Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Onyx Storm. Fly—or read—at your own risk.
A dragon without its rider is a tragedy—and a book without answers leaves fans wanting more.
Indeed, for the bookworms who have already finished Rebecca Yarros’ Onyx Storm—the third book in her Empyrean series—the installment’s falling action provided a not so soft landing and instead left readers stranded on a cliff asking a series of questions, namely: Who is Xaden Riorson’s new venin brother?
Thankfully, BookTok has been hard at work diving deep into the text, combing the pages for missed details and meticulously evaluating different theories—narrowing down a few leading contenders for who may have turned in the book’s final pages.
But first, let’s review what the book teased about this mystery new venin: he is male and has witnessed Xaden’s struggle with becoming venin firsthand. Plus, as Rebecca recently revealed, he is missing at the end of the book.