‘Onyx Storm’: Violet’s Second Signet, Defined

• Rebecca Yarros explored Violet Sorrengail’s second signet energy in “Onyx Storm.”
• Violet’s second signet comes from her reference to Andarna and manifested in “Iron Flame.”
• Warning: There are main spoilers for “Onyx Storm” forward.

Rebecca Yarros’ “Onyx Storm” was launched on Tuesday, persevering with the writer’s romantasy collection about Violet Sorrengail, a dragon rider finding out at Basgiath Conflict School.

The third ebook within the “Empyrean” collection was filled with romance, magic, and plot twists, and the story is ready to proceed in two extra books.

In “Onyx Storm,” Yarros answered plenty of questions that “Fourth Wing” and “Iron Flame” raised, similar to how turning venin impacts Xaden and what sort of dragon Andarna is. And to the reduction of Yarros’ followers, the third installment additionally revealed Violet’s second signet energy.

Heads-up: The remainder of this text incorporates spoilers for the “Empyrean” collection.

Violet Sorrengail has two signet powers

Within the “Empyrean” universe, all riders have a signet energy that manifests after they bond with a dragon. Each rider can do lesser magic, similar to opening doorways with out touching them, however a signet energy is exclusive to every rider, and a few are extra highly effective than others.

Violet’s signet manifested as lightning wielding in “Fourth Wing,” a very highly effective signet. Her lightning comes by way of her bond along with her dragon Tairn, with Violet usually describing his energy as a flood that comes by way of their connection.

In “Iron Flame,” Yarros introduces the concept of second signets, explaining that riders immediately associated to their dragons’ earlier riders can develop two signet powers. The textual content additionally suggests Violet might have a second signet since she is bonded to each Tairn and the youthful dragon, Andarna. She is the one rider in identified historical past to bond with two dragons.

Yarros confirmed Violet’s second signet had already manifested in “Iron Flame” when talking to Selection after its launch in 2023. Nonetheless, it isn’t till halfway by way of “Onyx Storm” that Violet turns into conscious of her extra energy — dream-walking.

Violet is a dream-walker

Yarros lastly reveals Violet is a dream-walker in Chapter 50 of “Onyx Storm.”

All through “Onyx Storm,” Violet has a recurring nightmare of confronting a venin Sage in a area. In Chapter 50, she realizes throughout the dream that her hand appears like Xaden’s, not hers. After she wakes and speaks to Xaden about it, he realizes Violet was in his dream.

They first suspect Violet can enter Xaden’s desires due to the psychological bond they share by way of their dragons. Nonetheless, as they focus on it, Violet displays on a unique dream she had earlier within the ebook. In it, she fled a hearth at Cliffsbane, the gryphon flier college, and could not maintain onto a portrait of her household as her pal Cat dragged her away. Violet wonders aloud if she was experiencing her pal Maren’s dream, as Maren and Cat are finest buddies.

The confession makes Xaden understand that Violet is a dream-walker, a robust type of an inntinnsic, or thoughts reader, who can enter different folks’s desires whereas they sleep. After Andarna confirms the signet, Violet realizes she should have developed her dream-walking capability when Andarna was in a deep sleep. Andarna grew from a juvenile to an adolescent whereas sleeping for weeks, and Violet’s energy was in search of a option to join with Andarna whereas she was unconscious.

Xaden, who has stored his inntinnsic capability to learn folks’s intentions secret from everybody however Violet, explains to her that her signet is especially harmful as a result of riders haven’t any protection in opposition to it.

“I can solely learn somebody whereas they’re awake, and I am restricted by their capability to protect,” he informed her within the ebook. “Nobody can protect whereas they’re sleeping.”

He provides to her that she might enter the dream of even probably the most highly effective normal within the Navarre military with out his information, telling her many would kill her due to her second signet.

Though her desires in “Onyx Storm” reveal her second signet, Violet was clearly dream-walking unknowingly in “Iron Flame” as effectively. Within the ebook, she repeatedly dreamed of confronting a venin Sage who informed her she would flip for love. Violet did not flip venin, however Xaden did to avoid wasting Violet, indicating that the Sage was talking to him within the desires, not Violet.

Violet hasn’t mastered dream-walking but

By the top of ” Onyx Storm, ” Violet would not know the way to use her new signet deliberately; she solely by accident enters different folks’s desires.

In many of the desires she inhabits all through the ebook, Violet views the scene from the angle of the particular person sleeping, although she will be able to typically acknowledge she is dreaming and try to wake herself up.

Nonetheless, within the ultimate dream of “Onyx Storm,” Violet realizes she is in Xaden’s dream. She then seems as herself within the dream alongside him and confronts the Sage. The Sage hints that the venin have taken Violet’s sister, which proves true when Violet wakes up. Violet can also be in a position to finish the dream by summoning a knife and stabbing herself with it.

The interplay signifies that the Sage can talk within the dream world as Violet can, and it offers clues as to how she could function extra intentionally when dream-walking, similar to utilizing ache to wake herself and actively recognizing the dream as another person’s to change into herself.

Xaden additionally tells Violet he believes she will be able to “meddle” in folks’s desires, as she stops him from channeling energy from the bottom in one in every of his nightmares. Violet hasn’t absolutely explored that capability but, and it could be troublesome for her to study to wield her dream-walking signet since she have to be asleep to follow.

Andarna additionally says Violet has been “largely drawn to” Xaden’s desires since she manifested, although possibly she is going to spend extra time in different folks’s desires within the fourth ebook.

Followers had different theories on what Violet’s second signet might have been

There have been a number of fashionable theories about Violet’s signet earlier than Yarros revealed it, together with distance wielding and speaking with the useless.

As Yarros writes in “Iron Flame,” distance wielders can “cross a whole lot of miles in a single step,” and there hasn’t been one among the many riders for a number of centuries when Violet enters Basgiath.

Readers suspected Violet could also be a distance wielder as a result of Andarna informed her on the finish of “Iron Flame” that she waited 650 years earlier than hatching so she might bond along with her particularly, and there appeared to be cases the place Violet moved sooner than the typical rider.

Nonetheless, it seems Garrick Tavis, Xaden’s finest pal, really has distance wielding as his second, secret signet, which he makes use of to assist Violet and their buddies all through “Onyx Storm.”

The concept that Violet might talk with the useless got here from her interactions with what she believes is a hallucination of her pal Liam Mairi, who died on the finish of “Fourth Wing.”

Liam seems to Violet when she is held hostage by Common Varrish in “Iron Flame.” He speaks to Violet all through her imprisonment and even touches her shoulder at one level, although nobody else can see him. When Violet calls him a hallucination, Liam makes an offhand remark about the potential of Malek, the god of loss of life, sending him to her.

Maybe Liam was only a hallucination, or his look might be associated to Violet’s connection to the god Dunne that Yarros slowly revealed in “Onyx Storm.”

The fourth ebook within the “Empyrean” collection will possible discover how the gods have an effect on Violet’s destiny, although neither Yarros nor her writer, Purple Tower, have shared a launch date or something concerning the subsequent ebook’s plot.