In Fourth Wing, Allaria Arcane-Nightingale is nineteen years old, her mother is a high ranking general. Allaria is the best friend of Violet Sorrengail, whose twenty years old and is forced by her mother, a military general, to give up her goal of becoming a scribe, and instead enroll into the elite dragon riding university.

The training of dragon riders is both brutal, challenging, and competitive, with only a fraction of cadets survive through the first year of their training. The goal of the dragon university is to bond with a dragon, so they can bestowed with powers that come from the bond… or die trying.

Meanwhile, upraisings and attacks upon their kingdom and it’s borderlines have steadily increased and soon Allaria and Violet’s training will be tested, soon plunged into a political and military landscape that is both complex and deadly.

Chapter Eight: The First Day (Xaden)