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An Affair of Light and Shadows by ThatWouldBee_Enough for ShipMistress
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
23 Sep 2025
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If you can’t fight your enemies, you fuck them. That’s how these disputes always ended between royal families after all—in unhappy but politically convenient marriages.
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Violet Sorrengail, lady in waiting to King Tauri's only daughter, is intent on securing an alliance between Navarre and Tyrrendor. When crown prince Xaden Riorson arrives in Calldyr to court the princess, she determines to do everything in her power to ensure they are married.
And Xaden Riorson? He would rather be anywhere but Calldyr, but his father, and his kingdom, are exhausted fighting a war on two fronts. Marrying King Tauri's daughter is the most efficient route to an alliance. Xaden's own desires don't matter when it comes to romance. They never have.
But when Xaden meets Violet, what's best for their respective kingdoms suddenly doesn't feel quite so important.
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Violet returns to her room after chapter 22. Grounding isn’t helping, so she takes matters into her own hands. If only she remembered who controlled the shadows in the corner of her room. Takes place during Fourth Wing
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Like A Third by ellebellewritesfic for Mint_chocolatechip
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
16 Nov 2025
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Like a third.
Literally.
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- Part 13 of Smutty Sundays
- Part 4 of Ridoc Does Quest Squad
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Violet’s second signet allows her to manipulate the signets of other riders, and Xaden, tasked with teaching her, has an interesting idea to help her master it.
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I don't think I care what it costs by theoneiam2277 for ShipMistress
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
24 Jun 2025
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"This pretty little neck would snap so easily under my fingers," Xaden says, and he sounds almost – wistful?
"So do it," she spits, and immediately wants to take back the words, because she doesn't want to die today. But she's committed now, and maybe she can goad him into killing her fast. "It's not nice to play with your food. Didn't daddy teach you that, Riorson?"
She opens her eyes to see anger flash in his, features twisting from amusement to hate very quickly. The hand on her windpipe presses down, until she's trapped with her head completely against the wall, at his mercy.
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In which dark!Xaden keeps the General's daughter alive, as per their deal, but exacts his revenge from her in other ways.
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The war is over, the venin have won. Violet is a prisoner, both her body and in her mind. Amongst the trauma and the loss, the one person who’s existence she’s been trying to ignore is here. Haunted by her past and unsure of her future, reality and dreams become blurred. With nothing left to lose, it seems there’s only one way out of this nightmare?
Just because you’re endgame doesn’t mean you get a happily ever after…Series
- Part 4 of Conjugal Visits
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“The chase is one of the most crucial parts of courtship. It is the final test of compatibility between mates while also paying homage to our most primal instincts. Once this step is reached, it means that the omega trusts the alpha implicitly and instinctively. Severing a courtship at this stage is ill advised.”
- The Rules of Courtship: The Alpha-Omega Edition by Major Kate DaxtonIn the short break between their 2nd and 3rd year at Basgiath, Xaden wants to do what he can to help Violet destress after a very stressful couple of days. Oh, how is a poor brat supposed to accomplish this task? Surely, he wouldn't dare to use their mating bond to convince her to come running....would he?
Also say a prayer for Sgaeyl, Tairn, and Andarna because they're forced to bear witness to this insanity.
Note: This can be read on it's own, but it also fits within my AU.
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- Part 3 of The Empyrean - Omegaverse AU
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The Tauris are overstaying their welcome at Basgiath, and much to Violet and Xaden's dismay, they're hosting a state dinner to breach an alliance between Navarre, Tyrrendor, and Poromiel. Violet grows increasingly worried she'll be outmatched and outsmarted by members of the court, having been an outsider to their world her whole life. To her shock, she finds a new ally willing to help her level the playing field.
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- Part 6 of Onyx Storm Headcannons
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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 a leadership meeting interrupts Xaden and Violet in the middle of their fun, Violet comes up with a creative idea to make the best of the situation. And the best it is, insane, daring, and just... incredibly hot.
Xaden learns a new thing or two. One, a few new tricks he can do with his shadows, and two, how much unresolved tension he can take before he cracks.Part 11 of Kinktober
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- Part 12 of Kinktober2023
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"Now, which of us is desperate, sweet girl?" Xaden asks from the other side of the desk, his tone amused. "I think it's you. So if you want me, come here and have me."
He spreads his arms out in an offer, indicating that his lap is empty and available. Well, that's an offer she can't refuse, but also one that sounds too good to be true. The smirk on Xaden's face doesn't promise capitulation. No, it hints at a battle she's completely unprepared for.
But she can at least fight.
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Liam is on duty, but Xaden has ample time to play with Violet. And there’s plans in the making that she’s not aware of… Or, the one tagged for six different “Inappropriate Use of xxxx Signet (Empyrean)”.
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- Part 13 of endlessly (Violiaden)
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In a world of secrets, discovering said secrets isn't (always) the hardest part. by angemyrtille
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
31 Oct 2025
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Violet Sorrengail was 14 years old when her father, Asher, decided to bring her with him to Tyrrendor during a trip to end his most recent research. Going to Tyrrendor, they both stayed in the Duke's house, where she met four certainly interesting teenagers: Imogen Cardulo, Garrick Tavis, Bodhi Durran and Xaden Riorson — Duke Fen's only son.
Violet Sorrengail was 15 years old when the Rebellion happened — killing her brother in the process. Her father is more secretive than ever and says suspicious things every time they are alone.
Violet Sorrengail was 16 years old when her father died — but this might not be the truth after she finds a letter under her pillow the night after his funeral.
With the truth of the horrors outside of the wards now known, Violet must find a way to keep contact with her father and brother while training to join a Quadrant she never thought she would step into. And if she will be meeting old friends in the process, alongside a certain Riorson boy, good thing she will have allies.
Or, Violet finds out the truth much sooner, and becomes the biggest threat Navarre never saw coming.
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The only thing the Empyrean series is missing is... anal.
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now you're ours (we don't care who sees) by theoneiam2277 for ThatWouldBee_Enough
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
21 Sep 2025
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Xaden interrupts her thoughts again. “This way, darling wife.”
The glint in his eyes tells her how much he enjoys calling her that. She can practically see the possessive parts of him purring at the thought of her being his, and can’t really find it in herself to mind. Being owned by this man, by–
“There the two of you are.” Bodhi’s voice is as familiar as Xaden’s at this point, the cousins rarely apart. “Everything is ready.”
“Ready?” Violet asks, though the statement was aimed at Xaden.
Bodhi smiles kindly. “For the consummation.”
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Tyrrish Independence AU with Riorrangail, arranged marriage and public consummation. Written for Bee <3
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The solution is simple, and it’s staring Xaden straight in the face right now. Liam knows Xaden doesn’t want him risking his life for Xaden, but the equation is clear. There is no Xaden without Violet. And there is no Liam without Xaden, because he won’t survive that. So there is no Liam without Violet.
“Put me in her squad,” Liam breathes, and watches Xaden’s eyes widen in surprise. “I can be with her, every second of every day. We can train her. Earn her trust.”
“No, Liam–”
“It’s not your choice whether I risk my life for you or not. It’s mine. I love you, and I’m making it.”
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In which Liam and Violet cross the parapet and are placed in Xaden's wing for very different reasons. Slowly, the three of them tangle together in a balancing act of trust, secrets and love.
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- Part 7 of endlessly (Violiaden)
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no, i could never give you peace by theoneiam2277
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
21 Feb 2025
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“And Catriona Cordella?”
Xaden sighs, pinches the root of his nose. “I don’t particularly want to speak of her when I’m in bed with you.”
“When, then?” Liam asks, turning in his arms so he’s facing away. “We can’t avoid it forever.”
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Liam and Xaden are starting to face some uncomfortable truths.
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- Part 5 of endlessly (Violiaden)
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Virtually Tame Xtra Snuggles by ShipMistress for copperfirebird
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
25 Dec 2024
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Heed the tags!
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“No other dragon, the mating bond is too sacred for that. But there’s another option.” Tairn’s tail moves behind me, gently pushing me closer to him again. “Another bond that’s equally sacred.”
***When leadership gives the order that Violet and Xaden only get leave every two months, the strain that puts on their dragons quickly becomes more than they all can bear.
Good thing that there’s a backup plan—which might end up as far more than just a temporary arrangement.Chapter 1: Setting things up (no smut)
Chapter 2: Violet/Tairn
Chapter 3: Xaden/Sgaeyl
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- Part 3 of Monsterfucking
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