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Empyrean - Beyond the border by AfterchangesUponchanges
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
28 Jun 2025
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It is mid-November 633AU, the Venin interference in Poromiel is increasing. The people of Poromiel are trying to enter Navarre to seek protection that is being systematically denied.
In Basgiath, a small number of riders led by Xaden Riorson, are forging alloy weapons and delivering them to fliers to allow them to fight the Venin forces, but this effort must be kept secret. Navarrian leadership is torn between the inevitability of the threat that the Venin represent to Navarre in the near future and their past actions and choices to manipulate information and deny the existence of the threat. Lilith Sorrengail is pushing for a more practical approach from leadership, but neither Melgren nor the King appear open to listen to her opinion. She feels alone and losing faith in the things that always were the NorthStar of her life.
On the border, the news of strange things going on in Poromiel is emerging, but few know the whole truth… Trond Coven has more information than most, but he does not know how much he can share and he no longer believes in official reports.
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Selected off book scenes from Iron Flame by AfterchangesUponchanges
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
08 Apr 2025
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In this work I will publish a number of scenes that can be read stand alone and are not portrayed in the books, however I am writing them as they could be part of the book and believe they are congruent with subsequent events and the evolution of the characters.
In a way this is an opportunity to test theories about why certain characters acted in a certain way later in the book.
These scenes will feature exclusively book characters PoV's although in some circumstances OC's may be involved.
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Empyrean - the border perspective by AfterchangesUponchanges
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
08 Feb 2025
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The objective of the series is to provide depth to the events of Fourth Wing. I am not trying to completely comply with the canon perspective, but simultaneously I am trying not to move so far away from the events of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame that the reader loses context. This is not "romance" writing although relationships between characters are obviously front and center of the plot.
The story covers a period of 4 weeks between the middle of September and middle of October 633AU. This period in fourth wing goes from the Gauntlet training to the Threshing aftermath but the story does not follow what is happening in Basgiath, it covers how riders in the border are becoming aware that something strange is happening in the other side of the border.
The narrative follows an older rider, Levis Bromlin who is trying to understand what is happening to the wards, but the PoV's are very diversified and include some of the real characters of the book.
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After the Battle of Draithus, Sloane is confused by the weight of two haunting words—you're life. Like an echo from her past, igniting a wildfire of hidden memories, she turns to Dain.
With their squad's trust in command already in tatters, they lean on each other like never before. Working together, testing their loyalties, their power and questioning the truths they were raised to believe and fight for. This is an imagining of what comes next focusing on the Fourth Wing Squad. Not canon compliant but respective as RY is a bloody legend.
Long work in progress.
For slow burn start at chapter 2, for smut skip to 21, then 28 lol. Chapter 1 will be AI generated reference images, I update randomly.
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07 Jun 2025
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Iron Flame from the fliers' POV:
Must be fucking nice. To hide behind wards, protected by the continent's dragons, for over six hundred years. All while we're left to fend off the horrors that Navarre is too weak, too cowardly to face.
Elyra Soryn has lost faith in the system—no that's not right, because she never had any faith in it to begin with. No, she's never had faith in the system that let her family burn, that lets orphans go hungry in the streets, that stands by and watches the world crumble from ivory towers.
So when she's planted in Aretia after the fall of Zolya, she has no qualms about doing exactly what she needs to do to make sure the people she cares about make it out alive.
But Bodhi Durran is watching her. Tracking her every move like the insufferable nuisance that he is. And she knows what he’s doing, the way he tries to slip past her armor with easy smiles and the kind of nonchalance that only noble blood can buy.
Let him try.
Because she’s done being a pawn in anyone’s game. And if Durran thinks he can outmaneuver her?
Well, he’ll just have to learn the hard way, won't he?
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09 Mar 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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02 Feb 2025
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If you haven't read Fourth Wing and Iron Flame yet, then I would recommend skipping this fanfic as it contains SPOILERS.
Imogen Cardulo's life doesn't begin with her breaking Violet Sorrengail's arm on Assessment Day and there is much more going on with her than what Violet sees. She is more than a side character this time around.
Once upon a time, because that is how all stories begin, she was just another teenage girl - a little rebellious, a little more reckless than her parents would have preferred, a typically annoying little sister... an awesome friend or a pain in the ass (depending on the day and which one of her friends you asked) and she had a not so little or subtle crush on Garrick Tavis, but who can blame her for that?
Then all the adults in her life went to war and the course of her life changed drastically.
This is her story, in her own words. Starting from the Apostasy and covering all the high and lows, all the joyful moments and the heartbreaks, all the victories and the mistakes and giving us a look into her relationships with Xaden, Bodhi, Quinn and especially Garrick.
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03 Jan 2025
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Sloane Mairi thought she knew Aaric Graycastle— the man who steadied her through the grief and chaos of her first few months at Basgiath. She even dared to think she might be falling in love with him.
But when his true identity as a prince of Navarre is revealed, Sloane is forced to revisit her memories of their friendship to decide whether or not she can forgive him for his deception.
(A one-shot Sloane POV set in canon during the events in Iron Flame)
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21 Dec 2024