Prologue: Shade of Fear -- Discovery -- Palancar Valley -- Dragon Tales -- Fate's Gift -- Awakening -- Tea for Two -- A Name of Power -- A Miller-to-Be -- Strangers in Carvahall -- Flight of Destiny -- The Doom of Innocence -- Deathwatch -- The Madness of Life -- A Rider's Blade -- Saddlemaking -- Therinsford -- Thunder Roar and Lightning Crackle -- Revelation at Yazuac -- Admonishments -- Magic Is the Simplest Thing -- Daret -- Through a Dragon's Eye -- A Song for the Road -- A Taste of Teirm -- An OId Friend -- The Witch and the Werecat -- Of Reading and Plots -- Thieves in the Castle -- A costly Mistake -- Vision of Perfection -- Master of the Blade -- The Mire of Dras-Leona -- Trail of Oil -- Worshipers of Helgring -- The Ra'zac's Revenge -- Murtagh -- Legacy of a Rider -- Diamond Tomb -- Capture at Gil-ead -- Du Sundavar Freohr -- Fighting Shadows -- A Warrior and a Healer -- Water from Sand -- The Ramr River -- The Hadarac Desert -- A Path Revealed -- A Clash of Wills -- Flight Through the Valley -- The Horns of a Dilemma -- Hunting for Answers -- The Glory of Tronjheim -- Ajihad -- Bless the Child, Argetlam -- Mandrake Root and Newt's Rongue -- Hall of the Mountain King -- Arya's Test -- The Shadows Lengthen -- Battle Under Farthen Dur -- The Mourning Sage -- Pronuniciation Guide -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments.

In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.