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   the life of spies is to know, not to be known by plum_petals

   Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   10 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Xaden Riorson/Violet Sorrengail
   • Ridoc Gamlyn & Sawyer Henrick & Rhiannon Matthias & Violet Sorrengail
   • Liam Mairi & Violet Sorrengail
   • Andarna & Violet Sorrengail & Tairn
   • Violet Sorrengail
   • Xaden Riorson
   • Liam Mairi
   • Tairn (Empyrean)
   • Andarna (Empyrean)
   • Sgaeyl (Empyrean)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Book 1: Fourth Wing (Empyrean)
   • Spoilers for Book 2: Iron Flame (Empyrean)
   • POV Violet Sorrengail
   • Poison Master Violet
   • Spy Violet
   • Smart Violet
   • Morally Gray Violet
   • Blood and Violence
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Inappropriate Use of Shadow Signet (Empyrean)
   • Smut
   • Fluff
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Angst
   • Quick Burn
   • Riorgail is very much a unit in this one
   • No miscommunication tropes
   • Simp Xaden
   • Heists
   • Conspiracy Theories
   • Badass Violet with a plan
   • Original Character(s)
   • Iron Squad (Empyrean)
   • poison as a love language
   • Do not expect this to follow canon events
   • Very minor OS references
   • Liam Mairi Lives
   • Protective Liam Mairi
   • I'd describe this story as more funny and self-indulgent than angsty
   • but readers have been known to call me out

   Summary

   Violet Sorrengail’s world changes the day that her mother informs her she will be training for the Rider’s Quadrant. In a moment of anger, she stumbles upon a hidden letter in the book gifted to her by her father. Violet realizes that he was betrayed and killed to protect Navarre’s lies. Leadership is hiding something ruinous, and she is going to find out what it is, even if she has to become a rider to do it.

   This Violet is distrustful of leadership, questions everything told to her with extreme prejudice, and will do anything to survive. If not for her sake, then for the truth her father died for.

   Series

   • Part 1 of spyverse

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   432,594

   Chapters:

   74/74

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   Bookmarked by Camjam24thescore

   07 Jul 2025