful. Their only purpose was to create a fight that would challenge Eragon without making things too difficult.

That’s because despite all the claims to the contrary, Eragon is far too lazy and apathetic to seek out useful knowledge on his own initiative. The only way he’d actually learn those spells would be if someone came up to him and said “let me teach you those spells for free!” Actually even then he might well have responded with “no! There’s no time for that!!” There’s time for endless feasting, ogling Arya and torturing cripples, but there’s no time for learning new and useful skills or gaining important new information! Eragon has some very strange priorities.

Eragon swears revenge against the clan that ordered the attack, then starts thinking about his sword, which he broke despite the protections he put on it. He’s going to use it as an excuse to say that he needs a Rider’s sword, and the chapter finally ends.

Or maybe he could have used magic to make the falchion unbreakable. Or maybe he should stop fighting like an idiot. And once again Paolini tries to make him look noble by having him swear to avenge the death of a random dwarf bodyguard he barely knew. Nice try, pal - we all know he’s really just itching for an excuse to slaughter the Anhoozit clan wholesale for inconveniencing him.

And that’s another completely pointless chapter in the can.

Next up we have A Matter of Perspective, by Pipedream. Then we have Kiss Me Sweet by Predak.

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snarkbotanya
September 8 2017, 11:07:09 Edited: September 8 2017, 11:12:18
"Even as they whirled toward him, he stepped forward and beheaded the lot of them with a single backhand blow."

Eragon took Great Cleave as his feat last level!

(I actually tried to make a homebrew Dragon Rider class for D&D 3.5 back in middle school. It ended up kind of like a ridiculously unbalanced version of the Kineticist in Pathfinder, but with a dragon.)

Can’t have the dwarves upstage the perfect sparkly elves, I guess.

Which is pretty odd considering that Paolini says he likes his dwarves more than his elves. He loves them so, so much and wants to write operas in their language... but he doesn't give them anything to actually do.

*wanders off to ponder whether Vanora might be able to get her hands on some of those mind-shielding techniques*

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torylltales
September 8 2017, 13:03:03
I would like to remind everyone, according to Paolini's lore, after a Grey Folk magician nearly destroyed the world with a badly formed thought, they bound magic to their language so that it cannot be used without reference to the language. This is the only given reason for their downfall as a species, because the effort involved in altering the nature of magic to bind it specifically and permanently to their language, was so much that the entire species was "diminished" made all but extinct.

so...

*adds Fus Ro Dah to Eragon’s growing list of random introduced out of nowhere special abilities* Seriously, look me in the eye and tell me this wasn’t a baldfaced ripoff of Skyrim. He even used the phrase “power of [the] voice”.

The Power of Voice is not exactly an original concept, not in the IC, and not in Skyrim. In the ancient Chinese Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, one character shouts so lout that they stop an entire army mid-charge, and kill at least one person with their voice alone. One of the characters in Mortal Kombat screams so loudly that it rips the flesh off her opponent. And the word "panic" comes from the terror caused by hearing the Greek god Pan's shout.
And in Star Wars: The Old Republic, your character can gain the ability to "Force Scream", which is stupidly overpowered.

And there's at least one cheesy martial arts action/mystery novel in which a character dies from a "weaponised kiai" (the shout that karate practitioners use).

In the movie Kung Fu Hustle, released 4 years prior to Brisingr, one of the characters has a shouting ability strong enough to throw people through walls and tear up wooden floorboards.

However, the issue I have is that in an enclosed stone tunnel, a shout loud enough to crack the stone would also have thrown everyone backwards and also caused some serious damage to eardrums, eyeballs, and internal organs. It's basically a sonic boom.

Eragon drove his legs against the floor and jumped up and forward. He spun halfway around and struck the ceiling feet-first. He pushed off, spun halfway around
again, and landed on his hands and feet a yard behind the three dwarves.

Watch on YouTube

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torylltales
September 8 2017, 13:03:03
For the first and only time in the whole fight, Eragon is caught off guard by the assassins speed, because the assassin tilts his shield slightly. This causes Eragon’s sword to be deflected into the wall, which breaks it.

:O deflections are a thing that Paolini knows about? More evidence that Eragon is a complete amateur at fighting of any kind.

Eragon drops his sword and grabs the assassin’s shield, trying to keep it between him and the knife. This makes the assassin completely unable to stab him, apparently.

Releasing the buckler with his right hand but still holding on with his left

It's a buckler... Has Paolini seen a buckler? They are tiny little things, certainly wouldn't stop the other arm from moving. Grabbing onto someones shield is actually one of the worst things you could do, because it ties up your arms while bringing your now unprotected body closer to their weapon hand.

It shouldn’t. Calluses aren’t “wards”, and as torylltales has explained in detail, they actually make your hands inflexible and make punching anything incredibly painful.

Yes. Punching anything harder than your knuckles will injure your knuckles, that's an inescapable fact of reality. If a car hits a person, it is the person who is damaged. if a cricket ball hits a skull, it is the skull that breaks. If a fist hits steel, the steel is not the thing that will be more damaged.

And if you punch anything with raised callouses on your knuckles, you will rip the callouses and the underlying skin off your knuckles. Maybe not completely clean off, but you will open at least one painful bleeding wound that will prevent you from using that hand for any meaningful attack. I write from experience, I've ripped off scabs in the middle of sparring rounds, I've scraped the skin off my hands by punching a bag wrong (it had a deeply textured canvas covering, hitting it wrong would tear anybody's skin), and it hurts like hell, and you naturally do not want to continue punching. I've had my knuckles sliced open by the jagged edge of an (unsharpened, square-edged!) old aluminium sword, and I was not able to grip anything for at least a few minutes.

Fists are surprisingly delicate things, made up of dozens of tiny bones and joints and tendons that have to be aligned just right to prevent damage when hitting something, and adding raised callouses on the knuckles will only increase the risk of injury.

To quote a 60-year-old (at the time, now 70-something) martial arts master and acupuncturist, to a younger karate master with heavily calloused knuckles: "you have hands of 90-year-old who drink every day! HOW YOU FIGHT?"

So Eragon gets into a knife fight with the last assassin, who was just patiently waiting for Eragon to finish fighting the last guy.

Because all fights are like the ninja movies in the 90s, with all the bad guys forming a ring around the lone hero, attacking one at a time in turn rather than swamping the hero and using their numbers to overwhelm his superior skill.

Also wearing an easily identifiable token which instantly links them to their clan while attempting to murder the most important guy in the entire country has to be the most idiotic thing you could possibly do.

When I originally read this, I remember thinking this was going to be a bait-and-switch, with one of the other clans trying to frame the Anhuin clan for the attempt, in order to gain political power in the election. Even though this is still a massively overused cliche, it would have given someone like, say, Iorunn, a bit more interesting character development that potentially sets her up as an antagonist separate to Galby in the series.

But of course even that is too subtle for Paolini's creative abilities.

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baaar
September 8 2017, 13:43:06
How did I know that clip was going to be from Gymkata?

All of you who are actually knowledgeable about fighting and militarism must have aneurysms reading this stuff.

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torylltales
September 8 2017, 13:49:12
I have had to stop reading many times to either silently fume, or to rant loudly about how stupid and incorrect and wrong it is, yes.

I can only imagine what kris_norge, who is more experienced than me at European martial arts, goes through.

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snarkbotanya
September 8 2017, 14:00:34
...okay, that clip was one of the most brain-melting examples of Mook Chivalry I have ever seen, but the part that really got me was when they all took a break just to let him do a f**king FLIP.

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torylltales
September 8 2017, 14:05:28
This is all just distracting from the fact that a medieval peasant village just happens to have a pommel horse in the middle of their town square.

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snarkbotanya
September 8 2017, 14:24:33
I know! What the hell is that thing doing there?!?

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Anonymous
September 8 2017, 15:45:00
About the callouses thing: I can (kinda) understand it. The bones of elves are made of vampire stone (the sparkly Meyer kind) and can only be destroyed by vampire
stone. But his skin is more vulnerable than his bone, so he made his bone grow out of his skin (like Wolverine) so that his skin won't break every time he punches
something.
-TTT

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torylltales
September 8 2017, 16:06:15
If that were the case, I would believe it; but the story specifically says he thickened the skin on his knuckles, not made his bone grow through it. The spell he used was the word "thicken", applied to the skin above his knuckles.

If his proximal knuckles grew out to be longer and thicker than a human hands, the side-effect would be that he could not open his fingers all the way. The range of motion in his hand would be affected. In an extreme case he might lose the ability to open his hands beyond a loose fist, which would affect his fine motor control, manipulation of objects, and could affect his ability to do things like use a knife or fork, write or draw, or catch himself with his hands if he falls.

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Anonymous
September 8 2017, 17:25:22
Hmm, I see. Then may be he meant his callouses to be like boxing gloves. (That would of course, make his hands useless for anything except boxing)

-TTT

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snarkbotanya
September 8 2017, 18:12:11
Maybe he goes and gets a manicure afterwards... or just sheds them, leaving the most bizarre dead skin flakes for some poor dwarf to clean off the floor.

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minionnumber2
September 8 2017, 18:38:15
If he can punch through steel, what does he use to get a manicure? A vorperal nailfile?

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snarkbotanya
September 8 2017, 18:51:04
I'm sure the dwarves have some diamond-tipped mining gear lying around that he could use to scrape them off...

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vorpal_tongue
September 9 2017, 03:33:16
If that were the case, he'd be better off grabbing a pair of Cestus. Even just having a few straps of leather wrapped around his hand would be better than callouses.

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snarkbotanya
September 8 2017, 17:04:31 Edited: September 8 2017, 17:05:12
That "vampire stone" bit made me spit-laugh all over my computer screen. Well done. XD

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Anonymous
September 8 2017, 17:21:51
*bows*

-TTT

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Anonymous
September 9 2017, 08:05:33
It was the Roar! The Lion's Roar! I thought it was a myth!

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vehkandvehk
September 9 2017, 09:21:27
The idea of Tonal Architecture, though has been around for quite a while in the Elder Scrolls lore, and technically includes the Thu'um seen in Skyrim, as well as Yokudan Sword Singing (which may or may not have caused the sinking of Yokuda), and Dwemer magic, and is more "making noises that bend reality by hammering notes into the song of existence" than just "shouting very loud". So it's maybe not unique in the effects, but it most certainly is in the approach.

I believe it was Zhang Fei - though I could be mistaken - at the Battle of Changban, who shouted loud enough to make Cao Cao and his army retreat, and Xiahou Jei die of shock.

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Anonymous
September 10 2017, 07:21:04
No one ever told me that move could be done through a loudspeaker! What a blow!

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Anonymous
September 8 2017, 15:56:19
Rewove the fabric of the world into a pattern more pleasing to him.
And needless to say, this random new ability will never be used again.

That's how Eragon nuked Galby in the last book.

It leaves an explosion like that? How do the dwarves use these things regularly without fear? Why don’t they use these as weapons in the war?

That may be because the dwarf hit it with the special powers knife

And that’s another completely pointless chapter in the can.

It may be pointless in the long run (everything is) but is it pointless in the dwarven election story? This doesn't change the dynamics of the election?

-TTT

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the_bishop8
September 9 2017, 00:46:22
That may be because the dwarf hit it with the special powers knife.

The knives cut through Eragon's clothes and hit his sword, hunting knife, and the ground without having an effect on any of them. The implication seems to be that it only works on living things.

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Anonymous
September 9 2017, 15:59:39
I see. So it's a copy of the cursed knife from Wheel of Time

-TTT

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thegharialguy
September 8 2017, 17:40:40 Edited: September 8 2017, 17:49:27
So if that explosion was unwarded and threw Eragon several feet, I can only conclude Eragon's clothes were blown off on his backside leaving him half naked for the remainder of the chapter (and not the sexy kind of half naked).

Also Kiss Me Sweet is mine, Predak is still AWOL so far as I know.

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theepistler
September 8 2017, 19:13:53 Edited: September 8 2017, 19:14:18
Oh yes - I've had a PM from minionnumber2 - he or she won't be able to take Greaves and Bracers for personal reasons, so I'll be sporking that chapter.

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hergrim
September 9 2017, 17:11:59
Would you be willing to share the chapter with me? I have some thoughts on it from a medieval perspective.

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theepistler
September 22 2017, 19:01:51
Sure!