All 14 Uses of
fealty
in
Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
- The Old Ones have always nested on Helgrind, but in the time of my grandfather's father, Galbatorix stole their eggs and killed their young, and he forced them to swear fealty to him lest he eradicate their line entirely.†
Chpt 29
- Her only offspring were battles and corpses and trundling supply trains; stratagems too numerous to remember; oaths of friendship and fealty now worth less than a mummer's promise; and a halting, fractious, all-too-vulnerable army led by a Rider younger than she was herself.†
Chpt 42
- Let your duty be appeased now, and give me your oath of fealty in the ancient language, and ere the hour is out, you will have a dozen servants to command, robes of silk and damask to wear, a set of chambers to live in, and a place at my table when we dine.†
Chpt 43
- Besides, I would prefer not to seize control of your mind and force you to swear fealty to me.†
Chpt 43 *
- ...."Will you swear your fealty to me in the ancient language?"†
Chpt 45
- As long as you don't pledge fealty to Galbatorix, there's still a chance I can spirit you out of Uru'baen.†
Chpt 48
- Unbend your pride and pledge your fealty to me, and I shall give you everything you have ever wanted.†
Chpt 52
- Galbatorix had threatened to kill Eragon unless she swore fealty to him, the king.†
Chpt 52
- Has he forced you to swear fealty to him?†
Chpt 66
- Now the time has arrived for our guests to bend their knees and give to me their oaths of fealty......Come closer, the both of you, and I shall heal your wounds, and then we shall proceed.†
Chpt 68
- Among them, oaths of fealty were the most common, but there were also wards, enchantments to grant skills beyond the ordinary, and other, more mysterious spells.†
Chpt 71
- You've sworn fealty to her.†
Chpt 71
- Upon the fifth day, when the gate was nearly rebuilt and the city seemed reasonably secure, Nasuada ordered Eragon and Saphira to fly to Dras-Leona, and thence to Belatona, Feinster, and Aroughs, and in each place to use the name of the ancient language to release from their oaths everyone who had sworn fealty to Galbatorix.†
Chpt 72
- Like King Orrin and Lord Risthart, Nar Garzhvog had sworn fealty to Nasuada as his high queen.†
Chpt 73
Definition:
loyalty -- especially the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects owed their sovereign)