Was anyone else mad at Nasuada?

Nasuada has always had quite a bit of power being the leader of the Varden and Eragon's liegelord, but never really "abused" that power.

In Brisingr, however, she kind of took it a little too far in my opinion. For example, even though she is Eragon's liegelord, she has never really relied on ordering him around, but rather would request things from him on the basis that they were the right things to do(which Eragon mostly agreed with in books 1 and 2). In Brisingr though, she orders him to seperate from Saphira to visit the dwarves, and generally makes more use of her command than on previous occasions. I was alright with her actions up to that point as I agreed that although it was questionable, her orders were probably the best way to go.

After that though, when it came to dealing with Roran's insubordination, I was very upset with Nasuada. Not only did she make the mistake of putting Roran under the command of an inept captain, she had to also have been the one to promote that captain in the first place. Then she sends this company of 250 out to fight against one of 700 (another mistake, no matter how shorthanded the Varden are) a battle that they should have by no means won. Then Roran saves her hide by ignoring orders that would have got their company killed, and instead leads them to an extremely improbable victory, slaying nearly 200 men by himself.

Think of the situation Roran saved the Varden from. If he had followed orders, they would have most likely been killed. 250 soldiers, including a good magician (Carn) as well as a warrior of Roran's caliber dead. The company they fought would have suffered casualties, but still would have been able to go about wreaking havoc throughout Surda in the time it would've taken Nasuada to send yet another group of soldiers out to take care of them.

So how does Nasuada go about rewarding Roran for covering her multiple mistakes? She has him whipped fifty times in front of the entire Varden. I get that there were certain precedents that are normally followed in cases of insubordination, but you would think those could be overlooked in this type of case. Not to mention it had to be bad for the morale of the troops seeing Eragon's cousin whipped (and even worse for the morale of those in the company who had their lives saved by Roran and witnessed his epic battle).

Different Way For Eragon To Beat Galbatorix

During the end of Eragon's training with Oromis, when Oromis explained to Eragon that he could use the energy from other life around him to fuel his magic rather than use his own energy, Eragon asked if that was possible then would it also be possible to absorb energy for magic directly from other forms or energy such as fire or light. Oromis responds that "Reason says that it can be done, but no one has managed to devise a spell that allows it." He also says that if they knew how, they could destroy Galbatorix in an instant.

To me this seems like one of the most likely ways for Eragon to kill Galbatorix if the Vault of Souls does not increase his power enough. If somehow he or Oromis learned how to use other forms of energy to power their own magic it wouldn't even matter if the third rider was on the Varden's side. It could be 3v1 and Eragon would still likely win considering how powerful being able absorb energy through its natural state would make you, as described by Oromis.

The dream Eragon had could be used against this theory, but I think if it were to happen like this then Eragon would not even have to kill Murtagh and he could be the one on the shore with his dragon above. Anyway it's just another theory I do agree that the rider hatching for the Varden and Eragon getting stronger through the Vault of Souls is more likely, but I think this also has a decent chance at happening. Your thoughts would be appreciated .

P.S. I don't think this is a repeated theory, I searched for it anyway and couldn't find anything on it.

Final Battle, Where Will It Be?

The first place that comes to mind would obviously be Uru'baen because Galbatorix probably wont fly out into battle unless the city is threatened. I'd like to hear any other ideas or theories also who you think will be on each side once the battle commence; for example, will the elves' armies make it to Uru'baen or will they stay in the northern part of the empire fighting side battles?