#empyrean book series

[spiritofdragonfire]

Love these colorful Empyrean Dragon Breed Guides!

Disclaimer: I did not make these. These guides were created by @larita.reads on Instagram

[jacqueillustrates]

[violetriorsons]

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

[illustratinghan]

baby vi and xaden ✨📚🍰

characters by @/rebeccayarros

follow me on instagram! @/illustratinghan

[lighthousepigeons]

Tairn: I spy with my little eye, someone who needs to shut the fuck up.

Violet: Is it Dain?

Tairn: It's always Dain.

[incorrect-fourthwing]

Violet: I gotta tell you something, I’m madly in love with you.

Xaden: Well, good luck with that.

[su4vz]

LIAM.

I FUCKING MISS HIM.

Violet seeing him as a hallucination felt wayyy too real.

I still can’t accept his death.Oh and Jacks fucking Barlowe being alive and saving Violet was so unexpected-

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

The transition in Iron Flame from “I need to know you won’t run, that you know you’ll never have to” into “Me. You should be scared of me” is devastating on so many levels because Xaden was so afraid of losing Violet and now what he’s become to save her is what he believes will drive her away.

[itzursafespace]

Eekkkkk

The onyx storm excerpt 😭😭😭🙏

[azrielsshadows42]

Alex Volkov: Yes, Sunshine

Aaron Warner: Yes, love

Zade Meadows: Yes, Little mouse

Christian Harper: Yes, Butterfly

Rhysand: Yes, Feyre darling

*ground shakes*

All: It's him

Xaden: Yes, Violence

*Book girl squeals*

[hockeyspiral23]

Okay. Watched RY’s LoC panel on YouTube. Didn’t get much out of it - very spoiler-free. But these are my loose notes:

- Rhiannon is the best of their year due to the balance she’s achieved (love of family, friends, role in everything, etc.), a balance Violet hasn’t gotten to yet

- if she were to have a signet, she’d want distance wielding (makes me think we’re totally seeing it with someone)

- she avoids fan theories (and herself on the internet), but does say that Xaden was not in love with Violet pre-Basgiath due to Brennan’s stories given how young she was when he last knew her

- re: Brennan and Naolin - “maybe you should read” and logically, if you were going to risk it all to save someone, they’re probably pretty important to you …

- when asked for her favorite of the five books, FW obviously has a special place in her heart because it’s the first, but she really likes OS because she loves a morally gray man and that she gets to expand and know where she is in that world (sounds like things get broken way the fuck open from where they already are)

[spiritofdragonfire]

Happy Threshing Day!

While Thunderbolt would be my dragon if I existed in HOTD, I like to think that if I existed in this fantasy series I would be bonded to a blue dragon, specifically a Blue Morningstartail!😁🔥🐲💙🏰⚔️

This beautiful artwork of my majestic Empyrean dragon OC was made by talented IG artist @vishap.art

His name is Saphir (suh-feer) which means "Sapphire" in Scottish Gaelic. I imagine him to be larger than Sgaeyl, but smaller than Tairn, with purplish-blue coloring and scales that shimmer like sapphire gemstones. Complete with glowing, golden-yellow eyes, obsidian-black horns, and a wickedly dangerous morningstartail, my dragon is truly a force to be reckoned with! My Saphir is as beautiful as he is powerful!

[jacqueillustrates]

"Lightning cracks, so white it's almost blue, and I throw up my hand to shield my eyes as it strikes the iron chest as though drawn to it. Sparks shower the arena..." Chapter 42, Iron Flame

[violetriorsons]

it just keeps getting funnier how tairn keeps reaching record-breaking levels of single dad energy

i'm barely on chapter 20 but his life up to this point has pretty much consisted of:

"I just put the baby down for a nap!!"

threatening the school principal for trying to murder picking on violet

"DON'T WAKE THE BABY!!"

very short date nights once a week with sgaeyl where i'm sure too much time is wasted catching up on all the kids

keeping violet from breaking her neck with extreme gymnastics

DON'T. WAKE. THE BABY.

[intairnwetrust]

SPOILER EXCERPT ONYX STORM (Edit: not really a spoiler anymore bc RY herself posted the excerpt on her Insta

"The power grows, vibrating inside me with an unrelenting demand, and I raise my right hand, pointing my palm to the sky in the open amphitheater.

Xaden disappears behind me a second before I release the strike. Light explodes, illuminating the arena as bolts of energy tear through the air, crossing the barrier of protections and hitting the clouds above. I hear a collective gasp from the other cadets before darkness imposes itself again.

'You're incredible, he says, already blending into the shadows.

'Why just me?' I ask, turning and trying to find him.

'You need to be able to find me. The shadows slide over my skin, and less than a second later, they disappear, leaving me staggering near the front of the mat, watching Xaden move away as he climbs the stairs.

'Why me?' I repeat, aware of the gazes of the other cadets studying me, searching for some sign, since Xaden came out unscathed. 'Xaden!'

He doesn't even pause his ascent. 'Because you are the only one capable of killing me."

~~~~~~~~~

What the hell!?! "Because you are the only one capable of killing me" I am so not ready for this book but also

[lighthousepigeons]

Bodhi: I sleep with a dagger under my pillow.

Garrick: Weak. I sleep with two swords under mine.

Xaden: You are both pathetic.

Garrick, sarcastically: What killer weapon do you sleep with, Xaden?

Xaden: Violet.