This article contains heavy spoilers for “Fourth Wing” and “Iron Flame.”
‘Fourth Wing’ and ‘Iron Flame’ follow Violet Sorrengail as she trains to be a dragon rider
“Fourth Wing” saw Violet Sorrengail make her way into the Rider’s Quadrant at Basgiath, where she shocked everyone by bonding with two dragons: Tairn, the most powerful dragon of her Threshing class, and Andarna, a baby dragon.
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Violet’s success was a surprise both because of her unnamed physical disability that causes her bones to break easily and gives her dizzy spells (the symptoms match Yarros’ own diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) and because many of her classmates want her dead, as they are the children of rebel fighters killed by her mother, Navarre’s general.
At the end of the novel, Violet discovers that venin, humans that give up parts of their souls to steal magic from the land, are real, as are the wyvern they create.
Her friend and bodyguard Liam dies in a battle with the creatures, though Violet is able to save others around her with her lightning-wielding power and Andarna’s ability to stop time. She also finds out her brother, who she believed to be dead for years, is alive and has been working with the resistance fighters against Navarre.
The revelations mean not only have Violet’s government and her mother been lying to her, but so too has her love interest, Xaden Riorson.
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Xaden, the son of the late leader of the rebellion, was her enemy, but they fell in love after Violet bonded with Tairn, who is mated to Xaden’s dragon Sgaeyl. But when Violet finds out Xaden has been secretly working to protect gryphon fliers — humans who ride on half-lion, half-eagle creatures — as well as those who live outside of Navarre’s wards from the evil venin without telling her, she isn’t sure she can ever trust him.
At the start of “Iron Flame,” Violet has to return to Basgiath with her dragon Tairn and pretend she doesn’t know life-changing truths about her world while Andarna falls into a deep sleep as she grows into her adolescence.
As her training progresses, assassins and leaders at Basgiath try to kill Violet and her friends for what they know. Eventually, Violet, Xaden, and half of the school flee to join the rebellion with their dragons (including a now awake Andarna), and they’re soon joined by members of Navarre’s army, including Violet’s sister, and gryphon fliers. The dragon riders and gryphon fliers have been trained to hate each other for generations but will have to work together if they want to defeat the venin.
The book’s climax takes place just after Violet figures out that Xaden, in addition to his shadow power, has been keeping his ability to read people’s intentions a secret, a taboo power that could get him killed and makes Violet question their relationship. Meanwhile, the wards in Navarre fall, which have been keeping the venin out, leaving the students and residents of Basgiath vulnerable, so the revolution fighters come to their aid.
Violet figures out how to raise the wards by discovering Andarna is not what she seemed (more on that in a second), and the wards come up after Violet’s mother sacrifices herself for the sake of her children’s lives.
Yarros’ third book will have a lot to explore in terms of Violet’s power and her relationship with Xaden
The biggest shock of “Iron Flame” comes in the last chapter when Xaden becomes one of the venin. He stole power when he feared Violet was dying during the battle at Basgiath, sacrificing part of his soul in the process.
In “Iron Flame’s” epilogue, Violet’s nemesis Jack Barlowe tells Xaden there is no known cure to turning venin, so readers can assume Xaden will still be turning at the start of the third book. It’s unclear how his relationship with Violet and his dragon Sgyael will change now that he is venin — and his thirst for power will likely only grow. His role in the revolution will also likely shift, as Xaden has served on its Assembly and is heir to the throne in Tyrrendor, a southern province of Navarre.
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Yarros also set the third book up to dive deeper into Andarna’s power and identity. Andarna revealed during the battle at Basgiath that she is not a black dragon like Tairn as Violet first believed. Instead, she is an unknown seventh type of dragon — and she waited 650 years to hatch until she knew Violet was coming.
Violet told Andarna she wanted to know everything about her, but they didn’t discuss her lineage or character traits before the book ended, indicating Yarros will further explore the implications of Andarna’s revelations in the third installment in her series. (If you’re wondering how a dragon can reveal all of this information, the riders and dragons communicate through their mental bond.)
Likewise, Yarros also laid the groundwork for Violet to further explore her own power in the third “Empyrean” book. “Iron Flame” includes a conversation about the possibility of Violet manifesting a second signet power because she bonded with both Tairn and Andarna, though she stops thinking about her own signet when she realizes Xaden has a second he hasn’t told her about.
In an interview with Variety, Yarros confirmed that Violet does have a second signet that will be explored in the third “Empyrean” book — but she also said Violet’s second signet had already manifested in “Iron Flame” unbeknownst to her.
“Every single hint you would need to know what her second signet is is in ‘Iron Flame,'” she told Variety’s Jennifer Maas. “It’s manifested. Read it again and then call me.”
Yarros fans have speculated that Violet’s second signet could be distance wielding because that power had not been seen in over 600 years, the same amount of time Andarna was waiting for her, while others wonder if she can communicate with the dead based on her interactions with what she believes to be a hallucination of her dead friend Liam when she is held captive at Basgiath.
Yarros’ publisher, Red Tower, didn’t respond to Business Insider’s request for comment on information regarding when the next “Empyrean” book will released.
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