Portail des médiathèques du réseau Paris-Saclay

Remporter l'ultime combat contre l'Empire ou périr, les rebelles n'ont plus d'autre choix... Pourquoi Galbatorix, l'usurpateur, ne détruit-il pas l'armée en marche vers Urû'baen, sa capitale ? Il en aurait le pouvoir. Alors, que trame-t-il ? Pourquoi laisse-t-il les Vardens et leurs alliés, les nains, les elfes, les Urgals et aussi... les chats-garous !

Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon, and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra'zac, he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders, fated to play a decisive part in the coming war between the human but hidden Varden, dwarves, elves, the diabolical Shades and their neanderthal Urgalls, all pitted against and allied with each other and the evil King Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira set out to find their role, growing in magic power and understanding of the complex political situation as they endure perilous travels and sudden battles, dire wounds, capture and escape.

Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.