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Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
19 Oct 2025
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A collection of the shorter shorts, snippets, excerpts and ideas from the MIC AU. Most, if not all of these began life on tumblr and after a quick vote, the people have decided Archive needs the extra lore and softer tidbits. Any necessary warnings will be added in the notes.
(NOTE: Modern Inheritance/MIC is **NOT** a fully modern take on IC, but has some cherry-picked, modern-ish elements. Swords and Magic still abound! No cars, fighter jets, engines, electricity, cell phones, etc. to be found here! And no, we do not strap guns to Saphira. If I had a nickel every time....)
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- Part 1 of MIC
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M for first chapter having non-explicit sex, T for second.
Fäolin loved her, and Arya loved him. Now Eragon loves her, and Arya loves Eragon.
There's always something...different, though. The different ways the two men saw the world and the way they saw her.
Fäolin wasn't wrong, and neither was she. But they weren't...they weren't always right, either, like neither of them quite saw the whole picture. Or maybe they did, and tried to forget. But Eragon? He saw it all, and never tried to hide. And he never wanted her to either.
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- Part 30 of MIC
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What should have just been an outreach mission to help heal and treat citizens of a recently captured city goes wrong. Arya finds herself tossed into her own mind with little to no control over anything around her, watching confused and in pain as the world whips by. Outside her body, Eragon, Saphira, Glen, Blödhgarm and the other spellcaster guards work franticly to stabilize her, uniting as a family Eragon and Saphira had not quite realized had formed around them.
(More tags and characters to be added with updates. The first chapter only has Arya's POV, the rest will be Eragon and others.)
(Somewhat on hiatus. There is a chapter complete ready to go, but I want to be sure I have things for the next parts somewhat done before posting, and my brain has been moosh for months now. Thank you anyone still interested in this and my other stories! Still working on it and stumbling, but I will return.)
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- Part 24 of MIC
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Set in the MIC extended war timeline.
Eragon and Arya get a moment alone away from the war and spend it...well...together. Trust and Vulnerability themes, just these two rolling around and being soft and sexy for each other.
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- Part 27 of MIC
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(Sorry about the title, it was that or what the fic ended with and I am...not losing that much credibility via a title of all things. I'm so sorry.)
Set in the Modern Inheritance stories extended war. Eragon and Arya have a moment alone and have a bit of a conversation (while doing other things) about some of the preferences they've discovered during their burgeoning relationship. A somewhat amusing discovery is made.
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- Part 28 of MIC
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Even though they've been Claimed Mates for over two months, Eragon keeps waking up to an empty cot, Arya fleeing into the night once he falls asleep. His frustration comes to a head when he catches her in the act and she still leaves despite his pleading. Angry and hurt, Eragon confronts his new mate in the morning.
Eragon and Arya have their first argument after becoming mates. Turns out being magic-using, sword-wielding, Shadeslaying war heroes doesn't stop young, quasi-immortal love from hitting the same stumbling blocks as any other relationship.
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- Part 26 of MIC
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"Mum had held her all night, almost too tightly to even breathe, silent, frighteningly silent. Never answering Arya’s sobbed questions of why, why, why?"
The King is dead. The Riders have fallen. The elves have retreated.
But all Arya can understand is that Da is gone. Da is gone, Da is gone, Da is gone....
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- Part 2 of MIC
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It's taken time. War and growth and healing and maybe a bit of help from an elven biology lesson concerning brain chemistry and hormones making it undeniable even for the DENSEST of demisexual/demiromantic elves to realize they are in love with someone.
But it's official now. Eragon and Arya are mates. He loves her, and she loves him. For a little bit of time, they can pretend the world isn't burning and drink in that new normal.
And then the next morning comes around and it's very difficult to keep werecats in bags around here, hm?
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- Part 25 of MIC
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Eragon and Arya spend the day sparring together while the Varden takes a breather. Sparks are flying, and for the first time, Eragon is completely sure of victory against his best (two legged) friend and bodyguard. And he DOES win! That's definitely a disarm and a pin worthy of being called victory!
Unfortunately (oh? Maybe fortunately...), Arya has a very, very strange way of turning the tables that neither of them were quite expecting. Not that it was...bad...for either of them really....
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- Part 23 of MIC
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Eragon shakily tells everyone what Murtagh revealed during their battle. He finally knows who his father is. He was a monster, just like Brom had said during his rantings and ravings half addled by alcohol withdrawal.
Eragon is the son of Mor–
And then Brom was screaming at him and the truth, the real truth was out and Eragon...Eragon has some words for his father.
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- Part 22 of MIC
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Islanzadí's mornings have changed as of late. Instead of rising with the sun, she rises well before dawn to watch her daughter and Glenwing run their morning routine. It feels like the only way she can see some of Arya while the younger elf heals and wrestles with everything that came back with her, not to mention the blunt confession to her mother that she was not quite ready to truly forgive.
One morning, Brom joins Islanzadí to watch the two oddball elves and offers up some advice.
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- Part 21 of MIC
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,335
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 21
- Hits:
- 246
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Now that she's back, Arya returns to a usual passtime of pestering and working with Rhunön at the forge. This time, though, she has a bit of a request of the old smith, and some rather interesting materials for her to carry it out.
I mean, you didn't expect Arya of all people to just leave those in a ditch somewhere when they could be put to proper use, now did you?
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- Part 20 of MIC
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Arya and Glenwing are informed by others that Islanzadí was gravely wounded by Barst after the citadel has fallen. While Glen tends to her mother, Arya waits outside the tent and grapples with the prospect of losing her remaining parent only a handful of years after reconciling with her.
And then a particular bird drops from the damn sky.
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- Part 29 of MIC
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A few nights ago, Fäolin finally told Arya that he has, indeed, been trying to court her for the last decade. Arya is surprised and relieved to figure out what that odd feeling in the back of her mind has been every time she's around him. Love. They love each other.
With just two days left before she has to leave for the Varden again, Fäolin offers to show her what the physical side of a relationship can bring. Arya agrees.
The first chapter is M for the mention of nudity, but there's no hot and heavy description or anything. The rest, though...that's spicy. It is indeed also MY first time posting citrus so please be gentle. Rating changed to Explicit for Chapter 3.
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- Part 6 of MIC
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Oromis and Glaedr have a lucky chance encounter, leading to a confrontation with Islanzadí over her parenting and an argument centered on Ellesméra's most dysfunctional family.
Islanzadí makes a choice, and Arya makes one of her own.
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- Part 3 of MIC
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Durza was always fascinated by Arya's resistance to him. She always seemed to be able to find a way to fight back, the little things, defiant and fiery and so different from all the other playthings Galbatorix had granted him.
Arya never realized just how deep that fascination went.
TW: Durza's a creep. There is no 'conventional' sexual assault, but the intent is there and an unconventional violation is described in some detail.
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- Part 10 of MIC
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He could still taste ashes on his tongue. Couldn't stand the smell of smoke. She hated the feeling of anything around her wrists. Couldn't lay on her stomach without waiting for a blow.
They both had nightmares. Tonight, it was his turn in the fire. And someone was waiting for him.
OR: Glenwing and Arya have frequent nightmares and flashbacks where only the other is able to ground them while they are in Ellesméra for Eragon and Saphira's training.
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- Part 19 of MIC
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At the welcome feast for Eragon and Saphira in Ellesméra, Arya comes face to face with a dead man walking and finds out that she isn't as alone as she thought. Glenwing, the medic, her best friend, is alive. And they have a lot of catching up to do.
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- Part 18 of MIC
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Brom's up early to make breakfast for everyone and is soon interrupted by a grouchy elf with a bruised forehead and a penchant for ignoring doctor's orders.
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- Part 17 of MIC
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Brom checks on everyone after a harrowing day and makes a rather amusing realization.
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- Part 16 of MIC