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This article contains info that may not yet be final because it deals with material that has yet to be released. As such, some of the information might be inaccurate and is subject to change. It will be updated accordingly when new information becomes available.

The Wicked Powers is a planned trilogy by Cassandra Clare. The fifth in the series chronologically, it is so far set to be the last and concluding series of The Shadowhunter Chronicles.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The title is derived from a Shadowhunter children's rhyme: "And bronze to summon wicked powers."

Books[]

The following are the working titles of the books in the series:[7]

Teasers[]

Information[]

To reiterate, TWP is currently not yet in the works. Information listed below may be subject to change.

  • The main characters are going to be Kit Herondale, Ty Blackthorn, and Dru Blackthorn.[8]
  • It is expected to take place three years after The Dark Artifices,[9][10][11][12][13][14] in 2015.[15][16] Kit and Ty are going to be about 18 years old while Dru will be about 16 or 17 years old.[13]
  • The series is meant to be connected in some way to The Last Hours series[17] and we will see references to it, such as similar magic and some of the character's belongings like the Blackthorn sword and Cortana's scabbard.[18]
  • Jaime Rosales is set to be a significant character in this series.[19][20]
  • Ash will appear and have a significant role moving forward.[20][21][22][23][24] The trauma he has been through will be explored and a commonality between him and Dru.[25]
  • Clare hopes to have a group of friends around Dru outside of her siblings,[20] including Thais Pedroso,[26][27] as she has been attending the new Shadowhunter Academy.[28] She will have multiple love interests[29] and is set to be seen struggling with anxiety and panic attacks from her past trauma.[30]
    • Thais is currently set to be Dru's roommate and will have her own love interest and adventures.[31]
  • Ty will be shown in the Scholomance. His grief and trauma over the events of The Dark Artifices and Livvy's death will be addressed.[32]
  • Kit will still be figuring out his faerie powers—their nature, what they do, and how they work will be his first step in the series.[33]
  • Certain plot points left off in Queen of Air and Darkness lead into this series, including Thule,[34] the new dynamics of The Clave,[35][36] Kit's heritage,[37][38] the consequences of Ty performing magic and his link to Livia,[39] among others.
  • The epilogue of The Lost Book of the White is meant to point towards the events of TWP[40]Lucifer will make his debut.[31]
    • The third book of The Eldest Curses is set to take place during the timeline of this series;[41] presumably during the first book as something is meant to happen to The Mortal Instruments characters that takes them out of this main story line and into their own.[31]
  • Janus will play a big role in this series.[42]
  • What happened to the Simon Lewis of Thule will be learned.[43][44] The existence and/or fate of the Kit Herondale of Thule may also be revealed.[45]
  • Helen and Aline are set to return, possibly with children.[46] Mark, Cristina and Kieran are also set to make an appearance.[47]
  • Tessa Gray and Jem Carstairs will have an encounter with Will Herondale at some point in the series.[48]
  • The Eternidad seemingly will make an appearance and more information on how it works will be discovered.[49]
  • Being the final series installment, Cassie has plans for all the characters who are still around to face the greatest threat they've ever faced. The characters from different generations of the Shadowhunter Chronicles will have to unite and join forces in the biggest battle they'll ever have to take it down,[50] that something will happen that will change the nature of Shadowhunters and what they mean,[51] and that "the Shadowhunter world will change forever" and would bring the series to an end.[1][52][53]
  • The series currently isn't scheduled, further delayed by COVID-19 challenges, and does not yet have a publisher attached.[54][55] She plans it to be the first thing she writes after her break following Chain of Thorns[56] and does not expect the first book to release before 2025 at least.[57]

Snippets[]

Teaser #1

"I don't think I'm going to be able to let you off with a warning this time, Drusilla," said Luke Garroway, taking off his gold-rimmed spectacles so he could peer more closely at Dru.

Dru crossed one leg over the other. She wished she was wearing something a little more dignified than ripped fishnets, boots, and a t-shirt dress that said SURELY NOT EVERYONE WAS KUNG-FU FIGHTING, but she hadn’t expected to be pulled into the Headmaster’s office so unceremoniously.

Teaser #2

Dru shrugged. "But it's true. I'm impervious. I cannot be perved."

Art[]

Trivia[]

  • The Wicked Powers will feature a plot inspired by and very loosely based on Arthurian legend, following the "parallels" tradition of other series.[58]
  • Cassandra Clare considered turning the series into a tetralogy before officially starting to write the books.[59]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Then the Shadowhunter world wraps up with The Wicked Powers. (That's the plan, anyway.)" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  2. "It would end with TWP." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  3. "The Wicked Powers. Ideally it would be the fifth and last Shadowhunters series." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  4. "... wrap up permanently with an installment called The Wicked Powers," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  5. "But that would be the last series about Shadowhunters." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  6. "You could think of TWP maybe as the last 3 books." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  7. Cassandra Clare's B&N Union Square event
  8. Cassie panel at Bookcon 2017 — Fangirlish video on Twitter
  9. "... about three, in book time." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  10. "It's always been set three or four years after TDA," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  11. "Three years after TDA." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  12. "... how many years after TDA does TWP take place?" "Three." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  13. 13.0 13.1 "Around three/four years. [Ty and Kit will] be about eighteen, Dru about sixteeen/seventeen." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  14. "It is set three years later," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  15. "The Wicked Powers, if I get around to writing it: 2015" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  16. "The Wicked Powers is set in 2015 or so. Three years after Queen." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  17. "TLH and TWP are especially connected." Cassandra Clare in a comment on Instagram
  18. "Are there any hints about what will happen in Wicked Powers in Chain of Thorns?" Cassandra Clare on Instagram
  19. "Yes, Jaime is in fact a more significant character in TWP –" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 "Jaime and Ash are definitely both going to show up in her plotline, though!" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  21. "Ash is important to the ongoing story." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  22. "You'll definitely see more of Ash," CC on Tumblr
  23. Queen of Air and Darkness
  24. "In Wicked Powers, definitely." CC on Tumblr
  25. "We definitely get to explore [his trauma], especially as it's something he and Dru have in common." CC on Tumblr
  26. " you will glimpse one of Dru's new friends in TWP in a crowd scene." CC on Tumblr
  27. "Yes, she's Dru's future good friend, Thais," CC on Tumblr
  28. "She's at Shadowhunter Academy (now relocated to upstate New York.) She has a lot of friends there," CC on Tumblr
  29. "Dru has at least one love interest as the books begin but she'll add at least one more before they're over!" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  30. "She has anxiety and panic attacks that she keeps to herself." CC on Tumblr
  31. 31.0 31.1 31.2 Cassandra Clare on Instagram Live
  32. "His grief, his trauma, will be addressed, but not from the perspective of self-harm specifically." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  33. "Kit doesn't know what his faerie powers exactly do, he only knows they work sometimes, and not always. No one else knows either, so figuring out the exact nature of his power is the first step in TWP." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  34. Recap of Cassandra Clare in Germany — TMI Source
  35. INTERVIEW WITH CASSANDRA CLARE. — emmmabooks on YouTube
  36. "… but the whole government of the Shadowhunters' world changes. And definitely a lot of that happens in Queen." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  37. "It's a fairly significant part of Kit's story," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  38. "... all the ways in which this enormous secret plays out… well, that's for The Wicked Powers." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  39. "Ty [raising Livvy's ghost] makes Wicked Powers possible." CC on Instagram
  40. "Moment at the end of Lost Book points towards events in TWP." CC on Tumblr
  41. "Scheduled to be time-wise during TWP." CC on Tumblr
  42. "... he serves a bigger one in TWP (besides just being the parent that shaped Ash, more than anyone else has been.) I think it's fair to say without him, TWP could not happen." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  43. "Where he is now is a mystery. But not one that won't ever be solved." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  44. Forever Fallen
  45. TMI Source's 10 year anniversary chat with Cassandra Clare
  46. "You will see them ... in TWP — maybe with children," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  47. “We will certainly see them and learn more about them” Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  48. "TESSA AND JEM WILL HAVE AN ENCOUNTER WITH WILL IN THE WICKED POWERS!" — TMISource at CC's Sword Catcher London tour stop
  49. "it doesn't really come up till the Wicked Powers...we will discover, it is true in some parts." CC on Tumblr
  50. "The Shadowhunters will face the greatest threat they've ever faced, and the generations will have to unite to take it down." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  51. Cassandra Clare and Holly Black at a signing in Sydney in 2015 — Aussie Shadowhunters on YouTube
  52. "It will bring the Shadowhunter Chronicles to an end. The Shadowhunter world will change forever." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  53. "A BIG change!" Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  54. "It's not being pushed back in the sense that it was never scheduled." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  55. Cassandra Clare's July 2021 newsletter
  56. When is The Wicked Powers coming out? CC on Instagram
  57. An update on my publishing plans! CC on Instagram
  58. "It's very early days, but I'm going to say Arthurian legend." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  59. "I had been considering making it four books" — Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles
The Mortal Instruments
City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels City of Lost Souls City of Heavenly Fire
The Infernal Devices The Dark Artifices
Clockwork Angel Lady Midnight
Clockwork Prince Lord of Shadows
Clockwork Princess Queen of Air and Darkness
The Last Hours The Wicked Powers
Chain of Gold The Last King of Faerie
Chain of Iron The Last Prince of Hell
Chain of Thorns The Last Shadowhunter
The Eldest Curses
The Red Scrolls of Magic The Lost Book of the White The Black Volume of the Dead
The Bane Chronicles
What Really Happened in Peru Saving Raphael Santiago
The Runaway Queen The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
The Midnight Heir The Last Stand of the New York Institute
The Rise of the Hotel Dumort The Course of True Love (And First Dates)
The Voicemail of Magnus Bane
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy Pale Kings and Princes
The Lost Herondale Bitter of Tongue
The Whitechapel Fiend The Fiery Trial
Nothing but Shadows Born to Endless Night
The Evil We Love Angels Twice Descending
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Cast Long Shadows Son of the Dawn
Every Exquisite Thing The Land I Lost
Learn About Loss Through Blood, Through Fire
A Deeper Love The Lost World
The Wicked Ones Forever Fallen
Companion books
Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
Better in Black: Tales of Romance
The Shadowhunter's Codex
A Long Conversation
An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld
All the Stories are True: Classics Reimagined in the World of the Shadowhunters
Adaptations
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novels
The Official Mortal Instruments Coloring Book
The Infernal Devices: Manga Series
City of Bones: The Graphic Novel
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
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