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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Lilith Sorrengail

General of Navarre · Storm-wielder · The mother who signed the order

Lilith Sorrengail

“Softer. Kinder. At least for her family.”

Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros

She sent her most fragile child into the deadliest quadrant in Navarre and didn't say goodbye. The reread is where you find out that was love — the coldest, most calculated love in the series.

General of Navarre. Storm-wielder. Violet's mother, in exactly that order — right up until the last night at Basgiath, when the order finally flipped and it cost her everything.

At a glance

Series
The Empyrean — hers runs Fourth Wing into Iron Flame
Rank
General of Navarre · Commander of Basgiath War College
Signet
Storm-wielding — the whole sky, where Violet only got the lightning
Dragon
Aimsir — brown, golden-eyed, thirty years bonded
Children
Brennan, Mira, Violet — 'all three of you'
The rebellion
Captured Fen Riorson — the war that made Xaden
Died
Iron Flame — her life into the wardstone, Aimsir with her

Her people

The ones she'd have died for. She did.

Swipe to meet them all

Her youngest, the whole reasonViolet Sorrengailher daughterEnter Violet Sorrengail →
The one who beggedMira Sorrengailher eldestEnter Mira Sorrengail →
The son she buried too earlyBrennan Sorrengailher firstbornEnter Brennan Sorrengail →
The scribe, the love she lostAsher Sorrengailher late husbandEnter Asher Sorrengail →
Fen Riorson's sonXaden Riorsonold rebellion historyEnter Xaden Riorson →

Also in the story

Connected

Allies, rivals and enemies — the ones this story crossed.

The long versionRead her whole storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story

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