Urgals

From The Inheritance Encyclopedia

About the Character
Name:	Nar Garzhvog
Race:	Urgal
Birthdate:	Unknown
Loyalty:	The Varden
Actor:	Unknown

Urgals, or the Urgralgra, are barbaric creatures with a nasty disposition. They are hunters, ruthless, and rude. King Galbatorix (known as "Ushnark the Mighty" to Urgals) employs many of the Urgals. Urgals come in many shapes and sizes. As the Prologue of Eragon says, “They resembled men with bowed legs and thick, brutish arms made for crushing. A pair of twisted horns grew above their small ears.” There are many variations of the Urgal, including the Kull, a type of Urgal. Kull are the equivalent of a small giant, with arms and legs “as thick as tree trunks.” In Eragon, Urgals were under the command of the Empire, enslaved by a spell the Shade Durza created. Urgals are naturally creatures that would fight the other Urgal clans, but under the trance, they would fight side by side. They would do anything that Durza told them to. The Urgals discovered a collapsed tunnel of the Dwarves, so they entered the tunnel and found the Varden. When Eragon killed Durza in the Battle Under Farthen Dûr, however, the trance was broken, and the Urgals started to fight each other, ignoring the Varden’s fighters.

In Eldest, a tribe of Urgals come to the Varden to aid in the battle on the Burning Plains. Eragon is reluctant, but Nasuada is wise enough to accept all the help she can get. When Nasuada sends four Kull to help guard Eragon, he is at first chagrined, but after examining their minds he overcomes his prejudice and accepts their aid.

In Brisingr the Urgals fight in the battle between the varden and The Laughing Dead many were killed. They also fought at the siege of Feinster two Urgals are present in Nasuada's Guards called the Nighthawks.

[edit]