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Violet Sorrengail was born in chains.
The daughter of the Great Betrayer, she has spent her life marked by the Tyrrish punishment — twenty cuts for twenty years — and kept under the watchful cruelty of a foster family loyal to the crown. When her final cut is made, she is sent to Basgiath War College to serve the very kingdom that destroyed her family.
But Violet knows the truth doesn’t match the history books. Her father died insisting the wards protecting Navarre were failing, that monsters from The Barrens would return. For that, he was executed. For that, she has bled.
Xaden Riorson — son of the kingdom’s most celebrated general — has been taught all his life that Violet’s bloodline is poison. He should hate her. He should want her gone. And yet… every time she fights, every time she survives, his loyalty wavers.
As dragons choose their riders, as Venin stir beyond the borders, and as Violet unearths dangerous truths hidden in her father’s last gift, enemies become uneasy allies, and uneasy allies become something far more dangerous.
Because when the wards fall, it won’t matter who was traitor or hero. It will matter who’s still alive.
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20 Oct 2025
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Xaden POV: Xaden Riorson - Year 2 by Ubiquitously_Ubiquitous
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
19 Jan 2025
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Xaden Riorson just finished his first year at Basgiath War College. He's bonded to one of the most feared dragons in Navarre, and he's proven himself to be exceptionally powerful to his quadrant and command alike. Now, it's time for Year 2. Appointed section leader thanks to his efforts in War Games, Xaden will have to navigate new challenges in his second year as an official part of leadership, while secretly making plans behind the scenes, plans that will ensure that all of this, in the end, is worth it. Along the way, he has to navigate the renewed hatred of the new cadets, the prejudices of command, who will stop at nothing to try to break him, and the added stress of a new betrothal, something he wants nothing to do with, all while surviving the most brutal class in the Riders Quadrant.
A continuation of my series of Xaden's POV - Years 1-3, imagining the story of how our beloved wingleader came to be the person Violet meets in Fourth Wing. Many of the characters in this year will be familiar from Year 1, as we pick up where that left off, and this story contains multiple spoilers for Fourth Wing and Iron Flame. I do not recommend reading Years 1 or 2 until both books have been completed.
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- Part 2 of Xaden Riorson POV - Xaden Years 1-3 at Basgiath
- Part 1 of Xaden Riorson - Year 2 - Character Snapshots
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03 Jun 2025
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Captive's Call: The Curse of the Onyx Storm by SaraNova, thoughtsaboutshows
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
19 Sep 2025
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Seeking to escape her arranged marriage, Violet Sorrengail finds herself adrift upon the Emerald Seas and within the grasp of disgraced duke-turned-Pirate, Captain Xaden Riorson. And the Captain is always in control, always has a plan, and will do whatever it takes to break the curse that plagues him and his crew ... that is, until he meets a certain Admiral's daughter.
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02 Jun 2025
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"You have got to be FUCKING kidding me."
"Language, Violet." Lilith Sorrengail's gaze is disapproving.
"Respectfully, ma'am, I have trained as a figure skater my whole life. And now you're telling me I need to play hockey? At Basgiath? As a WALK-ON?" My mother is many things. Unhinged was not one I would have seen coming, given the carefully controlled, cold façade she wears 99% of the time. But there's no way else to explain this other than unhinged.
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The transition to college is hard enough, but Violet Sorrengail also gets to add "attempting to become a hockey player" on her plate ... as well as avoid Xaden Riorson and his crew, thanks to some sketchy shit that went down with their parents and the (now-closed) University of Aretia. Or so she was always told. But things are never exactly what they seem ...
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- Part 1 of Basgiath Dragons Hockey
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23 May 2025
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It took only a few minutes for Violet to figure out what purpose she served.
No one said it out loud—not yet, but they’d get there—but they kept throwing out words like formalizing alliances and uniting two groups, and she understood.
Violet was a sacrificial lamb, and Xaden Riorson was the wolf, and her slaughter would be their marriage.
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- Part 1 of storm in the quiet
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11 Feb 2025