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Theories: The Wicked Powers

Faeries origin

Lucifer

Dimmet Tarn

Kitty's Road Trip

The Black Volume of the Dead

Future theories:

Livvy

As an older sibling I don't think I'm going to like how cc is gonna approach the Ty necromancy stuff (consequences, morals...)

Bc, the guy had a dead sister and a resurrection book... what was he supposed to do? Not bring her back? Who would do that?

"Oh, but what about the consequences..." yeah, what about them? No one even seems to know what are the consequences exactly, or if someone knows they are keeping the secret very well...

So yeah, the life of your sibling does beat up the possibility of a vague and imprecise consequence.

#ty blackthorn #livvy blackhorn #the wicked powers #the last king of faerie #kit herondale #cassandra clare #the shadowhunter chronicles

I need cc to come back and give us some content, any, about TLKOF... bc what do you mean I'm starting to see similarities in the most crazy places

#kit herondale #the shadowhunter chronicles #the last king of faerie #cassandra clare #ty blackthorn #the wicked powers

shadowhunter9210

GUYS I KNOW WHY JULIAN IS IN THE DESERT:

(Thank you so much @alesardesign for making this video you saved our lives🛐)

“That separates most of the Shadowhunters from each other”…!!!!!

They are ALL separated from each other!!!!!! OMG

(I posted this video around the begginning of nov 2025 and apparently everyone forgot about this)

thewickedtheories

And when Kit and Ty are travelling around Europe collecting these lost/separated shadowhunters as if they were pokemons then what

#joking

nicreadstoomanyfics

okay so I'm rereading the Sebastian portions of CoLS for my world lit final exam because I'm using him as an example of a machiavellian character because yknow? he is...

that's not the point I'm trying to make here though

if I see even ONE more of you mfs trying to sympathize with Janus in TWP TRUST we will be having words because before even the creation of the infernal cup Jace would've rather died than continuing being the puppet of Sebastian HE REMEMBERED EVERY SINGLE THING HE DID WHILE UNDER LILITH'S SPELL

you are not gonna look me in my eyes and say that he not only would be chill with living with the knowledge of the horrible things he had done and witnessed but he's also about to come just steal the place of the jace in this alternate timeline?? nah

that ain't jace, and he hadn't been since the battle of burren

thewickedtheories

Except that HE IS JACE… That is precisely the point of Thule.

“Jace would've rather died than continuing being the puppet of Sebastian” Yeah, just like Janus, because they’re the same person.

The thing is, neither Jace nor Janus (who, I repeat, are the same person) had the chance to choose between dying and living. They had no control over what happened to them, others made the decisions for them. And so, because of decisions made by others, they lived and had to deal with the consequences of their actions under Sebastian’s influence. Actions for which they are in no way responsible, since they were being controlled. To think that Jace/Janus should commit suicide for what they did while under control is madness.

And it makes perfect sense that Janus hates Jace. When Janus looks at Jace, he sees the version of himself who got the happy ending, who got everything he wanted. And he probably asks himself, “What has this Jace done to deserve this and not me?” And the answer is “nothing”: there’s nothing Jace has done that’s any different from what Janus did. Jace did the same thing as Janus, but in his world, Clary survived and saved him, whereas in Thule, Clary died and Janus remained under control. They made the same choices but got very different lifes.

So, in his head, he's probably thinking something like, “If you deserved that, then I deserved it too. You've already enjoyed your moment of happiness, now it's my turn.”

Janus is such an interesting and tragic character because he’s the embodiment of what can happen to someone when everyone you love is dead, when practically everyone hates you and there aren’t many options for “redemption,” when your world holds almost no hope, when you’ve endured all these years of brainwashing and terrible actions (once again, without being truly responsible for them, but they’re part of your memories)… How do you survive that?… Well, by fuelling yourself with hatred and becoming a villain. And, as a villain, he has the potential to become one of the best in the series. Because a villain who has become what he is through his own choices, who could choose to stop and be "good", will always be more interesting than someone who was simply born evil and who, in reality, has had no choice but to do evil.

***And just to clarify, obviously, none of this is going to excuse or justify what he's going to do at TWP or what he's already done since being released from Sebastian.

kanejgirl

one thing about kitty thats so crazy and nobody really talks about is that it’s not a very far leap to infer that ty assumed kit had a crush on livvy

thewickedtheories

I could write a thesis about how Ty spend all TDA (until the love confesion) believing that Kit had feelings for Livvy and that's a reason why he involve Kit in his plans of bringing her back (bc ofc the boy who has a crush on Livvy would want to bring her back)

Kit's crackpot theory: his relationship with Lucifer

WARNING: get ready for some unprecedented levels of delusion and crazyness

Rosemary's Baby:

In popular culture, Rosemary's Baby is famous for being the devil's child and the Antichrist. Interestingly, Kit Herondale's mother is named Rosemary. (And I won't even go into the fact that his name is CHRISTopher and that Rosemary's Baby is the AntiCHRIST.)

Lightbringer:

Lucifer is known as the Lightbringer. Coincidentally, the first time Kit demonstrated his powers was through a powerful white light.

Son of the Morning:

Lucifer is also called the Son of the Morning, a name that comes from the planet Venus and how it rises just before the morning/sun. Well, Kit’s symbol is the sun.

Have we been talking about how Kit's first show of power appeared the day after he participated with Ty in the resurrecting spell?

Bc it's probably just a coincidence, but my mind cannot stop trying to form a crazy theory around that using the fact that:

The princes of hell have a plan.

There is a prince of hell that is said to take advantage of people grieving.

Ty said that Livvy was calling for him to bring her back.

Livvy didn't seem to want to be awakened.

#ty blackthorn #kit herondale #the last king of faerie #the wicked powers #livvy blackthorn #cassandra clare #the shadowhunter chronicles

Faeries as descendants of angels

A while ago I posted about this theory (you can check it here). But recent discoveries and the fact that the post was a bit disorganized have made me want to rewrite it.

In the Shadowhunter universe, we have been introduced to two types of angels:

The ones who defended heaven during the rebellion, won, remained in heaven, and have seraphic power: Raziel, Michael, Ithuriel ...

The ones who rebelled against heaven, got expelled, were sent to hell (where they became demons), and have demonic power: Lucifer, Belial, Sammael...

Well, through the folklore of several countries (Ireland, Scotland, Denmark...) there are stories about a third type of angel that is not aligned with heaven nor hell. The reasons vary depending on the folklore and range from committing minor sins to remaining neutral during the rebellion or being left out when the gates of hell and heaven closed…

This type of angel happens to exist in a very popular Irish myth. It is the Tuath Dé myth, where the supernatural race who received this name is written by some authors to have been neutral fallen angels who ended up on earth and that with time became fairies (or Aos Sí as they are called in this myth).

And you might ask yourselves, why does this have to do with the Shadowhunter universe?

Well, we know that Cassandra Clare must know about this lore because she has taken inspiration from part of the Tuath Dé myth to write her fairies. When she created the Riders of Mannan (in TDA) most of the names of the members of this group and the name of the god Mannan came from the Tuath Dé folklore.

But furthermore, this type of neutral angel also appears in:

Dante's Inferno: a piece Cassandra Clare mentions as an inspiration to the wicked powers (and in general the whole Shadowhunter universe)

W. B. Yeats's works (where they are mentioned as one of the possible origins of faeries): a poet that Cassandra Clare is currently using to name some chapters of The Last King of Faeries.

How does this theory work with the canon of faeries in the Shadowhunters universe?

Faerie magic is not aligned with heaven (like shadowhunters) nor hell (like warlocks): the neutral angels would have had to develop a different type of power that was not seraphic (just like the angels who fall to hell had to).

Most of the faeries that are alive in the books are not first generation faeries but the descendants of other faeries: this would fit with the Tuath Dé myth, with those neutral angels first landing on earth and, with time mixing their blood with mortals and creating the faerie species.

All the species in this universe come from some combination of angels, demons, and mortals: faeries being the descendants of neutral angels and mortals would fit this theory (it's actually pretty hard to come up with another possible combination).

Ash having angel wings since he was a baby (and Kit being portrayed with wings in the promotional art): it would make sense that someone with faerie blood could have ANGEL wings if they are descendants from some type of angel.

cassandraclare

Hi Cassi. Will any of the Academy characters, Dru’s classmates, have an important role in TLKoF? Since some of them appear at the beginning of Book 1, like Paige and Mason.

Not in LKOF, no, as Dru never returns to the Academy during the book. Possibly there's a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead type fanfic in there about everyone partying at the Institute while Dru and Thais are gone.

princeash

THAIS IS GONE TOO WHAT

thewickedtheories

Janus has been wanting to kidnap Clary since 2013, and instead of doing it then, he waited three years for some reason…

I think his plan went beyond just taking Clary. He probably did something to prevent her friends from coming to rescue her… and Thais was with them at the nightclub…

Remember cc said that "Something happends to the TMI gang in the first book of TWP that takes them out of the same story that they are in with everybody else and they are kind of in a slightly different story."

thewickedtheories

Arthur Blackthorn theory

I think Arthur Blackthorn is behind the spell that makes Dru forget about Ash all the time.

In her last Q&A, Cassie revealed that:

“We do certainly find out something pretty major Arthur did without anyone knowing”

We know that Arthur suffered at the hands of the faerie and that by his recollection it was because his brother fell into a love spell with a faerie... so what if he, once he got custody of his nephews, put some protective magic in them so that they would never suffer the same? And what if the protecting magic put in Dru is making her forget Ash because due to her interest and connection with him, forgetting him is the only way she is truly "protected"?

blue-silver-hammer

While I get where your coming from, if that was the case shouldn't Julian and Emma forget about him as well? If it was a spell placed on all of them, why is Dru the only one effected?

thewickedtheories

Julian also seems to be protected from Ash; if I recall correctly, while Emma feels compelled to protect Ash because of the spell, Julian didn’t feel anything like that. So, according to this theory of protective magic, while it was enough for Julian to simply not let himself be influenced by Ash to be safe, given that Dru and Ash seem drawn to each other, as if fate were magically bringing them together, perhaps forgetting about him is the only way the magic could truly protect her.

Arthur Blackthorn theory

I think Arthur Blackthorn is behind the spell that makes Dru forget about Ash all the time.

In her last Q&A, Cassie revealed that:

“We do certainly find out something pretty major Arthur did without anyone knowing”

We know that Arthur suffered at the hands of the faerie and that by his recollection it was because his brother fell into a love spell with a faerie... so what if he, once he got custody of his nephews, put some protective magic in them so that they would never suffer the same? And what if the protecting magic put in Dru is making her forget Ash because due to her interest and connection with him, forgetting him is the only way she is truly "protected"?

I have no idea how cassandra clare is gonna give Ty a happy ending when there is no way Livvy is making it to the end of TWP.

Like, sure, Kit and Ty will end up together… but how does that measure up to the devastation Ty will feel from losing and starting to grieve Livvy?

Knowing that the TWP will be the happiest moment of Ty's life (because it will be the only time he has Livvy and Kit) makes me so sad

#cassandra clare #ty blackthorn #kit herondale #livvy blackhorn #the wicked powers #the last king of faerie

immortal-enemies

The "Lucifer is/was Johnny Rook" theory is super funny to me personally. Because that would make Kit, who is already the Uber-est Special-est Shadowhunter To Ever Be™ would ALSO be an eldest curse.

daydreamxr17

Kit Herondale will return in Avengers: Doomsday

misssherondale

The Scarlet Witch of The Shadowhunter Chronicles

thewickedtheories

If you think about it, Janus is The Scarlet Witch of The Shadowhunter Chronicles (I'm so sorry for this association Wanda)

thewickedtheories

Faeries origin: theory

First of all, I'm warning you that my theories are mostly 1% facts and 99% faith, so do with it what you will...

The Faeries are the least known downworlders of all, with their origin and creation being unknown.

Though in the books it is stated the main legend that surrounds that origin, nothing is known for sure, and Cassandra Clare (cc) has confirmed that:

The fey are not literally the offspring of a demon and an angel. The whole notion of faeries being "half angel and half demon" is not the same as warlocks being half demon. The legend is that faeries were originally created from the union of angels and demons. But every faerie that is alive today (as far as we know) was born the child of other faeries. We don't actually know how the fey were initially created. All we have to work from is the legend. So faeries don't have "demon blood" or "angel blood" in the way that warlocks have an actual directdemon parent or in the way that Jace and Clary have actual angel blood.

With The Wicked Powers (TWP) being the last and ending series of the Shadowhunter universe and two of their main characters being part faerie, it is to be expected that the books will reveal the faeries' origins, perhaps even that origin being an essencial part of the plot.

We know that the Shadowhunter universe is heavily inspired by religious lore about angels and demons, the good and the evil.

We also know that Shadowhunters and the four species of Downworlders are all part of the human race. With werewolves and vampires being humans with demon infections, warlocks being the offspring of humans and demons, and shadowhunters being humans with angel blood. So it would stand to reason that faeries should somehow belong in this type of narrative of demons/angels.

My first idea was, could the faeries be the real Nephilim of the Bible, the true offspring of angels and humans, the true counterparts of warlocks? But that idea was soon set aside because we know for a fact that faeries magic is neither demonic nor seraphic, and the last option would be the expected thing for them to be the counterparts of warlocks. So it was not that simple...

In Dante's Inferno, a piece cc has name as inspiration for TWP, the author presents a different approach from the religious story of the rebellion of Lucifer. While in his story there are still those angels who stood against the rebellion and those who stood by the rebellion, the story presents a third category of angels: neutral angels who decided to not take sides.

Like Lucifer and his supporters, these neutral angels were expelled from Heaven too. But unlike them, they were left in a limbo: not in hell but not in heaven either.

Okay… but what does this have to do with fairies? You might ask…

Well, in Irish Folklore there is a supernatural species called Aos Sí (or áes sídhe) who are a sort of faerie creature. The origins of these faeries, like in the Shadowhunter universe, are debated due to the oral nature of this folklore. But two are possible origins supported by the sources. On one hand, they could be descendants of Tuatha Dé Danann (another supernatural race in Irish mythology thought to represent deities). On the other hand, and this one interests us, they could be angels who have fallen from heaven but whose sins were not great enough to warrant hell.

So, could cc have taken inspiration from this folklore and Dante's story to create her faeries?

According to this theory, there would be three types of angels in the shadowhunters universe: Heaven angels, neutral fallen angels (from now on fallen angels) and "evil" fallen angels who become demons (from now on demons)

These fallen angels (who are something in between a Heaven Angel and a Demon) were expelled from heaven but were not sent to hell. Because we know that today's fairies are the offspring of other faeries and because the faeries belong to the human race, at some point those fallen angels would have had offspring with humans, creating the Faeries.

That way, we will have:

Warlocks: the offspring of humans and demons, which gives them demoniac magic.

Shadowhunters: the result of mixing angel blood with humans, which gives them access to seraphic magic (with the help of tools).

Faeries: the offspring of humans and neutral fallen angels, which gives them magic that is not demonic nor of a seraphic nature (That their magic is of this different nature is a canonical detail from The Shadowhunter's Codex)

While this is a very weak theory, at least this possible origin would give some explanation to Ash Morgenstern having wings, and not any type of wings, but fallen angel wings. And it will also support the theories that eventually Kit Herondale will grow wings too.