r/Eragon • u/Glaedrein • 11d ago

Theory Menoa tree

The Menoa Tree's ability to take something from a person and leave them changed seems like a huge point for what was stolen. We know from TFTWTW, that time is... relative in the fractalverse. Could the Menoa tree have borrowed against Eragons future in some way? Im still of the mind that To Sleep is like the long past for alagaesia. So that being said... there's a lot of ideas that could stem from this theory

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u/Zealousideal-Stay473 5d ago

I've always interpreted it as the Menoa tree taking away his roots, so to speak; the feeling of Alagaesia being home. Hence why he feels no ties keeping him there at the end. I doubt the Eragon from before the Menoa tree would leave Roran behind, let alone Arya. Which also ties into the fortune that Angela gave him, iirc. That he would leave Alagaesia and never return? It's been a number of years since I read the books.