Originally posted by Black bolt z
Doesn't soud super impressive.And saphira is part of his standard gear...
He's also got a ring that stores up kinetic energy from his time spent walking around every morning. The ring when activated fires a beam of concussive force that would likely be sufficient to tear a human body apart on impact. (He purposefully fires slightly off the mark because its illegal to kill using magic).
In the book I'm reading now he was making a detailed map of Chicago with that was so precise that it even had miniature ley lines, to create these artificial ley lines as well as to endow the map with the energy necessary to intrinsically link it to the actual city it represented he had to pour in months of energy into it. Evidently if he tried to use the model as a means of seeking out black magic and the ritual backfired it would have possessed 300 times the energy of his force ring. Meaning he probably would have taken out his entire block. And that's just a side-effect of the creation process. Imagine the power he could channel if he was trying to make a destructive ritual.
There's hints that his true power is much greater and that if he put his mind to black magic he could be a threat to the White Council (the governing body of Wizards) itself. In the first book he was able to redirect the power of a thunderstorm to destroy the body of a demon that was out to get him.
Early on in the series he hits a Loup Garou with a fire spell. Even though the Loup Garou is invulnerable to anything but inherited silver the fire spell manages to blast him through a wall and then through several separate buildings. That would take crazy kinetic energy to accomplish.
I don't think I'd count a dragon mount as "standard gear", aren't Eragon-verse Dragons sentient? That's more like another character than gear.