18 Works in Nolon (Empyrean)
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Thank you to Rebecca Yarros for creating this wonderful world for us to play in. This to keep us busy while we wait for fabulous ONYX STORM.
Scope: Part I of Book 3, complete in 9 chapters, picks up day after Battle of Basgiath. Resolves Xaden's problem. Introduces several new characters, including one central one.
Part II of Book 3 begins with Chapter 10. It's turned into a bigger work, resolving more mysteries than I expected, including Violet's second signet, Violet's size/joints, and what her parents were up to. Seven chapters are posted here and 1-3 more will follow before January 21. Dragons are more central and tensions emerge within the Empyrean as a strategy to defeat venin expands beyond Basgiath. Several new characters. Violet's second signet emerges in later chapters.Does not address: Changes in Andarna, feather tails, offensive weapons for use with venin.
Style: Consistent with history/timelines/geography established in first two books. Telepathic communication in the bond is in italics. No battles, few fights, no sex, plenty of romance, mental rather than physical challenges. The plot is the thing. POV: Mainly Violet but long sections for Xaden. -
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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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Empyrean - Beyond the border by AfterchangesUponchanges
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
13 Dec 2024
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It is mid-November 633AU, the Venin interference in Poromiel is increasing. The people of Poromiel are trying to enter Navarre to seek protection that is being systematically denied.
In Basgiath, a small number of riders led by Xaden Riorson, are forging alloy weapons and delivering them to fliers to allow them to fight the Venin forces, but this effort must be kept secret. Navarrian leadership is torn between the inevitability of the threat that the Venin represent to Navarre in the near future and their past actions and choices to manipulate information and deny the existence of the threat. Lilith Sorrengail is pushing for a more practical approach from leadership, but neither Melgren nor the King appear open to listen to her opinion. She feels alone and losing faith in the things that always were the NorthStar of her life.
On the border, the news of strange things going on in Poromiel is emerging, but few know the whole truth… Trond Coven has more information than most, but he does not know how much he can share and he no longer believes in official reports.
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The Prince pulled away from Violet and shot her a winning grin that made me want to punch his perfect teeth in. I don’t think I gave Violence nearly enough credit for not murdering Cat in the sparring ring if this is the way she was feeling. Then I watched as Halden tucked a hair behind Violet’s ear and I lost the little control I had left.
Shadows skittered below my feet as I clenched my fists at my side. Luckily, I was surrounded by my friends and Violet’s squad so that no untrustworthy eyes noticed. I ignored Imogen’s goading snort as Garrick raised an eyebrow at me. The only person who ever really saw me lose control like this was Violet. The few times I lost control in front of others were usually a result of Violet landing herself in danger again. Publicly losing my composure over jealousy was completely uncharted territory for me.
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In which the Navarrian Royal Family arrives at Lilith Sorrengail's funeral and Xaden is shocked to find out who Violet's ex is.
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- Part 3 of Onyx Storm Headcannons
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[Post-Iron Flame.] There's a lot that Violet Sorrengail does not have the emotional energy to deal with right now. From her mother, to figuring out what to do about Aretia, to the absolute train wreck of the situation with Xaden, she just wants to get through the next little while without losing her mind. And last on her list of things she wants to deal with is the sudden appearance of her ex, Crown Prince Halden, because it's going to introduce a whole new clusterfuck of baggage to everything else on her plate.
(How do we deal with our book hangover? We write our own Book 3, that’s how!!)
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Only See Daylight by amberswansong for Mint_chocolatechip
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
25 Oct 2024
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“Mom?” I could make out the dark shape of her, and she got clearer as she moved closer. She looked almost as tired as I felt. “What - where am I? What happened?”
“Basgiath, in the Healer’s Quadrant,” she said. “Those blasted Tyrs almost killed you. Fortunately Naolin managed to help you hold yourself together long enough to get you back here, and Nolon mended you the rest of the way. It took awhile, they kept you asleep until it was done.”
Or, Aretia didn't burn because Brennan didn't die. This is what that looked like.
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“Is...the full court is coming?” I asked anxiously glancing between my siblings. Mira raised an amused eyebrow at me.
“Wondering if your boyfriend is coming?” She teased before taking a sip of her coffee and Brennan snorted.
“That’s right, I forgot about the crush you used to have on Halden back then,” he said with a grin. “Does Riorson know that you used to dream of being the Queen Consort?”
Mira let out a laugh as I fought back the blush that threatened to creep up my face. As far as either of my siblings knew, my relationship with Halden was a simple, unrequited childhood crush. One that had quickly been replaced by a growing infatuation with Dain as we grew older and closer in the years our parents had been stationed together. What they hadn’t known was about that disastrous year that found my found wrapped in a web of royal drama.
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- Part 2 of Onyx Storm Headcannons
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We All Are Living in a Dream by intellectual_desperado
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
19 Oct 2024
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“We both know you never really fancied yourself as the hero type,” he continued. “You inherited this fight and legacy from your father while you were still just a boy. You never had time to consider what you wanted for yourself…but I will say you're a man of simple taste. All you want is this one girl.”
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Xaden returns to Violet's room after visiting Jack Barlowe to find a surprise waiting for him. Despite his best efforts, he's powerless to stop what has to happen.
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- Part 1 of Onyx Storm Headcannons
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Naolin made Brennan want to draw him from the first moment he’d laid eyes on the older man in the summer of his seventeenth year. “Brennan’s headed to the Rider’s Quadrant in a few years,” his mother had said, and Naolin had grinned and encouraged Brennan to write to him if he wanted “more recent insight on the lay of the land inside the quadrant than you can get from your mother.” He’d winked at Lilith, who’d laughed.
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This time I've got a bit more than my fangs by Emjen_Enla
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
07 Oct 2024
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The secret that has had Violet and Xaden acting strangely since the Battle of Basgiath comes out and it’s catastrophic. Brennan makes things even worse.
Written for Whumptober Day 6 answering the prompt “Healed Wrong” and Day 12 answering the alternate prompt “Friendly Fire.”
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- Part 3 of The Older Sorrengail Siblings Show
- Part 6 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 104 of Prompted Works
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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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“Though she married a rider, empathy and love is what burned your mother.”
—RECOVERED CORRESPONDENCE OF UNKNOWN WRITER TO EESHA MELGRENEesha Maria Melgren, daughter of General Augustine Melgren and an unknown noble woman.
Her public appearance in courts and parties, dripping in diamonds and expensive gowns, led the public to believe the abundant of love The General have for her.
Unmarred pale skin, deep-black eyes, and a tall rider's built attest to the Melgren's name. Though the origin of her long black hair is to be questioned, owing to the fact that The General sports a light brown mane.
“To know your enemy, is to become the enemy.”
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Eesha Melgren‘s first year at Basgiath's Riders Quadrant.
(Pre-Fourth Wing)
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- Part 1 of Desires of Melgren
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I tried to come up with an explanation, or a warning, or something to tell Sloane about the intimacy of a mender and siphon doing complex work together. I’d dug through books and journals of other menders, and I’d seen plenty of references to the connection, but nothing that explained it. The closest was an observation that a mender worked best with a siphon assigned as their permanent partner. Nobody talked about what definition of ‘partner’ was being used.
After the Battle of Basgiath, Brennan teaches Sloane how her signet is meant to be used.
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A re-imagining of part of chapter thirty-five of Iron Flame, written from Liam Mairi's POV from within Violet's mind as he tries to help her keep herself grounded during Varrishes Torture. The level of his 'real-ness' is intended to be subjective and entirely up to the interpretation of the reader. Is he just Violet's subconcious or is he really here? Make that choice yourself.
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Empyrean - the border perspective by AfterchangesUponchanges
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
07 Jun 2024
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The objective of the series is to provide depth to the events of Fourth Wing. I am not trying to completely comply with the canon perspective, but simultaneously I am trying not to move so far away from the events of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame that the reader loses context. This is not "romance" writing although relationships between characters are obviously front and center of the plot.
The story covers a period of 4 weeks between the middle of September and middle of October 633AU. This period in fourth wing goes from the Gauntlet training to the Threshing aftermath but the story does not follow what is happening in Basgiath, it covers how riders in the border are becoming aware that something strange is happening in the other side of the border.
The narrative follows an older rider, Levis Bromlin who is trying to understand what is happening to the wards, but the PoV's are very diversified and include some of the real characters of the book. -
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Turns out Brennan's resurrection has some long term effects. Mira gets in a battle of wills with her brother over whether he needs medical care.
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- Part 2 of The Older Sorrengail Siblings Show
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Now that he’s risen through the ranks to Wingleader, Xaden Riorson only has one goal for his last year at Basgiath: Get all the marked kids bonded and graduated so they can fight the real enemy lurking at the borders.
The only problem is that Violet Sorrengail, the general’s youngest daughter, has also joined the Rider’s Quadrant this year. He doesn’t know why she’s here, what her plans are, or if he can trust her. All he knows is that he can’t seem to stay away.This is Fourth Wing retold from Xaden’s POV. It follows the dialogue and timeline from Fourth Wing with my own interpretations and theories of Xaden’s actions and feelings. As it was written before the release of Iron Flame, all ideas and theories are just that – theories. Many elements are my own head cannons/speculation and are unconfirmed by Rebecca Yarros.
I would recommend reading Fourth Wing first as there are major plot spoilers throughout!
All rights and characters belong to Rebecca Yarros.
IF Update: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57511519/chapters/146324800
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- Part 1 of The Empyrean