9 Works by DaggerNamedHope
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This story picks up a few months after the end of Onyx Storm. Violet and her allies are losing badly to the dark wielders, friends and loved ones already dead, their defenses crumbling. Xaden is gone, consumed by venin power, and despite months of searching, Violet cannot find him or any cure.
Then Andarna returns from her time with the Irids, more mature and aware of her abilities. She re-bonds with Violet. She reveals that Irids have a unique connection to magic, making what they channel flexible, able to be shaped to nearly anything. Together, Andarna, Tairn, and Violet decide their only hope is to bend time itself.
Their plan: send Violet, Xaden, Andarna, Tairn, and Sgaeyl back to the months before the apostasy. Aaric (Cam Tauri) and his dragon Molvic, gifted with foresight, confirm that this path offers a chance at victory with one catch: Duke Fen Riorson must be convinced to organize a rebellion in secret, working from the shadows to avoid Melgren’s battle forsight, rather than declaring open secession and plunging Tyrrendor into war against Navarre. Any course that puts Tyrrendor on a path to direct military conflict with Navarre cannot win.
Or, another Fourth Wing Empyrean time travel au.
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Xaden Riorson is bound by scars, secrets, and a bargain he never asked for. General Sorrengail has chained him to the survival of her youngest daughter, Violet. But the girl isn’t the fragile scribe he expected. She’s brilliant, stubborn, and already suspects that Navarre’s histories are lies. From the moment Xaden reads her intentions on the parapet, he knows she’s chasing forbidden truths about venin. Truths he’s bled to keep buried.
He should have made her fall. He swore he wanted her gone. Yet every glance pulls him tighter between his duty to the 107 marked ones and the raw attraction he can’t shut down. Violet is fire wrapped in fragile skin, and she forces him to feel what he thought had died with his father.
Now Xaden is chained to her survival, and to her dangerous pursuit of the truth. If Violet uncovers what Navarre has hidden, it could destroy everything he’s sacrificed for, and take him with it.
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- Part 2 of Hidden Truth AU
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Violet Sorrengail had been preparing to be a scribe for as long as she can remember. Books and parchment, facts and history were to be her world. But when her father died a little over a year before her Conscription Day, she discovered a hidden note he had sealed inside the book of fables he read to her as a kid. Thrust into the Riders Quadrant under her mother’s command, Violet arrives armed with theories and burning questions. She suspects her father’s death is connected to the folklore of venin and wyvern recounted in the book of fables he chose to leave the note in. As Violet steps onto the parapet, she knows survival means more than claiming a dragon—it means uncovering the truths her father died to protect.
Or: Violet’s discovery of her father’s note after his death leads to a series of discoveries, and Violet faces the parapet with a very different attitude on Conscription Day.
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- Part 1 of Hidden Truth AU
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A Kingdom of Shadows and Secrets by DaggerNamedHope
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
10 Sep 2025
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Violet Sorrengail is thrust into the Riders Quadrant, but Tyrrendor never seceded. Years earlier, Duke Fen Riorson realized General Melgren’s prophetic signet ensured any open rebellion would fail. Instead of declaring secession and leading his allies to slaughter, Fen remained Duke of Tyrrendor and quietly built a hidden resistance under Navarre’s nose. Brennan Sorrengail defected under cover of his posting in Tyrrendor and became one of Fen’s lieutenants, while Xaden Riorson rose to Wingleader at Basgiath as part of the covert network.
Because Fen chose secrecy over secession, the rebellion was never crushed, and there are no “marked” children branded as traitors. Outwardly, Tyrrendor appears loyal to Navarre, but beneath the surface a clandestine movement is smuggling weapons, embedding loyal heirs in the Riders Quadrant, and preparing for the day Navarre’s lies collapse. Navarre's leaders are suspicious of Tyrrendor and are engaged in a covert battle for intelligence on the province’s leaders. When Violet bonds both Tairn and Andarna and discovers her father’s warning about the venin, she stumbles into this web of secrets and intrigue.
Navarre’s enemies are alive, organized, and hiding in plain sight.
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- Part 1 of The Empyrean AU
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Xaden POV Chapter to accompany A Kingdom of Shadows and Secrets
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- Part 2 of The Empyrean AU
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Fourth Wing Chapter 31 by DaggerNamedHope for plum_petals
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
29 Aug 2025
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Inspired by a premise of The Life of Spies is to Know, Not to Be Known by @plum_petals I wondered how things might be different if Violet had found her father's note earlier on, before she went into the Riders Quadrant. I decided to revisit Chapter 31, in which Xaden finds Violet's copy of Fables of the Barren as he's helping her clean up. How will he respond to a Violet who has had more time to process her father's note and research the folklore and knows something is up?
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At the end of Kingdom of Ash, when the battle is finally over and Aelin is finally permitted to enter the Castle of Orynth with Rowan, they take time thanking their allies and comforting those who lost loved ones. Then there is a time skip of ten days prior to Aelin’s coronation. This one-shot explores what might have taken place in that time.
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Princess of Flame and Ash by DaggerNamedHope
Fandoms: Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J. Maas
03 May 2025
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Epic re-imagining of Throne of Glass inspired by Maeve's dreamscape in which Erawan never returns. What if he had stayed entombed in Morath, bound by Mala's lock? In this re-telling, Aelin grows up in Orynth with her family. The King of Adarlan never finds Elena's tomb or the wyrdkey, and he never gets taken over by the Valg. Maeve is still Valg and still a manipulative, scheming bitch.
Rowan x Aelin eventually. Cannon typical violence. Starts off as Teen, but eventually rating will escalate to Mature.
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Peace, like fire, needs tending. And beneath the calm earth, ancient power still simmers. Waiting.
Unseen by most, a new flame has kindled.
A young princess has been born to Terrasen—Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, descendant of god and legend, heir to fire and blood, and the old magic that sleeps in the bones of the land.
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After Unlocked: A KOTLC SoKeefe AU by DaggerNamedHope
Fandoms: Keeper of the Lost Cities Series - Shannon Messenger
09 Oct 2024
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Stellarlune (Book 9) never happened and Keefe is still in the Forbidden Cities. It has been over four years since he left the Lost Cities, leaving a note telling Sophie he cared about her and that she should forget all about him. In between fighting the Neverseen with the Black Swan and eventually defeating them, and continuing her studies at Foxfire, Sophie has been leading weekly searches for Keefe in the Forbidden Cities. Little does she know that a chance encounter in a cute French cafe will give her the clue she needs to find Keefe and, hopefully, convince him to come back.
Ships so far are SoKeefe and Dexiana. Others may be added.
All main characters belong to Shannon Messenger. Romance and sexuality will be alluded to, but there will never be explicit mature content. Feedback and comments welcome!!