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Basgiath War College

The War College · Navarre

Basgiath War College

“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.”

Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros

The place that keeps trying to kill her is also the only place that ever made her a weapon — and we'd bleed for it anyway.

Four quadrants carved into a mountain, one narrow bridge to earn your leathers, and a Codex that says the quiet part in stone.

At a glance

Location
Navarre. Carved into a mountain, more fortress than school, held together by spite and load-bearing history.
Quadrants
Four, sorted by colour: riders (black), scribes (cream), healers (pale blue), infantry (navy).
The entrance
The parapet — eighteen inches of wet stone, two hundred feet up, no rail. First morning, no retakes.
Governing doc
The Codex. Every rule in writing, including the one where only the strong survive.
Underneath
The Archives — nearly every book in Navarre, plus the ones filed under forbidden.
The big day
Threshing — October first, every year. A dragon chooses you in the Vale, or it doesn't.
Home to
Violet, Xaden, the squad, a general who runs the machine, and every dragon that ever picked a Sorrengail.

Inside the college

The four quadrants — and the ones they forged.

Swipe to meet them all

Black · dragons · deathRiders Quadrantthe lethal oneEnter Riders Quadrant →
Cream · ink · the recordScribe Quadrantthe quiet oneEnter Scribe Quadrant →
Pale blue · mendingHealer Quadrantthe merciful oneEnter Healer Quadrant →
Navy · the ground warInfantry Quadrantthe forgotten oneEnter Infantry Quadrant →
The rider it couldn't killViolet Sorrengailscribe-raised, rider-forgedEnter Violet Sorrengail →
Wingleader, the marked oneXaden Riorsonthe marked rebelEnter Xaden Riorson →
Squad leader, her personRhiannon Matthiasher first friendEnter Rhiannon Matthias →
The black dragonTairnchose her at ThreshingEnter Tairn →
Lt. Colonel of the ArchivesAsher Sorrengailher late fatherEnter Asher Sorrengail →
The mender who came backBrennan Sorrengailher not-dead brotherEnter Brennan Sorrengail →
The rider sisterMira Sorrengailcrossed the parapet firstEnter Mira Sorrengail →
General of NavarreLilith Sorrengailher mother, the machineEnter Lilith Sorrengail →
The long versionRead its whole storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story

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