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## Content Overview

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . .

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away . . . because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Alliances will be forged. Lives will be lost. Traitors will become allies . . . or even lovers. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

## Facts and Figures

Fourth Wing is a book that was published in May 2023 by author Rebecca Yarros. It is set to be the first book in a series of five and already has many stellar reviews online.

## Content

### Warning! This contains Spoilers, as it explains the entire content of the book Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros!

#### Chapter 1:

Violet Sorrengail is introduced as the main protagonist, who is telling the story in first perspective. She is described as a frail twenty-year-old with weak joints. She has long brown hair, that fades into silver above her shoulders. She also has pale eyes. Her mother is blaming the pale hair, pale skin, pale eyes on the sickness she had while being pregnant with Violet.

It is Conscription Day at Basgiath War College, meaning that thousands of twenty-year-olds from the country Navarre are joining the War College, if they could pass the written and physical entry exams. Violet is the daugther of Lilith Sorrengail, the commanding general of Basgiath War College and a dragon rider. Her father was a scribe, meaning he studied the books in the archives and wrote down the history of Navarre. In comparison to Violets older siblings, Brennan and Mira, who both became dragon riders, Violet was trained to be a scribe by her father all her life.

But after her father died a year ago, her mother forced her to train to join the rider's quadrant of the Basgiath War College, instead of the scribe's quadrant. The rider's quadrant is said to be the deadliest of all of them, with many candidates not even surviving Conscription Day.

Mira Sorrengail, Violet's twenty-six-year-old sister, is arguing with her mother to not send Violet to the Rider's quadrant, since she is too frail to survive. Lilith Sorrengail does not change her mind, leading to Mira at least assisting Violet in repacking her rucksack and giving her helpful advice on surviving in the rider's quadrant. Noticeable about this exchange is, that Mira gives Violet new boots, so she doesn't slip on the Parapet as easily, as well as an armour made of dragon scales, to protect Violet. She also tells Violet to find Dain Aetos, Violet's childhood friend who is a second year in the Rider's quadrant, and to stay away from Xaden Riorson. Xaden Riorson is the son of the Great Betrayer, a man who started a rebellion in Navarre. In this Rebellion, Violet's and Mira's older brother Brennan died, killed by Fen Riorson, the Great Betrayer. In return, Lilith Sorrengail captured and oversaw the execution of Xaden's father and the other separatists that joined the rebellion. All of the children of the separatists had to watch their parents execution, and then got marked by a dragon with a relic, that marks them as children of the rebellion. Given their family history, Mira warns Violet, that Xaden, who is a third-year wingleader in the rider's quadrant, will kill her as soon as he finds out who she is.

The Parapet is a slim stone bridge, that rider candidates need to cross to enter their quadrant and it kills about 15% of the candidates each year. When Violet walks up to the Parapet, she is talking with two other candidates in front of her, Rhiannon Matthias and Dylan. She trades one of her boots with Rhiannon, to give the other candidate a better chance to survive on the Parapet.

Dylan is the first to walk on the Parapet, while Violet discovers a handsome rider at the entrance of the Parapet, who turns out to be Xaden Riorson. Xaden immediately finds out who Violet is and she thinks he is going to kill her before she ever sets a foot onto the Parapet. They hold a small staring contest that is interrupted, when Dylan screams as he slips and falls of the Parapet to his death.

Prior to that, Violet had asked Xaden if he was going to kill her, but he only answered with a grin that there was no reason for him to kill her, when the Parapet would do it for him.