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Fourth Wing Dragon Registry
Every named dragon in the published Empyrean books, held as one record set you can filter by colour, sort by name or first appearance, and fill as your own runs collect them. Fields the books leave open stay open.
Dragon Registry
Filter by colour, sort by name, first book or record status, and open any entry. Dragons your runs have produced are marked as collected.
The registry at a glance
- Named dragons recorded
- 23
- Colour categories
- 7
- Publicly known colours
- Black, blue, green, red, orange, brown
- Hatchling colour
- Golden, recorded separately from the six
- Tail types
- Six. Tail is never decided by colour
- Only known morningstartail
- Tairn
- Largest on the Continent
- Codagh, a black swordtail
- Unknown fields
- Written as Not yet established, never guessed
What the books actually rank
The series does make comparisons, but it makes them in sentences rather than tiers. Black is called the rarest of the six publicly known colours and the most discerning in choosing riders, with no black dragon born for a century before the story opens. Blue is called the most ruthless and formidably large. Green is called the most rational, and prized as a siege weapon. Red is the quickest to temper. Orange is the most unpredictable. Brown is the least documented of the six.
Size is stated plainly where it matters. Codagh is the largest dragon on the Continent. Tairn is second, and the only morningstartail on record. Those two statements are the closest the books come to a league table.
Where a field is genuinely unknown, the record says Not yet established. Teine has no confirmed tail type. Thoirt has no confirmed colour. Molvic and Cruth rest on unofficial summaries and are marked unconfirmed. Those gaps are part of the record, not a failure of it.
Colours, as the books state them
| Colour | What the books establish | Named dragons recorded | Game weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black | Black dragons are the rarest of the six colours. None was born for a century before the events of Fourth Wing, and two living adults are named: Tairn and Codagh. They are described as the smartest, most cunning and most deadly of dragonkind, and the most discerning when choosing a rider. A black bonding is treated as an event that concerns the whole college. The Dubhmadinn line, whose original hatching ground lies in the valley above Riorson House, counts Codagh and Tairn among its descendants. | Tairn, Codagh | 5 of 5 |
| Blue | Blue dragons are rare and formidably large, and they descend from the Gormfaileas line. The in-world field guide calls them the most ruthless of the colours, and singles out the rare blue daggertail, whose knifelike tail spikes can disembowel an enemy with a single flick. Sgaeyl is the best known blue in active service. | Sgaeyl, Molvic | 4 of 5 |
| Green | Green dragons are common. They descend from the Uaineloidsig line, are described as the keenest intellects and the most rational of the breeds, and are prized as siege weapons, especially when paired with a clubtail. The standing instruction in the field guide is never to back down from a green. Named greens include Teine, Feirge and Cuir. | Teine, Feirge, Cuir, Cruth | 1 of 5 |
| Red | Red dragons are common and are the quickest of the colours to temper, with red scorpiontails singled out as the worst of them. The field guide advises a rider never to look a red in the eye and to approach from the left or the front. Named reds include Cath, Deigh and Sliseag. | Cath, Deigh, Sliseag, Thoirt, Ghrian | 2 of 5 |
| Orange | Orange dragons are common and are described as the most unpredictable of the six, running a hue spectrum from apricot to carrot. The field guide treats them as a constant risk. Named oranges include Marbh, Glane, Solas, Baide and Claidh. | Marbh, Glane, Baide, Solas, Claidh | 2 of 5 |
| Brown | Brown dragons are common and are the least documented of the six colours. The only guidance the field guide offers is not to show trepidation to a brown. Named browns include Aimsir, Aotrom, Chradh and Fuil. | Aotrom, Chradh, Aimsir, Fuil | 2 of 5 |
| Iridescent | A separate late-series category. These dragons have shimmering scales that shift colour and can blend into their surroundings, and at least one belongs to a separate den that keeps its distance from Navarre. Andarna, bonded to Violet Sorrengail, is one of them. The word used for the category in fan material is "irid", and the fan sources contradict each other on the exact in-text term, so this site records the category and flags the label as unconfirmed. | Andarna | 5 of 5 |
How to read an entry
Each record carries the dragon name, colour, tail type, rider, first appearance and a short factual description. Two more fields decide how the record behaves on the page: a canon status, which separates what the books state from what readers report, and a spoiler level, which decides how far a reader must be into the series before the record opens.
Canon records come from the published books and official material. Community reports come from fan trackers and reader summaries and are labelled as such. Site game records are this site's own invention and never pretend otherwise.
If a record looks thinner than you expected, that is usually the honest answer. The books name a dragon and move on. We would rather show a short record than pad it.
Riders and bonds, as Fourth Wing establishes them
Spoilers: Fourth Wing
This section contains material from later in the series.
Violet Sorrengail bonds Tairn, and separately bonds Andarna, which the quadrant has no precedent for. Xaden Riorson rides Sgaeyl, and Sgaeyl is mated to Tairn.
Liam Mairi rides Deigh, a red daggertail, and both are lost in Fourth Wing. Jack Barlowe rides Baide, an orange scorpiontail, which surprises the cadets who watched him try to kill his way through the quadrant.
Brennan Sorrengail, believed dead at the start of the series, is alive and rides Marbh, an orange daggertail. Mira Sorrengail flies Teine, a green. Dain Aetos flies Cath, a red swordtail.
Bonds run deeper than a colour match. The rider carries a relic, the dragon channels, and a signet follows weeks or months later. Colour is a trait of the animal, not a contract with the rider.
Records that open after Iron Flame
Spoilers: Iron Flame
This section contains material from later in the series.
Bodhi Durran rides Cuir, a green whose tail type the books never state. Imogen Cardulo rides Glane, an orange daggertail, and Threshing Day adds that Glane was previously bonded to Imogen's grandmother.
Sloane Mairi enters the quadrant in Iron Flame. Her dragon, Thoirt, has no confirmed colour or tail, so the record holds both fields open. Aaric Graycastle is flying under an alias, and the blue clubtail sometimes attached to him remains unconfirmed.
Andarna, a feathertail in Fourth Wing, matures into a scorpiontail, and uses a poisoned barb to kill Solas, the one-eyed orange daggertail ridden by Major Varrish.
Records that open after Onyx Storm
Spoilers: Onyx Storm
This section contains material from later in the series.
Andarna is described as iridescent, a category of dragonkind separate from the six publicly known colours. The exact in-text term remains contested between sources, so the registry chips the field as unconfirmed and leaves it there.
The irids reframe a great deal of what the earlier books say about colour, rarity and the Vale. Read the colour pages with that in mind: the six-colour frame is what a first-year is taught.
Sources
Questions people actually ask
More than twenty named dragons are attested across the published books, from major figures down to dragons that appear in a single line of text. This registry lists only dragons with a reachable source and marks anything uncertain.
Codagh is the largest dragon on the Continent and stands roughly a metre and a half taller than Tairn, who is the second largest. Both are black dragons, and the registry records each of them with its own spoiler level.
Andarnaurram. She is called Andarna throughout the books, and the full name matters in-world because a dragon reveals its full name only to the rider it bonds.
The names are built on Gaelic roots. Tairneanach is given as thunder, Sgaeyl as shadow, Deigh as ice, Codagh as war, Marbh as death and Feirge as anger, and this registry records a meaning only where a source states one.
3 further answers are held back because they give away a plot point. Raise your spoiler setting in the header to read them.
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