Elëa (the World of Eragon) revealed!

Okay, so we all knew that Christopher Paolini was expanding his world in new and unexpected directions. "What deathless lies may in eons rise" said a mad old man among the Dreamers at Nal Gorgoth, and that was after the mysteries of Alagaësia increased exponentially in The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, from Angela to Urgal legends. To say nothing of previously known mysteries such as the Grey Folk who first bound magic to the Ancient Language and the age-old wondering about what lies beyond Alagaësia. Alalëa, the elves’ homeland, for one, wherever humans and Urgals came from. But that is the general limit.

Or was, for what I did not expect was a full World Map in which the region of Alagaësia is revealed to be very small indeed! Behold the world of Elëa! Paolini just expanded – and named – his world in literally all directions and I have a joyous feeling that The Inheritance Cycle, like Alagaësia, may be but the tip of a very large literary iceberg.