Black morningstartail · a century of contempt · would raze a continent for what's his
Tairn
“I hear it's all the fashion.”
Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros
He turned down every rider for five years, then picked the girl who couldn't win a fight but wouldn't leave a smaller dragon to die.
Second-largest dragon on the Continent, the only morningstartail alive, and the dryest voice in Violet's head — imperious, ancient, deadly, and absolutely gone for her.
At a glance
- Full name
- Tairneanach — Gaelic for 'thunder'
- Breed
- Black morningstartail — the only one alive
- Rider
- Violet Sorrengail. His last, not his next.
- Size
- Second-largest on the Continent. He'll mention it.
- Tail
- Morningstartail — club and dagger in one
- Signet
- Hers is the lightning. He's the well it's drawn from.
- Mate
- Sgaeyl. Strongest mating bond in centuries.
- Age
- Just past a hundred. Middle-aged, and unimpressed.
- Before Violet
- Naolin — then five years of refusing everyone.
His people
The ones he'd burn the world for.
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If he's your favourite
Kindred fury
Not his Vale — but if you love the gruff, ancient thing that would raze a continent for one person...
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