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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 an upcoming 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."

The series will follow Dru Blackthorn, Kit Herondale, and Ty Blackthorn from The Dark Artifices as they are drawn into the final massive conflict between demons and angels. As they face down the biggest threat they have ever faced with the help of their friends and family, they will change the Shadow World forever.

The publishing rights to the series were obtained by Random House in the US and Walker Books in the UK. The first book is scheduled for release in spring of 2026.[7]

Books[]

The following are the working titles of the books in the series:[8]

Teasers[]

Information[]

To reiterate, TWP is currently in the works. Information listed below may be subject to change.

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."

Teaser #3

"He looks so much like Jesse," Jem said.

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[61] and in a smaller sense as it focuses on the apocalypse and biblical sources.[62] It will also return to The Mortal Instruments' references of Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno.[63]
  • Cassandra Clare considered turning the series into a tetralogy before officially starting to write the books.[64]
  • This will be the first and only series of The Shadowhunter Chronicles not to be printed by Simon & Schuster in the U.S.

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 April 5, 2024 newsletter
  8. Cassandra Clare's B&N Union Square event
  9. Cassie panel at Bookcon 2017 — Fangirlish video on Twitter
  10. "... about three, in book time." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  11. "It's always been set three or four years after TDA," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  12. "Three years after TDA." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  13. "... how many years after TDA does TWP take place?" "Three." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  14. 14.0 14.1 "Around three/four years. [Ty and Kit will] be about eighteen, Dru about sixteeen/seventeen." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  15. "It is set three years later," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  16. "The Wicked Powers, if I get around to writing it: 2015" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  17. "The Wicked Powers is set in 2015 or so. Three years after Queen." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  18. "TLH and TWP are especially connected." Cassandra Clare in a comment on Instagram
  19. "Are there any hints about what will happen in Wicked Powers in Chain of Thorns?" Cassandra Clare on Instagram
  20. "Yes, Jaime is in fact a more significant character in TWP –" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 "Jaime and Ash are definitely both going to show up in her plotline, though!" Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  22. "Ash is important to the ongoing story." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  23. "You'll definitely see more of Ash," CC on Tumblr
  24. Queen of Air and Darkness
  25. "In Wicked Powers, definitely." CC on Tumblr
  26. "We definitely get to explore [his trauma], especially as it's something he and Dru have in common." CC on Tumblr
  27. " you will glimpse one of Dru's new friends in TWP in a crowd scene." CC on Tumblr
  28. "Yes, she's Dru's future good friend, Thais," CC on Tumblr
  29. "She's at Shadowhunter Academy (now relocated to upstate New York.) She has a lot of friends there," CC on Tumblr
  30. "They may get commented on but that's about it." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  31. "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
  32. "She has anxiety and panic attacks that she keeps to herself." CC on Tumblr
  33. 33.0 33.1 33.2 Cassandra Clare on Instagram Live
  34. "His grief, his trauma, will be addressed, but not from the perspective of self-harm specifically." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  35. "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
  36. Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
  37. "Is James's gun important in The Wicked Powers? Cassandra Clare on Instagram
  38. "Kit also gets tutored by Jem and Tessa in Shadowhunter stuff" — Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  39. "They do take a road trip" — Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  40. Recap of Cassandra Clare in Germany — TMI Source
  41. INTERVIEW WITH CASSANDRA CLARE. — emmmabooks on YouTube
  42. "… but the whole government of the Shadowhunters' world changes. And definitely a lot of that happens in Queen." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  43. "It's a fairly significant part of Kit's story," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  44. "... all the ways in which this enormous secret plays out… well, that's for The Wicked Powers." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  45. "Ty [raising Livvy's ghost] makes Wicked Powers possible." CC on Instagram
  46. "Moment at the end of Lost Book points towards events in TWP." CC on Tumblr
  47. "Scheduled to be time-wise during TWP." CC on Tumblr
  48. "... 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
  49. "[Ash and Janus's] relationship powers a lot of what happens in the books," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  50. "Where he is now is a mystery. But not one that won't ever be solved." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  51. Forever Fallen
  52. TMI Source's 10 year anniversary chat with Cassandra Clare
  53. "You will see them ... in TWP — maybe with children," Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  54. “We will certainly see them and learn more about them” Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  55. "TESSA AND JEM WILL HAVE AN ENCOUNTER WITH WILL IN THE WICKED POWERS!" — TMISource at CC's Sword Catcher London tour stop
  56. "it doesn't really come up till the Wicked Powers...we will discover, it is true in some parts." CC on Tumblr
  57. "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
  58. Cassandra Clare and Holly Black at a signing in Sydney in 2015 — Aussie Shadowhunters on YouTube
  59. "It will bring the Shadowhunter Chronicles to an end. The Shadowhunter world will change forever." Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  60. "A BIG change!" Cassandra Clare on Twitter
  61. "It's very early days, but I'm going to say Arthurian legend." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  62. "Is The Wicked Powers based on Arthurian mythology?" Cassandra Clare on Instagram
  63. "A lot of what happens turns on various pieces of biblical mythology (since we're dealing with Lucifer!) and references to Paradise Lost/Dante." Cassandra Clare on Tumblr
  64. "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
A Sea Change
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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