Fourth WingThe Books & Reading Order
Characters
The SquadViolet SorrengailXaden RiorsonRhiannon MatthiasRidoc GamlynLiam MairiSawyer HenrickImogen CarduloBodhi DurranGarrick TavisSloane MairiQuinn Hollis
The SorrengailsBrennan SorrengailMira SorrengailLilith SorrengailAsher Sorrengail
Command & FacultyDain AetosGeneral Augustine MelgrenLewis MarkhamNolon ColbersyCommandant PanchekProfessor CarrProfessor KaoriColonel AetosProfessor DeveraProfessor EmetterioFelix Gerault
Crown & the AllianceAaric GraycastleHalden TauriKing TauriCat CordellaQueen MarayaTecarusSyrena CordellaMaren ZinaJesinia Neilwart
The EnemyTheophanieJack BarloweMajor VarrishFen RiorsonAmber MavisOren Seifert
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Dragons
The BondedTairnAndarnaSgaeylFeirgeAotromTeineDeighMarbhSliseagCathCuirChradhGlaneMolvicThoirtAimsirBaideCodagh
Other BeastsGryphonWyvern
Places
Basgiath War CollegeEnter Basgiath War College →Riders QuadrantScribe QuadrantHealer QuadrantInfantry QuadrantThe ParapetThe ArchivesThe GauntletThe Vale
NavarreEnter Navarre →TyrrendorAretiaCalldyrRessonSamaraMontserratAthebyneThe Esben MountainsThe Barrens
PoromielEnter Poromiel →ZolyaCordynDraithusSuniva
The IslesEnter The Isles →DeverelliUnnbrielZehyllnaHedotis
The Continent
Signets & Lore
Powers & SignetsSignetsLightningShadow-WieldingRunesThe Dragon BondThe Mating Bond
The WarVeninThe WardstoneThe LuminaryThe Marked OnesRider DaggersFliersThe Empyrean
EventsThe Battle of BasgiathThreshingThe Tyrrish Rebellion
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Jack Barlowe

The parapet's first bully · the rival who would not stay dead · the one we were allowed to hate

Jack Barlowe

The first person on the page to try to kill Violet, and the last one anybody suspected of being worse than a bully. We hated him correctly. We just hated him small.

Cadet, Baide's rider, the muscle the Riders Quadrant grows when cruelty is a survival trait — and the reason 'presumed dead' should never be trusted at Basgiath.

At a glance

Series
Fourth Wing · Iron Flame — The Empyrean
Dragon
Baide — orange scorpiontail, aggressive as her rider (he was her fifth)
Signet
Pain-forcing — floods you with power until you burn out. Not a signet at all, it turns out.
Quadrant
Riders. Flame Section.
Ambition
Wingleader. Announced it on the parapet, to anyone listening.
Weakness
Oranges. Genuinely. Violet packed a vial for the occasion.
Killed by
Half a mountain of Violet's lightning. Didn't take.
What he became
Something the wards were built to keep out.

His people

The ones he crossed to get here.

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Lightning-WielderViolet Sorrengailthe one he swore to killEnter Violet Sorrengail →
Black MorningstartailTairnthe bond he covetedEnter Tairn →
The Marked OneLiam Mairithe friend he went afterEnter Liam Mairi →
Squad LeaderDain Aetoscalled him a pompous assEnter Dain Aetos →
The GeneralLilith Sorrengailwhose wardstone he droppedEnter Lilith Sorrengail →
Baidehis dragonEnter Baide →
Oren Seifertthe friend who fed the hateEnter Oren Seifert →
The long versionRead their whole storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story

We're Caffeine and Curses. The Library started as my design research — I can't put Jack on a shirt without knowing he's First Wing, not Fourth — so we keep the notes here where everyone can use them. The pages are fan-made, not official; the licensed designs are in the shop.

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