
Blagden said the phrase "blind as a bat" to Eragon during his first visit to Ellesméra. Morzan often took advantage of Brom's unflagging admiration, making him "blind as a bat". Brom idolized Morzan, tagged after him, allowed Morzan to boss him around and always considered himself weaker than Morzan. The other students laughed at these habits, so Brom eventually abandoned them.ĭuring his tutelage under Oromis and Glaedr, Brom befriended a fellow student three years his elder named Morzan. When he was new to Ilirea ( Urû'baen), for instance, Brom would knock on a door frame three times before entering or exiting a room.

Kuasta was so isolated by the Spine, that it became a peculiar place, full of strange customs and superstitions. Brom then went to the city of Ilirea to be trained as a dragon rider. When Brom was a child, presumably at the age of ten, a female aquamarine Dragon hatched for him and he named her Saphira. His mother was named Nelda and his father Holcomb.

Bromīrom came from a family of illuminators in Kuasta, a remote city near the Sea, far south of Carvahall. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.
