#onyx storm theories

[thestarseternaal]

OS THEORY SPOILERS 🌩

RY clearly stated that there would be a betrayal in onyx storm and everyone has suspected Brennan (rightfully so) and expected something major to happen and a big confession, but I think it's more than that.

she said there would be a family betrayal and there's not a lot of those to choose from. there are the sorrengail siblings, riorson-durran, dain and his father (that ship has long sailed) and rhihannons family but somehow at the end of onyx storm xaden talks about someone turning venin

How could he do this? Choose this after watching me stumble and fall over the last five months.

How many people knew about Xaden from the start?

Violet

Bodhi

Garrick

Imogen

and since we know it isn't vi or imogen it leaves us with garrick and bodhi. and since garrick was with imogen he couldn't have turned unless he did it prior to finding imogen but then again she would have noticed the red rimmed eyes which brings me to my next point

Family Betrayal

I think it's Bodhi who turned and Xaden clearly considers it as a betrayal. which is a betrayal and he feels like that too when he says "how could he do this?" That's his only living family he has left and now he's well.. venin?

Furthermore we know from Imogens chapter that bodhis dragon was severely hurt

did something happen to Bodhi's dragon to the point he had to turn venin to survive and if so why? and last why would he marry violet out of nowhere unless he had no choice but to do so, in order to keep his family's seat and not let Navarre give it to someone they can control.

me rn:

[skyfallscotland]

Ok so Rebecca did a one hour panel today in Sydney with Lynette Noni hosting, where she asked questions and then they opened it to fans. I've kind of summarised the things I haven't seen mentioned over and over, but I don't frequent the subreddit anymore or use TikTok, so there might be overlap. In any case, it's long. Settle in. I've sectioned it into plot/character relevant first, then themes and interesting facts about her and her writing. Basically, you all came with me. 💗

• In book three (and every book thereafter) we'll be going to more and more new places. She specifically worded it as "watching the map expand" whether that's significant or not, I don't know. (I was thinking Isle Kingdoms for OS, but maybe that's just my wishful thinking).

• She implied Jack will have a reason (explained) for uh...being a power-hungry prick? lol

• She's hella defensive of Dain, which I love. #DainApologistsClub 😌 Some highlights include:

"You guys give Dain so much shit for the same thing Xaden does. You really do and you're so fast to forgive Xaden and not Dain. Why? Is it because he's hot?"

And, "when push comes to shove, all Dain did—yes he violated her boundaries, as does Xaden—but all he did was trust his dad when his best friend no longer spoke to him. That's it."

"When Dain looks at her (in the interrogation chamber) and says 'if you had just told me, none of this would have happened', he's not just talking about the interrogation, he's talking about Liam, he's talking about if she had just trusted him (in Fourth Wing) it never would have happened." 😢

• She was asked about Liam's appearance in the interrogation chamber and definitively put to rest any signet theories involving that. "She's so alone in that moment and...I don't read fan theories but sometimes they reach my ears; she's completely disconnected from her magic in that moment, she can't even reach out for Tairn or Andarna, which are the bonds that are actually most important to her. She can't reach out for Xaden. And that's the one person who would have prevented that from happening the last year, so it's natural that's who her mind would summon."

• She's thought about a spin-off series, but she's just trying to survive this series.

• Someone asked her if there'd be any redemption and romance for Jack Barlowe and honestly, thanks guys, I don't think she's ever coming back to this country 💀 ("Are you getting enough sleep? Uh...I mean, from his prison cell maybe? No.")

• Someone asked "what is Garrick's signet and why hasn't it been shown yet?" (shoutout to this girl, she's the real MVP) to which Rebecca said "it's very much in book three, I love it."

• Someone asked about the orange dragons and unpredictability re: Amber, Jack, Varrish and then Imogen and Brennan. Rebecca said some dragons might look for traits like their own and some look for balance because it's a partnership; and that Brennan as a strategist needed that little bit of unpredictability in his life (lol, I think he got it).

• She didn't always plan for Violet to have two dragons. Originally it was going to be one (Tairn) and the editor had hoped that she would sway towards a weaker, smaller dragon and she thought that was a little too close to Abraxos in ToG, and so they compromised and gave her both. She also went on to say she doesn't like overpowered heroines and since Tairn is extremely powerful, Andarna balanced that out. (I'm not...I'm not sure how that works out? But that's what was said.)

• We are definitely going to find out more about the original six (and Lynette asked if that was a spin-off possibility and was shushed, so she's thought about it at least, but I get the idea she's thought about a lot of possibilities 😂)

• There's no timeframe for the release of the final two books.

• Someone asked if Violet's dad was Malek to which she was kind of shocked. He's not a god, guys. And low-key I JUST WANT TO KNOW HIS NAME. 😤

• On Sgaeyl: "You do (get more of her) but holy crap is she pissed. So—I'll tell you that about Onyx Storm—she is really, really mad at Xaden and she's not exactly speaking to him at the moment. So it's hard for her to speak into that bond when she's not speaking to him." 💔

• She was asked about the Violet dated Halden theory (which was fucking hilarious because the poor girl misspoke and asked if Xaden dated the prince and we were all really confused about which TikToks the poor thing had seen (note to self: consider cam/xaden), anyway after we got to the bottom of that, Rebecca replied, "I think you should read the third book." Which I'm taking to mean, the man is making a damn appearance and we're gonna find out for ourselves 👀 Hey, if I'm lucky maybe we'll even find out his surname

• Finally she said she has EP on the Amazon series, they've all been exceptionally protective of it and that she's happy with how it's going (they're not near casting yet and she doesn't want to really comment on that ever, to leave each role open to as diverse a cast as possible). She said the production team has come to the signings in LA to meet readers and see what they love and are passionate about when it comes to the series to make sure that's honoured.

"Like I mean, I've seen certain...like what can I say without getting tackled to the ground? Let's just say they've already taken steps to make sure that what you guys love about the story is envisioned and that it's not run amok. And I'm very happy with it, they're super protective of it." Which could just be me reading into it, but the first place my brain went was the dragons 👀🐉 and the CGI or whatever.

• She was asked about where the inspiration for the universe came from and she said that when her Entangled decided they were going to do romantasy they asked her for five pitches and Fourth Wing was one of them (she won't say what the others were because she might still write them someday). She said she likes the fated mates trope but she wondered what that would look like if the dragons were the ones mated, not the humans and the humans who couldn't stand each other were forced to be around each other because of this. 

• Her first ever book was romantasy but it didn't sell

• She's never really written enemies to lovers before.

• She likes found family themes because she was raised in a military family and moved around a lot, so that makes it hard to keep in touch with your extended family, and after she married her husband and became a military wife, it was their found family that was there for her—it was her found family who helped her move her house, who sat with her when her husband was injured in Iraq, etc, so she thinks it's very important to show that your family is also the people you choose and that can be just as strong as any blood tie.

• She was asked (by Lynette) why she wanted to show death and the reality of war and she said, "I've been surrounded by it. My husband's been at war since 2003, he spent 22 years in the army, first as a 19 Delta cavalry scout and then ten years as an apache pilot and we buried our friends. And I saw what it did to him, and I saw what it did to our friends, I saw what it did to our children, to us, and I love being able to examine it from a fantasy perspective just because I think fantasy gives us a unique environment from which to critique our own world by viewing it through the lens of another. And I've always delved into those themes as to why we do this to each other and where is there hope to stop it?"

• As an author her favourite scenes in Fourth Wing were the dagger stealing scene (very important to their chemistry and romantic development—"she's the only person he's taught ever, how to actually kill him") and the first kiss scene.

In Iron Flame it was the interrogation scene and how that ends with Dain and Xaden and everything coming together.

When asked about a similar scene from Onyx Storm that elicited the same strong emotion from her she said "you're not gonna like it" and that's it 💀

• She would consider writing fantasy again after she's done with the Empyrean world, maybe one of her other pitches, but she won't truly think about it until she's survived this one.

• She spoke about the "kill your darlings" writing advice and how if you love a scene but it doesn't move the plot, you've gotta cut it, and how she did that with the final scene in Fourth Wing, which was originally 7k words of Violet POV pulling information out of Xaden.

• When asked about fan theories she actually said something I found a little sad. "I don't listen to fan theories. One, I'm not on TikTok—it's a little bit more important for me to be alive than to listen to what other people think they know about me, and two, I don't ever want fan theories to bleed into my writing."

〰️ And that's it! If anyone's going tomorrow, please voice record the whole thing and report back lmao 🙏 🫶🏼

ETA: part two is here, x

[b3anieperson]

Things I do not want but expect in Onyx Storm (also things I do want but you all have to figure that out)

Naolin comes back (or has always been and never died-) as a venin

Tairn dies

Xaden ties Violet's shoes

Colonel Aetos comes back to bite us in the ass

Someone close to Xaden dies (I'm placing bets on Bodhi, sorry)

Violet's second signet is going to be ward weaving (maybe idfk)

Bodoc happens???

We meet Drake Cordella!

One of the Cordella children dies (placing bets on Syrena)

Gamogen/Immrick happens???

We have a meeting with Venin

Mira or Brennan get severely injured in said meeting with Venin

We FINALLY get to hear about Liam wielding ice in the Battle of Resson

Viscount Tecarus dies (thank fucking god)

We get to meet the Queen of Poromiel

They drag King Tauri kicking and fucking screaming to a meeting with the Queen of Poromiel

We meet Halden

We get history on how (I hope) Halden and Vi dated

We hate Halden

Aaric hates Halden a tad bit too

Aaric x Sloane (pleaseee RY I begggg)

Sgaeyl and Tairn have eggs (maybe idfk)

Andarna can finally fly fully and we learn that she CAN support Vi while flying

We learn that Lillith Sorrengail was a Venin (see a pervious post about that theory)

Jack Barlowe is killed (PLEASE IM TIRED OF THIS FLYING RAT TURD)

Dain Aetos dies (killed by his own father, such shame)

Okay now we play a game, I'M Xaden Riorson, and YOU'RE all Violet Sorrengail, ask me what I mean (by reblogging or commenting or asking) and I'll explain what I mean. (I hope that it'll make sense because my tiny pea brain doesn't work well at midnight apparently)

[justallihere]

will you please elaborate on your bodhi will die prediction from a few weeks ago bc tbh it made me want to throw up 😭😭😭 that little angel is on like 4 pages in the whole series and I would literally die for him in his place. Is it just a feeling you have? Or did you see a theory somewhere? I need to know to talk myself down from the emotional damage I’m facing just at the thought 💔

Just in general, it's pretty much a given that someone (or someones) will die in OS, especially since we didn't really lose anyone in IF. And it's inevitably going to hurt, which means it will be someone close to Xaden and Violet. It won't be Sawyer because he just lost a leg. It's not Jesinia for obvious reasons. Personally I'd narrow it down to Bodhi, Rhiannon, or Garrick, but Rebecca LOVES Garrick. Loves that man. So Bodhi or Rhiannon. Amy convinced me that Bodhi makes more sense, in that someone is likely to kill him thinking he's Xaden. Her whole theory is linked here!

[hannah-schooler]

i thought it would be Cam/Aaric, but the more I think about it the more I think GARRICK might be the distance wielder. Rebecca’s comment about picking him if she were stuck on an island has me thinking like…a distance wielder would be able to get you OFF the island 🤔

but at the same time why didn’t he just pop in and out of Basgiath for the weapons drops, why risk him Xaden and Bodhi all actually leaving, so idk

[meeville]

Theories for Onyx Storm:

Spoilers for Fourth Wing and Iron Flame obviously. Also buckle your seat belts cuz this is a loooong one because I don’t know how to be concise. 

I’m not much of a theory person but as someone who straight up predicted Mira would deck Brennan as soon as she found out he was alive I think I’m pretty qualified. As any theories of mine I’m adding many embellishments to things we know and jamming puzzle pieces together blindly without actually knowing if they go together so everyone prepare your salt. 

Halden and Violet are exes theory: 

Halden went through basgiath in the infantry, canonically and here’s where my theory begins. I believe he’s only one year older than Xaden and thus he would have been in third year while Violet was helping Jasinia study for the scribe quadrant. This is the time when I think they were dating ish… the numbers don’t really matter. Violet definitely dated infantry and Halden is confirmed to have been through so this is how I’m making the numbers work. Halden being older than Xaden is important because Xaden killed Halden’s younger brother Alic who he was in threshing with and that probably ment they were around the same age. Unless Alic was an unbonded from the previous year (but I don’t think so, and for this theory he isn’t). 

So Halden and Vi date in Halden’s third year while She and Jasinia are studying and therefore Jasinia probably met Halden and knew who he was. And this is how she recognizes Aaric, whom she’s never met before. She recognized his eyes and said that it was pretty obvious if you knew what to look for, ie Jasinia knew who Aaric was because she met Halden and “knew what to look for” as she put it. 

So Vi and Halden dated but why did they end it? I have an answer for you. Vi doesn’t have noble blood, none of the Sorengails do (that we know of anyway). King Tauri seems like the type who would not be happy with his son being with somebody who isn’t noble or royal. Also Halden seems like an asshole from what I’ve interpreted about him from IF, so he could have also easily dumped Vi because of this. And possibly left her for a noblewoman or something like that. And we’re going with the second option in this theory because this leads into a really silly part of this theory: Violet is pretending that the target in her room is Halden in chapter twenty-nine of FW. This detail has always bugged me. Who was she imagining? Her asshole ex perhaps? If you don’t know the scene it’s the one after Vi wields for the first time and drops a mountain on Jack. Xaden comes to check on her and she’s throwing knives. He asks if she’s pretending it him and she says that it was about twenty minutes ago. He asks who it is now and she says ‘no one you know.’ I think it was totally Halden. Just a little detail that I thought was interesting. ‘M makin’ them puzzle pieces fit. 

Anyway we’re getting back on track now. Halden dumping Vi would explain her insecurities with Cat because she’s been in a similar situation before. Vi acts really out of character in IF and if this is what happened with Halden it would explain a lot. Violet had been jealous before (Imogen) but not to this extent and she moved on quickly before. But not now and her jealousy and insecurity around Cat could be explained by deep seated insecurities that Halden’s actions made her feel and that’s why it lasted throughout the book. Xaden is noble and so is Cat and Halden left Vi for a noble using some excuse about how it was better this way because Vi wasn’t a noble and this new woman was. This is why Vi is out of character: Because Halden made her believe she wasn’t worth the trouble because she wasn’t noble and that why Vi makes all the comments about how Xaden and Cat belong together. 

This is a theory. Please Take my words with a grain of salt. None of what I’m saying has much proof so: Grain of salt. Please. Also some more things I didn’t feel like making a new post for:

When we’ll see Halden:

Halden will show up in OS. RY doesn’t tend to mention a name unless they are on the death roll to make the series more lived in or have or at going to showing up in the series. Halden is someone important in the world and I think he’ll show sooner than later. 

Setting and plotish stuff? IDK:

I think the next book will have some more widespread world politics. It was confirmed that Vi and probably second squad are going to the isles. This was in the blurb for OS’s French edition and was taken down quickly after that. Again RY doesn’t mention something unless it will play a role. She didn’t mention the isle in FW but did in IF so we knew something had to be up. 

Violet’s second Signet:

RY said we might find Violet’s second signet more boring than her first and because of that I’m leaning the way of Amplifier. I have seen some solid arguments for Intinsic but people know that she’ll have a second signet and will start to ask questions when she never “develops” one. Which could lead into learning more about intinsics. I’m not super sold on that one or the truth-sayer one. I think truth-sayer is an inaccurate name for the signet people think she’ll have. Truth-sayer Nora can detect lies. That’s what truth-sayer is. I think that if Vi has developed a signet in this vein, it won’t be that, with the clues we have. It will be more of a “if she asks you a question you literally cannot lie to her, the words you speak will only be the truth,” kind of thing. She has to ask the RIGHT questions but yeah. 

Ships:

I ship Sloane and Aaric but my friend has a ship-related wish/theory. She thinks Aaric and Cat will get together without Cat knowing he’s royalty and they fall etc. But it would be good development for her to fall in love with someone for who they are not what they are right? She’s always going for more political power and stuff and it would be hilarious if she accidentally ended up in ultimate political power. I also think Aaric will end up as king by the end of the series so that ties in a bit too. 

Jasinia Neilwart Curator of the Scribe Quadrant:

Also also. People are freaking out over the recovered correspondence and faithfully transcribed by Jasinia stuff so here’s my two cents. I think Violet either wrote the books or helped in their creation in the original Navarian. I think she provided her and Xaden’s correspondence so that things could be truthfully told. I think at one point in the future of the series she decides to write everything down and be truthful like Lyra was in her own journal so future generations have a way to fight if the threat of venin comes back. Or something like that. The “honour the fallen” line doesn’t have to be about Violet or Xaden it could be about literally any of the characters that have already, at this point in the series, died. Or Violet and Xaden could have faked their deaths and Jasinia changed the texts to make this believable so the two of them could live their lives. There are literally so many probabilities. I know RY is known for her unhappy ending and what not but I’m naïvely choosing to be optimistic. Not everyone is going to die. Just everyone who is not Jasinia lol! But seriously y’all are dark. There are so many alternatives to everyone dying and alternatives to how and why this story is told the way it is. 

Anyway I’m actually shaking in excitement rn. If anyone in or formally in Flame section Fourth Wing Dies I will riot. And if Tairn dies I quit ( I’m joking, but not really, but also I am.) Onyx storm will be out in less than a week so everyone remember to put your spoiler warnings on your motherfucking posts. Not everyone reads the same pace so be generous with the spoiler warnings. Notice how this post has one, and a cut? but also this post is long as shit so it was necessary lmao. I have a true fear of opening insta on the 21st because of spoilers. Y’all be kind to us who don’t get their copy till at least a week later and have to audiobook it in less than 24h because otherwise we’ll get spoiled. Don’t spoil or Ill SPOIL YOU!!! Add all of your additions to my post I want to see ideas flowing. Also make sure you stay sexy and don’t get murdered. Happy next few days of existential dread. Love Y’a. mouah<3

[ebonystarz]

I’m not trying to say I want this to happen, I’m just saying that it would be very brave is Rebecca Yarros pulled at SJM and made Xaden x Violet not endgame. Like I know it won’t happen but it would be very interesting to see the romantasy girlies squirming.

Also I know people are scared of a New Moon situation, but I honestly wouldn’t be mad at an independent Violet for a book. One where she’s totally on her own without one of the boys holding her back. I want to see my girl go crazy.

[softodettes]

I got curious about which of your theories were right in onyx storm, care to share? I love reading fans theories and love when they actually happen

omg sure!

obviously, there's going to be major OS spoilers under the cut, so consider yourself warned!

a lot of these are partially right, but i'm still including them because partial is good enough for me LOL

starting with the one i thought was the least likely: 'Violet reveals that she and Xaden got married at the end of OS and the last line is something like "I'm going to find my husband." has major end of ACOMAF vibes. again, very unlikely.' clearly, i didn't think this would happen, so you can imagine my surprise when it did 😭

and my favorite one: Dain's redemption arc continues, and we get Dain/Sloane... being right about this made me SO happy!

Xaden runs away at some point. I'm guessing the halfway point of the book or the end... this one was NOT surprising lol

OS covers the second half of Violet's second year in the Quadrant... again, close enough for me

Xaden's mom is in the Isle Kingdoms drinking mai tais on the beach

Violet's second signet is prophetic visions... this wasn't exactly the case, but i feel like visions are close to dreams. i did say she was probably going to be an inntinnsic though, which i (and a lot of other people) was pretty sure about beforehand

The 7th breed of dragons is chilling in the Isle Kingdoms... part of this original theory was right, but the second half of it was that OS would be a set up for the road trip in the 4th book, which i was very wrong about

Mira distances herself from the other Sorrengail siblings after Lilith's death. She and Brennan get into and argument about it and their respective childhood traumas... this was mostly right, so i'll take it

Mira dies Lilith-style and sacrifices herself for Violet. Violet feels copious amounts of guilt and crashes out, causing an insane lightning storm that kills whoever she was fighting... again, not quite on the money, but Mira's almost-death counts in my mind.

all in all, i had 20 theories before reading, and 9 of them were right or almost right, which was kind of crazy! the theories i created while reading were kind of wacky, so i won't share those, but one i'm pretty amazed by was deciding that Aaric would be an inntinnsic after i read page 139

and if you want to read the rest of my theories that didn't happen, you can find them here :)

[moplayspoke]

People have been pointing out that Rebecca used the song “Take a Moment to Breathe” in the Onyx Storm trailer.

And … guys:

Y’all… I am even MORE convinced Onyx Storm will be Xaden’s book. His everything.

His past.

His mom.

Battling his demons.

Battling is inner chaos.

Battling his … iykyk…

Struggling to keep Violet at his side but also struggling to keep her away from him for safety reasons.

It’s HIS storm. He is the Onyx Storm. This is Xaden’s book.

I wonder if we will get more dual POV from him in this? Hmmm.

[shipmistress9]

Onyx Storm

The storm of emotions in his onyx eyes.

This is all I can think about with this title. With IF's ending, Xaden and all those close to him, are going to have to go through so much to get things right-ish again, and the emotional turmoil will be epic.

[skyfallscotland]

personally i think it’s probably because she could accidentally kill him with her orgasms ⚡️⚡️

y’all know our girl’s got no self control, so it’s forbidden

Whenever someone asks why I'm scared for Onyx Storm I just pull up Entangled publishing's official site and show this:

Fourth Wing:

Iron Flame:

Onyx Storm:

Like hello????? The trope listed suddenly changed to forbidden love?????? Anyone else seeing this?

[justascrollingghost]

I’m placing my bets now that Xaden will be fighting for his life not to channel at the end of this book and Violet will launch herself at him to stop him and he’ll scream in absolute agony thinking he’s going to hurt her whilst she’s just clinging to him absolutely fine and that’s how we’ll all find out the silver in her hair is because she’s already part venin…

[skyfallscotland]

Time for another outlandish Onyx Storm theory! Ba dum tiss! 🥁 This one is quite frankly, wilder than all that have come before. This time, I figured I'd tell you all about how I think we might have already met Xaden's mother. Let's dive in!

Oh boy here goes...

So...here's what we know about Xaden: his mum left when he was ten (or disappeared!) under mysterious circumstances and he's still hung up about her (he kept the blanket she made him!) and he has a fascination with Violet's silver-tipped hair.

I honestly cannot believe I'm saying this (it's almost fucking Oedipal, is what it is) but people have suggested the two are related. I shrugged it off, but now I have this weird, unsettling feeling that they might be right...I think there's a possibility that the venin who teleports in chapter two of Onyx Storm could be his mother.

Her long silver braid swings free of her hood as her attention whips in our direction, and her eerie red gaze jumps to mine and widens slightly under a faded tattoo on her forehead. My blood chills when a smirk tilts her mouth, distorting the red veins at her temples, and then she…disappears.

· Firstly, she has a mysterious faded tattoo, potentially a Tyrrish rune, on her forehead, I'll let you connect the dots there. (Really what I mean is I haven't fully fleshed this out yet, I just need to get it off my chest lol sorry)

· She's a sage, based on this information from Drake: Sages’—those responsible for initiates—eyes are permanently red, their veins perpetually distended toward their temples, expanding with age. Which presumably makes a lot of sense given the timeframe (14 years since Xaden last saw her).

· What I think is the most important piece of circumstantial evidence here: she left the room right before he entered it, before he could see her, even though she's probably more powerful than all of them, especially with backup.

· Sages are responsible for initiates. Jack is an initiate and he called Xaden brother. Yeah, this could also be because Xaden is an initiate too, of course, but it's also a little piece of twisty foreshadowing to throw in there and I wouldn't put it past Rebecca to have thrown it in at all given she'd presumably already have known what she planned to do with his mother.

So uhh yeah. Just a thought, pls don't cancel me 🫣 I hope it's not true either, I promise! Just the thought of that hair obsession coming from there... ���😭😩 but I thought I'd throw out a whacky one, just to liven things up ��

[b3anieperson]

OH MY GOD.

I'M ON BREAK, AND I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING, EITHER VERY HEARTWARMING, OR VERY GUT-WRENCHING, DEPENDING ON YOUR THOUGHTS OF MY THOUGHTS.

Uhmmm, tags, lmk if you want on or off: @siobhanbooks @yanny-77 @justallihere @itsbeenmyhonor

I think Violet might cut her hair in Onyx Storm, like, while in battle she realizes that it's going to be her downfall and she cuts it mid-flight, and as she gets off Tairn and hits solid ground, her hair turns silver at the ends, and everyone questions it.

[justallihere]

okay, reread is done, i'm rolling in here last minute with my onyx storm theories. spoilers of course for both fourth wing and iron flame below, along with one mention of the first couple chapters of onyx storm that leaked

I don't want to give it up entirely, so Violet's second signet will be precognition (my beloved) or some kind of intinnsic

Brennan is a traitor. He's the one who gave the runes to the venin that are used in the stones that power the wyvern

In the same vein, Naolin is still alive and is venin. The reason Tairn and Sgaeyl are so upset about Xaden turning in those first OS chapters is because of him - they're either worried Xaden will go full evil like Naolin, or Tairn is feeling some sort of guilt and like he should have been able to save him

Rhiannon will die

Violet will ride on Andarna at least once - they'll get stuck in trouble somewhere without Tairn and have to do it to get out safely

It will end with Xaden leaving. We'll be lured into a false sense of security about him staying then poof. Gone

We don't go to the isles :( Violet spends time in Poromiel trying to get answers. Probably with Cat teaching her how to navigate the politics and power structures there

We meet Drake Cordella and he's just as hot as well all think he is <3

[chyyy66]

Here it is, my Onyx Storm bingo card !!!

Some of these theories are a little out there, and some are just fun !! Some also contradict each other, but it’s fineeeeeeeee !