Inheritance Cycle/Characters/Brom

Brom Holcombsson was a male human, a former Dragon Rider and the founder of the Varden. In the third book it is revealed by Oromis that he is Eragon Shadeslayer's father, a secret that he and Saphira II had been keeping upon Brom's insistence.

Early life
Brom came from a family of illuminators in Kuasta, a remote city near the sea, far south of Carvahall. His mother was named User:Artix Kreiger/Inheritance Cycle/Characters/Nelda and his father Holcomb. Kuasta was so isolated by The Spine, that it became a peculiar place, full of strange customs and superstitions. 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. The other students laughed at these habits, so Brom eventually abandoned them. When Brom was a child, presumably at the age of ten, a female aquamarine Dragon hatched for him and he named her Saphira. Brom then went to the city of Ilirea to be trained as a dragon rider.