Imogen

Imogen is taller than Violet and has pale green eyes and pink hair.

Her pink hair is half-shaved, a detail visible when she removes her hood at the marked cadets’ meeting.

In Aretia after Resson, Imogen’s half-shaved hair has been dyed a brighter pink.

Imogen is not gentle with Violet even after she begins helping her. Her training is efficient rather than kind, and she keeps firm boundaries around Xaden by ordering Violet to call him Riorson and not question her about him.

Her humor and commentary are blunt and grim. She explains the riders’ black uniforms in terms of hidden blood, mocks graduation rhetoric, and pays attention to practical weaknesses during exercises.

Imogen gives Violet direct advice about secrecy and isolation. She warns that moving maneuvers too often will draw teacher attention, says some secrecy is normal for riders, and tells Violet not to freeze out friends who may need her.

Before the Basgiath battle, Imogen pushes back against Ridoc and Sawyer’s gallows humor by warning them not to accept any survival estimate under four hours.

Imogen remains a hard trainer and a gatekeeper against reckless help. She pushes Violet through difficult physical work, rejects Garrick’s attempt to second-guess Violet’s limits, and bars first-years from joining dangerous work until Violet and Rhiannon redirect them.

Imogen’s relationship with Violet begins as open hatred. She attacks Violet during assessment day, links Violet to Lilith Sorrengail’s crimes against her family, and still wishes for revenge after Dain punishes her for using powers on the mat.

Imogen is included in Xaden’s illegal marked-cadet meeting, where she helps counsel first-years and is assigned with Garrick to train struggling first-years in hand-to-hand.

Once Violet bonds Tairn, Imogen’s hostility does not disappear, but she helps protect and train her. Tairn tells Violet she can trust Imogen, while Violet suspects Imogen’s protective moves around Jack come from Xaden’s orders rather than personal loyalty to her.

Imogen is not Xaden’s romantic interest. Violet’s jealousy fades when Xaden redirects her attention, and Violet realizes Imogen is interested in Garrick instead.

Xaden later names Imogen to his Athebyne headquarters squad, and she responds with the group when gryphon riders interrupt Xaden and Violet.

During the battle at Resson, Imogen is seen flying through the haze with Garrick after Liam’s death.

After Resson, Imogen’s attitude toward Violet shifts into open respect. She says everyone present would be dead without Riorson and Sorrengail, and she leads a toast to Liam despite the rule against speaking of dead cadets after the Death Roll.

Imogen becomes a wary coconspirator for Violet during their return to Basgiath. She promises not to try to kill Violet that year, helps guard her during secret meetings, and responds quickly when Tairn calls for support after Violet is punished at the Iakobos River.

Imogen trains Sloane after Violet uses Liam’s letters to push Sloane toward survival. The work continues into nightly extra reps, and Imogen watches for Sloane at Threshing despite her frustration with Violet’s decision to widen the secret.

Imogen supports Violet during the growing conflict with Cat. She says she is Team Violet, gives tactical advice before Violet faces Cat, and calls out Cat’s mindwork when the fight turns magically unfair.

Imogen helps watch the danger around Xaden after he returns changed from Basgiath. She, Garrick, and Bodhi think Violet should reconsider sleeping near him, and Violet later realizes Imogen waited outside her room to make sure Xaden had not killed her.

Imogen’s warmth is narrow and guarded among the squad. She refuses Ridoc’s celebratory hug, but when Quinn puts an arm around her shoulders and calls her warm and fuzzy, Imogen says she is only that way to Quinn.

Quinn’s death devastates Imogen during the battle at Draithus. Garrick removes her from the tower afterward, but she returns to the war effort by sending Glane to summon riders inside the walls.

Imogen is dangerous in hand-to-hand combat and can move with enough speed or power to violate sparring rules. During assessment day, she tries to stab Violet in the ribs and injures her badly enough that Emetterio has to call the yield.

Imogen understands delayed signet manifestation well enough to explain its usual timing and risk. She says the relic transferred at Threshing carries dragon magic into the rider’s body, and that dangerous failure comes when a rider goes too long without manifesting and releasing a signet.

Xaden assigns Imogen to help train weaker first-years in hand-to-hand, and her own sparring skill is visible when she casually keeps Ridoc in a headlock until he taps out.

Imogen knows how to condition Violet’s body for riding despite Violet’s unstable joints. Her weight-room regimen targets Violet’s inner thighs, grip, arms, and supporting muscles so Violet can stay mounted and take harder falls with less damage.

Imogen can wield power precisely enough to lock a weight-room door during Squad Battle. In the same task, she coordinates the break-in, supports work on the office wards, supplies ties for the stolen map, and adapts when the guard returns.

Imogen’s classified signet can wipe short-term memory. Xaden chooses her for the Archives infiltration because she can erase witnesses’ recent memories if the group is seen.

Her memory-wiping is treated as a practical operational tool and a practical obstacle. She appears to work on an unconscious guard’s head during the vault escape, takes responsibility for dealing with Nasya afterward, and Varrish later reasons that capturing Violet’s squad would fail because Imogen would not willingly wipe their memories.

Imogen proves capable with rune work in Aretia. She quickly masters Trissa’s delayed-activation rune and later finishes another perfect rune under Trissa’s approving eye.

At Draithus, Imogen shows advanced mounted combat and lesser magic under extreme pressure. She runs along Glane’s neck to stab a wyvern in the eye, dismounts onto the northern wall, boosts her speed with lesser magic, and turns Dain’s shield to stone by opening the mental door to her childhood home.

Imogen takes functional command of Second Squad during the leaderless final Squad Battle task after the squad agrees to follow her. Her coordination helps the squad carry out Violet’s risky plan to break into an office and steal a map.

Imogen is part of Xaden’s all-marked group at Athebyne and knows enough about venin to say they never come that far west. At Resson, she chooses to fight for the civilians at the trading post and argues that their dragons must count for something because they are not afraid to fight.

After Violet is wounded at Resson, Imogen reacts with fear and emotion that Violet has not heard from her before. She identifies Violet’s black blood as poison, pushes for getting her to Nolon at Basgiath, and reminds the group that Violet’s death could also kill Xaden.

Imogen helps carry the Resson survivors through the immediate aftermath. She stays close to Violet in Aretia when the Assembly discusses confinement, returns to Basgiath with the surviving cadets, and keeps quiet and watchful while the cover story holds.

After Solas blasts Third Squad, Imogen rushes in with Quinn to help and finds Ciaran dead. She warns Violet not to voice the dangerous implication that the attack may have been intentional.

Imogen takes part in the Archives operation after the Zolya leaflet alarms the marked-cadet network. During the vault theft, she remains outside the warded library, tracks the shrinking time window, and warns when the Archives door is about to seal.

Imogen joins the return to Basgiath and the fight to protect the wards. She argues that delaying wards exposes Aretia, the drifts, and Tyrrendor to unnecessary danger, later guards Lilith’s soldiers during the ward inspection, fights in her assigned airspace, and survives the battle with a wound to her side.

When a rider threatens Cat with a sword after Basgiath’s victory, Imogen moves to Violet’s side and draws against Kaveh. She calls out riders who accepted flier help in battle but raise blades against them afterward.

Imogen helps Violet’s secret operation at the wardstone chamber by opening the Healer Quadrant door, waiting with Maren, and scouting or disabling guards. She reports trouble when Mira guards the approach and chooses not to knock Mira out.

Imogen acts as Violet’s covert partner for the Jack interrogation. She receives Xaden’s letter through Garrick, accompanies Violet into Jack’s warded cell, threatens Jack, and steps close when he threatens to report Violet for feeding the enemy.

Imogen answers the emergency muster to defend Aretia. She reaches Violet’s side close behind Rhiannon and goes with the willing cadets heading into the active defense.

During the battle at Draithus, Imogen breaks or overrides orders because Bodhi and Quinn are in danger. She fights from Glane and the northern wall, helps Quinn kill the purple-robed venin, and after Quinn dies sends riders inside the walls to disarm and bring their alloy weapons to the nondescript building.

Imogen is with Violet in Riorson House courtyard when Violet reappears after twelve missing hours. When Violet senses memory tampering and asks what Imogen did, Imogen says she did what Violet asked, indicating Violet’s missing memories were removed by Imogen at Violet’s own request.