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Scattered ‘Cross My Family Line by Makayla_Burden24
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
27 Nov 2025
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Scattered ‘Cross My Family Line follows Rune Melgren, only son of General Melgren, as he’s forced into the Riders Quadrant on Conscription Day. He’d never had a choice—not in his future, not in his training, and certainly not in surviving the father who raised him on discipline instead of love.
The Riders Quadrant should have been a reprieve.
At least there, the people trying to kill him wouldn’t share his last name.But that illusion shatters the moment he meets Xaden Riorson—son of the Great Betrayer, heir to the rebellion Rune’s father helped burn out of existence. And as fate would have it, Rune and Xaden are placed in the same squad: Fourth Wing, Flame Section, First Squad.
Xaden hates him on sight.
Rune can’t decide if he hates him back… or if the quiet, guarded, infuriating first-year is going to be the death of him in an entirely different way.Enemies by legacy. Rivals by circumstance.
Something else entirely by accident.Series
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The heat is on full blast for Xaden and Violet when they meet at a fundraiser, unable to keep their eyes off each other. He’s a firefighter. She’s a journalist. And their pull? It’s undeniable. Throw in an ice bath that Xaden just can’t help but join her in, and the flames are fanned, the burn between them inevitable.
But family names and buried secrets might just put out the fire before it can even begin to take hold…
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Violet is transported to read the Emperyean book series starting with Fourth Wing book. She begins alone with Jesinia, her dead father Asher Sorrengail and her also dead father in law Fen Riorson but others join her as they are mentioned in the books. She appears alone with Jesinia after the events of the series with everything back to normal and in the last 6 months of Basgiath before she is to graduate.
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- Part 1 of Reading the Empyrean Series
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Violet Sorrengail lived by the rules, lived by the credibility of the Archives. She definitely hadn’t expected one trip to Aretia to uproot her belief in the Archives’ Historical Credibility, but here she is now. What’s the worst that could happen?
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Med school is hell. Being broke is worse. Violet’s solution? Make a deal with the devil — and he answers to Riorson.
But when their worlds collide, Violet learns this deal is about more than money — it’s about power, politics, and survival. Oh and the fact she wants to climb that man like a tree.
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Honey, Honey I Can Be Your Bodyguard by intellectual_desperado
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
16 Nov 2025
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Violet Sorrengail is in trouble. After a research paper she wrote for class condemning the current administration's handling of the conflict in Deverelli is leaked to the public, Violet finds herself under the microscope of public scrutiny. For any normal grad student, this wouldn't have been a blip on anyone's radar. Unfortunately for Violet, her mother is a high-ranking advisor in President Tauri's administration and a key architect in the country's military response to the conflict. While Violet thinks the scandal will blow over quickly, her mother's colleagues are increasingly worried about the threats against Violet's life that have been circulating online.
Xaden Riorson is screwed. After starting a private security firm with his best friend and cousin, Xaden was hoping to make a name for himself, far away from his father's presidential campaign. In a cruel twist of fate, their first client turns out to be the daughter of one of Fen's staunch political rivals. At first glance, the job seemed straightforward — protect the girl from an overzealous fanboy, who hated what she wrote. But things are not as simple as they seem, and it appeared that Violet Sorrengail would be bringing nothing but trouble to his door.
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Kyra Riorson, daughter of the executed rebellion leader Fen Riorson and younger sister to Xaden, was only fifteen when she watched her world burn—literally. Branded by magic as one of the 108 children of traitors, she is torn from her brother’s side and forced into the care of General Lilith Sorrengail.
In a brutal world where survival is earned with blood and trust is a weapon, Kyra’s mission is clear: stay alive, see Xaden again, bond a dragon, and—above all else—keep Violet Sorrengail breathing. But with war looming, secrets festering, and old loyalties threatening to tear apart the fragile peace Navarre has had, Kyra must walk the line between duty and rebellion, protector and traitor, sister and weapon.
Because the deadliest force in Navarre isn’t forged by war—but by love, loss, and the will to protect.
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This will be a collection of stories from when Keir was a puppy 🐶. Open to requests at what you might want to see from when Violet’s hound was just a little baby.
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- Part 3 of A Mabari in the Quadrant
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As a rider candidate on the spectrum, Adelaide Finch knew Basgiath War College wouldn't cater to her. The dragons are loud, the flying leathers are itchy, and the social politics are... complicated. Between the rebellion relic that paints a target on her back and the curriculum designed to kill her, surviving Basgiath might take more than logic, loyalty, or luck - it might take fire.
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“Ah,” he says, then holds his hand out for me, just like his friend. “Cadet Asher Daxton.”
I look at his hand, and then back at him. He’s wearing a small and friendly smile, and I reluctantly shake his hand. “Cadet Sorrengail. I don’t share my first name with strangers, so don’t ask.”
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A pre-canon story about Mama and Papa Sorrengail's love story.
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Years before the Tyrrish Rebellion, before his family fell apart and before he was dragged into the messy politics of Navarre, Brennan Sorrengail was just another cadet at Basgiath War College. An annoying, arrogant, know-it-all prick of a cadet. And Diana Baelin hated him with a burning passion. And it was definetly hatred she felt... right?
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- Part 1 of Almost
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Learning to be Someone You Don’t Know by Nerdyfangirlmel
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
11 Oct 2025
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Prequel to On My Honor and the Want of Being
There are 5 years before Isela Riorson and Liam Mairi enter the rider’s quadrant. 5 years in which Isela doesn’t see her brother. 5 years where they are forced to live in separate provinces. 5 years where Isela Riorson lives with tyrrendor’s greatest enemy, General Sorrengail.
There 5 years in which Xaden Riorson and Liam Mairi may have each lost a sister but somehow find a brother. 5 years of mostly unanswered letters. 5 years in which Liam Mairi finds himself helping a fallen duke, who also happens to be his best friend’s older brother rebuild a city, a revolution, and technically a province. All in the shadows.
And it feels like an eternity.
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“Isela Riorson! If I have to drag you kicking and screaming to the fucking mat I will! You need to try. Or you are not going to survive. You are going to die!”
“So what? What if I want to die! I don’t care anymore! I deserve it!”
Dain Aetos grabs her under the arms and picks her up, like a toddler, with ease and carries her to the top of Basgiath’s tallest tower.
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- Part 3 of The Lady of Tyrrendor
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Quill in One Hand, Dagger in The Other by Grizzabella_02
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
05 Oct 2025
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General Sorrengail tries to force Violet into the rider's quadrant but with the help of Markham and Cam gets appointed as Markham's protege at the age of 18.
Xaden Riorson joins the rider's quadrant with the only other option being death, and shoulders the weight as a leader of rebellion while absolutely failing at not flirting with youngest Sorrengail.
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First Wing-Claw Section-First Squad: The Cadett by rainbowsparkles123
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
24 Sep 2025
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English ain't my first language but I have a B so I think I'm good?
Riorson's daughter is about to enter the Rider's Quadrant as the first marked one ever. No friends and all foes. No marked ones, all alone. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? (Spoiler alert: Almost everything goes wrong)
(First Year, 2 years after the Secession, about 4 years before Violet's first year)
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- Part 1 of First Wing-Claw Section-First Squad
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- Chapters:
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Xaden Riorson is bound by scars, secrets, and a bargain he never asked for. General Sorrengail has chained him to the survival of her youngest daughter, Violet. But the girl isn’t the fragile scribe he expected. She’s brilliant, stubborn, and already suspects that Navarre’s histories are lies. From the moment Xaden reads her intentions on the parapet, he knows she’s chasing forbidden truths about venin. Truths he’s bled to keep buried.
He should have made her fall. He swore he wanted her gone. Yet every glance pulls him tighter between his duty to the 107 marked ones and the raw attraction he can’t shut down. Violet is fire wrapped in fragile skin, and she forces him to feel what he thought had died with his father.
Now Xaden is chained to her survival, and to her dangerous pursuit of the truth. If Violet uncovers what Navarre has hidden, it could destroy everything he’s sacrificed for, and take him with it.
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- Part 2 of Hidden Truth AU
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Violet Sorrengail had been preparing to be a scribe for as long as she can remember. Books and parchment, facts and history were to be her world. But when her father died a little over a year before her Conscription Day, she discovered a hidden note he had sealed inside the book of fables he read to her as a kid. Thrust into the Riders Quadrant under her mother’s command, Violet arrives armed with theories and burning questions. She suspects her father’s death is connected to the folklore of venin and wyvern recounted in the book of fables he chose to leave the note in. As Violet steps onto the parapet, she knows survival means more than claiming a dragon—it means uncovering the truths her father died to protect.
Or: Violet’s discovery of her father’s note after his death leads to a series of discoveries, and Violet faces the parapet with a very different attitude on Conscription Day.
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- Part 1 of Hidden Truth AU
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When the last challenge of War Games happens, Ridoc can't tell you why he hasn't been coming to see you in the Scribe Quadrant, leaving you to think the worst.
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- Part 4 of The Scribe
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Joutava by Bonami27
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing, Iron Flame - Fandom, Onyx Storm - Fandom
05 Sep 2025
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Joutava (Dispensable/Superfluous) | Genre ➼ Fourth Wing/Iron Flame Rider's Quadrant Romance/Tragedy. Pairing ➼ Violet Sorrengail / Xaden Riorson | Words ➼ ?.
Unwanted from birth, cast aside as a frail shadow of expectations—The Sorrengail's forsaken child. The son of the Great Betrayer, a rising force feared for his strength and ambition, a looming challenge to authority. Both outcasts in their own right—one burdened by a legacy of Navarrian blood, the other by a fallen Dukedom—they are thrust together in the brutal crucible of Basgiath’s merciless War College. As alliances fray and survival becomes a daily battle, they must rely on each other to endure. Can they defy the blood-soaked legacy of the Rider's Quadrant and endure where countless others have fallen, or will they be stripped of their niceties, consumed by its ruthless trials?
Warnings | Eventual injury (blood, gore and potential permanent injury) | Explicit Language | Angst | Action/Drama/Romance | Major Character Death | PTSD | Minor sexual content (this will change to explicit content in later chapters).
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Violet travels back in time and finds herself at home with her dad. The Tyrrish Rebellion has not yet happened. Naolin is alive. Xaden's family is alive.
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- Part 1 of Empyrean Prequels
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When Ridoc and the reader finally manage to sneak away from their quadrants, Ridoc discovers that the Scribe Quadrant isn't as safe as he thought for you. (Part three of my Ridoc x scribe!Male reader series)
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- Part 3 of The Scribe