Shadowhunter Quiz

With 20 questions and a 10-minute completion time, the shadowhunter quiz explores which Shadowhunter family qualities resonate with your choices. Your results reveal affinities with five distinctive family patterns, helping you reflect on how loyalty, leadership, curiosity, courage, and adaptability shape the qualities that feel most like your own.

Questions: 2010 minutes

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Scale Explorer

How the Scales are Structured

Blackthorn AffinityBA

Measures your affinity for Blackthorn-style collective devotion, adaptable family roles, and keeping a broad network connected through hardship.

example score8/12

8/12Blackthorn Streakexample score

0 – 4Personal Orbit

5 – 8Blackthorn Streak

9 – 12Strong Blackthorn Affinity

A score of 8 places you in the Blackthorn Streak range, suggesting you often prioritize shared care and resilient, unconventional belonging while not always centering a large family network.

Carstairs AffinityCA

Measures your affinity for the Carstairs legacy of disciplined loyalty, patient mastery, and steady follow-through on personal vows.

example score7/12

7/12Carstairs Streakexample score

0 – 4Flexible Allegiance

5 – 8Carstairs Streak

9 – 12Strong Carstairs Affinity

A score of 7 indicates a Carstairs Streak, suggesting you tend to prioritize discipline and devoted loyalty in key relationships and commitments.

Fairchild AffinityFA

Measures how strongly you align with the Fairchild-leaning approach of intellectual independence, diplomacy, and evidence-based questioning of systems.

example score10/12

10/12Strong Fairchild Affinityexample score

0 – 4Action-Oriented Path

5 – 8Fairchild Streak

9 – 12Strong Fairchild Affinity

A score of 10 falls in the Strong Fairchild Affinity range, suggesting you typically prefer thoughtful debate, diplomacy, and independent reasoning when navigating missions and traditions.

Herondale AffinityHA

Measures your affinity with the Herondale legacy of wit, independence, daring improvisation, and expressive courage under pressure.

example score6/12

6/12Herondale Streakexample score

0 – 4Different Path

5 – 8Herondale Streak

9 – 12Strong Herondale Affinity

A score of 6 suggests a moderate Herondale Streak, where independence and daring show up when circumstances call for it without consistently defining your approach.

Lightwood AffinityLA

Measures your affinity for duty-driven structure, visible accountability, and leading or supporting a community from within established institutions.

example score6/12

6/12Lightwood Streakexample score

0 – 4Independent Course

5 – 8Lightwood Streak

9 – 12Strong Lightwood Affinity

A score of 6 indicates a Lightwood Streak, suggesting you generally balance personal goals with a preference for duty, structure, and clear responsibility.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Lore-Hungry Superfans

46%OF USERS

People who know the families and want to see which legacy matches their instincts about duty, love, and sacrifice.

Character and Ship Explorers

33%OF USERS

Fans who use the quiz to compare their vibe to favorite characters and imagine where they'd fit in the family dynamics.

Newcomer Curiosity Clickers

21%OF USERS

Readers early in the series who want a fun, spoiler-light way to learn the differences between the big Shadowhunter lineages.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Blackthorn AffinityBA

You?

Average5.9

Typical rangeTypical4.2 – 7.5

Possible0 – 12

Carstairs AffinityCA

You?

Average6.5

Typical rangeTypical4.3 – 8.8

Possible0 – 12

Fairchild AffinityFA

You?

Average7.4

Typical rangeTypical5.5 – 9.4

Possible0 – 12

Herondale AffinityHA

You?

Average6.7

Typical rangeTypical4.7 – 8.7

Possible0 – 12

Lightwood AffinityLA

You?

Average6.8

Typical rangeTypical5.1 – 8.4

Possible0 – 12

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Find a quiet place to sharpen my own combat readiness.
- Ask experienced residents what has kept the Institute going.
- Test one flexible tactic that could compensate for the shortage.
- Map the essential duties and establish a workable rota.
- The daring protector who acts decisively when rules fall short.
- The reliable organizer who keeps the Institute functioning.
- The patient scholar who notices what others have missed.
- The loyal companion who never abandons a personal vow.
- Give everyone room to recover in their own way.
- Start a practical review so the next mission goes better.
- Offer quiet reassurance to the people who seem most shaken.
- Break the tension with sharp humor and renewed confidence.

These are 3 of the 20 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Shadowhunter Quiz - Description and methodology of the test

Readers who enjoy the Shadow World and want to connect its family traditions with their own instincts can use the shadowhunter quiz to reflect on how fictional values relate to their choices. It is intended for fans who prefer an imaginative Shadowhunter personality quiz to lore recall, focusing on choices about duty, loyalty, belonging, and uncertainty. The result indicates which family affinities and associated qualities resonate most strongly with you.

What This Assessment Explores

By turning fictional traditions into choices about duty, affection, rules, uncertainty, and belonging, a Shadowhunter family quiz presents five dimensions. These are the displayed result dimensions:

Blackthorn Affinity (0-12) measures shared care and belonging: Personal Orbit (0-4), Blackthorn Streak (5-8), Strong Blackthorn Affinity (9-12).
Carstairs Affinity (0-12) measures loyal, disciplined commitment: Flexible Allegiance (0-4), Carstairs Streak (5-8), Strong Carstairs Affinity (9-12).
Fairchild Affinity (0-12) measures inquiry, diplomacy, and evidence-led independence: Action-Oriented Path (0-4), Fairchild Streak (5-8), Strong Fairchild Affinity (9-12).
Herondale Affinity (0-12) measures wit, courage, and bold improvisation: Different Path (0-4), Herondale Streak (5-8), Strong Herondale Affinity (9-12).
Lightwood Affinity (0-12) measures organized leadership and responsibility: Independent Course (0-4), Lightwood Streak (5-8), Strong Lightwood Affinity (9-12).

Higher bands show stronger identification; middle bands indicate a streak; lower bands name the alternative. Affinities can coexist.

Methodology and Source Context

Each item presents a fictional situation with four responses. Choices ask which action or attitude feels natural in leadership, household care, loyalty, tradition, evidence, and rule-breaking. As a Shadowhunter character quiz, it measures imaginative preferences rather than lore knowledge.

Responses produce five separate catalogue scores. The displayed bands describe how well each score fits its catalogue definition; the per-response scoring rule is unspecified. Together, the situations invite reflection on how a person handles institutional duty, intimate loyalty, family belonging, practical responsibility, and challenges to inherited rules.

The setting source Shadowhunter's Codex supplies institutions, duties, customs, and family language for these fictional situations. Cruger's 2017 literary analysis provides thematic context about gendered endurance, power, and social roles in this fantasy tradition. The questionnaire is not presented as an adaptation or validation of either source.

The questionnaire is an online self-reflection tool, and its displayed bands are catalogue interpretations of the five definitions. Mood, recent experiences, and self-awareness can shape responses, so treat the profile as a snapshot of patterns that feel most like you now.

Literature:

Clare, Cassandra, and Joshua Lewis. The Shadowhunter's Codex. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013. ISBN 9781442416925.
Clare, Cassandra. Chain of Gold. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. ISBN 9781481431873.
Clare, Cassandra. Lady Midnight. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2016. ISBN 9781442468351.
Cruger, Katherine. “Men Are Stronger; Women Endure: A Critical Analysis of the Throne of Glass and The Mortal Instruments YA Fantasy Series.” Journal of Media Critiques, vol. 3, no. 10, 2017, pp. 115-132. DOI 10.17349/jmc117208.

Updated: 2026-07-22

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