Ep 61: 'Onyx Storm' Chapters 6-10 | Review & Discussion

**SPOILER FREE** Listen in as we discuss chapters 6 through 10 of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.

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Chapter 6:• Never turn your back on a rider• Violet cracks lightning in the sky, and proves the fliers should be accepted. • Devera shows up, agrees that fighting a shared enemy is better• Lightning and shadow two of the six in the great war. First time simultaneously since then too• Cat sees why xaden chose her, she thanks Dain, xaden jealous of Dain 😭• They all gather about the the treaty, xaden is pretty touchy, Halden mentioned, aaric side eyes• Violet learns Halden is going with her, andarna confused, tairn is amused • Andarna's demands, met many but they did not agree to mess with the wards for the fliers despite the example mira presented. But full pardon, they will not test andarna, and she can hunt in the kings forest• Not protecting fliers means breaking tercarus's deal • Xaden given his father's sword in order to keep them all there. • Xaden begs her to promise she will sound the alarm of he goes to far • Says he loves her, the king gave xaden back his title and all of Tyrrendor

Chapter 7:• Lyra journal: believes all who channel from dragon or gryphon she flourish under the aretia wards• Ridoc wants to be on the quest squad lol• Violet stealing Sawyer to break the rune that allows the fliers to use their powers. • Ridoc gives sawyer a pep talk, tairn tells vi she has the full support of the aretian riot... only• Mira one of the guards 😬, mentions treason, maren shocked, Imogen bumps her with her elbow• Brennan's there, she remembers her mom says she will be with him soon• Process of elimination method?!• Maren can wield but no one knows about Barlowe. • In the battle room, treaty signed, nobles back to negotiating nor that Maren told her uncle, Dain still wing leader of Fourth Wing• Col Aetos charges violet with treason

Chapter 8:• Excerpt: Everyone wants wisdom but needs luck• Dain speaks to his dad and he says "i have no son" 😢😱• General Aetos, brought to a room of nobles, and Xaden is there• They dismiss aetos, wards intact against dark wielders and xaden signed for the riot to stay, violet admits it all. • Pardons signed AFTER she took down the ward. • Queen maraya (of poromiel), Violet deal to protect fliers in exchange to access to tecarus's library, offers Violet her library• Aetos pissy with violet, Brennan surprises him, violet throws it in his face she is too badass for him to 💀• Aetos sends Rhiannon's squad to two days at Samara

Chapter 9:• They show up exhausted to Samara, battle over, leader asks tairn to keep hidden• Shocking nightmare of losing the painting of her family, Everyone in Xaden's in room, recalls telling Cat she must live because she is going to be the queen of Tyrrendor?????? Marens dream?• Venin attack a small village of maren's family, they are headed to save the people.

Chapter 10:• Excerpt: without someone wielding weather you are at its mercy• Tairns power deeper out of the wards, they were caught leaving lol • Violet points out what's ahead, tairn says "yes I too have eyes" 🤣 • Town on fire, wyvern, warns her not to channel more than she can hold. • She aims!!, wyvern fast, tairns threatens her if she unseats, spots the Silvered haired venin, waves at Violet, a trap• A dragon tornado?! She is shocked Garrick is there? Was he not invited lol • They fall• Xaden sent Garrick, Garrick worried about xaden because he lost it which was unusual. 😢• Garrick is a wind wielder but not against a tornado• Venin not supposed to have signets• Marens parents dead, venin lifts Garrick.• Theophanie , says she knows everything about Violet, asks who bonded her first.