Which Fourth Wing Rider Are You? Take the Threshing Day Quiz and find out. Threshing Day is here! Take this quiz to find out which Empyrean rider and dragon pairing matches you, plus fantasy and romantasy picks for every result.

Which Fourth Wing Rider Are You: Threshing Day Quiz

Rebecca Yarros gave Empyrean fans something a little different this fall. Threshing Day, out September 29, 2026, is a collection of 13 stories, each one following a different rider on the day they bonded with their dragon.

Answer five questions about how you’d face the field on Threshing Day, and this quiz will match you with one of seven riders and their dragons. Each result also comes with three fantasy and romantasy recommendations picked to fit that rider’s energy.

If you already took my Fourth Wing Dragon Quiz, this is the next step. You know your dragon. Now find your rider!

Which Fourth Wing Rider Are You? (Threshing Day Edition)

What Is Threshing Day?

Threshing Day is a collection set in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean world. On Threshing Day at Basgiath War College, first-year cadets walk into the field and hope a dragon chooses them. Not everyone walks out. The book gives 13 riders their own bonding story:

• Xaden Riorson & Sgaeyl
• Mira Sorrengail & Teine
• Brennan Sorrengail & Marbh
• Garrick Tavis & Chradh
• Dain Aetos & Cath
• Bodhi Durran & Cuir
• Imogen Cardulo & Glane
• Rhiannon Matthias & Feirge
• Sawyer Henrick & Sliseag
• Ridoc Gamlyn & Aotrom
• Liam Mairi & Deigh
• Sloane Mairi & Thoirt
• Aaric Graycastle & Molvic

Early reader reviews single out Xaden's chapter as a favorite, Ridoc's as the funniest, and Sloane's as the most emotional.

Fantasy Book Recommendations for Every Rider

Didn't take the quiz, or curious about the other results? Here are the book recs!

Xaden & Sgaeyl: Guarded, Fierce, Always Three Steps Ahead

• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. Rhysand might be the original guarded, misunderstood love interest, and this is where we really get to know him. It's book two in the series, so start with A Court of Thorns and Roses if you haven't read it.
• From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Poppy is the Maiden, kept hidden and untouchable, until a new guard named Hawke shows up with secrets of his own.
• Powerless by Lauren Roberts. Paedyn is an Ordinary pretending to have powers in a kingdom that kills Ordinaries. Then she ends up in trials alongside Kai, a prince who is trained to hunt people like her.

Ridoc & Aotrom: Chaotic, Hilarious, Secretly Brave

• Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer. Evie Sage needs a job, so she takes one working for the kingdom's most feared villain.
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. Six misfits take on an impossible heist. Jesper, the wisecracking sharpshooter, is pure Ridoc.
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. A prickly scholar heads to a remote village to study the faeries there, and her charming, deeply annoying academic rival follows her.

Sloane & Thoirt: Fierce, Unbreakable, Underestimated at Their Peril

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. The giant war machines in Zetian's world are piloted by boy-girl pairs, and the girls usually don't survive. But Zetian signs up, seeking revenge for her sister.
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Magic was stripped from Zélie's people and her mother was killed. Now she has one chance to bring that magic back.
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. Celaena is an assassin who is pulled out of a prison mine to fight for the title of the king's champion. She's a heroine with a past she refuses to let break her. Read my review.

Mira & Teine: Protective, Capable, the One Everyone Counts On

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The ultimate protective-older-sister story.
• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik. El is competent, prickly, and done waiting for anyone to save her.
• The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. A big, standalone dragon epic about duty, loyalty, and women holding a queendom together.

Bodhi & Cuir: Steady, Quietly Powerful, Nothing to Prove

• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. Maia is the overlooked, exiled youngest son, and he suddenly becomes emperor. Now he has to lead in a court full of schemers.
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. The Napoleonic Wars, fought with dragons. Fantasy fans agree that the bond between Captain Laurence and Temeraire is one of the best rider-and-dragon partnerships out there.
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. Kell is one of the last magicians who can travel between parallel Londons. He's reserved and loyal, and far more powerful than he lets on.

Sawyer & Sliseag: Loyal, Big-Hearted, Finally Home

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. A by-the-book caseworker is sent to inspect an orphanage for magical children and finds the family he never had.
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. After her mother dies, Bree discovers a secret society on her college campus. It descends from King Arthur's knights, and she has to fight for her place in it.
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. A tea monk and a robot set off on a gentle road trip.

Aaric & Molvic: Defiant, Secretive, Writing His Own Story

• Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo. Alina is on the run when a charming privateer with a mysterious past enters the picture. This is book two of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, so start with Shadow and Bone. 
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. Mare is a commoner with an impossible power, hidden in plain sight inside the royal palace, where princes and politics are equally dangerous. 
• The Kiss of Deception by Mary Pearson. Princess Lia rejects her arranged marriage and goes on the run, her fiancé and an assassin pursue her. Which one can she trust?

Which Rider Did You Get?

Tell me in the comments! And if you're reading Threshing Day right now, let me know which story hit you hardest. I'm taking notes for my own read.

More Empyrean fun: Which Fourth Wing Dragon Are You? Quiz