ngl xaden’s “well this is awkward” when they got back to basgiath and leadership read their names off the death roll was PEAK COMEDY

I’m not fine 😭😭😭

oh my god, tairn's pep talk to violet while she's feeling jealous over xaden's ex being "sweetie, how many dragons picked her? none. how many dragons picked you? two."

someone get him a #1 Dad mug or something

Violet “I want you feral” Sorrengail 🤝 Xaden “I want them to hear” Riorson

I love them, your honor

*After the Gauntlet.*

Amber: “You can’t do that!”

Violet: “Not to worry, I have a permit.”

Dain: “This just says ‘I can do what I want-’”

Xaden: “-And she can. 10/10. 5 Stars.”

xaden: NO romance!

xaden: now i'm gonna go pick some violets at the break of dawn and leave them in violet's room for her to wake up to... cause her name is violet

xaden: but no romance!! ❌❌💘🚫🚫

"Should I get the Wingleader?"

Tairn, you are a legend

Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs - on the probabilities. || Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Here’s some fourth wing art! #fourthwing

Violet, Xaden, Tairn and Andarna - Fourth Wing

Artist: @/alexaelartworks

Recently I read a post were a user on Reddit was talking about this tale, and now it reflected the three sorrengail siblings, and I couldn't help but disagreeing with this.

There is a bunch of reasons why I think that theory is wrong, the main one being that the only actual similarity between the two sets of sibling is Violet and "the brother who made the skies surrender its power”. None of the other bonded a griffin, and as far as we know none of them is venin.

So, what we know about this story is this:

I think we should consider this story exactly like that, a story, a fable and not take it too literallly.

Stop thinking for a second about this brothers has people, and consider them as figure of speech (maybe to pass down more erasily even to children the story of the continent)

So what if the three brothers were the nations that make up the continent? Because if you look at the story from this perspective, then you do have three "brother" who have the same characteristic as the ones in the story:

And I promise that if you look at the hints scattered inside the books you'll see that:

1. Dragons are endemic to the territories that make up Navarre. Even the original hatching grounds are located inside what is now Navarre (suspiciously close to the border of the wards.. that's another theory though);

2. Griffins are endemic to Poromiel, their "hatching grounds" (not sure we can use the same terminology) is in the area where Cliffsbane academy is/was (we learn that when the griffin riders share their process of entering the college);

3. The Barrens have no mythical / magical creatures that we know off.

If you think about it, at one point in history Poromielians (how are they called lol ??) and Navarrians bonded mythical / magical creatures that gave them magic, on top of any military or economical advantages they might had. It is understandable how the people of the Barrens might have felt threatened and searched for alternatives to the newfound magic of their neighbors.

We then know that the Venins originated from the Barrens, so that's the solution they found.

The story also tells us that:

Which again parallels the fact that Navarre unified, and was created as a nation, only after the war against the Venins 650 yars ago, therefore it makes sense to be reffered as the younger brother.

We then circle around and go back to Violet: since, if we follow this theory, it was a dragon rider who made the skies surrender its power and defeated its jelous sibling at a grat and terrible price.

Xaden, not getting the props he deserves for keeping it together in Chapter 22 (FW) :

Xaden: Oh, great. Sgaeyl is feeling frisky again. -.-

Tairn: On my way, blueberry. Eight minutes ... tops!

Xaden: Ight, shields, churam and cold air it is then.

*9 Minutes later, outside*

Xaden, puffing: This is almost tolerable and barely humiliating at all.

Violet *enters the chat*

Xaden: Thank Zihnal she despises me with a passion, otherwise this could get real awkward. ... her intentions are WHAT?! ... CAN A GUY CATCH A BREAK!?

IRON FLAME SPOILERS theories & shit

Iron flame spoiler (ending)

Wow… wow! I’m not okay!

But also, I am. As devastated as I am after finishing Iron Flame, it was also so satisfying.

Xaden turning venin is exactly what I expected to happen during this series. (My personal prediction was for at the end of book three, but since book two was divided in two parts, I’ll take that, too.) But that’s not even it.

Xaden and Violet were both in the exact same situation, quite possibly at the exact same time. After fighting for so long, they were burning out, putting everything they had into the one task they had to accomplish. They were at the absolute end of their strength, at the ground, defeated, hopeless. They both felt the power of the earth beneath their hands, both knew how wrong it was to use it… yet also that it would be the one thing that could save them. And they both would have made the same decision.

But while Violet had her friends and family around them, the people she loved, the people she couldn’t cut out of her life even when it would have been for the best, Xaden was alone. And where Violet had people fighting for her, keeping her from doing the unthinkable, sacrificing themselves for her… Xaden had no one.

It’s tragic poetry, this parallel to how they live their lives.

Violet shutting up Xaden after his sad boy "less than a minute" line with " my love isn't fickle" is honestly a 10/10