*IRON FLAME SPOILERS* Over 600 years before the events of Fourth Wing, the First Six were chosen by the dragons to become the first riders and found Basgiath War College. They were an unlikely collection of misfits--Lyra, Warrick, Cardia, Leo, Ophelia, and Blaine--who would be there heroes to unite Navarre and raise the first runes. Many years prior to the Great War, we follow Cardia Daramor of Deepmoss as she must choose between her home in Calldyr and her father General Daramor's twisted plans for world domination.
Cardia found something terrifying beneath the ocean surface: dragons. The Deepmoss, Poromiel, and Navarre race to see who can use this great and terrible power first. On the coast of the Sapphire Sea, the Deepmoss war college-- the Gauntlet of Aje--will train five quadrants: infantry, buccaneers, gryphons, healers, and dragon riders. The Empyrean have far different plans however--their own land and a school dedicated to their own bonded riders.