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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Xaden Riorson

The shadow wielder · the marked one · the reason half of us have a type now

Xaden Riorson

“You are not attracted to toxic men, I remind myself, and yet, here I am, getting all attracted.”

Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros

He had every reason to want her dead. He had the exact wrong reaction. We've never recovered.

Duke's heir, wingleader of Fourth Wing, shadow-wielder — and the marked one wearing 107 scars for children who were never his to save. That one.

Violet Sorrengail His mate Violet SorrengailShe was supposed to be the easy kill — a scribe's kid with brittle joints, dropped into the deadliest quadrant. Instead she's the one thing he'll damn himself for, and he knew it before he'd admit it. Their families are the reason this should never work; that's exactly why it wrecks us.Enter Violet Sorrengail

At a glance

Series
Fourth Wing · Iron Flame · Onyx Storm — The Empyrean
Dragon
Sgaeyl — blue daggertail, meaner than he is
Signet
Shadow-wielder — shadows that bind, choke, and hide
Second signet
Inntinnsic — reads intentions. The illegal one.
Quadrant
Riders. Wingleader of Fourth Wing.
House
Riorson — heir to Tyrrendor, son of the Great Betrayer
Marked
One of the 107. A scar for every one of them.
Mate
Violet Sorrengail — the dragons decided; he caught up

His people

The ones who made him.

Swipe to meet them all

Lightning-WielderViolet Sorrengailhis mateEnter Violet Sorrengail →
Blue DaggertailSgaeylhis dragonEnter Sgaeyl →
The Marked OneLiam Mairihis brotherEnter Liam Mairi →
The Marked OneGarrick Tavishis right handEnter Garrick Tavis →
Riorson BloodBodhi Durranhis cousinEnter Bodhi Durran →
The Marked OneImogen Carduloone of hisEnter Imogen Cardulo →
The MenderBrennan Sorrengailfellow rebelEnter Brennan Sorrengail →
The GeneralLilith Sorrengailthe executionerEnter Lilith Sorrengail →
Shadow-Wieldinghis to commandEnter Shadow-Wielding →
Rider's Daggershe had them forged for herEnter Rider's Daggers →

Not his brothers

The ones he faces

Beyond the marked ones he'd die for — the crown that scarred him, and the enemies of the rebellion.

The long versionRead his whole storyThe parapet, the shadows, the scars, the turn — the whole of him, in one place.Enter the full story

If he's your favourite

Kindred dark

Not his marked ones — the ACOTAR book-boyfriends cut from the same dark cloth.

Rhysand Rhysand The High Lord who wore a monster's mask to protect what he loved — Xaden's ACOTAR equal.

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