#john shade

[carelessflower]

TSC Warlock Powerscale

For this analysis, I will use the P.A.W.E scale, which I have developed below. Each tier will have a scale of 1 to 5, and to determine the overall result (the number in the upside-down triangle), I will combine all the points and divide by 4.

Picture this as the Spiral Labyrinth's file of prominent warlocks, assessing their capability to prepare to deal with them if they ever turn rogue (like Batman keeping tabs on the Justice League)

9. Maxwell Lightwood-Bane

An extremely young warlock with little experience in practicing magic. He still has a long way to go.

8. Hypatia Vex

A powerful warlock with skills and experience to boost; however, her magical feats aren't featured very much in the book.

7. Catarina Loss

This doesn't mean Catarina is weak; she's fairly powerful on her own. However, she always focuses on the more healing side of a warlock.

6. Aldous Nix

With 2000 years of experience (aside from the warlocks who were there when the shadowhunters first appeared), he could be considered one of the oldest warlocks and would've been number one. However, his instability got in the way.

5. John Shade & Malcolm Fade

Point for trapping an angel spirit in a piece of jewelry and his invention.

Eventually, he managed to bring both Annabel and himself back to life; however, it took centuries of work (in comparison to others who figured out nercomancy faster), and he was killed permanently afterwards.

4. Shinyun Jung

Slightly below other contenders because she was unable to blast Asmodeus away or kill Magnus as easily as she expected. She is also only able to turn into a greater demon after Alec stabbed himself with the Svefnthorn and helped Magnus.

3. Ragnor Fell

If we only talk about mastery and knowledge, as well as possessing a well-rounded set of skills, Ragnor would win, no doubt.

2. Magnus Lightwood-Bane

The full 5 on expertise is due to his invention of an entirely new brand of magic that is incredibly important to the Shadoworld. His raw power gets a 4.5 because of his limited demonstration of it.

Tessa Gray

Her expertise and power get two full 5s and a plus 0.5, as she's the only warlock who managed to survive in Thule and only died in an act of self-sacrifice. Without the plus 0.5, her score would tie with Magnus, making a very interesting discussion on how a showdown between the two would go.

While her shapeshifting ability will allow her to take on any form and power, it entirely depends on what item of said person she manages to get. Tessa is also not well-equipped and experienced in some fields of magic, as Magnus (in Secrets of Blackthorn Hall, when she needed Magnus's help summoning the spirit). Both are offspring of the Princes of Hells, and have yet to use their capabilities to their full potential.

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[darknessdrops]

Shapeless and slow, unsteady and opaque,

A dull dark white against the day’s pale white

[queercomposer]

bro¹ thinks the stripper² is in love with him³

1. Charles Kinbote

2. John Shade

3. Wrote a poem about his super secret backstory

[glitteringpoet1685]

RIP Charles Kinbote you would have loved writing RPF John Shade/Male!reader fics.

[ifyouseekay468]

Reading pale fire and there is some gay ass English major shit going on between shade and kinbote…

“That of two men, different in origin, upbringing, thought associations, spiritual intonation and mental mode, one a cosmopolitan scholar, the other a fireside poet, entering into a secret compact of this kind,”

[tyheronthorn]

Ragnor Fell is John Shade?

The earliest date of Ragnor fell is 1791, when he went to Peru with Magnus. He also went to Peru in 1885 and 1890. Ragnor Fell became the High Warlock of London sometime in the mid 1800s and later helped the infernal devices gang in 1872 and again six years later. He kept an eye on Will’s family and collected information for them.

The earliest date of John Shade is during the crusades when he traped Ithuriel in the clockwork angel for Anne Shade. Then in 1752 he got the Book of White so he could bind demon spirits to automatons to protect Downworlders from Shadowhunters. This was before the Accords so I can understand why he would feel the need to have protection. It was never confirmed that Shade intended to use the automatons to purposely attack Shadowhunters.

With all of that information we know that Fell/Shade would have to had met Anne Shade during or before the crusades. There is a gap of, at most, almost 100 years of unknown time for Ragnor Fell during which Axel Mortmain was born, in 1803, and John and Anne Shade died, in 1815. But during that time Ragnor Fell also became the High Warlock of London. So he would have had to switch between being Ragnor Fell and John Shade, living a double life from at least 1791 to 1815. In 1815 he would have had to fake his death (which we all know he’s good at). But the bodies were seen and when Tessa turned into Aloysius Starkweather, one of the shadowhunters that helped take down the Shades, she knew he helped but never saw Fell/Shade die. So we could be dealing with another Wayland Valentine switch the bodies type of thing. But I can’t see Fell/Shade killing someone in order to accomplish this.

Above is what Tessa describes when she turns into Aloysius Starkweather.

Above is how Tessa describes Ragnor Fell when she first sees him. Almost as if she subconsciously recognizes him. Hmmmmm.

Above is Ragnor Fell telling Charlotte what he knows of John Shade.

So are they the same person? I don’t know. It’s a little bit of a reach but Cassandra Clare has done bigger plot twists before.

[dru-and-ash]

Ragnor and Shade's Theory

Okay we know Ragnor has been using the name Shade for years before Qoaad

What if this is a nod to Shade's, John and Anne Shade the warlock couple who raised Axel Mortmain as their child.

John Shade is known to have Lost Book of White at a time after 1752 and Ragnor knows a lot about the book (even its described as Jocelyn has the book in 1991 and asked Ragnor's help for that sleeping spell using it)

What if Ragnor was also raised by Shade family but he wasn't as traumatized as Mortmain because it was centuries ago?

Or he was a friend of theirs and wanted them to be remembered?

What do you think about this..

[slobbering]

For we die every day; oblivion thrives Not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives, And our best yesterdays are now foul piles Of crumpled names, phone numbers and foxed files.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)