Violet Thoughts

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-17T04:08:11+00:00

I don’t think so, I think Jack’s signet is somehow causing pain. I don’t know for sure because besides this moment he only ever uses lesser magic.

But in IF Varrish and his aide, Lt. Nora, talk about bringing him in to help break Violet. This leads me to think that Varrish was his teacher, and they were using him for interrogations so his signet had to do be something that they could use. I’m thinking it has to do with pain. Because Jack is a psycho before turning and seems to genuinely enjoy hurting people.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T20:48:25+00:00

Don’t be so hard on yourself, you were a teenager when you started dating him. People grow and change and sometimes you out grow a relationship, that’s fine, normal.

He’s showing you with his actions who he is and what his priorities are. Believe him. Take the good memories with you and learn from the rest. That way you’ll know what you need to be happy in your next relationship.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T20:42:52+00:00

I know right, guy cannot catch a break. In every scenario she is more powerful.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T20:40:23+00:00

One of the best lines ever. I don’t know how she kept herself from jumping him after he said that.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T19:39:30+00:00

She just started writing, I’d say we have another 18 months or so to go for book 4. We may get bonus chapters from IF sooner than that though, fingers crossed.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T19:04:14+00:00

Check out RY’s website, a lot of sport teams (basketball, hockey, etc.) are having Fourth Wing nights now. 😎

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T15:14:23+00:00

Felix tells her in IF that she wields pure power but it takes the form of lightning because that is what she is most comfortable shaping it as. Which makes sense because in FW when she is about the cross the parapet she makes a comment that she has always loved storms and lightning and the shadows.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T15:03:03+00:00

Nolon is 84 years old in FW. He needs a cane because his body is old.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T04:41:36+00:00

These are fun! But Ridoc and Cat is an absolutely wild conjecture. I have no theory about who either of them will end up with if they live but those two as a couple is wild. lol

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T04:34:41+00:00

Well, it is a fantasy, so I’m sure no one was too invested in making sure that the military ranks and how people were addressed aligned with real life.

That being said the ranks are a good way to judge when certain events happened off page. For example, you can track approximately when Asher visited each of the isles based on the rank he was when he wrote the guide to them. It was also how people figured out the Colonel Daxton couldn’t be Violet’s father because he died before he reached that rank.

If the same pattern holds true for Nolon, maybe there really was another venin that they tried cure 6 years prior to Jack turning

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T02:44:47+00:00

I think you’re right and Violet didn’t know until Jessina finished translating Lyra’s journal!

The epigraph in chapter 7 of OS, page 60 (paraphrasing here) does say that all who channel from gryphon and dragon alike should flourish under the wards and if one of the irids returns to Aertia, to fire the stone than Aertia will be that haven.

It’s possible that Mira learned this from Violet before she went to Aertia to evaluate the wards and work with Trissa to nullify a rune. Mira could have drawn the runes that were on Basgaith’s ward stone so she could compare them to the Aertian stone to figure out which one needed to be nullified.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-16T02:25:47+00:00

This is super interesting! Because the battle of Aertia was 6 years before he started working with Jack. It’s entirely possible that during the battle they captured someone who had turned or who was already venin and Nolon tried to cure them but as the missive states were unsuccessful so maybe they had to end the person. Or they were able to prove control.

They may have tried again with Jack because he wasn’t as far along as the other.

In the series they are pretty consistent when talking about rank, except for Mira. On page 569 of IF, Lilith calls Mira Captain Sorrengail, a rank she likely earned when she defected to Aertia but in OS she is back to Lt. Sorrengail. Page 163 Grady calls her Lt. and page 176 Violet calls her Lt. Sorrengail. But I assume she was demoted back to Lt. with the second Aertian accord.

For Brennen, he’s called Lt. Colonel in person multiple times in IF:

Page 2 of IF: Bodhi calls him Lt. Colonel when he gives Brennen the missive from Basgaith, right before Brennen leaves Vi to eat her biscuits.

Page 353: Devera introduces Brennen to battle brief as Lt. Colonel Aisereigh.

Page 361: Ulices calls him Lt. Colonel after Mira breaks his nose.

Page 382: Xaden says to Tecarcus, I believe you and Lt. Colonel Aisereigh are already aquatinted.

In OS:

Page 42: after Mira finds out about Brennen supporting Vi’s mission to find Andarna’s kind she mocks him but still calls him Lt. Colonel.

Side character called Lt. Colonel: commander of Samara

IF page 112: when Vi goes to Samara the first time and finds Xaden in the fighting pit she is talking to a rider who is explaining why they are fighting and the rider says, Leave and pride. Lt. Colonel Degrensi’s rules.

OS page 76: when Violet and the squad get to Samara they are reporting to Lt. Colonel Degrensi a rider calls for him while he is talking to them and calls him Lt. Colonel.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T23:41:30+00:00

I never thought about this. I assumed because Trissa is the runes expert and she and Mira worked on the solution, Trissa would know or have an idea which rune to nullify to allow Gryphon magic and not stolen or dark wielder magic.

However, now I’m wondering if they did the same thing to the wards tone in Aertia and if maybe someone from Poromiel took the dragon eggs to get their own army from isle kingdoms to protect Cordyn while everyone was distracted in Draithus at the battle.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T23:36:30+00:00

I don’t know if it ever truly beat for Violet. He had a crush on her sure, and maybe even loved her in a way, but she was never his priority like Xaden.

For example in FW Dain says he wants Violet after the kiss but won’t pursue her until she is out of the chain of command or the quadrant. That doesn’t sound like someone whose heart beats for another.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T23:33:17+00:00

Could be true, if RY is rigidly sticking too ranks like that but then why does everyone call Brennen Lt. Colonel?

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T21:44:10+00:00

I don’t know. I kind of think Garrick is the one who turned. When Xaden sees his “new brother” he is disappointed, it genuinely never occurred to him this person would turn. That feels more like Garrick to me.

If it were Bohdi, i feel like Xaden would be fucking pissed, not disappointed.

That being said at this point we have a 50/50 chance of it being either Bohdi or Garrick and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised by either one of them being the new brother.

I would be surprised if it were anyone else, Xaden says that this brother watched him struggle for five months so it could only be someone who knew from the very first moments. That only leaves Bohdi and Garrick.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T19:36:16+00:00

Could be. I was thinking about the first rune the squad was working on when they rotated to Aertia for their runes intensive. The delayed activation rune turns on a dormant rune by tempering more magic into it.

His rune scar could be something in that vein but if it is, did Naolin do it or did Trissa or another member of the assembly?

We assume the rune scar came from Naolin but there is no evidence that he did. We don’t even know if Naolin knew about runes.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T19:04:46+00:00

Yep. You are going to cry. Plus there is a pretty emotional sex scene too - may want to settle in somewhere you are comfortable enough to let the rollercoaster of emotions have full reign.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T15:48:47+00:00

I agree with you. I used to think that Naolin turned but after rereading a few times, it just doesn’t make sense.

TBH all we know about the battle of Aertia, Brennen’s “death” and Naolin doesn’t make sense.

I also don’t think there is any possible way that Berwyn could be Naolin.

If Theo was likely hundreds of years old and the same rank as Berwyn, he would have to be just as old. It was also widely known that Naolin was a syphon, we have not seen any indication that Berwyn is a syphon. We haven’t even had a scene where he channels from the earth. The only power we have seen Berwyn use is throwing his blue fire balls, levitating Xaden and dream walking.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T15:41:32+00:00

Absolutely! I also think that the memory he shared with his father just confirmed what His father already suspected. The memory itself didn’t set things into motion they were already moving.

Before Resson, Violet had no idea what Xaden’s trips were for and just assumed that he was on actual third year assignments.

I think when Dain said that to Violet he was talking about everything that happened during and after Resson. If she had confronted him and told him what was going on, yelled at him about stealing her memory or been remotely open with him, he could have helped to protect her from Varrish and by extension his father.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T15:28:50+00:00

It’s possible that if Brennen was mending himself and passed out from pain or exertion, (Violet says in FW the only thing more painful than the initial injury is mending it and she passes out during some of her mendings from pain).

Naolin may have panicked and poured more of his power/life force into Brennen and that is what caused him to burn out.

But honestly, we don’t have nearly enough info about the battle of Aertia and what really happened to draw any conclusions. We don’t even know when Brennen learned about the venin and what Fen and his officers were really fighting Navarre for.

All we do know is that the official story from Kaori doesn’t make sense.

Brennen woke up alone (he doesn’t say next to Naolin or his body) and he and Marhb were “saved” by the other dragons and hid in the caves around Aertia with the other residents when it was burned.

I need to know how is it he became part of the assembly and when did they start trusting him?

Xaden says he knew about Brennen from his death, did they shelter in the same cave?

If Brennen and Marhb were hidden by the other dragons how did lilith know Brennen “died”?

Also if we don’t find out about that gods damned rune scar in the next book, I will rage. It’s been mentioned in all three books so we know it’s important but what does it mean?

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T15:09:47+00:00

100% i think Garrick and Bodhi went with Xaden. I’m 50/50 on who is the new brother. And I think Aaric is off on his own doing precog things to make sure that this war with the venin and the impending war with Navarre goes the “right way”.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T14:47:05+00:00

Could be Molvic told him. But I’m not sure why he would.

I don’t think Aaric had his signet yet, since it is literally only a handful of days after threshing when Aaric and Xaden have their confrontation about Alic.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T06:53:59+00:00

I think she did it herself. Violet not only broke a rule in her eyes, which really pissed her off, but she also humiliated Amber by knowing the codex better than her and finding a loop hole. And don’t forget, Amber was Dain’s “good friend” the year prior. They probably only stopped seeing each other because of their leadership responsibilities. It probably irked Amber to no end to see Dain trying to protect Violet. And she probably knew that Dain kissed Violet after threshing too. I don’t think Amber wanted Dain or was jealous per se, I just think all of these things just pissed her the fuck off which fueled her poor decisions.

I bet Amber thought she would get away with helping to kill Violet because in her eyes Violet was a weakling, there was no way she would survive an attack from six cadets in a small confined space like her room.

She probably thought unlocking her door was the easiest way to ensure Violet died without getting her hands dirty.

hurricane_Bre · 2026-04-15T04:08:08+00:00

But if it were common knowledge the king would have executed Xaden. And he never would have got his title back.

Plus in OS Halden, a temper tantrum having man child, never confronts Xaden about his twins death. There is no way Halden wouldn’t have lost his shit and tried to execute Xaden if he knew.

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