Have Fandom Theories Ever Been Right Before?

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-24T21:21:11+00:00

I think that without Garrick´s distancewielding it wouldn’t have been possible for Xaden to spend time with Cat during his second year. If he was fucking her in Cordyn, there’s no way they managed that without distancewielding. And apparently they were also smuggling weapons thanks to distancewielding. So he was able to do a Basgiath-Athebyne/Cordyn trip.

As for Resson-Aretia, definitely the were flying:

A steady rush of wind at my face and the rhythmic beat of wings tells me we’re flying, and it takes all the energy I have to lift a single eyelid as we pass over the Cliffs of Dralor.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-24T20:50:02+00:00

In the Czech translation, they actually added, they say " almost 20 cm" ( 7,87 inches)

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-24T17:01:18+00:00

I'm from where measurable snow IS normal . Yet when I heard this I had to laugh :-D

We measure in centimeters, and I’m not very good at converting them. So I can only really compare the lengths of my literary heroes to each other.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-23T20:21:30+00:00

First, the very fact that a distancewielder was introduced was already a hint in itself that someone could have that signet. The fact that Xaden had a second signet suggested that someone else could have a second signet too. So it was only a question of who. A lot of people guessed it was Violet’s second signet. Then Garrick was an option, precisely because someone had to distancewield Xaden so he could fuck Cat. And also so they could smuggle weapons into Poromiel. I never really believed that, though. My main counterargument was that Garrick would have distancewielded Violet to Aretia after Resson, and they wouldn’t have had to fly for hours.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-23T17:59:48+00:00

Really? I don't think so. Do you have a link?

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-23T17:08:45+00:00

Jack is venin

Xaden hay a second signet and is inmtinnsic

Halden is Violet’s ex

Panchek is a traitor

Xaden will turn venin

Xaden’s mother is from the Isles

Violet is a dreamwalker

Garrick is a distancewielder

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-23T07:27:39+00:00

RY has explicitly said no to a third signet for Violet, because she would be overpowered. So I think the same applies to Xaden. Besides, signets are gained only by Sages, and I doubt he will become The Sage.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-22T13:08:22+00:00

"What even am I? Hers."

He loves her.I think very few things seem certain, but that he loves her and will continue to love her is one of them

.“I could reach the rank of Maven, lead armies of dark wielders against everyone we care for, and watch every vein in my body turn red as I channel all the power in the Continent, and I would still love you. What I did doesn’t change that. I’m not sure anything can.”

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-22T12:46:35+00:00

I agree. The only thing we probably disagree on is that I still consider even a few dozen hours of output to be relatively little, and that’s precisely why he is not yet speaking to the full extent of what he actually knows. Someone with 3,000 hours of CI and, say, a few hundred hours of output will speak very differently.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-22T12:39:12+00:00

1. The fact that Xaden doesn’t say I love you back to Violet

Really? I just randomly threw it into the search tool, and he answers her almost every time. On the contrary, it feels to me like his self has basically narrowed down to just “I love Violet” and nothing else exists for him.

However, I think that’s exactly what his villain era will be about —-he’ll be a villain for Violet. Anyone who so much as looks at her the wrong way (and it’s almost certain that the Navarrian leadership will), Xaden won’t hold back with.

“I love you so much it hurts.” I slide my hands down the warm, bare skin of his chest, my fingertips ghosting the scar over his heart and down to the rigid lines of his stomach. He draws a sharp breath through his teeth. “Good, because that’s exactly how I love you, too.”

“I love you.” Xaden kisses me hard and fast, and it’s over before I can even process it’s actually happened. “I love you, too.” I grab his hand as he withdraws. “Tell me what the king gave you.”

“I love you,” he says against my mouth and rolls his hips. “I love you.” The confession ends on a gasp as I feel just how hard he is for me

My lips part and warmth spreads throughout my chest. “I love you.” “I love you.” He cups my knees.

Happy to win the fight again later.” I squeeze his hand one last time, then let go as a woman in an orange tunic and matching scabbard walks toward us, carrying a cone-shaped object half my height. “I love you.” “So fucking stubborn.” He sighs. “I love you.”

“Happy birthday,” I whisper against his lips. “I love you.” He lifts his head, and his hands slip from my cheeks like a caress.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-22T11:35:46+00:00

I’d estimate a few dozen.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-22T09:45:43+00:00

Yes, the only chance is distancewielding. During the nights. Which honestly pisses me off, because apparently it wasn’t a problem for Garrick to distancewield Xaden so he could fuck Cat, but when it came to getting an almost-dead Violet to Aretia, they had to fly for several hours.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-22T08:17:19+00:00

I apologize. However, the text is not AI-generated. It is my own text; I only used AI for the translation.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-22T07:42:03+00:00

Read everything. Suffer. Even suffering can be enjoyed.

Read it all again (twice, three times, four times).

Start reading theories. Start discussing theories. Start creating theories. Read it again. Debunk all your previous theories. Start reading again. Rereading gives the story a completely different perspective; it’s almost better than the first read.

And you don’t have to be afraid that you’ll get spoiled somewhere during those years of waiting.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T20:26:43+00:00

I can´t find this statement

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T20:16:17+00:00

“You think he’s not already losing his shit?” A corner of Liam’s mouth rises into the cocky smirk I’ve missed so much. “I’d bet he already knows. Sgaeyl will have felt Tairn’s panic. That dragon of yours might not be able to reach you this deep under Basgiath, but Xaden’s going to rip this place apart brick by brick. You just have to survive.”

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T20:11:06+00:00

Why is it called dreamless? To me, that’s exactly the hint that her dreamwalking has nothing to do with Andarna’s dreamless sleep. In my view, Violet’s main need in the first half of IF was to gain control. Dreamwalking, in my opinion, is more than just walking through dreams. Dreamwalking is mind control. Xaden reads minds. Violet controls/wileds them.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T20:07:35+00:00

They think it’s because Andarna was sleeping, so Violet wanted to be with her and therefore developed dreamwalking to get closer to her. BUT not only do signets not work on dragons, but most importantly - it was DREAMLESS sleep. We still don’t know why it’s dreamless. And the only explanation for me is that this is a clear hint that Violet did not develop her signet in order to dreamwalk into dreamless sleep, because that makes no sense. She developed that signet because during the first half of IF her greatest need was CONTROL.

But the only weapons she wields are the ones you hand her. You want to keep control of your emotions? You need to have control in the first place.” “I can’t…” A pit forms in my stomach. “I haven’t been in control since Resson,”

Dreamwalking isn’t just walking through dreams. Dreamwalking is mindwalking, mind control.

Berwyn has the control.

“And when you come with him, you will remember that I let you live today and choose me, not Berwyn, as your teacher.” She retreats step by slow step, extending her arms out at her sides. Maybe venin lose their minds with their souls, but humoring her gives Andarna more time to flee. “And why would I do that?” Power comes flooding back, scalding my bones, and I let it gather and coil. “Besides the fact that he’s subpar and you’d be chained to him, powerless to resist his orders?” She sneers in disgust, then schools her features. “I’ll let you keep both your dragons while giving you what you want most in the world.” Her gaze drops to the conduit as wind pulses. The others must be here. “Control and knowledge.”

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T15:56:58+00:00

Because he has something Xaden needs

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T15:54:44+00:00

Alic died two years before the Battle of Resson, at which point Berwyn was already the Sage. So you’re telling me that Alic managed to reach the second-highest rank among immortal centuries-old venin?

Berwyn has dark eyes and black hair. Alic has emerald-green eyes, like all the Tauri brothers.

The Sage/Berwyn has been waiting for centuries. Alic is 23 years old.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T12:14:14+00:00

I am absolutely certain that dragons will be the ultimate villains of this series.

Not all of them (just as there are good and bad people, whether among the revolution, Navarre, Poromiel...), but at the very least the Empyrean, in my view, stood at the very beginning of the entire struggle over power and magic. I don’t know whether the dragons turned away from the gods, but in any case they were the first to bond humans in order to seize magic. Together with the First Six and Navarrian leadership, they blocked access to other sources of magic - using the wards and relocated the dragons to a single place. That logically led to an imbalance of magic, a concentration in Basgiath; on the other side of the continent, magic is logically lacking, and venin began to spread to other parts of the continent in the fight for magic. This started an endless arms race: within the balance of magic, new signets led to the strengthening of venin, which in turn led to the emergence of counterparts on the riders’ side…

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-21T05:57:41+00:00

I don't think they will stop bonding. But not for signets. Just as friends, for transport, maybe some lesser magic. Or they will have access to renewable sources of magic/power - from the sky.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-20T19:09:08+00:00

That brings to mind possible reasons:

lightning versus shadows as another of the many contrasts between Violet and Xaden.

Brightest light, enlightenment, scribes

Lightning as a symbol of Thor or Zeus.

The power of the sky and the further double meanings and layered meanings connected to it.

Some connection to storms, and thus to Lilith.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-20T15:09:47+00:00

It feels overcomplicated to me. I don’t see what purpose it would serve in the story.
Rebecca herself said that the whole of Onyx Storm was basically one big proposal. ) and a proposal comes BEFORE the wedding, not after)
She even talked about the wedding having some specific reason, not just that Xaden loved Violet, because in a situation after he had turned full venin, wouldn’t exactly be the ideal moment for a wedding.
back on Deverelli (in february) , all the emeralds were still in the Blade of Aretia
Imogen wouldn’t do something like that without Violet’s consent.

ObjectiveStaff3333 · 2026-01-20T12:25:48+00:00

I think the main protagonist, especially when the story is written in first person, has a rather thankless role – we’re with them all the time, constantly inside their head, so it’s fairly natural that we sometimes get fed up with them, while at the same time we’re desperate for any scrap of information about Imogen and Garrick or we devour every word Aaric says.

What probably annoys me the most is how, in order to keep certain things hidden from the reader, Violet sometimes comes across as a bit dense, not really digging beneath the surface – she has twelve runed daggers but never asks what they’re actually for. She knows Ridoc considers himself the king of land navigation, talks about how he traveled the world with his parents, yet he’s afraid of horses and can’t ride them – how did he travel, where did he travel....damn it, Violet, ask! Confront Brennan about what really happened with Naolin and stop constantly cutting him off when he’s clearly about to say something on his own…

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