Isn’t this the question of the week?
Cassandra Clare has dropped so many hints, the biggest being the Ghosts of the Shadow Market story, The Wicked Ones. I had to lay it out to get it straight in my head.
Here is what I came up with for a theoretical family tree for Kit:
I know there are some who think the generation of unknowns might not have existed, that Roland and his wife hid in Faerie or something, altering time for them, and it’s a reasonable supposition, but I’m not in agreement with it for a few reasons:
They were running from faeries (my theory on that here), so I find it difficult to believe they would then go to Faerie.
Altering time, explaining a missing generation, etc… This takes time, pages, and words in a book that we already know will be long and that the author (I’m sure) was told many times to shorten.
Rosemary had no visible signs of faerie blood when Jem (a silent brother) encountered her. In this series where looks are inherited several generations down (Alec has Will and Cecily’s eyes), I don’t buy that Rosemary is half fey and not one thing about her fey heritage is discernible to a silent brother!
How is Roland’s wife this First Heir who was supposedly dead?
When someone says, “So the story goes” I suddenly don’t trust the story.
And the author pretty much confirmed the last heir is an ancestor of Kit’s here:
https://twitter.com/cassieclare/status/1039951440251428865?s=20
“But of course the First Heir is dead. That’s why the Unseelie King wanted the Black book, to bring him/her back,” you say? Yes, that is a possibility. Or not. There are other motivations for obtaining it:
Already there are blights in the Unseelie lands, as well as Brocelind Forest. Likely, the Unseelie King is using dark magic already and wants more power. Besides, Magnus seems like he’s having one of his “I know something” moments, and I trust Magnus.
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