Onyx Storm Recap / Summary

   

Onyx Storm Recap / Summary 

I have made no secret of the fact I have a horrible memory and completely forget important book details when there is a long wait between book releases in a series. I would always go back and reread previous books each time a new one would drop and it got a little exhasting. I've since started making myself recaps - I've done them for series like Throne of Glass, ACOTAR, Crescent City and Red Rising. 

I do chapter by chapter ones as I need to give myself as much detail as possible. They may be too detailed for some, but I share them in hopes they are useful to some. 

One thing to note is that I write these for me and type them out very quickly and so I apologise for any spelling mistakes. And also I know my brain likely confused there, their and they're multiple times while fast typing so again... SORRY! 

 

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Onyx Storm Recap / Summary

I will be updating as I read until it is finished so check back!

Prologue: Opening note: Letter from General Melgren to King Tauri telling him that getting the wards back up at Basgiath killed General Sorengal and he advises that they should ally with Poromiel.

Violet is following Xaden and doesn't know where he is going. Follows him to where Jack is being kept. 

Violet can't accept that Xaden is now venin, he only drained a little and she thinks there must be some way to help him.

Andarna says she scorched the venin when she burnt it, something they usually can’t do. Thinks something changes in her magic when she changes colour.

Jack is taunting Xaden and is telling him to find someone else to fuck before he drains and kills Violet.

Andarna wants to find more of her kind and help find a cure for Xaden too.

Violet will tell Imogen everything so she can erase the conversation from Jack’s memory before he can tell anyone and get Xaden killed.

Chapter 1: TWO WEEKS LATER: Violet has been called to the King's council who are currently trying to come up with a peace deal with Poromiel but it isn't going well.

Basgiath has had storm after storm since her mother died, as she is no longer there to help control the weather with her powers. 

They've been hunting any venin left  behind and have killed 31 so far.

Xaden is keeping his connection to Violet blocked off as he doesn't trust himself.

Tairn agrees to help her and Andarna but he doesn't believe there is anything they can do to help Xaden.

Ridoc is fighting with his dragon, Aotrom because the dragon wants to go back to Aretia. They are staying where they are as being within the wards helps Xaden.

Ewan Faber has taken over as the wing leader of the Navarre Fourth Wing.

Imogen has told Garrick and Bodhi about Xaden and they want Violet to stop sharing a bed with him in case he hurts her or drains her. She tells them to fuck off.

Sawyer had a visit from Colonel Chanlyr, who commands retired riders. He is still recovering from losing his leg.

They hear screaming and a cadet comes running in, shouting that 'they're all dead' and he has a gray handprint on his neck. Venin are in the keep.

Chapter 2: Opening note: Rarest signets don't usually show up together. Only twice in history have two equally rare signets appeared at the same time.

The people in the infirmary have been completely drained. The venin are dressed as scribes and are amongst them. The venin are attempting to free Jack.

Violet watches as a venin disappears right before her eyes.

They fight and Xaden eventually shows, helping to kill the remaining ones.

Xaden tells Violet that Sgaeyl is still not speaking to him, angry about what he did. He thinks she can sense he is no longer whole but Violet doesn't believe that's true.

With his shields up, he didn't know she was in trouble but he could sense the venin and they can sense him too.

Chapter 3: Opening note: A letter Violet's mother never sent that said she worried Violet would let love cloud her logic one day. And if her past two relationships were anything to go by, she had horrible taste in men.

She is to see the Senarium - the nobles from every province of the Kingdom so she can argue Andarna's conditions for finding her kind.

They want to put her on a task force to find the 7th dragon breed and get them to join their side. Andarna has a list of demands but they refuse her first of picking their own team.

They say she must have Captain Grady lead the team and he will pick who comes. 

Lewellen gives Violet a note from Tecarus that warns her she only has 3 days left to uphold her end of their deal.

The next morning she wakes in bed next to Xaden. He can't help touching her and he makes her come before he has to stop. He can't have sex with her because he already started to channel and can't let himself lose control.

Chapter 4: Opening note: Rider cadets get a different leave to everyone else.

Duke Lindell is a part of the Senarium and is the man who took in Liam and Xaden when they were orphaned.

Xaden thinks they need to stay away from doing anything sexual together because he can't keep control if they do.

Mira arrives back and gives Violet a new conduit from Felix. Then also a rune disk from Trissa that has a rune for levitation, sound-shielding and warmth on it. She can see that the warmth rune is broken by a green shoot. They managed to alter what the rune was made from without breaking it. Kylynn is an agrarian, which is a plant wielder. They have found a way to use one rune while not using the other. 

Violet believes this discovery with the runes is a way to finally get Poromiel to agree to a deal, meaning she holds up her end of the deal with Tecarus.

Mira went back to study the wards in Aretia, she estimates they only have 6 months before they completely fail. It could take Violet decades to try and find Andarna's kind. She doesn't want her to go, thinks she will die if she does.

They give Brennan the rune disk and tell him to take it to the Senarium.

Chapter 5: First year fliers and riders are struggling to get along. A first wing has taken one of the fliers to the courtyard and challenging them. And their wing leader is making them fight with weapons.

Aura Beinhaven has a knife to the fliers throat. Dain tries to argue against what they're doing using the codex but as he left Basgiath, he no longer is in the chain of command. Aura is angry they all left and deserted them at Basgiath.

Aura demands Dain fight her, but Violet can tell she will try to use her fire power against him even though it is against the rules. Violet knows she is stronger than Dain, so she accepts the challenge.

Chapter 6: Violet talks to the crowd before they fight - pointing out the fliers and riders from Aretia came back and saved them. Talks about the importance of them working together.

Three professors show up before they can fight - Devera, Emetterio and Kaori.

Emetterio points out that the last time there was a shadow wielder and lightning wielder at the same time was during the Great War, when they managed to send the venin to the Barrens for hundreds of years.

They tell the cadets they are starting up lessons again the next day with or without a deal signed.

Brennan, Mira and Xaden have come to find her. They have reached a deal. Aaric's brother Halden showed up for negotiations. They have made an agreement that Halden will get to go with Violet on her mission and she isn't happy about it.

Halden is the heir to the throne and he and Violet clearly have history.

Andarnas demands - They agreed to allow all the people who left Basgiath for Aretia to be let back and pardoned. 

The first demand was securing the alliance with the fliers but that has failed. They want to send them back to Aretia.

Xaden got something else from the negotiations but won't tell her till she agrees that when she senses he has lost enough of himself to the venin that she will tell people. She agrees because she never believes he will get to a point where she will need to.

The King gave Xaden Tyrrendor, as well as his title back and a seat in the Senarium. Xaden doesn't want it though.

Violet knows she has to save the alliance and she will need to commit treason to do it.

Chapter 7:  Opening note: From the journal of Lyra, who didn't care what punishment she got for helping Braxtyn defend his people. She believed the wards should be for both Navarre and Aretia.

Violet, Ridoc, Rhiannon and Imogen are heading to the Healer Quadrant, where they meet Quinn, Bodhi and Maren. Only one who doesn't know what they are doing is Maren. Has Maren stay back with Imogen for now.

Dyre is there to meet them - Violet saved his life the year before and he has agreed to help them as he owes her. They are there to get Sawyer and bring him with them. 

They need Sawyer to alter the wardstone the way they did with the the runedisk. He tries to get them to find someone else but they say he is up for the job.

She hasn't told Xaden what they are doing and will only tell him once it is done.

Mira is waiting for them - had a feeling this is what they were going to do. Brennan is also there waiting for them. Mira isn't going to stop her.

They have Sawyer alter the wardstone and have Maren, a flier, try to use lesser magic until it works and they know they have altered the wards to let fliers use magic again.

Professor Devera is leading Battle Brief again. Professor Kiandra, a flier, will be joining to teach alongside him now they are back to agreeing on an alliance. 

Colonel Aetos arrives in the room and charges Violet with treason. 

Chapter 8: Dain tries to talk to his dad but his father disowns him and doesn't want to listen to him.

She is taken to the Senarium, where Xaden and the others are. They have her lightning-wielder patch that they say they found in the wardstone chamber, which is proof she was there and messed with it.

Xaden believes she has a plan, as he can tell she purposefully cut the patch off and didn't drop it by accident.

The wards still work against dark wielders but do let the fliers wield lesser magic.

Violet confesses to what she did and says thanks to her they now can negotiate the alliance. But they already signed the deal, which said all riders who left could come back and would be pardoned of treason. So she can't be punished for it.

Queen Maraya is there, has heard of what she did and that she risked everything to help keep her fliers at Basgiath. What she wanted in return was access to the King's library. 

Xaden realises she did all of it for him - to try and find a cure.

The Queen reveals her library is even grander than the King and she can have access to them all. 

Aetos reveals he has been made the commanding general of Basgiath. She says he can't afford to kill her, but he says he knows he can hurt her friends to hurt her. They will be punished for anything she does. 

He orders their squad to spend two day at Samara on the front lines. 

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Chapter 22: Opening note:

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THE END

 

Thank you, I hope this was useful! And here are my other recaps I have done so far.

 

Throne of Glass recaps:

Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of Fire
Queen of Shadows
Empire of Storms
Tower of Dawn
Kingdom of Ash

ACOTAR recaps:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Mist and Fury
A Court of Wings and Ruin
A Court of Frost and Starlight
A Court of Silver Flames  

Crescent City recaps:

House of Earth and Blood
House of Sky and Breath
House of Flame and Shadow

Red Rising Recaps:
Red Rising
Golden Son

Fourth Wing Recaps:
Fourth Wing
Iron Flame
Onyx Storm