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In Basgiath, no one survives by luck. The Dragon Rider Academy forges warriors—or devours them. Between training, intrigue, and the constant threat of war, Saoirse Durran tries to hide her heart behind discipline. Until she meets a man whose gaze sees right through her. And suddenly, nothing is so simple anymore. Some truths must remain hidden in Basgiath. Not if you want to survive.
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After the Battle of Draithus, Sloane is confused by the weight of two haunting words—you're life. Like an echo from her past, igniting a wildfire of hidden memories, she turns to Dain.
With their squad's trust in command already in tatters, they lean on each other like never before. Working together, testing their loyalties, their power and questioning the truths they were raised to believe and fight for. This is an imagining of what comes next focusing on the Fourth Wing Squad. Not canon compliant but respective as RY is a bloody legend.
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Kirra Leinster is a 35-year-old disabled woman--whoops, scratch thatKirra Leinster is a 20-year-old woman with fifteen bonus years of life experience and a very particular book series still fresh in her head, when she finds herself at Basgiath War College - only a few steps away from taking the parapet into the Riders' Quadrant.
Surviving Basgiath means preserving the timeline, but an entire year's head-start on the revolution might be exactly what they need to get the happy ending Kirra wants for everyone. Messing with things might endanger her own survival, but if the wrong people find out the truth about her, she's as good as dead anyway.
It's a delicate balancing act more dangerous than parapet - and there's plenty of people who can't wait to see her fall.
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The future is supposed to be predictable.
At least, that’s what the kingdom of Navarre believes under the watchful gaze of General Melgren, whose dragon-gifted foresight has guided the kingdom through decades of war.
But there is one future he cannot see.
Aurelia Raelith.
On Conscription Day at Basgiath War College, Aurelia intends to become a rider and nothing more. Survive the parapet. Bond a dragon. Rise through the ranks. Simple.
Except nothing about her life stays simple.
Her childhood friend, Violet Sorrengail, arrives dressed in rider black instead of scribe robes. The rebellion leader’s son, Xaden Riorson, seems to know far more than he should. And Aurelia’s own signet—dark, dangerous, and unlike anything the Riders Quadrant has seen—marks her as something the kingdom was never meant to have.
A variable.
As secrets unravel within the walls of Basgiath and war brews beyond Navarre’s borders, Aurelia finds herself caught between loyalty, rebellion, and the terrifying truth behind her kingdom.
Because sometimes the most dangerous weapon in a war…
is the future no one can see.
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- Part 1 of The Empyrean Chronicles
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strange to be known so universally, and yet to be so lonely by plum_petals
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
01 May 2026
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Violet Sorrengail risked everything to uncover the hidden truth of Navarre after finding her father's letter. After the horrors of Resson, she enters her second year in the Rider's Quadrant with one major goal in mind: survival.
It's a good thing that Violet has a plan for everything, from deciphering her father's final message and researching the wards, to negotiating for a luminary and keeping all of her friends from being killed in her spare time. Not to mention coping with a long-distance relationship and a stubborn first-year blaming her for her very-alive brother's death. Unfortunately, running landings are the least of her concerns.
Sequel to "the life of spies is to know, not to be known" following the events of Iron Flame.
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- Part 2 of spyverse
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Following Emerald Stone: The final installment
Now that they have found several pieces to the puzzle, how are Violet and Co. going to defeat the dark wielders, or will they lose it all?
This comes after Onyx Storm, and after my first installment of 'Emerald Stone'. I'd highly recommend reading that first before continuing here!
As always: these characters are not my own and come from the mind of the incomparable Rebecca Yarros.
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- Part 2 of EMPYREAN
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I’m a master of pain,
and Andarna’s loss is the deepest I’ve ever had to mask in order to survive.I am the master of pain, and the loss of all my loved ones has cost me everything.
Including my sanity. Especially that.
Violet Sorrengail was meant to die.
She knew it. She had made her peace with it. One life for thousands. One final surge of lightning to end the venin and their corruption forever. The cost was supposed to be simple.
However, Violet, being the stubborn ass girl she is, defied all odds against Malek and lived.
Her sacrifice cured all the venin; brought back those who were killed to walk the face of the Continent once again.
Including Xaden Riorson. Duke of Tyrrendor, shadow wielder, but most importantly...her husband.
But, was it really worth it? Or is there more to the story than what meets the eye?
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One tragic day changes Dahlia's life forever. Despised by her father and brother, she's spent her entire life trying to be the child and sister she use to be. But nothing she ever does is good enough. She joins the Rider's Quadrant to prove them wrong.
Garrick now in his second year has proven he is more than the mark on his skin to his fellow riders, and taken leadership of his own Squad alongside Xaden. Little does he know the girl walking across the parapet is about to send him on a rollercoaster of a year.
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Xaden Riorson is being eaten alive by the nightmares he hides, and Violet Sorrengail is running from the ones that nearly destroyed her — but when their worlds collide, the fire between them might save them both… or burn them to ash.
Aretia is a city on the edge, and no one feels the strain more than Xaden Riorson — newly appointed Captain in Station Four, he's been running from his nightmares by running into fires. Across town Violet Sorrengail, AGH’s newest trauma nurse, is running from a past that she can't seem to escape.
What begins as a single collision becomes impossible to ignore. Every shift, every call, every near‑miss pulls them closer, until the line between duty and desire blurs beyond recognition. And as Aretia grows more unstable, Xaden and Violet must decide whether the fire between them is worth the risk of being burned.
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After her younger sister's death, Claire Cordella, the 2nd air to the throne of Poromiel, flees to the safety of Navarre's Wards. She is determined to find a way to defeat the Wyvern. The best way to do this is to bond to a dragon, but it is most definitely not the easiest route.
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Soulmates are… divine intervention. A person chosen by the Gods to be your perfect match. The strength to your weakness. The light to your darkness. Not what you want but what you need.
Soulmates are also complete and utter bullshit.
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A soulmate ficlet set in Fourth Wing. The relationship tag and final chapter count will not be updated until the story is done, so come along for the short mystery. You need to have fully read FW for this to make sense as I am NOT re-doing the full story, just little snippets.
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~This story has not been abandoned. The author(me lol) is ✨going through it✨ so as soon as I have a chapter I’m proud of I’ll post it; thank y’all for your patience💕~
How far would you go to protect your family?
Lyra Riorson only cares about her family being safe.
Her big brother is now her entire world and their best friends become their family.When General Melgren threatens Xaden, Lyra makes a deal to keep those she loves safe. Little does she know that part of this deal includes going to live with General Sorrengail.
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After the Calldyr Executions, Elise Riorson, the daughter of Fen Riorson, is kept in the city to be fostered by King Tauri himself. She spends the next five years as the royal family’s whipping girl, a hostage in all but name, while secretly training for the Riders Quadrant with Cam’s help.
The night before she leaves for Basgiath, Halden comes to her with a cruel offer, claiming it was her brother who killed Alic during Threshing two years ago: If she dies on Conscription Day, he and his father will consider the score settled and spare Xaden’s life.
It’s simple enough, right? All she has to do is to jump off the parapet, and Xaden will be safe. Except he is waiting for her on the wrong side of the parapet, and even though he can’t interfere with what happens on that death trap of a bridge, Liam Mairi can.
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With a seemingly impossible task from Malek himself, Violet must figure out how she will accomplish what he wants without putting the lives of her loved ones at risk.
What will she have to sacrifice? What will she have to risk?
One thing she knows for sure:
She will do whatever it takes to keep her loved ones safe, even if it means defying death and changing her destiny.
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- Part 4 of Built to Break
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Twin Flame: Bound by Lightning by WinterKnight1066
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
29 Apr 2026
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Natalia Sorrengail is the often overlooked twin sister of Violet Sorrengail. She shares many of the same traits as her twin, leading everyone, including herself to believe that she won't survive when General Sorrengail decrees that she will enter the Riders Quadrant along with Violet. She is ill prepared to navigate the dangers of the Riders Quadrant, and she takes it upon herself to keep her twin alive. She uncovers secrets that could get her and everyone she cares about killed.
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- Part 1 of Twin Flames
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The last time the venin were driven back, the common histories named six riders. Older texts claim otherwise, that the gods themselves converged as one through mortal flesh and turned the tide by their own hand. Let us pray such power is never needed again, for if the gods must walk among us, ruin will come for us all.
Fragment recovered from pre-Unification Tyrrish records, author unknownViolet Sorrengail Riorson's personal addendum to the Book of Brennan
Not that he fucking deserves to be the author of this book. The traitor. It turns out queening is not all it’s cracked up to be. Xaden is cured. Unfortunately, we are now gods.
I would like to know what kind of sick humour this is. Apparently surviving war, betrayal, crowns, venin, and my husband’s dramatic nonsense was not enough. No, now I have a kingdom to hold together, an empire to help reclaim, a sister ready to knife anyone who looks at her unborn child like a constitutional solution, and a continent still determined to catch fire around me.So, in summary:
Xaden is alive.
The gods are assholes.
Brennan is a traitorous bastard.
And if ruin is coming for us all, it’s going to have to get in line.Series
- Part 2 of The Empyrean
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Desire for all that is lost by Steff_writes_stuff
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
29 Apr 2026
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I understand that Loial is the god of love, but why on earth would Violet need to go alone or send a couple as ambassadors? After everything that happened in my second and third year at Basgiath, dating was the very last thing on my mind.
And then Sloane Mairi, of all people, offered to be my fake girlfriend.
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The last thing Alice remembers before waking up in the world of her favorite book is a car accident. If this is her afterlife, she is determined to change the odds in the coming war. But first, she needs to enter the riders' quadrant, preferably with sufficient training. Luckily, Alice arrives several months before Conscription Day. And who is capable of helping her with that? The woman who will do anything for her children: General Lilith Sorrengail.
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One Manhattan, up and in a coupe, changed the course of Violet Sorrengail's night...and maybe her life.
AKA The one night stand trope with a twist you never saw coming. Trust us.
FYI - THIS FIC WILL BE REMOVED FROM AO3 ON MAY 10, 2026. SEE CHAPTER 54 FOR DETAILS.
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- Part 1 of The One Manhattan Collection
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She was raised within sky-reaching stone walls—among guards, soldiers, and sharp-tongued politicians—and learned the rhythms of court as easily as any dance. Aeryn Tauri was loved. By her family. By a kingdom that never intended to crown her.
Princess of Navarre, she has always sensed something beneath that devotion—an unspoken truth she couldn’t name.
So when she enters the Riders Quadrant, the deadliest path at Basgiath War College, it isn’t for glory or ambition, but for duty, for power, and for the quiet understanding that the crown must remain where it has always belonged.
She expects hardship. Blood. Survival.
What she doesn’t expect is for everything she knows to begin unraveling.
In the Riders Quadrant, lies cut deeper than blades, trust fractures easily, and power is never what it seems. Aeryn is about to learn that fate isn’t something you follow—
it’s something that can break. Or be broken.
And when it does, everything will change.