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“Mira, Violet deals with more pain before lunch than you do in an entire week. If any of my children is capable of surviving the Riders Quadrant, it’s her.”
“I had it specially made for you with Teine’s scales sewn in, so be careful with it.” “Dragon scales?” I jerk my head back to look at her. “How? Teine is huge.”
“I’m not going to die today.”
Each of Navarre’s six provinces has sent this year’s share of candidates for military service.
The main college is built into the side of Basgiath Mountain, as if it was cleaved from a ridgeline of the peak itself. The sprawling, formidable structure towers over the crowd
with its stories-tall stone battlements—built to protect the high rise of the keep within—and defensive turrets at each of its corners, one of which houses the bells.
But while the infantry candidates can walk straight into their ground-level quadrant, we rider candidates will climb
greater your fear has a chance to grow. Cross the parapet before the terror owns you.”
See that shimmering mark that starts on the top of his wrist? It’s a relic from the rebellion.”
when a dragon uses magic to mark the skin of their bonded rider.
But those relics are a symbol of honor and power and generally in the shape of the dragon who gifted them.
“All the children of the leaders were conscripted as punishment for their parents’ crimes,”
Every trial in the quadrant—including this one—is designed to test a cadet’s ability to ride. If someone can’t manage to walk the windy length of the slim stone bridge, then they sure as hell can’t keep their balance and fight on the back of a dragon.
“Within Navarre, Tyrrendor was the last of the bordering provinces to join the alliance and swear fealty to King Reginald,”
“It was also the only province to attempt secession six hundred and twenty-seven years later, which would have eventually left our kingdom defenseless had they been successful.”
“The kingdom of Poromiel mainly consists of arable plains and marshlands and is known for exceptional textiles, endless fields of grain, and unique crystalline gems capable of amplifying minor magics.”
“In contrast, Navarre’s mountainous regions offer an abundance in ore, hardy timber from our eastern provinces, and limitless deer and elk.”
“The Trade Agreement of Resson, signed more than two hundred years ago, ensures the exchange of meat and lumber from Navarre for the cloth and agriculture within Poromiel four times a year at the Athebyne outpost on the border of Krovla and Tyrrendor.”
“Tyrrendor encompasses the southwest of the Continent,”
“Made up of hostile, mountainous terrain and bordered by the Emerald Sea to the west and the Arctile Ocean to the south, Tyrrendor is nearly impenetrable. Though separated geographically by the Cliffs of Dralor, a natural protective barrier—”
Blue dragons descend from the extraordinary Gormfaileas line. Known for their formidable size, they are the most ruthless, especially in the case of the rare Blue Daggertail, whose knifelike spikes at the tip of their tail can disembowel an enemy
the tome on the Krovlan language
The massive courtyard, which could easily fit a thousand riders, is just like the map in the archives recorded. Shaped like an angular teardrop, the rounded end is formed by a giant outer wall at least ten feet thick. Along the sides are stone halls. I know the four-story building carved into the mountain with the rounded end is for academics, and the one on the right, towering over the cliff, is the dorms, where Dain took me. The imposing rotunda linking the two buildings also serves as the entrance to the gathering hall, commons, and library behind it. I quit gawking and turn in the
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signet is, the unique power from the bond with his dragon,
“Melgren’s dragon gives him the signet ability to see a battle’s outcome before it happens.
“Three squads in each section and three sections in each of the four wings.”
If they didn’t need us puny humans to develop signet abilities from bonding and weave the protective wards they power around Navarre,
they like protecting the Vale—the valley behind Basgiath the dragons call home—from merciless gryphons
The navy dragon seems to tilt its head at me, as if its narrowed golden eyes can see straight through me to the fear fisting my stomach and the doubt curled insidiously around my heart. I bet it can even see the wrap binding my knee. It knows I’m at a disadvantage, that I’m too small to climb its foreleg and mount, too frail to ride. Dragons always know.
Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.
Equally spaced around the rotunda, shimmering in their various colors of red, green, brown, orange, blue, and black, stand six daunting marble pillars carved into dragons,
“Sgaeyl is a Blue Daggertail, and she’s…vicious.”
“I can read a person’s recent memories,” Dain admits
have to put my hands on the person,
But my signet’s not common...
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He points to the compass patch beneath his Fourth Wing one on his shoulder. Wearing that sigil indicates t...
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Dragons aren’t the only animals capable of channeling powers to their riders.
Gryphons from Poromiel also share the ability,
but dragons are the only ones capable of powering the wards that make all other magic but their own i...
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They’re the reason Navarre’s borders are somewhat circular—their power radiates from the Vale and can only extend so far, even wi...
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Without those...
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It would be open season on Navarrian villages when the raiding parties from Poro...
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why the hell the wards faltered,
The Esben Mountain Range is the highest along our eastern border with Braevick, making it the least likely place for an attack, especially since gryphons don’t tolerate altitude
Our abilities, both lesser and signet, are superior because our dragons can channel more power than gryphons.
“Just seems a little high for a planned attack with gryphons.”
“It is a little high for a planned attack,”
“Why don’t you tell me why that’s...
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“It’s an illogical place for them to attack unless they knew the wards would fail, especially since the village looks to be about what…an hour’s flight from the nearest outpost?”
“One of the dragons in the wing sensed the faltering ward, and the wing flew.
