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"For once in your sorry miserable life you're wrong, Violet. My son, did not do what you accuse him of. He did not take your pathetic memories. Those marked by their families' rebellion where never meant to leave Basgiath alive. Did you not think we knew of their movements. That we had them watched. But not by my son. Believe me, he was a disappointment. His loyalty to you was pitiful."
The bastard laughed.
"And in the end you cost him everything. He is dead and he is never coming back. How does your conscience live with that!"
What if Dain had never read Violet's memories, but the events of Resson still played out the way it did - Liam, Soleil and others still died, and the others believed that Dain was involved. What if something was always planned from the day that Xaden entered Basgiath.
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The Semiotics, Rhetoric, and Language of Falling in Love by itsMooTime
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
03 Oct 2025
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Sloane Mairi is starting her freshman year at Basgiath University. Her current concerns include, but are not limited to: her classwork, her sorority experience, and her RA. Especially her RA. He’s in her classes, lives four doors down from her, and she’s convinced that he has something to do with ruining her brother’s reputation.
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Daria barely survived the Battle of Resson, but at a steep price. Not only did she lose Soleil, her foster sister and only surviving family, she lost Liam, her childhood best friend and the person she loved most. Now, all that's left is pain and a festering, ever-growing thirst for revenge. Lost to the forces of her own rage and grief, Daria begins to descend into the darkest depths of her psyche, and in the background, her second year at Basgiath begins. Between RSC, a growing rift between her and Bodhi, the only person left from her close-knit circle of friends, and the resurgence of the Tyrrish Rebellion, Daria is at her limit. Soon, she will be faced with yet another impossible choice, and she will need to decide if her thirst for vengeance outweighs her commitment to the Revolution. And perhaps most importantly, Daria will need to rediscover what matters most to her, and who she wants to be outside of a soldier, a renegade, and wayward soul.
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- Part 2 of Meet Me in Aretia
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Sloane Mairi was never meant to be anyone’s weapon. Liam’s shadow, the spoiled daughter of a fallen Tyrrish house, the cadet branded Venin behind her back. But her siphoning signet is rewriting the rules of war and pulling her into orbit with the one man she swore she’d never touch.
Dain Aetos was forged in obedience, a wingleader built from his father’s rules and his own fear of failure. But Sloane’s defiance cracks his armor, forcing him to question who he serves and what he truly wants. As secrets of his mother, his loyalties, and his buried hungers claw to the surface, Dain finds himself unraveling.
While Violet Sorrengail claims the throne she never wanted, forging alliances on the knife’s edge of the future, a darker bond coils between Dain and Sloane. Not dragon-forged. Something worse. Because obsession doesn’t make good soldiers. And sharp-tongued girls don’t make good secrets.
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Sloane Mairi's first year wasn't exactly a picnic. Her brother is dead. Everyone is trying to kill her for the mark on her arm or just cause it's a Tuesday. She hates her signet. She almost got burned by a psycho vice commander's dragon. The Venin are real. But her dragon forming a mating bond with the prick that got her brother killed takes the cherry.
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The last words Liam Mairi uttered to his little sister six years ago were that he loved her and he'd see her once she crossed the parapet.
Now, facing the very beast before her, Sloane Mairi has nothing waiting for her on the other side. Liam was gone. Only grief and rage simmer beneath her skin, fueling her across that damn parapet. She was going to kill Violet Sorrengail for ripping her brother away from her; she didn't care if she met Malek in the process, at least she'd be with Liam again.
But the reality isn't always as it seems. As the truth about her brother’s last days is revealed, the grief and rage remain, but the target of Sloane's wrath is replaced: Dain Aetos. The only problem is, she’s pretty sure she’s in love with him.
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Her mind flickered briefly to the early morning light in the gym a few days before, Aetos’s sure fingers brushing against her bicep. She swallowed and pushed the image away as quickly as it had come.
(Sloane is touch-starved. Her solution is Dain.)
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The Cost of Control by KhaleesiCam for MoonlightMeg
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
16 Aug 2025
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Riders don't get to choose their signets.
Sloane's dances with Malek, showing what she fears most.
Aaric's demands strategy, vision, and the strength to succeed where his father failed.Set in the early chapters of Onyx Storm, this is a character-driven, canon-adjacent exploration of connection, power from pain, and reclamation of one's fate.
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In the blink of an eye (everything crumbles down) by Cynderela27
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
25 Jul 2025
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It wasn’t supposed to happen.
Lynx shouldn’t be wielding shadows because… He just shouldn’t. Xaden was the shadow wielder—their generation’s shadow wielder.
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When I read about Lynx's signet manifesting I was very sad for what that meant for Xaden, I mean his last hope to not turn crumbled right in front of him. But at the same time i saw the hate that Lynx got and honestly I just felt bad for both. I mean Lynx manifested an extremely rare signet, which he knows he shouldn't have and then panicked and got dragged out and into getting examined. I think that the few snippets we've got of Lynx before this scene made me a bit attached to this poor baby and I felt bad that he just got the biggest target on his back right now.
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The Fine Line Between Courtship and Homicide by wedonotsharekills
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
18 Jul 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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The Rebel and The Rule Breaker by IllyrianWings_AtlantianFangs
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
22 Jun 2025
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Iron Flame and Onyx Storm from Dain and Sloane's POV's. For everyone who wishes we knew more about this Eyes Here version of Dain.
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The Art of Healing (A Collection of One Shots/Extra POV's) by mywildwritings
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
11 Jun 2025
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A collection of one shots and additional POV's to accompany 'The Art of Healing', a full length The Empyrean Series fan fiction.
Requests open - either message me here or over on 'The Art of Healing'. Link below.
https://archiveofourown.to/works/63272095/chapters/162074257
Chapter 1: The Ghost of Alice Lamont (Xaden POV)
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“Take a trip to the sparring gym tomorrow, Mairi,” he suggests mildly. “You need to hit something.”
“I need to hit you.”
Dain’s gaze snaps back to mine. His eyes roam my face, my body, and I know he clocks how hard I’m breathing. I’m being assessed, but I can’t tell if it’s my wingleader doing it or just… him.
“Okay,” he says, nodding slowly. “We deal with this now.”
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Control is a fickle thing. It can be given or taken. It can even be taught.
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- Part 3 of The Control Verse
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While all riders present a secondary designation after bonding their dragons, only a small percentage of those are omegas, and of those omegas, not all survive the brutal first heat that follows. But when Dain Aetos with his memory-stealing hands is chosen as Sloane’s alpha for her first heat, there’s more at stake than just her life – the lives of all those involved in the rebellion.
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The second- and third years of the Iron Squad have been trying so much to keep the rookies safe. And while they made efforts, rookies have been busy secreting secrets. Including a secret prince with a secret signet. The new Duchess of Tyrrendor is not happy with them but it's okay, they aren't happy with her either. As Sloane Mairi would say for all of them.
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- Part 2 of Into the Secrets of Babes
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won't you hurt me, burn me (& strangle my heart?) by shadows_to_the_walls_of_the_cave
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
27 Apr 2025
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Sloane Mairi was forged in the fire of grief. Over the course of her short life, she’s grieved for her parents, her province and now, her brother. Sometimes, she worries that the flames of her grief and anger might consume her, devour her, if she lets them, but without them, how could she go on?
Dain Aetos isn’t sure who he is or what he’s doing. Lately, he’s begun to doubt everything he’s ever known, himself most of all. Lately, he’s been looking for answers to questions he’s never thought to ask before.
Could these two broken souls find solace in the unlikeliest of places: each other?
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Lights, Camera, Bitch, Smile by ellebellewritesfic, ILoveMyThighs (curlyhairedkatniss)
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
20 Apr 2025
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All our favourite crew go to Chantara's for karaoke night.
Shenanigans ensue!
In anticipation of questions:
Yes, we are ignoring the canonical deaths of certain characters. We have a feeling you will not be complaining :)
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The quest squad is coming back from their latest mission. And they're in for a rude welcome. Aaric Greycastle fully expected this. What he didn't expect was that everyone in Basgaith would know who he really was. Now, he has some explaining to do. And it's better be very good explaining, lest he loses the only friends he made because for himself, no titles and styles attached.
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- Part 1 of Into the Secrets of Babes
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Two years ago, Maeve Aetos disappeared, leaving behind a brother who mourned her and a father who was simply unbothered. Now twenty years old, she has returned to Basgiath War College to prove her worth and carve her own destiny in the Riders Quadrant. However, just like Maeve herself, the walls of Basgiath hide secrets. Torn between reconnecting with her brother and keeping him at arms length to keep her secrets safe, Maeve must also navigate the deadly trials of her first year, survive long enough to bond a dragon and find her place in a war-torn world, while also fighting a growing attraction that could expose her deepest secrets.