LORD OF SHADOWS THEORIES .

**Clary and Jace's Relationship: A Complex Web of Feelings**

As Clary sat down to discuss her feelings with her friends, it was clear that she was dreading this conversation. "I'm dreading answering Jace," she said, her voice laced with anxiety. The room fell silent as everyone present knew that this was not a casual discussion. Their concerns about what was going on in Clary's mind were palpable, and they couldn't help but wonder if everything was okay between her and Jace.

**The Complexity of Young Love**

Growing up, Clary had always been aware of the differences between the Shadowhunter world and the mundane one she inhabited. In the Shadowhunter world, marriage was often seen as a serious commitment, with couples marrying young to build a life together before facing potential danger in battle. On the other hand, in the mundane world, getting married at a young age was not typically encouraged. Clary's own experiences had shaped her views on this topic, and she had always been clear that she did not want to follow suit.

**A Visions of the Future**

Recently, Clary and Jace had found themselves entering the demon realms, where they were given visions of their desires by a demon. These visions revealed to them what each of them truly wanted, and in Clary's case, it highlighted her hesitation about marrying Jace. Her brother, Jonathan, had pointed out that she was engaged to him without even remembering him proposing, which made her realize how uncertain she was about their future together.

**The Weight of Responsibility**

At just 21 years old, Clary and Jace were shouldering a tremendous amount of responsibility as the leaders of the Institute. They had already faced so much trauma in their lives - Clary's mother had stolen her memories, while Jace had survived abuse and was still grappling with his identity. Given everything they had been through, it would have been easy for them to just throw caution to the wind and settle down, but instead, Clary chose to question whether marriage was truly what she wanted.

**A Positive Message**

Clary's hesitation about marrying Jace served as a powerful message for young women everywhere. In an era where YA fiction often perpetuated the idea of young love and marriage, Clary's reluctance stood out as a refreshing change of pace. By refusing to marry at such a young age, Clary took control of her own life and made it clear that she didn't have to conform to societal expectations. This message is one that resonates deeply with readers, particularly those who have felt pressured into making decisions they're not ready for.

**A Love That's Not Defined by Marriage**

For fans of the series, Clary's hesitation about marrying Jace was a bold move that challenged traditional notions of love and relationships. By refusing to rush into marriage, Clary took away one pressure point from their relationship and allowed them to focus on what truly mattered: each other. This approach also spoke to the idea that love is not defined solely by marriage or commitment; it's about finding someone with whom you can build a life together on your own terms.

**A Positive Impact on YA Fiction**

Clary's hesitation about marrying Jace has significant implications for the YA fiction genre as a whole. By subverting traditional expectations around young love and marriage, Cassie Clare's decision sends a positive message to readers. It suggests that women have agency over their lives and choices, and that they don't have to settle for what others expect of them. This shift in perspective is long overdue, and it will undoubtedly influence the way that YA fiction is written and consumed in the years to come.

**What's Next?**

As fans eagerly await the release of Lord of Shadows, there is much speculation about what this new book will bring for Clary and Jace's relationship. Will they find a way to navigate their feelings without rushing into marriage? How will their experiences shape their decisions going forward? One thing is certain: Cassie Clare has given her readers something truly special with Clary's hesitation, and it will be fascinating to see where this journey takes them next.

**Leaving It All Behind**

In the end, Clary's decision not to marry Jace was a bold statement about what she wanted for herself. As she stood by her choice, it was clear that she was willing to take a stand against the expectations placed upon her. This moment marked a turning point in their relationship, one where they were forced to confront their own desires and ambitions. Whether this will lead to even greater challenges or opportunities remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: Clary's hesitation has opened up new possibilities for both of them.

**A New Path Forward**

In the aftermath of her decision, Clary finds herself at a crossroads. She has taken the first step towards defining what she wants from life and love, and it will undoubtedly shape her journey going forward. As we wait with bated breath for the next installment in the series, one thing is clear: Cassie Clare's world-building continues to captivate audiences worldwide. With Clary at its center, it's no wonder why fans can't get enough of this thrilling saga.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's up hello my name is Emma and today I'm going to be sharing some of my theories for Lord of Shadows by Cassandra CLA Lord of Shadows the second book in the dark artifices series by Cassandra CLA comes out on May 23rd we are like just over a month away and I am immensely immensely excited so in anticipation for this book that will destroy me I have some predictions so in planning this video I've realized it's kind of like 34s my theories and then 1/4 a discussion about the dark artifices in general talking about other theories have come across online just all the dark artifices things I am ready to talk about also fair warning as all the shadow huner Chronicles are kind of intertwined I'm going to be pulling from all of the different series The Mortal Instruments The Infernal Devices as well as the dark artifices to make these Series so watch at your own risk if you're not totally caught up starting off we have to talk about the lady midnight as Annabelle wakes up in the epilog of Lady midnight as these spell to wake up Annabelle required Blackthorn blood specifically and none of our favorite black Thorns have died all of us are kind of confused as to how she woke up Cassie CLA answered a Tumblr ask a while ago so I'm going to try my best to find it and link it below but she basically talked about all the other different possibilities that could have happened that caused Annabelle to wake up and where she's going to go from here I'm leaning towards the possibility that this spell can be completed gradually meaning that Annabelle is not completely restored despite waking up I personally believe that Anabelle is kind of like half alive and well she's not fully Alive she's just awoken as as a result of the spell and she's going to spend if not all Lord of Shadows part of Lord of Shadows trying to complete the spell herself whether that means killing a Black Thorn or getting whatever other necessity she needs kind of like Voldemort and Goblet of Fire where he's kind of like half alive but not totally alive that's how I kind of see this going but a little less creepy as we can see the cover of Lord of Shadows features London Bridge and it has been confirmed that part of Lord of Shadows takes place at the London Institute I don't want to necessarily say this has any significant relevance but I did notice this while I was planing my theory Malcolm and Annabelle did fall in love and first meet in Cornwall which is only like 5 hours away from London I'm not going to say for sure that they go there that I really see that even happening but I do think that part of the reason that they're going to England has something to do with Malcolm and Annabelle maybe they're trying to find an end to the curse maybe they know Annabelle is awake and they're trying to stop her from being Fully Alive I don't know I just I saw the connection and it made sense which is the whole point of a theories video as we know from book one lady midnight is not just the title of the first book it is an actual person so of course the question of the hour is who is the Lord of Shadows this is actually a theory that's not individually mine it originally came from Christine from Poland manan's books I'm sure you have watched her Theory video already but if you haven't it's down below but I completely agree with her that it may be Julian if you have readed tals from the shadow under Academy you would know that James her andelle possesses the ability to turn into an actual Shadow as a result of Tessa his mother's demon blood and it is said at least on Shadow Hunters Wikia that Lucy harale also possesses some kind of abilities as a result of her mother's magic though we aren't totally sure as to what they are yet Lucy is confirmed to Mary into the Blackthorn family meaning that Julian and the rest of his family are somehow distantly related to Lucy James and Tessa so it is plausible that somewhere down the line somebody could have like an emergence of demon blood as a result of being related to Tessa gray even that alone opens up so many other questions about the black Thor family from the 1900s on the first question is how potent is this demon blood and can it really surface Generations down the line but does that also mean that there is possibly some black Thorns that may have abilities that we just don't know about yet in lady midnight I unfortunately could not find a specific page number but Arthur Blackthorn does talk about the damnation of the black Thorns so does this mean he may know about the fact that there is some kind of demon magical blood within his family line or is he talking about something completely different that's just going to blow us out of the water regardless either way that quote from him is significant but we have to keep talking about Julian because of this budding love triangle between him and Emma or if you really consider all of Mark's potential love interest it's like literally a love hexagon at this point my basic rundown of how I think Lord of Shadows is going to go is Emma and Mark are going to start dating as they say they're going to at the end of Lady midnight I think Emma may start developing some genuine feelings from Mark because she did have a crush on him when she was like 12 years old but I don't think that means that she's going to stop loving Julian and I don't think that Julian is going to stop loving her either even though that's the whole intention of this stupid fucking setup I do think Julene is going to go absolutely fucking istic I think it's when Julian walks in on Emma and Mark talking but he outright says if you and Mark ever got together I could never come back from that and it's happening and he's not going to come back from it and we all know it Tessa relats to Emma that you can hurt someone enough that they'll stop loving you which is obviously Emma's intention because she's aware that she will never not love Julian but she wants to make him not love her so that this whole power thing doesn't happen so that they don't kill their family and all the people that they love but I don't think this action is going to do anything of that sort I don't think it's going to make him stop loving her I just think it's going to absolutely destroy him inside but I absolutely think they're going to continue loving each other their love is going to grow this power coming from their parabe bond out of romance is going to grow and shit's going to hit the fan but seriously I really feel like Julian is going to get very very dark from this point on I'm absolutely confident in it we already start to see this more cruel side of Julian at the end of Lady midnight when he completely sells out anel Nightshade to Robert Lightwood The Inquisitor just to protect his family oh we will talk about anel night shade later the thing that really gets to me though is this wasn't even like a split-second decision for Julian he had been planning this from the beginning of lady minut like this was a premeditated act on page 631 of Lady midnight Emma actually like expresses her feelings to Julian and she says the way you orchestrated everything tonight Julian you scared me a little as we moved on the page we're getting this overview of everything that Julian is telling Emma and it basically goes into like all these realizations he's had about himself where he says how he did not know who he was sometimes how he was capable of doing the things he did and yet how he couldn't not do them so things are obviously Brewing within Julian and I really don't think it's going to take a turn for the better after finishing lady midnight we learned that love between two parai can really start to corrupt Shadow Hunters they get consumed by power they start doing extremely horrific evil things so what if by the end of Lady midnight the love Emma and Julian half for each other is starting to change him already let's just take that one step further now Cassie Clair has confirmed that four people are going to die in Lord Shadows four named characters that we know of will die in a few weeks so my thought is what if one of those deaths is a result of Emma and Julian being in love with each other because their par ofon is going to corrupt them and I just so a point of Interest across a lot of theories is Emma sword Cortana I am 100% in agreement that the sword holds some kind of unknown significance that we are not aware of yet but there have been a lot of theories relating it to its involvement with the parabati bond everyone wants to know how can we make Emma and Julian not parab anymore we just want them to be happy they cannot be happy and in love unless they are not parabati like how are we going to stop this from happening and the reason that Cortana comes into play is because Emma's mother tells her that a bleed made by Wayan the Smith can cut through anything so everyone is like why can't it cut through the parabati bond in my critique number one it's not specific enough it doesn't say Cortana specifically is the only sword that can cut through a parabot tyon it says that any bleed made by Wayland the Smith can and with that logic then clar sword hph foros would also be able to cut through the parabati bond and I don't think it is individual enough for Grana to be like our amazing magical solution and number two is Cortana is a physical thing and I just don't see how it can cut through an invisible Bond we know from previous books that if you destroy a rune Beyond repair its power will stop working but I don't think cutting is enough to completely eradicate the parabot Tha Bond personally I think just cutting the Rune with Cortana would be like super anticlimactic for like this big crazy fidale but then the only other thing that I can think of that Cortana would really play a part in this is if Emma like stabs Julian with Cortana like in the chest and if that's the case we already did that in city of lost souls and I have higher expectations for something new but on a related note Cortana plays another mysterious role when Emma stabs Malcolm with Cortana she hits the black book and there is this kind of like electricity that goes up her arm and really focuses in on the endurance room that Julian wrote on her and it basically is like burning in pain like there is something something is wrong here so there's been quite a few different people on the internet saying like maybe this broke the paaby bond maybe it weakened it that's also another theory that I just personally don't agree with number one it's really hard for me to believe that the parabati bond can just be broken with like no feeling behind it whatsoever there's been instances of parabati bonds being broken without death but I just feel like if it was something in like such a split second it would be way more significant than just Emma feeling something focused on her endurance Rune like I feel like if something happened her parabot Ty Rune would hurt or it would like come off I just feel like there would have been more number two can you just fucking imagine if we got to Queen of air in darkness and Cass Clair was just like surprise you guys have have not been parai for two books now haha jokes on you plot twist I think that would be the day I stopped reading number three is the one that's really significant for me and that is the fact that if they are no longer parai or if their bond is weakened in some way we won't fully be able to see the effects of parab tha Love in real time logically if the bond doesn't exist anymore we would never have any more impossibly strong runes that come from the other parab TI or we wouldn't have any more scenes of these connected experiences they have they would just be regular Shadow Hunters so personally I 100% in agreement that Cortana has a huge role that is going to play I think it'll probably play more into queen of air and darkness cuz you know we always love the finales for those sorts of things I think it is going to have something huge for us in store but I don't think it's going to fix this current predicament so now we have to talk about Ansel Nightshade which is actually what my first Lord of Shadows theories was because I came up with it while reading lady midnight so while I was reading lady midnight for the first time I also had stopped for a bit to read notable Shadow Hunters and dead and sense of down world it's a book I've talked about quite a lot on my channel basically it's like an encyclopedia about information about certain characters and whatnot when I got to Joselyn phas page I realized that her mother's maiden name was Adele Nightshade so there is a canonical Shadow Hunter family with the last name Nightshade now every single name that Cassie CLA gives one of her characters has significance like we do not have two Jonathan Morgan Sterns for the shits and giggles every time a character is given a name it holds a specific meaning so there is no way no way that there is any coincidence that clary's grandmother's made a name was Nightshade and we have a character with the last name Nightshade this was planned now I don't know for sure exactly how much relevance this scene holds but you guys know that I'm going to read into every single little detail when it comes to the shadow Hunter Chronicles but at the end of Lady midnight when anel Nightshade is being like arrested or taken to the cleave because he's been putting addictive powders in his pizza Clary is the one to apprehend him not Jace who is a more experienced Shadow Hunter not the freaking Inquisitor of the claive who is one of the highest levels of authority it's the only person in that room that we know to have some kind of connection with so that is something really subtle that I picked up on and it's just like feeding into my theory but I swear to God anel Nightshade has some shit in store for his character there's also the fact that in the Mortal Instrument series he was the first vampire chosen to be a part of the new Council so this discovery has left me with a lot of questions a lot of different ways this can go but I'm like so focused on the fact that anel night shade has something to do with the shadow hter part of me is like he has to have been a shadow Hunter at some point like there's literally no other explanation for him to have a shadow Hunter family name but then the other part of me is like how don't people know this everyone in their mother knows that Luke was born Lucian greymark a shadow Hunter anel n she carries around a shadow Hunter name without any fear like Johnny Rook did Shadow Hunters are so limited in Supply like how do they not know that one of them turned into a down worlder so I have two theories number one is that anel Nightshade is a part of a lost line of nightshades it's not the ones that Adele was from that are still within the cleave whether it was an's family whether it was one of his ancestors at some point they left the cleave they disappeared they kind of took a love lace route like where George love lace came from and he never had marks he was never a part of that cave and that's why nobody knows that he was previously a shadow Hunter I personally believe in theory one at this point but there is the possibility that the cleave actually does know that anel Nightshade was a shadow hunter or at least exclusive members of the Cleo and that's potentially why he was originally chosen as a representative as you Shadow Hunter favor Luke they feel he's more trustworthy because he was a shadow Hunter maybe the same thing applied to anel Theory number three that I literally just thought of is that anel is actually Adele's brother and like oh my God alliteration I literally just realized that's actually kind of plausible especially because we know nothing about Adele Nightshade other than it's Joselyn Fry's mother I'm definitely sticking with the fact that he is a part of a lost line of Shadow Hunters which kind of seems to be Cassie cla's thing as we have seen in her other books but the other two are possible I just know for a fact that anel night Jade is going to play a significant role that none of us really expect so now I want to talk about kitten TI because I'm fucking obsessed they're going to train together they are going to fall in love they're going to become boyfriends and they are going to be the main characters of the wicked Powers fight me Cassie said that after the release of Lord of shatter she's going to confirm who the main characters of the wicked powers are and I am telling you it is kit anai we don't know much about the wicked Powers but we do know that the two protagonists are going to be two of the younger blackthorns we know that another main character is going to be a herend that is not Jace and we also know that it takes place like 3 or 4 years after the end of the dark artifices number one Ty and Li your twins number two Kit's real name is Jonathan harale and number three about three or four years after the dark artifices if I am correct Ty Livia and kit were all be around like 17 18 which is like the prime time age for a ya protagonist another theory related to this whether it happens at the end of Lord of Shadows or queen of air and darkness is that by the end of the dark artifices Tai will agree to be Livy's par ofai Liv really really wants to be Tai's parab and when I think about it breaks my heart because Tai just he just doesn't grasp the concept and the significance of parabatai he is like we can do all of this stuff anyways just being siblings and Shadow hunters and he wants to go to the skola man which he can't do if he has a parabatai but I do believe that by the end of everything they go through he will agree to be liby's parai and somewhere down the line it's reported that Cassie did say that she wants to write a story about gay Shadow hunters in the future so I am telling you right now the wicked Powers is going to feature kid Herondale and Ty Blackthorne and his par with Ty Livy and they're going to live happily ever after after fighting for the rights of the Shadow Hunter world and it's going to be fucking amazing so the final topic I want to talk about in this video is about a long conversation and this is going to be a long conversation about a long conversation everyone and their mother after reading lady midnight and the following short story wants to know what's wrong with Jason Clary why doesn't Clary want to marry Jace why doesn't Clary love Jace anymore why is CLA having problems all I am thinking in this chaos is why are we carrying on this idea that one's love for another and their relationship is determined by a proposal acceptance not saying yes to a proposal does not necessarily mean that you don't love the person it doesn't necessarily mean that you don't want to marry this person it can just mean that you don't want to be married right this second Clary can absolutely say Jace I am completely an irrevocably in love with you and I do want to marry you someday but it's not something I want to consider right now and I know for a fact that Jace would be 100% respectful of her decision the short story basically ends with Clary saying that she's dreading answering Jace and everyone's like oh my God why is she dreading answering him this is like the worst thing to ever happen and like she could possibly just be dreading telling him no because she doesn't want to hurt his feelings because she knows that Jace takes everything very personally none of this suggests an impending breakup we also have to remember that Clary and Jace came from two very different worlds with different marriage Customs Jace comes from Shadow Hunters that believe that time with your love ones is limited and so you have to take every chance that you can to be with them we marry young and we have children and we start a family young because you could die in battle the next day Clary comes from the mundane world where as a society we are progressively getting married later in life like I think in 2007 when Clary originally met Jace and when she started to fall in love with him the average age of a woman to be married was 26 which is still 5 years later as to what the age she is now and uh if you were as obsessed with the shadow hun Chronicles as I am we would know that in city of Glass on page 388 Clary expresses her feelings about young marriage when Joselyn tells her that she married Valentine at 18 and Clare's response is oh my God Clary said in horror you'd kill me if I wanted to get married when I was 18 so whether it is just in her own household Clary has grown up knowing that getting married while young is not something that is necessarily approved of but in city of heav fire we actually get more specific into clary's personal feelings about marrying specifically marrying Jace this happens right after Clary Jay Simon Isabelle and Alec have entered the demon Realms and they are given these dreams of these Visions as to what they really want by this demon and Clary is engaged to Jace so when finding out that she's engaged to jaay she says I just don't remember him proposing and so her brother Jonathan says oh I don't know if he ever did we all just knew you'd end up together it was inevitable but I should have gotten to chew she said in in your whisper I should have gotten to say yes and then Jonathan replies well you would have wouldn't you and if you turn to the next page she doesn't respond to end that Cassy Clair is the queen of foreshadowing and we all know it but seriously CLA and jce have been through so much already clary's mother stole her memories and the person that she really is she also killed her father and her brother at 16 jcece is a survivor of abuse and he's probably still coming to terms with his identity and both of these two individuals have a massive responsibility at 21 years old being some of the youngest people to ever run an Institute they are so fucking young can we just let them Revel in the Innocence that has been stolen from them time and time again without having to impose different expectations on them on top of everything they're going through from the very first time I finished this short story I viewed clary's hesitation as a way to challenge the idea that to be happy and in love is to be married right off the bed I was so impressed that Cassie CLA took this risk because I knew fans were going to be upset but it really does step out of so many different YA books that are out there and I think it is a positive thing for this genre as a whole and knowing that there is now this message to young girls and young women that we are capable of making our own choices is that we don't have to be married so young or be married at all and we can still be loving caring successful individuals that is so much more important to me than seeing my all-time favorite 100% ship OTP being married with a bunch of kids at such a young age that is why I loved clary's hesitation and what we've all pursued to be Clary saying no I stand by it and I think it is a really positive thing as I'm thinking about it I'm like what if Cassie Clair comes across my reaction to the scene and she is just like she actually doesn't love J anymore they're all going to die gotcha probably but that is essentially it for my Lord of Shadows theories discussions all that good stuff Lord of Shadows comes out so unbelievably soon I am crazy excited for it and I hope you guys are too definitely leave some comments below let me know what some of your theories are what do you think of my theories don't be afraid to bash on them cuz I'm all for discussion but that is it for this video thank you guys so much for watching and I'll will see you soon for a new one bye you nowhey what's up hello my name is Emma and today I'm going to be sharing some of my theories for Lord of Shadows by Cassandra CLA Lord of Shadows the second book in the dark artifices series by Cassandra CLA comes out on May 23rd we are like just over a month away and I am immensely immensely excited so in anticipation for this book that will destroy me I have some predictions so in planning this video I've realized it's kind of like 34s my theories and then 1/4 a discussion about the dark artifices in general talking about other theories have come across online just all the dark artifices things I am ready to talk about also fair warning as all the shadow huner Chronicles are kind of intertwined I'm going to be pulling from all of the different series The Mortal Instruments The Infernal Devices as well as the dark artifices to make these Series so watch at your own risk if you're not totally caught up starting off we have to talk about the lady midnight as Annabelle wakes up in the epilog of Lady midnight as these spell to wake up Annabelle required Blackthorn blood specifically and none of our favorite black Thorns have died all of us are kind of confused as to how she woke up Cassie CLA answered a Tumblr ask a while ago so I'm going to try my best to find it and link it below but she basically talked about all the other different possibilities that could have happened that caused Annabelle to wake up and where she's going to go from here I'm leaning towards the possibility that this spell can be completed gradually meaning that Annabelle is not completely restored despite waking up I personally believe that Anabelle is kind of like half alive and well she's not fully Alive she's just awoken as as a result of the spell and she's going to spend if not all Lord of Shadows part of Lord of Shadows trying to complete the spell herself whether that means killing a Black Thorn or getting whatever other necessity she needs kind of like Voldemort and Goblet of Fire where he's kind of like half alive but not totally alive that's how I kind of see this going but a little less creepy as we can see the cover of Lord of Shadows features London Bridge and it has been confirmed that part of Lord of Shadows takes place at the London Institute I don't want to necessarily say this has any significant relevance but I did notice this while I was planing my theory Malcolm and Annabelle did fall in love and first meet in Cornwall which is only like 5 hours away from London I'm not going to say for sure that they go there that I really see that even happening but I do think that part of the reason that they're going to England has something to do with Malcolm and Annabelle maybe they're trying to find an end to the curse maybe they know Annabelle is awake and they're trying to stop her from being Fully Alive I don't know I just I saw the connection and it made sense which is the whole point of a theories video as we know from book one lady midnight is not just the title of the first book it is an actual person so of course the question of the hour is who is the Lord of Shadows this is actually a theory that's not individually mine it originally came from Christine from Poland manan's books I'm sure you have watched her Theory video already but if you haven't it's down below but I completely agree with her that it may be Julian if you have readed tals from the shadow under Academy you would know that James her andelle possesses the ability to turn into an actual Shadow as a result of Tessa his mother's demon blood and it is said at least on Shadow Hunters Wikia that Lucy harale also possesses some kind of abilities as a result of her mother's magic though we aren't totally sure as to what they are yet Lucy is confirmed to Mary into the Blackthorn family meaning that Julian and the rest of his family are somehow distantly related to Lucy James and Tessa so it is plausible that somewhere down the line somebody could have like an emergence of demon blood as a result of being related to Tessa gray even that alone opens up so many other questions about the black Thor family from the 1900s on the first question is how potent is this demon blood and can it really surface Generations down the line but does that also mean that there is possibly some black Thorns that may have abilities that we just don't know about yet in lady midnight I unfortunately could not find a specific page number but Arthur Blackthorn does talk about the damnation of the black Thorns so does this mean he may know about the fact that there is some kind of demon magical blood within his family line or is he talking about something completely different that's just going to blow us out of the water regardless either way that quote from him is significant but we have to keep talking about Julian because of this budding love triangle between him and Emma or if you really consider all of Mark's potential love interest it's like literally a love hexagon at this point my basic rundown of how I think Lord of Shadows is going to go is Emma and Mark are going to start dating as they say they're going to at the end of Lady midnight I think Emma may start developing some genuine feelings from Mark because she did have a crush on him when she was like 12 years old but I don't think that means that she's going to stop loving Julian and I don't think that Julian is going to stop loving her either even though that's the whole intention of this stupid fucking setup I do think Julene is going to go absolutely fucking istic I think it's when Julian walks in on Emma and Mark talking but he outright says if you and Mark ever got together I could never come back from that and it's happening and he's not going to come back from it and we all know it Tessa relats to Emma that you can hurt someone enough that they'll stop loving you which is obviously Emma's intention because she's aware that she will never not love Julian but she wants to make him not love her so that this whole power thing doesn't happen so that they don't kill their family and all the people that they love but I don't think this action is going to do anything of that sort I don't think it's going to make him stop loving her I just think it's going to absolutely destroy him inside but I absolutely think they're going to continue loving each other their love is going to grow this power coming from their parabe bond out of romance is going to grow and shit's going to hit the fan but seriously I really feel like Julian is going to get very very dark from this point on I'm absolutely confident in it we already start to see this more cruel side of Julian at the end of Lady midnight when he completely sells out anel Nightshade to Robert Lightwood The Inquisitor just to protect his family oh we will talk about anel night shade later the thing that really gets to me though is this wasn't even like a split-second decision for Julian he had been planning this from the beginning of lady minut like this was a premeditated act on page 631 of Lady midnight Emma actually like expresses her feelings to Julian and she says the way you orchestrated everything tonight Julian you scared me a little as we moved on the page we're getting this overview of everything that Julian is telling Emma and it basically goes into like all these realizations he's had about himself where he says how he did not know who he was sometimes how he was capable of doing the things he did and yet how he couldn't not do them so things are obviously Brewing within Julian and I really don't think it's going to take a turn for the better after finishing lady midnight we learned that love between two parai can really start to corrupt Shadow Hunters they get consumed by power they start doing extremely horrific evil things so what if by the end of Lady midnight the love Emma and Julian half for each other is starting to change him already let's just take that one step further now Cassie Clair has confirmed that four people are going to die in Lord Shadows four named characters that we know of will die in a few weeks so my thought is what if one of those deaths is a result of Emma and Julian being in love with each other because their par ofon is going to corrupt them and I just so a point of Interest across a lot of theories is Emma sword Cortana I am 100% in agreement that the sword holds some kind of unknown significance that we are not aware of yet but there have been a lot of theories relating it to its involvement with the parabati bond everyone wants to know how can we make Emma and Julian not parab anymore we just want them to be happy they cannot be happy and in love unless they are not parabati like how are we going to stop this from happening and the reason that Cortana comes into play is because Emma's mother tells her that a bleed made by Wayan the Smith can cut through anything so everyone is like why can't it cut through the parabati bond in my critique number one it's not specific enough it doesn't say Cortana specifically is the only sword that can cut through a parabot tyon it says that any bleed made by Wayland the Smith can and with that logic then clar sword hph foros would also be able to cut through the parabati bond and I don't think it is individual enough for Grana to be like our amazing magical solution and number two is Cortana is a physical thing and I just don't see how it can cut through an invisible Bond we know from previous books that if you destroy a rune Beyond repair its power will stop working but I don't think cutting is enough to completely eradicate the parabot Tha Bond personally I think just cutting the Rune with Cortana would be like super anticlimactic for like this big crazy fidale but then the only other thing that I can think of that Cortana would really play a part in this is if Emma like stabs Julian with Cortana like in the chest and if that's the case we already did that in city of lost souls and I have higher expectations for something new but on a related note Cortana plays another mysterious role when Emma stabs Malcolm with Cortana she hits the black book and there is this kind of like electricity that goes up her arm and really focuses in on the endurance room that Julian wrote on her and it basically is like burning in pain like there is something something is wrong here so there's been quite a few different people on the internet saying like maybe this broke the paaby bond maybe it weakened it that's also another theory that I just personally don't agree with number one it's really hard for me to believe that the parabati bond can just be broken with like no feeling behind it whatsoever there's been instances of parabati bonds being broken without death but I just feel like if it was something in like such a split second it would be way more significant than just Emma feeling something focused on her endurance Rune like I feel like if something happened her parabot Ty Rune would hurt or it would like come off I just feel like there would have been more number two can you just fucking imagine if we got to Queen of air in darkness and Cass Clair was just like surprise you guys have have not been parai for two books now haha jokes on you plot twist I think that would be the day I stopped reading number three is the one that's really significant for me and that is the fact that if they are no longer parai or if their bond is weakened in some way we won't fully be able to see the effects of parab tha Love in real time logically if the bond doesn't exist anymore we would never have any more impossibly strong runes that come from the other parab TI or we wouldn't have any more scenes of these connected experiences they have they would just be regular Shadow Hunters so personally I 100% in agreement that Cortana has a huge role that is going to play I think it'll probably play more into queen of air and darkness cuz you know we always love the finales for those sorts of things I think it is going to have something huge for us in store but I don't think it's going to fix this current predicament so now we have to talk about Ansel Nightshade which is actually what my first Lord of Shadows theories was because I came up with it while reading lady midnight so while I was reading lady midnight for the first time I also had stopped for a bit to read notable Shadow Hunters and dead and sense of down world it's a book I've talked about quite a lot on my channel basically it's like an encyclopedia about information about certain characters and whatnot when I got to Joselyn phas page I realized that her mother's maiden name was Adele Nightshade so there is a canonical Shadow Hunter family with the last name Nightshade now every single name that Cassie CLA gives one of her characters has significance like we do not have two Jonathan Morgan Sterns for the shits and giggles every time a character is given a name it holds a specific meaning so there is no way no way that there is any coincidence that clary's grandmother's made a name was Nightshade and we have a character with the last name Nightshade this was planned now I don't know for sure exactly how much relevance this scene holds but you guys know that I'm going to read into every single little detail when it comes to the shadow Hunter Chronicles but at the end of Lady midnight when anel Nightshade is being like arrested or taken to the cleave because he's been putting addictive powders in his pizza Clary is the one to apprehend him not Jace who is a more experienced Shadow Hunter not the freaking Inquisitor of the claive who is one of the highest levels of authority it's the only person in that room that we know to have some kind of connection with so that is something really subtle that I picked up on and it's just like feeding into my theory but I swear to God anel Nightshade has some shit in store for his character there's also the fact that in the Mortal Instrument series he was the first vampire chosen to be a part of the new Council so this discovery has left me with a lot of questions a lot of different ways this can go but I'm like so focused on the fact that anel night shade has something to do with the shadow hter part of me is like he has to have been a shadow Hunter at some point like there's literally no other explanation for him to have a shadow Hunter family name but then the other part of me is like how don't people know this everyone in their mother knows that Luke was born Lucian greymark a shadow Hunter anel n she carries around a shadow Hunter name without any fear like Johnny Rook did Shadow Hunters are so limited in Supply like how do they not know that one of them turned into a down worlder so I have two theories number one is that anel Nightshade is a part of a lost line of nightshades it's not the ones that Adele was from that are still within the cleave whether it was an's family whether it was one of his ancestors at some point they left the cleave they disappeared they kind of took a love lace route like where George love lace came from and he never had marks he was never a part of that cave and that's why nobody knows that he was previously a shadow Hunter I personally believe in theory one at this point but there is the possibility that the cleave actually does know that anel Nightshade was a shadow hunter or at least exclusive members of the Cleo and that's potentially why he was originally chosen as a representative as you Shadow Hunter favor Luke they feel he's more trustworthy because he was a shadow Hunter maybe the same thing applied to anel Theory number three that I literally just thought of is that anel is actually Adele's brother and like oh my God alliteration I literally just realized that's actually kind of plausible especially because we know nothing about Adele Nightshade other than it's Joselyn Fry's mother I'm definitely sticking with the fact that he is a part of a lost line of Shadow Hunters which kind of seems to be Cassie cla's thing as we have seen in her other books but the other two are possible I just know for a fact that anel night Jade is going to play a significant role that none of us really expect so now I want to talk about kitten TI because I'm fucking obsessed they're going to train together they are going to fall in love they're going to become boyfriends and they are going to be the main characters of the wicked Powers fight me Cassie said that after the release of Lord of shatter she's going to confirm who the main characters of the wicked powers are and I am telling you it is kit anai we don't know much about the wicked Powers but we do know that the two protagonists are going to be two of the younger blackthorns we know that another main character is going to be a herend that is not Jace and we also know that it takes place like 3 or 4 years after the end of the dark artifices number one Ty and Li your twins number two Kit's real name is Jonathan harale and number three about three or four years after the dark artifices if I am correct Ty Livia and kit were all be around like 17 18 which is like the prime time age for a ya protagonist another theory related to this whether it happens at the end of Lord of Shadows or queen of air and darkness is that by the end of the dark artifices Tai will agree to be Livy's par ofai Liv really really wants to be Tai's parab and when I think about it breaks my heart because Tai just he just doesn't grasp the concept and the significance of parabatai he is like we can do all of this stuff anyways just being siblings and Shadow hunters and he wants to go to the skola man which he can't do if he has a parabatai but I do believe that by the end of everything they go through he will agree to be liby's parai and somewhere down the line it's reported that Cassie did say that she wants to write a story about gay Shadow hunters in the future so I am telling you right now the wicked Powers is going to feature kid Herondale and Ty Blackthorne and his par with Ty Livy and they're going to live happily ever after after fighting for the rights of the Shadow Hunter world and it's going to be fucking amazing so the final topic I want to talk about in this video is about a long conversation and this is going to be a long conversation about a long conversation everyone and their mother after reading lady midnight and the following short story wants to know what's wrong with Jason Clary why doesn't Clary want to marry Jace why doesn't Clary love Jace anymore why is CLA having problems all I am thinking in this chaos is why are we carrying on this idea that one's love for another and their relationship is determined by a proposal acceptance not saying yes to a proposal does not necessarily mean that you don't love the person it doesn't necessarily mean that you don't want to marry this person it can just mean that you don't want to be married right this second Clary can absolutely say Jace I am completely an irrevocably in love with you and I do want to marry you someday but it's not something I want to consider right now and I know for a fact that Jace would be 100% respectful of her decision the short story basically ends with Clary saying that she's dreading answering Jace and everyone's like oh my God why is she dreading answering him this is like the worst thing to ever happen and like she could possibly just be dreading telling him no because she doesn't want to hurt his feelings because she knows that Jace takes everything very personally none of this suggests an impending breakup we also have to remember that Clary and Jace came from two very different worlds with different marriage Customs Jace comes from Shadow Hunters that believe that time with your love ones is limited and so you have to take every chance that you can to be with them we marry young and we have children and we start a family young because you could die in battle the next day Clary comes from the mundane world where as a society we are progressively getting married later in life like I think in 2007 when Clary originally met Jace and when she started to fall in love with him the average age of a woman to be married was 26 which is still 5 years later as to what the age she is now and uh if you were as obsessed with the shadow hun Chronicles as I am we would know that in city of Glass on page 388 Clary expresses her feelings about young marriage when Joselyn tells her that she married Valentine at 18 and Clare's response is oh my God Clary said in horror you'd kill me if I wanted to get married when I was 18 so whether it is just in her own household Clary has grown up knowing that getting married while young is not something that is necessarily approved of but in city of heav fire we actually get more specific into clary's personal feelings about marrying specifically marrying Jace this happens right after Clary Jay Simon Isabelle and Alec have entered the demon Realms and they are given these dreams of these Visions as to what they really want by this demon and Clary is engaged to Jace so when finding out that she's engaged to jaay she says I just don't remember him proposing and so her brother Jonathan says oh I don't know if he ever did we all just knew you'd end up together it was inevitable but I should have gotten to chew she said in in your whisper I should have gotten to say yes and then Jonathan replies well you would have wouldn't you and if you turn to the next page she doesn't respond to end that Cassy Clair is the queen of foreshadowing and we all know it but seriously CLA and jce have been through so much already clary's mother stole her memories and the person that she really is she also killed her father and her brother at 16 jcece is a survivor of abuse and he's probably still coming to terms with his identity and both of these two individuals have a massive responsibility at 21 years old being some of the youngest people to ever run an Institute they are so fucking young can we just let them Revel in the Innocence that has been stolen from them time and time again without having to impose different expectations on them on top of everything they're going through from the very first time I finished this short story I viewed clary's hesitation as a way to challenge the idea that to be happy and in love is to be married right off the bed I was so impressed that Cassie CLA took this risk because I knew fans were going to be upset but it really does step out of so many different YA books that are out there and I think it is a positive thing for this genre as a whole and knowing that there is now this message to young girls and young women that we are capable of making our own choices is that we don't have to be married so young or be married at all and we can still be loving caring successful individuals that is so much more important to me than seeing my all-time favorite 100% ship OTP being married with a bunch of kids at such a young age that is why I loved clary's hesitation and what we've all pursued to be Clary saying no I stand by it and I think it is a really positive thing as I'm thinking about it I'm like what if Cassie Clair comes across my reaction to the scene and she is just like she actually doesn't love J anymore they're all going to die gotcha probably but that is essentially it for my Lord of Shadows theories discussions all that good stuff Lord of Shadows comes out so unbelievably soon I am crazy excited for it and I hope you guys are too definitely leave some comments below let me know what some of your theories are what do you think of my theories don't be afraid to bash on them cuz I'm all for discussion but that is it for this video thank you guys so much for watching and I'll will see you soon for a new one bye you now\n"