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They say the first year at Basgiath breaks you physically.
The second year breaks you mentally.
Now a second-year rider and the newly appointed Squad Leader of Second Wing, Flame Section, Second Squad, Rowan Sorrengail has more to lose—and more to hide—than ever before.
The Riders Quadrant demands endurance through torture, higher stakes, and merciless loss. But Rowan’s battles extend far beyond the training field. A rebellion brews in secret, his father’s slow poisoning remains unsolved, and the fragile loyalty of his squad rests squarely on his shoulders.
The first-years he’s meant to lead—wide-eyed and untested—remind him painfully of who he used to be. Just a week ago, Rowan and his own squad had stood as first-years: bruised, scarred, and still standing only by the will of their dragons and each other.
Still, there’s no time to grieve.
The Games may be over, but the real war has only just begun.
And this year, their bonds with one another might not be enough to keep them safe.
This is the sequel to Another Flame in the Fire.
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Daria barely survived the Battle of Resson, but the price was steep. She not only lost Soleil, her foster sister and only surviving family, but also Liam, her childhood best friend and the person she loved most, whose final letter left her heart utterly shattered. Now, all that remains is excruciating pain and a festering, all-consuming thirst for vengeance.
Lost to the forces of her own rage and grief, Daria begins a dangerous descent into the darkest depths of her psyche as her second year at Basgiath commences. Between the relentless demands of the Riders’ Section Competition (RSC), a growing rift between her and Bodhi—the only one left from her close-knit circle—and the resurgence of the Tyrrish Rebellion, Daria is pushed to her absolute limit.
Soon, she will be faced with yet another impossible choice. She will have to decide if her need for retribution outweighs her commitment to the Revolution. To survive, Daria must rediscover what truly matters to her and determine who she wants to be: a soldier hardened by loss, a renegade consumed by rage, or a wayward soul fighting to find a new path forward.
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- Part 2 of Meet Me in Aretia
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There are hundreds if not millions of people around the continent.
Why it had to be you?
Why does my heart yearns for you?
Someone who is up above my reach, somoene who I can't have.
"You should try and sit, then tell me how it feels." As I felt his lips brushed at the tip of my ear, making my cheeks in heat.
I stared at the seat in front of me, this is something I wouldn't dream of seeing in person.
"Go on now Sorrengail. Sit." His voice speaks command and I am too complacent to agrue about it.
This is not an ordinary chair, It is something that belongs to him, to the person who sings about love and dreams at the same time slaughter all the ones who against him.
"Can I go now? Xaden" I asked.
"No, I'll never let you go Violet."
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A collection of drabbles inspired by the Empyrean series in 100 to 200 words — glimpses of canon and divergent paths with a strong focus on Violet and Xaden, alongside a mix of other dynamics because no one's story stands alone.
Snapshots of battles, bonds, soft touches, and sharp words—told one breath at a time.
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Velyra Sorrengail is the twin sister of Violet Sorrengail and the daughter of General Sorrengail. Today is her Conscription Day and she has one goal once her and Violet cross. Make sure Violet survives. Protecting her was always her job, and if the choice comes down to her or Violet, she would always choose Violet.
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- Part 1 of Different People AU
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Dark Magic by love_and_witchcraft
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, The Handmaid's Tale Series - Margaret Atwood
21 Oct 2025
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On the continent of Amaryllis, dark wielders are rising, draining the earth of its magic, and interrupting the circle of life. After a wave of miscarriages and infertility, Navarre’s militaristic society was repurposed to a different end: reproduction. They’ve erected wards of protection, but now must rebuild their population. Women have been subjugated, forbidden from all that might bring them power: knowledge. love. dragons.
Violet Sorrengail was training to be a scribe before Navarre’s revolution. Now, she has been forced to serve as a Handmaiden to Commander Xaden Riorson and his wife, Catriona.
Fourth Wing - Handmaid's Tale style AU
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Cheerleader Violet Sorrengail is having the worst day, all thanks to the piece of paper weighing her down. She'd like a quiet night in her apartment, but luck is not on her side—there's a home game tonight.
College football punter Xaden Riorson is pumped up and ready for the night! The excitement, the nerves are all combining in a perfect storm to make tonight the best game ever! Best of all, if they win, they'll finally make the playoffs.
A freak incident will combine their lives and meld their souls in ways neither of them expect.
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Chaos doesn’t knock—it crashes.
Dain is a first-year cadet—sharp, stubborn, and already in trouble. Xaden is a second-year legend, wrapped in shadows and warnings, the kind of danger everyone’s told to avoid. But when suspicion strikes and survival demand unlikely alliances, Dain finds himself pulled into Xaden’s orbit. What begins as tension soon spirals into something deeper—desire, defiance, and a connection neither of them saw coming. In a world ruled by power and secrets, staying away was never really an option. -
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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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We all know the story: Violet Sorrengail studied her whole life to be a scribe. However, six months before, she was to attend the Basgiath War College. Her mother, General Lilith Sorrengail, orders her to join the riders' quadrant instead. Now, what if Violet had a furry companion? More specifically, the Mabari war hound from the Dragon Age franchise. Meet Keir, a 200-pound, four-foot at the shoulder, all back mabari with golden brown eyes. Faithful to Violet, how will Keir switch up the story? How much chaos can one 200-pound war dog cause in the quadrant?
Yes, Violet is a dog mom who spoils her fur baby.Series
- Part 1 of A Mabari in the Quadrant
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They tried to break her. Torture her. Kill her.
Instead, they forged her into a weapon.
Now Eleanor Riorson-Tavis, Queen of Orlyth, wages war not only against the Venin, but against Navarre and the very gods themselves. The Balance is fractured, magic is unraveling, and with the Shadewing Den reborn, her name has become prophecy and curse alike.
With Garrick at her side, Noodle in her shadow, and Nox and Chradh above, Eleanor has built an empire of monsters-and she will tear the world apart piece by piece to protect what remains of her family. Her kill count climbs. Her mercy burns to ash. Her humanity slips further from reach with every battlefield she leaves empty.
But victory comes at a cost. And the deeper she walks into madness, the clearer it becomes: this was never just war. It is a reckoning. It is the endgame.
Because Eleanor isn't fighting to save the world anymore.
She's fighting to remake it.
And when the dust settles, history won't call her hero or villain. It will call her what she has always been:
Oblivion.
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- Part 4 of Viper
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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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Six years after Tyrrendor’s successful defection from Navarre, the continent stood on the cusp of an uneasy alliance. Tyrrendor flourished, united under King Fen Riorson’s leadership. Poromiel thrived under the guidance of Queen Maraya Cordella, its military strength bolstered by advances in gryphon-mounted warfare. Navarre, led by the increasingly enigmatic King Tauri, struggled to maintain its veneer of dominance while hiding the truth about the Venin’s threat. Amidst this backdrop, the city of Calldyr in Navarre became the host for a historic leadership summit, its grandeur a thinly veiled attempt to project power.
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Love You to the Moon and Back by wednesdaychampagne
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
20 Oct 2025
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Violet Sorrengail never expected her quiet life to collide with her neighbor’s—Xaden Riorson, a guarded single father with shadows in his past. Drawn together by Saturday mornings and the little girl who adores them both, Violet and Xaden must navigate trust, longing, and the secrets that could destroy everything before it begins.
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Takes place after the end of Onyx Storm. SPOILERS!
Violet wakes up with memory loss. Exploring how a marriage could have been arranged for the good of Tyrrendor, between Violet and Bodhi.
The very unofficial beginning of book 4.
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Selected off book scenes from Iron Flame by AfterchangesUponchanges
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
20 Oct 2025
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In this work I will publish a number of scenes that can be read stand alone and are not portrayed in the books, however I am writing them as they could be part of the book and believe they are congruent with subsequent events and the evolution of the characters.
In a way this is an opportunity to test theories about why certain characters acted in a certain way later in the book.
These scenes will feature exclusively book characters PoV's although in some circumstances OC's may be involved.
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Navarre’s most valuable weapons by Obssesivecompulsive
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
19 Oct 2025
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Xaden is three years older than Violet in this AU, so they did not cross paths at Basgiath.
But that doesn’t mean that he didn’t keep an eye on the rider that his life hinges upon.Making everyone believe he is a loyal officer in Navarre’s rank proves to be easier than understanding the woman he thought was just a miniature version of her mother that he loathes so much.
Violet has done what she must during her years in Basgiath to survive, and from the outside looking in she is the most loyal weapon Navarre could have ever hoped for.
Apart they are deadly, but together they are a force to be reckoned with.
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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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Imogen didn’t weep when her mother and sister burned for their part in the rebellion. She couldn’t afford to. The kingdom of Navarre had already decided her fate. Survival was a distant hope, a cruel joke in a world that wanted them dead.
Then Xaden Riorson made a deal.
In exchange for their lives, he would take their punishment and they, in turn, would be given one impossible chance: to enter the Riders Quadrant at Basgiath War College. A battlefield disguised as a school, where their only path to survival is bonding with a dragon and fighting for a kingdom that despises them.
Imogen and Garrick—both orphaned and stripped of everything they know—are placed together in the new foster system, forming an unbreakable bond as they navigate a world that sees them as traitors’ children. Forced to rely on each other for survival, their relationship deepens from an alliance of necessity into something far more complex.
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The Effing Goats by Katherine_Tripp1209 for Andie_B
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
19 Oct 2025
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Garrick runs out of gas in the middle of Phuket, Thailand. What could possibly go wrong?
Or, a silly fun little story that was teased during the very smutty, fun 72 Hours fic for the RQ Summer Exchange.
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- Part 2 of 72 Hours Verse