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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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
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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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Violet Sorrengail

“Violence” · Rider of Two Dragons

Violet Sorrengail

“I will not die today.”

Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros

Fragile was never the weakness. We knew that from the first chapter. The whole room found out the hard way.

Violet Sorrengail — rider, lightning wielder, and the reason none of us can be normal about dragons — narrates Rebecca Yarros's The Empyrean (Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, Onyx Storm).

Xaden Riorson Her mate Xaden RiorsonNo, he's not the soft one who's just curious about her — put that idea down. Their families are the reason this should never work, and that's exactly why it lands the way it does. “A complicated subject,” she calls him. Understatement of the war.Enter Xaden Riorson

At a glance

Series
The Empyrean — Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, Onyx Storm (Rebecca Yarros)
College
Basgiath War College, Navarre
Quadrant
Riders. Not by choice — not that it stopped her.
Signet
Lightning. Showed up late and dramatic. On brand.
Dragons
Tairn and Andarna. Yes, two. We know.
Fights with
Daggers, poison, and a scribe's memory. Never brute strength.
Body
Chronic pain, joints that betray her. Fragile build, lethal mind.
Mate
Xaden Riorson. A complicated subject.
Called
“Violence.”

Her dragons & her people

The dragons, the squad, the family.

Swipe to meet them all

Black MorningstartailTairnher dragonEnter Tairn →
The Seventh BreedAndarnaher second dragonEnter Andarna →
WingleaderXaden Riorsonher mateEnter Xaden Riorson →
Squad LeaderRhiannon Matthiasher best friendEnter Rhiannon Matthias →
Ice-WielderRidoc GamlynsquadmateEnter Ridoc Gamlyn →
The Marked OneLiam Mairiher shadowEnter Liam Mairi →
The MenderBrennan Sorrengailher brotherEnter Brennan Sorrengail →
Teine's RiderMira Sorrengailher sisterEnter Mira Sorrengail →
The ScribeAsher Sorrengailher fatherEnter Asher Sorrengail →
The GeneralLilith Sorrengailher motherEnter Lilith Sorrengail →

Not her squad

The ones against her

Beyond her riders and her family — the tormentors, rivals, and venin her war made.

The long versionRead her whole storyThe parapet, Threshing, the lightning, Resson, the wardstone — everything, in one place.Enter the full story
Basgiath War College Her home Basgiath War CollegeThe 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.Enter the Basgiath War College

We're Caffeine and Curses. The Library started as my design research — I can't put Violet on a shirt without knowing the silver in her hair runs from the tips, not the roots — 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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