New interview from Sarah!!! Well it looks like we have some confirmations and theories:
Sarah will start writing CC3 in June of 2022, when her maternity leave ends.
CC3 will be probably released within 18 or 20 months after HOSAB, so it would be August or October of 2023.
The crossover scene in the HOSAB takes place 6 months after the end of ACOSF. So since ACOSF ends in early spring "March", we can say that Bryce comes do Velaris on "September" in early autumn. It may or may not be a coincidence, but ACOSF also started in the fall, marking exactly 1 year since the events ACOSF.
Sarah confirmed that Nyx will have small cameos and that everyone will be very protective of him.
In the end of HOSAB Bryce fell at the River House, not at the Town House. Sarah also mentioned that when Bryce went through the portal she wished for help, so the magic took her to Prythian because it would be where she would find the help she needed. Not being a mistake that Bryce didn't make it to Hel, just the magic taking its course.
CC3 will be split between Bryce's pov in Prythian and the pov of the characters in Midgard. We'll have some development between Ruhn and Lidia, but him and Hunt will pass by intense scenes of violence and torture in the Asteri's dungeons.
CC3 will probably be the longest book Sarah has ever written and all the intersecting parallel universes will be explained in this book. Including the full scene when Rhys saw Aelin passing through Velaris.
It will be explored the history of Bryce and Ruhn's lineage, explaining why Ruhn and Rhys are so similar. It has been mentioned that Bryce and Ruhn are descendants of Queen Theia and respectively Princess Helena and the High General Pelias who became a prince by forcefully marry Helena. It was mentioned in HOSAB that Bryce is the heiress of Theia's powers, and that Ruhn looks like Pelias, so I believe the High General was Rhys's ancestor and likely the predecessor of the High Lords of the Night Court.
Sarah said that the Fae who lived in the Prison predate the Fae who created the Courts in Prythian. So I truly believe that Queen Theia was the High Queen who ruled an independent territory, as mentioned in ACOSF and in HOSAB that the "Starborn Fae", came from an island that remains almost completely in Dusk.
The meaning of the eight-pointed star will be explained in CC3 and how it connects with Bryce and Nesta who had this mark on their body. And why this was the symbol found in the Prison under the harp. I find interesting to mention that when Nesta found the harp she describes hundreds of marks that resemble to "constellations" this could be from the "Starborn" or the Asteri, as they lured to Midgard hundreds of people from different worlds, and by Nesta's vision the Fae were taken against their will and the harp was left as a form of "sealing" to not let them return. This may or not be correct, but in HOSAB the Asteri confirm that one of Theia's daughters, discovered the access points of the Asteri in Prythian and closed them, trapping the Asteri in Midgard for the last 15.000 years, from what the story says these points may be the respective mountains: The Prison, Ramiel and The Mountain in Midle.
I believe this was the most important informations I could interpret from this interview. My biggest expectation would be for a Nessian Novella, but unfortunately this was not asked or mentioned by Sarah. However within the script there is a 6 month gap where this could happen, so hope lives on 🔥🔥🔥
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