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Quick addendum: This fanfic was imagined and written before the release of Onyx Storm. Some characters (especially the Crown Prince of Navarre) might differ from canon, a little magic might happen, and a few creative liberties were definitely taken. But Bodhi is still the best. 😇
At seventeen, Elysande embraces her role as a spy for the revolution, using her position at court and her impending betrothal to Prince Halden to gather secrets.
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- Part 2 of Dragonborn
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A collection of drabbles inspired by the Empyrean series in 100 to 200 words — glimpses of canon and divergent paths with a strong focus on Violet and Xaden, alongside a mix of other dynamics because no one's story stands alone.
Snapshots of battles, bonds, soft touches, and sharp words—told one breath at a time.
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Heavy Is The Crown by Bonami27
Fandoms: Onyx Storm - Fandom, Fourth Wing, Iron Flame - Fandom, The Empyrean - Fandom
21 Jun 2025
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At a lavish masquerade hosted at the Riorson House Estate, Xaden Riorson, a poised and duty-bound young man, is swept into an electrifying encounter with a mysterious stranger.
Beneath their masks, they share a fleeting, intimate connection—a dance, a touch—that leaves Xaden longing for more. Torn between his growing desire for the stranger and the heavy expectations of his position as sole heir to the Kingdom of Tyrrendor, he’s pulled back into the world he knows, unable to pursue the freedom he secretly craves.
Haunted by the warmth of the stranger’s touch, Xaden wonders what might have been had he taken a risk and defied the destiny his bloodline has written for him. The memory of that brief encounter lingers, a painful reminder of a life he could never have. As he struggles with the weight of duty, Xaden is left to question the cost of his choices and whether he will ever be able to let go of the haunting possibility of a life unlived.
Now, he must face the devastating truth: some moments, once lost, are impossible to reclaim—Or so he thought.
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Dain searches for answers regarding his birth, hidden from him in plain sight. He wants know what he is, how he can help, and why Sloane smells so fucking good—and probably tastes it too.
Takes place after Onyx Storm and is not meant to be 100% accurate. A fun read about magic, with a slow burning romance, political turmoil, and war afoot!
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I write a spinoff following Dain and Cath post OS.
Enjoy theory, magic, and lust and love! Just something to read!
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Eleanor “Len” Lennox was never meant to survive this long. But now that she has—she’s not sure who she is anymore.
The war has reached a breaking point. Navarre is crumbling from the inside out, tangled in bloodshed, backroom politics, and betrayals disguised as strategy. Len was forged for battle, trained to kill—but nothing prepared her for this kind of war. The kind where words are as sharp as blades, and allies might be enemies in disguise.
As time runs out, Len finds herself walking a path her mother once warned her about. The lines between hero and monster are blurring. The darkness inside her—once caged—is waking, hungering, changing her.
With Nox at her back, and Garrick at her side, Len is a weapon ready to be unleashed. But love is no longer her anchor—it’s her weak point. And in this war, weakness is fatal.
As gods reach down and monsters rise up, Len must choose who she’s willing to become to survive.
A savior? A destroyer? Or something far, far worse.
Because the phoenix doesn’t rise to save the world.
She rises to remake it.
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- Part 3 of Viper
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Some loves are born in sunlight. Others grow in the shadow of war.
Astrea Ysoria was supposed to heal, not kill. Her hands were meant for mending bones, not gripping daggers. But war orphans don't get the luxury of choice—and when you're the daughter of the general who signed death warrants for rebels, your gentleness becomes a liability the moment you step foot in the Riders Quadrant.
What breaks her isn't the bridge designed to kill soft things like her.
It's him.
Xaden Riorson.
Five years of silence. Five years of pretending they never existed to each other. Five years of learning to hate what they used to love.
But some bonds refuse to break, even when they should. Even when loving him is treason. Even when every touch feels like betrayal and every heartbeat whispers enemy.This is what happens when war takes children and forges them into weapons. When the only person who ever saw you as whole is the one person you're supposed to destroy.
This is a love story. It's also a war story.
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What if a princess didn’t wait to be rescued—but ran into the fire herself?
Princess Aelin Tauri disappears from the palace and into Basgiath War College, hiding behind the name Celaena Sardothien. Her mission: bond a dragon, uncover the truth her father buried, and stop a looming war no one believes in.
The Venin are coming. Leadership is lying. And Aelin is running out of time.
How far will she go to save a world that’s already burning?
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- Part 1 of We Burn
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It's a truth Sloane had known or at least guessed at, but the weight of it actually coming from his mouth nearly knocks her senseless. It occurs to her in a moment of panic that they're still young, at war, that her family is dead, half the people she knows are dead, that their existence right now still consists mostly of staying off the daily death roll, but it's her mother's voice she hears in her head, saying - that's all the more reason to love him now, isn't it?
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- Part 3 of all my mysteries turn to miracles
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When Bodhi and Ridoc plan their elaborate wedding down in Mexico and inform Violet that her ex is coming, she comes up with a fake boyfriend to avoid dealing with it all. But instead she finds herself in an even bigger mess when she accidentally tells them that she's dating Xaden Riorson, the bane of her existence and someone she has claimed to hate for years. When he accepts her request to play along she's shocked, but he has reasons of his own to go along with the lie. As the week goes on the line between love and hate gets blurred and Violet can't help but forget the reasons she hated him in the first place. And memories of a night from years ago slip back into her mind and remind her of time she didn't hate him...not at all.
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With both parents dead and a sister already on the front lines, Aysel Bardin doesn't have much. So, the year before the Marked Ones are slated to enter the Rider's Quadrant, she decides becoming a rider gives her the best chance at being able see her sister, at least more than the rare moments of leave given to Lieutenant Camilla Bardin.
Unexpectedly, she thrives in the quadrant. That is until threshing, when Aysel is left in the valley, unwanted and unchosen by all hundred and forty-two dragons.
Now, in addition to overcoming the usual challenges of the rider's quadrant, she'll need to figure out how to survive her biggest enemy—herself. Of course, she'll also be a repeat. And the second time Cadet Bardin is a first year, so are the children of the rebellion.
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Part I - (Ch. 1-Ch. 7) Aysel's first year
Part II - (Ch 7-TBD) First year
Part III - (TBD) Second year
Part IV - (TBD) Fourth Wing
Part V - (TBD) Iron Flame
Part VI - (TBD) Onyx Storm
Part VII - (TBD) whatever rebecca titles book 4 -
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Ridoc gets a summer job as a camp counselor at Camp Tyrrendor and has the best summer of his life.
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Violet is a high school teacher who games on the weekends with her friends. One night, they join an open server for a new game called Dragon's Empyrean, and chaos erupts.
Xaden is a YouTube streamer who doesn't show his face. He's streaming with Garrick, Imogen, Bodhi and Liam when Violet's crew joins, and for some reason, he's drawn to one of the other players.
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“You watched me spend hours in the library researching where they could've gone, am I correct? You watched me lose sleep just to find out where he is, am I correct? You watched me beg every single scribe just to give me a tinnie, a tiny hint for information.” Then I stride towards him, lean down, and stare at those amber eyes I despised ever since I stepped foot in this room. “You lied and lied every time I asked, 'Do you know where he is? ' You lied every. Single. Fucking. Day. And yet you dare to ask me to say something.”
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In Orbit (Around You) by Bonami27
Fandoms: Fourth Wing, Iron Flame - Fandom, Onyx Storm - Fandom, The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
20 Jun 2025
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Theirs is a tale written in fragments: in touches that never lingered long enough, in words left unsaid, in moments missed not by accident, but by design. Their love story was always written in the margins—glimpsed in stolen glances, held together by silence and circumstance, by longing restrained rather than shared. It was forged in the fire of war and betrayal, in the quiet space between who they were and who they had to become. And now, as the world shifts beneath their feet and the past refuses to stay buried, fates become entwined once more, both Violet and Xaden find themselves haunted not just by the memory of what they had, but by the hollow absence of what they never dared to reach for.
Because how can a love like theirs ever end… when it never had the chance to truly begin?
(A Post Onyx Storm Fic).
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The Fine Line Between Courtship and Homicide by wedonotsharekills
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
20 Jun 2025
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Everyone’s been wondering what Violet Sorrengail was up to in the twelve hours before the end of Onyx Storm. Everyone already knows what Ridoc Gamlyn was doing.
But what about Sloane?
Well. Between carrying the weight of killing General Sorrengail, fearing her own signet more than the venin, and trying to remember what it feels like to hold onto something without losing it, she’s barely keeping herself together.
Not to mention:
✔ Her dragon is acting buddy-buddy with the worst-breathed dragon in the Empyrean.
✔ Secrets are coming out left, right, and centre—and not a single one of them is good.
✔ She only has a week left to win her bet with Aaric: that Ridoc will, somehow, manage to pull Violet's big brother.
✔ And worst of all? She can't decide if she wants Dain Aetos dead, humbled, or pressed up against a wall.Series
- Part 2 of The Twelve Hour Series
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Dark Magic by love_and_witchcraft
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, The Handmaid's Tale Series - Margaret Atwood
19 Jun 2025
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On the continent of Amaryllis, dark wielders are rising, draining the earth of its magic, and interrupting the circle of life. After a wave of stillborn children, miscarriages, and birth defects, Navarre’s militaristic society was repurposed to a different end: reproduction. They’ve erected wards of protection, but now must rebuild their population. Women have been subjugated, forbidden from all that might bring them power: knowledge. love. dragons.
Violet Sorrengail was training to be a scribe before Navarre’s revolution. Now, she has been forced to serve as a handmaiden to Commander Xaden Riorson and his wife Catriona.
Fourth Wing - Handmaid's Tale style AU
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Fen Riorson fought fiercely for truth and justice, a legacy that cost him his life. His son, Xaden, inherited not only the ideals of the rebellion but the responsibility of protecting the surviving children of the rebels. Though everyone knows the weight Xaden carries, few understand how deeply it cuts into his soul. What did he truly feel that day when everything fell apart? When the rebellion’s blood was spilled, and the world they fought for shattered around them?
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A dragon without a rider is a tragedy. A rider without a dragon is dead.
Trinity attends Basgiath war college. She in her second year, same as Violet and her friends. Her blue daggertail dragon Zapora bonded with her at Threshing last year, and she’s recently learned that the Venin are real because, just like Xaden, she is a marked one. A Venin (code named Atlas) has been tasked with disguising as a human and making Trinity and the other riders at Basgiath trust him. Will she fall for him? -
What Is A Few Inches Between Friends AKA Pegged To Death by Pillow_Queen for ellebellewritesfic, SaraNova
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
19 Jun 2025
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When Violet i stressed running a country and no man at home, her trusted advisors step up and help relieve some tension, with Xaden's approval, of course. Join along the ride as Garrick gets pegged, Violet wears leather, and Imogen enjoys her pillow.
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Companion piece to One Manhattan - vignettes into the minds and lives of some of One Manhattan's supporting characters
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- Part 2 of The One Manhattan Collection