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Angela is a
fortune teller,
herbalist,
witch, and a friend of Eragon's. She is accompanied by a
werecat named
Solembum. ::Angela is portrayed by
Joss Stone in the film
Eragon. •
Werecats are sentient creatures who can shapeshift between what appears to be a small, childlike human form and a
lynx-like cat form. They are wise, magical, and have mild prophetic abilities. They get along very well with dragons. •
Solembum is a werecat who journeys with Angela. In Tierm, he gives Eragon an important prophecy: "When the time comes and you need a weapon, look under the roots of the Menoa tree. Then, when all seems lost and your power is insufficient, go to the rock of Kuthian and speak your name to open the Vault of Souls". Solembum has red (sometimes blue or yellow) eyes and his ears are tipped with black tufts when in cat form; as a human, he appears as a small dark-haired boy and fights with a dagger. •
Grimrr Half-Paw - the werecat's current "king". •
Maud is a werecat that lives in Ellesméra and is a friend of Solembum. •
Carabel is a werecat who lives in the court of the lord of Gil’ead. She sends Murtagh on a quest to save a kidnapped a werecat child named Silna (who’s later revealed to be her daughter), in exchange for information about the Draumar. •
Silna is the kidnapped daughter of Carabel. • The '''Ra'zac''' are extremely powerful beings of indeterminate origins who work for
Galbatorix, in exchange for a supply of human flesh. They arrived in Alagaesia from the land the humans had migrated from; the Riders tried but failed to exterminate them. They have evolved to be the perfect human predators. It is impossible to sense their life force, which made it easier to sneak up on riders and kill them. Similar to insects, the Ra'zac have a three-staged life: first as eggs, then as humanoid youngsters and finally, after the first full moon of their twentieth year, they shed their skin and become huge beasts called the Lethrblaka. :The Ra'zac are killed in the movie, but remain alive until
Brisingr in the novels (although some Ra'zac eggs are later discovered in the final novel). •
Urgals – large, grey-skinned, horned humanoids. Although they are first considered beasts, Eragon later learns that the Urgals are as sentient and capable as humans, elves, or dwarves. Despite living in remote
matriarchal mountain villages, the social rank and sexual attractiveness of males is determined by the number of foes they have vanquished, which leads to conflict with neighboring humans. They make a pact with Galbatorix to fight for him in exchange for more land sometime before the events of
Eragon; when the king fails to deliver, they join the Varden. Urgals who grow to more than eight feet tall are considered 'Kull', and make up the Urgals' elite force of warriors. The Urgal race and the Kull were invented entirely by the author. •
Nar Garzhvog is a Kull warlord and brilliant strategist. He fights in the Battle of the Burning Plains and accompanies Eragon on a later journey to the foot of the Beor Mountains. Garzhvog hopes that, after Galbatorix's defeat, some kind of treaty and athletic contests can be established between the Urgals and humans to avert future conflict between their races. •
Yarbog is an Urgal who challenges the authority of
Roran (his commander) during a mission. Roran defeats him in an unarmed combat wrestling match and earns his respect. •
Shades are humanoid sorcerers possessed by spirits. They wish to kill all other living things and can only be killed by stabbing them directly through the heart. They briefly are vanquished if they receive a normally mortal wound. •
Durza the shade, works for Galbatorix hunting down the new Rider Eragon and extracting information from Arya in the first book. He is killed by Eragon, but not before seriously wounding the Rider. • :Durza is portrayed by
Robert Carlyle in the film
Eragon. •
Varaug is the Shade created by three magicians using the body of a soldier during the siege on the city of Feinster in the third book. He is killed by Arya. •
Du Eld Draumar (meaning “The Old Dreamers in the ancient language) are a cult who worships the dragon Azlagur. They live far in the north, and consist of humans, dwarves, and possibly some Urgals. It is hinted at that the Draumar have secretly being controlling events in Alagaësia for thousands of years, and even possibly controlling King Galbatorix. They are controlled by a “Speaker” who carries out the will of Azlagur. •
Bachel was a half-elf and Speaker for the Draumar. She acts as the main antagonist in
Murtagh. Bachel is a powerful spell caster, and uses a gas called “The Breath of Azlagur” to incapacitate foes. •
Grieve was a high-ranking member of the Draumar. He was perpetually in a bad mood. • The
Menoa Tree is one of the oldest and largest trees in
Du Weldenvarden. The tree is the spirit of the elf Linnëa, who imbued her consciousness into the tree after being jilted by a lover.
Linnëa was an elf who lived before the war between elves and dragons, when they first migrated to the new land. •
Blagden is a raven blessed by Evandar for pecking out an Urgal's eyes when the elf king stumbled during a fight, allowing him to recover and defeat the Urgal. The magic gave Blagden the ability to speak (though he primarily speaks in riddles) and see the future, but also unintentionally turned his feathers pure white. Blagden's name is an
Old English name meaning "the dark/black
valley". • The
five creatures of the Beor mountains are five unique species living only in the mountain range, for which five dwarf clans are named. •
Feldûnost are large goat-like creatures used as
mounts and to produce
dairy. Their name means "frostbeard" in the dwarf language. •
Nagra are giant
boars hunted by the dwarves. •
Fanghur are rare creatures that resemble dragons, though not as large or intelligent as their cousins, and are unable to breathe fire. They are considered to be the most deadly of the native Beor creatures through the way they hunt, by letting out piercing screams or to attack their victim's minds to paralyze them while they go in for the kill. Three attack Saphira in the second novel. •
Shrrg are giant
wolves. •
Urzhad (called
Beorn by the elves) are massive cave bears that grow to a large size. Urzhad are larger than most Beor creatures, about as big as a small house. ==References==