Spirit
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Spirits were a race of supernatural energy beings that inhabited Alagaësia. They preferred to remain neutral in all affairs though they occasionally give gifts to people such as the golden flowers for the release of the spirits trapp in Durza.
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[edit] Appearence
Spirits have no definite form or appearance and can, assumidly, take the appearence of anything they wish. The spirits that Eragon and Arya see are orbs of colour.
[edit] Sorcerers
Some time after the formation of the Dragon Riders, a group of humans discovered that they could call upon the spirits and accomplish the same feats as magicians through them. They became known as a sorcerer or sorceress.
[edit] Shades
However, sorcery was not without its dangers. If a person tried to call upon a spirit greater then he could master, the greedy spirit would possess the individual, creating a Shade (some Shades were also created by ambitious sorcerors greedy for more power allowing themselves to be possessed by evil spirits). Shades were immensely powerful (yet wicked) and could only be killed by an attack that pierced their heart.
The only Shade known to be alive during the beginning of the Rider War was Durza, who began life as a boy named Carsaib. Carsaib, an orphan, was taken in by a sorcerer named Haeg and taught to use spirits; however, when bandits attacked and killed Haeg, Carsaib summoned spirits in a rage. He was unable to handle the spirits he summoned, though, and succumbed. The resulting Shade, Durza, played a major part in the Rider War until the Battle under Farthen Dûr, at which point he was slain by Eragon II. In Brisingr a Shade named Varaug was created by three sorcerers, but was soon slain by Arya, with Eragon's help.
[edit] Known Spirits
[edit] See also
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