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A one night stand turns into a friends with benefits situation for Dain Aetos and Sloane Mairi.
But as they keep hooking up, it grows into something more. Something neither can deny
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Lady Sloane Mairi never entered the Quadrant or bonded a dragon. Instead, she’s spent the last decade exasperating her aristocratic guardians, who expect her to do little besides mind her manners, smile pretty, and marry well. So when a politically-advantageous betrothal is finally secured, Sloane figures an arranged marriage will at least grant her some autonomy. After all, how hard is it to handle a husband?As it turns out, pretty damn hard, because the broad shoulders waiting at the end of the aisle belong to Colonel Dain Aetos, a jaded officer who gave everything to the war effort...and is decidedly Not Amused to find himself bringing home a tempestuous heiress.
Bound by law for the next four months, the couple merely has to endure their handfasting and they are free to part ways. But past wounds want healing, unexpected bonds demand forging, and blistering chemistry promises to set their plans aflame.
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(Or, the arranged marriage, post-war, grumpy-gremlin AU in which Sloane is the feisty aristocrat who never went to Basgiath and Dain is the decorated war hero who is barely holding it together)
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I felt the moment I laid eyes on you by Larry_Squirrel
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
13 Jun 2026
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Wildly Over-Competent Dain Aetos and Human Tornado Sloane Mairi 💖
Continuation of What Is This Feeling, So Sudden and New.
This is the Onyx Storm edition to this series.Onyx Storm through Sloane and Dain's point of views.
Helping cure my personal OS hangover and love for Slain (I never stop thinking about them).
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Ruling a province, hiding his venin state; there's a lot on Xaden's shoulders. Not least that he no longer trusts himself to be with Violet. Her signet is suffering as a result, so as she scours for a cure for him, Xaden plans to ensure all her needs are met, even that means using a certain wingleader.
Dain isn't as in control as he wants people to believe. As he seeks to win back Violet's trust, he instead finds connection with another isolated group. He becomes dedicated to the Fliers, especially a certain princess helping him train his signet, but will secrets he's pulled into shatter the fragile peace he's found?
Cat hides scars from a brutal past life at court, some she doesn't fully understand herself. She has duties as a noble, but also seeks to prove the worth of the Fliers in a place dominated by Riders. What she didn't plan on, was budding feelings for one in the process.
And outside the walls of Basgiath, war marches ever closer.
A story about dragon and gryphon lore, power struggles, magic, venin, tested morals, secrets, and, in all its splendid and confusing forms, love.
OS and beyond with AU elements. Updates once a week... Ish
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They thought survival was the end of her story.
They were wrong.
In the aftermath of Resson, Aurelia is no longer the girl Basgiath once knew. Her power has changed—sharpened into something colder, something that does not hesitate. Death answers her more easily now. Too easily.
And with every use of her signet, something in her shifts.
As the war deepens and secrets unravel within Aretia, Aurelia finds herself caught between what she was and what she is becoming. The future remains unwritten—unseen even by those who claim to predict it—but the cost of that freedom is beginning to show.
Because power like hers doesn’t come without consequence.
And the more she reaches for it, the harder it becomes to tell where Aurelia ends… and something far more dangerous begins.
With Kaedan at her side and enemies closing in from every direction, one truth becomes impossible to ignore:
Some futures aren’t meant to be seen.
Some are meant to be survived.
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- Part 2 of The Empyrean Chronicles
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After the Battle of Draithus, Sloane is confused by the weight of two haunting words—you're life. Like an echo from her past, igniting a wildfire of hidden memories, she turns to Dain.
With their squad's trust in command already in tatters, they lean on each other like never before. Working together, testing their loyalties, their power and questioning the truths they were raised to believe and fight for. This is an imagining of what comes next focusing on the Fourth Wing Squad. Not canon compliant but respective as RY is a bloody legend.
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EMBERCROWN by itsreggie09
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J. Maas
03 Jun 2026
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It’s been a long time coming… welcome to Embercrown 🔥
This fic takes place after the events of Firebound and is the fourth book/part of the We Burn series. If you haven’t read the previous books yet, this is your sign to go do that first because we are officially entering the “everything is on fire and getting emotionally catastrophic” stage of the story 😌
The secrets are out. The crown is heavier than ever. The war is no longer a distant threat sitting at the edge of the map. And Aelin Tauri? Well… she’s getting very tired of people underestimating her.
Expect political chaos, dragons, fractured loyalties, dragons, deadly decisions, dragons, family drama, dragons, emotional damage, dragons, and enough tension to make Basgiath look stable for once. Oh, and dragons.
Also, fair warning: Embercrown comes in sharp. This book has been living in my brain like a haunting for months, and I’m so excited to finally share it with all of you.
So welcome back, cadets.
The world is burning.
Let’s make it worse. 🖤Series
- Part 4 of We Burn
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Cath and Thoirt are each finding their own ways to move on from their grief. As the threat of the venin and wyvern grows ever larger, they find that their paths towards healing may lead to each other.
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In Basgiath, no one survives by luck. The Dragon Rider Academy forges warriors—or devours them. Between training, intrigue, and the constant threat of war, Saoirse Durran tries to hide her heart behind discipline. Until she meets a man whose gaze sees right through her. And suddenly, nothing is so simple anymore. Some truths must remain hidden in Basgiath. Not if you want to survive.
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For too long Sloane's path has been in the hands of others. Rage burns in her heart. She has been misjudged and under estimated.
Even now at Basgaith where the hands of strangers are either attempting to build her a new path or trying to beat her down. This time the ending will be different, she will be powerless no longer. With a dragon in her corner and a sword in her hand, she has the power now.
Or rather - the story of Sloane's pre-occupation with hands - the ones that have shaped her destiny and the ones she desperately wants to hold.
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At Basgiath War College, everyone had their secrets and thoughts. Dain was no different, except his were written down in a diary.
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Dain loses his diary and tries to get it back. It doesn’t go his way.
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"All I can do is mentally run through the things I’ll need to relearn. Writing. With and without small magic. Small magic in general. Swordsmanship. Wielding. A thousand other little tasks.
A soft knock at the door brings me out of my spiral."
Dain gets injured while on patrol and Sloane is there to help him recover
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It only takes a moment to make a decision.
On the eve of the War Games, Dain Aetos wrestles with a choice: report a truth and risk shattering a lifelong friendship or remain silent. If he speaks out, can he truly trust his father to do what is right?
Years later, after the venin war almost broke a kingdom, Navarre faces a new threat. Mysterious soldiers, creatures believed dead, emerge signalling a danger far from over.
Now ruling as King Camlaen I, Aaric struggles to establish control. Haunted by past memories, faced with corruption and tasked to train a newly revealed prince with a stronger claim, the trust he has on those close to him is more important than ever. Yet a secret carried since Basgiath could break even the closest friendships.
Grounded by a storm on his journey to the Palace, Xaden Riorson, Duke of Tyrrendor, stumbles across a young boy left barely alive on the banks of the Iakobos.
A desperate father, fights to protect his children from a threat he hoped would never come.
At the heart of it all, Garrick Travis uncovers an oddity buried deep within the ruins of an abandoned war college. A shattered shield once meant to protect the world, now bleeding darkness back into it. -
Desire for all that is lost by Steff_writes_stuff
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
21 May 2026
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I understand that Loial is the god of love, but why on earth would Violet need to go alone or send a couple as ambassadors? After everything that happened in my second and third year at Basgiath, dating was the very last thing on my mind.
And then Sloane Mairi, of all people, offered to be my fake girlfriend.
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FIREBOUND by itsreggie09
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J. Maas
21 May 2026
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Hello beautiful people!
This fic takes place during the events of Iron Flame and is the third book/part of the We Burn series. If you haven’t read the last two fics… what are you doing here?! Go catch up first, and then come back ready to burn with us. 🔥
Lately, TikTok has been buzzing with people claiming Violet could take Aelin in a fight… well, I’m here to prove them very, very wrong. 😏🔥
Welcome back to Basgiath Cadets! I hope you’re ready, because things are about to get hotter, deadlier, and way more chaotic than ever. Let’s go! 💥
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- Part 3 of We Burn
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This AU story starts in the aftermath of the battle of Drathus. It will focus on Imogen’s story but will have POVs from other characters.
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Chaos doesn’t knock—it crashes.
Dain is a first-year cadet—sharp, stubborn, and already in trouble. Xaden is a second-year legend, wrapped in shadows and warnings, the kind of danger everyone’s told to avoid. But when suspicion strikes and survival demand unlikely alliances, Dain finds himself pulled into Xaden’s orbit. What begins as tension soon spirals into something deeper—desire, defiance, and a connection neither of them saw coming. In a world ruled by power and secrets, staying away was never really an option. -
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One more breath
Nothing is as it seems. Even at Basgiath, when she is supposed to know everything, Andrea barely feels like she's prepared for the future. Her life is not under her control, her future is not her choice. She is in a relationship, but is forced under an engagement to someone in another country, an ocean away. How can she help these people save lives when she constantly feels alone? How can she help her friends when they don't know the truth? How can she reconnect with someone who wishes her dead, when another can't even look at her?
She feels alone, yet has to continue with the sword point of the government is only a hairs breath away.
And she still doesn't have a signet.
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- Part 2 of Riptides And Memories
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Azaka 'Viper' Riorson - year one by emoravenwolf
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV)
13 Apr 2026
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Azaka Riorson, the oldest of all the Marked Ones, tries to survive her first year of Basgiath, trying to survive against other cadets that want nothing more then to kill her, Dragons that would also be happy to kill her, teachers that want her dead, and all the while only having one other Marked One in her year, trying to survive against the death trap that is Basgiath war college after striking a deal with the devil herself with her brother.
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- Part 1 of Third Wing, Claw sector
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This is a canon rewrite AU where ten cadets come together to form a single squad, fighting the venin as a united front — and, in the process, reshaping the very code of Basgiath and the Riders Quadrant.
Because the original story often left side characters and dragons underdeveloped, this version focuses on expanding their personalities, relationships, and importance. It’s a group portrait in which everyone is a hero, not just a single character’s story. As a result, some characters may feel out of character (OOC) compared to canon — this is intentional. Characters like Naolin, who died in the original, are alive here and play major roles.
Xaden steps fully into his role as the leader he was meant to be, and the central relationship is Xaden × Bodhi. Their bond is emotional and central to the plot, but there will be no explicit scenes.
This AU also aims to heal broken relationships — particularly between parents and children — and to fix certain questionable plot points from canon. Most importantly, this is a world where everyone survives — alive, whole, and together.
Note: English is not my first language, so I rely on ChatGPT for editing. Feedback is always appreciated!
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- Part 2 of Rebellion in Another World