When Brom, the storyteller, discovered Eragon's gedwëy ignasia, he knew that Eragon was a Rider. Saphira was raised by Eragon, hidden from the Carvahall villagers. Their minds were linked mentally and almost immediately they were able to communicate with images and feelings. This gave him the gedwëy ignasia, the mark of a Dragon Rider. When Eragon touched the newborn dragon, his right palm burned suddenly and sent an icy feeling throughout him. Eragon first mistook it for a blue stone of great value, and tried to sell it to the merchants traveling to Carvahall.Ī few days later, Saphira hatched for him. The egg was found by Eragon while he was hunting in the mysterious mountain range known as the Spine. Before they reach Vroengard, they thought that Arya had accidentally sent her to Eragon, as they were very similar in character. However, the Eldunarí in the Vault of Souls, which is in Doru Araeba (on Vroengard), changed the flow of magic so that Saphira's egg would appear to Eragon instead-the dragons thought that Saphira might hatch for Eragon and they were growing restless waiting for Galbatorix to be overthrown. Arya was captured and her two companions murdered, but not before she successfully teleported the egg towards Carvahall, where she hoped it would reach Brom. Unfortunately, the egg didn't hatch.Īfter fifteen years, Galbatorix sent the Shade Durza to ambush Arya. The egg-courier was Arya, daughter of Islanzadí, the Elf queen. The egg was then transported back and forth from the Varden to the kingdom of the elves Du Weldenvarden, in the hope that the Dragon would eventually hatch. Brom eventually tracked down and killed Morzan and Morzan's Dragon, thus recovering the egg for the Varden. The egg was later taken from him by Morzan, who might have slain Hefring. However, he only took one egg (Saphira's egg) and he kept it, all the while, running from Brom.

The Varden appointed a thief, Hefring, to steal the eggs. Later in Galbatorix's reign, a former Rider known as Brom and a scholar named Jeod discovered a secret entrance into Urû'baen. Dragons stay in their eggs until the rider they are bonded with comes in their vicinity. None of the dragons responded to the touch of anyone in the Broddring Empire. Galbatorix tried desperately to find a Rider for whom the eggs would hatch, but was unsuccessful. Saphira's sapphire-blue colored egg, along with two others (emerald green and ruby red) were found and taken by Galbatorix during the Fall.

Both dragons perished during the Fall of the Dragon Riders.

Saphira was the only bonded egg given to the riders from the mating of Iormûngr, a male dragon bound to a Dragon Rider, as well as Vervada, a wild female dragon.

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