The Legend of the elf Eragon, the first Dragon Rider, and of the white Dragon, Bid'Daum. As a Great War rages between Elf and Dragon, ravishing and changing the land of Alagaesia, a gifted young Elf named Eragon is banished from Ellesmere and his beloved home for crimes that he did not commit. Wandering alone among the peaks and forests of the Spine Mountains beyond the realm of DuWeldenvarden, Eragon stumbles across a lone Dragon egg. From the egg hatches an ivory white Dragon, who will become Eragon's only friend and ally. Through tragedy, banishment, wilderness, racial hatred, and war, Eragon and his beloved, wise Dragon Bid'Daum struggle to restore peace between their vengeance-filled races. But can such an unlikely pair bring peace to a warring Alagaesia?