he's 17, they show his birthday in i think eragon or maybe eldest
EDIT: At the beginning of Eragone he is 15, a few pages later he is 16. So by the time the last book ends (Inheritance) he could be anywhere between 16 and 19.
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In the first book of the Inheritance Cycle Eragon is stated to be about 15, almost 16 years old.
He began outlining the trilogy (which later became a "cycle") when he was fifteen years old. The book was published in 2002 when Christopher Paolini was nineteen years old.
Saphira is hatched in Eragon, so she's just a baby. But Saphira's egg was hundreds of years old, but nobody kn ows how old she truly is.
Christopher Paolini was 15 years old when he began writing Eragon, and 19 when the book was published.