Rebecca Yarros Just Announced Threshing Day — Here's Everything We Know

Hello, lovely reader 🐉

If your notifications have been going wild the past couple of days, you already have a good guess why. If not — settle in, because Basgiath just got a little bit bigger.

🥚 Conscription Day Brought a Surprise

On July 15th, Rebecca Yarros marked Conscription Day the only way she knows how — with an announcement that sent the entire Empyrean fandom into a frenzy. Not Book Four, as many had assumed. Something else entirely: a book called Threshing Day.

For anyone who has read Fourth Wing, that title alone probably gave you chills. Threshing is the day cadets either bond a dragon or don't survive the valley. It's the hinge the whole series turns on — so a book built around it feels less like a side project and more like a love letter to the world readers have been living in since page one.

🐲 What's Actually Inside

Threshing Day is a collection of thirteen stories, each centered on a different character's Threshing — dragons included. Yarros has described it as a chance to step back into Basgiath while she continues working on the true Book Four, giving fans something rich to hold onto without rushing the main storyline.

The detail that's already breaking the internet? Xaden's story is one of the thirteen. After three books of piecing together his past through Violet's limited point of view, readers are finally getting a door straight into his side of things.

The deluxe first edition will include sixteen original full-color illustrations by artist Joe Requeza, making it the kind of book that's as beautiful on a shelf as it is in your hands.

📅 When to Expect It

Threshing Day releases September 29, 2026, and is available to pre-order now through major retailers. 

🎒 A Little Something for the Journey Back to Basgiath

Whatever your Threshing story would have been, there's something special about carrying a little piece of this world with you while you wait — whether that's a well-loved hoodie for the reread you know is coming, or a mug that gets you through the wait for September. Our Fourth Wing & Empyrean Collection was made exactly for moments like this.

There's still time before September to reread, re-theorize, and prepare yourself for thirteen more reasons to fall for this world all over again. We'll be counting down right alongside you.

With love, The Bean Workshop 🫘