Clary Fairchild Clarissa Adele "Clary" Fairchild is a fictional character and the main protagonist of
The Mortal Instruments series. She is the daughter of Valentine Morgenstern and Jocelyn Fairchild, stepdaughter of Lucian Graymark. She is also the sister to Jonathan Christopher 'Sebastian' Morgenstern. While at a New York City nightclub, the Pandemonium, she is stunned to observe a group of teenagers stalk and attack a supposed 'human' and tries to stop them. She learns their names are Jace, Alec and Isabelle. They reveal that the man was truly a demon and hint themselves to be a part of a Supernatural community called the 'Shadowhunters'. She thinks that they are all mad at first but stalls when she sees when the 'human' the Shadowhunters were stalking suddenly grows claws and strange eyes and disappears when killed. She had called the security of the place before, and when they come, she soon realizes that she is the only person able to see them. After the battle, Clary is introduced to the group of teens, who identify themselves as Shadowhunters, a race of humans who are physically enhanced with angel blood and secretly protect humanity from demons. When her mother Jocelyn goes missing, Clary learns that the event is connected to the conflict between the Shadowhunters and their enemies. She then enters the Shadowhunter fold and there she finds that she also is a Shadowhunter. Her mother had paid the warlock Magnus Bane to put a block in her head so she could not remember parts of the Shadow World even moments after she sees it. She and the group of Shadowhunters try to find hints to find her mother. In the process, she falls in love with fellow Shadowhunter Jace Wayland. Clary learns that Valentine Morgenstern, who is supposed to be long dead but truly is not, the main antagonist of the series, is her biological father and her mother's husband. At the end of
City of Bones, Valentine tells them that Clary and Jace are siblings — which, as they discover later in the series, is a lie. In the second book of the series,
City of Ashes, Clary dates her best friend Simon, who has for a long time had a crush on her, to forget Jace during the torturous time of believing him to be her brother. She is told by the Seelie Queen that she and Jace are Valentine's experiments but mysteriously does not explain further. She finds out later that she was exposed to powdered angel blood through her mother who consumed it unknowingly while she was pregnant with Clary. This angelic blood granted her the ability to create runes that do not exist and amplify the power of existing runes for herself. At the end of the second novel, Clary finds that an old friend of her mother, Madeleine, knows how to wake her mother, who has been in a magical coma since the first book. In
City of Glass, it is discovered that Jocelyn had taken a potion, made by a warlock named Ragnor Fell, to induce a comatose state and prevent her from being interrogated by Valentine. Before she dies, Madeleine tells Clary she needs to find Fell, who will help her cure her mother. Clary, using her power to create runes, creates a rune with the ability to create a Portal a magic and conveys herself and Luke to Idris, and falls into Lake Lyn and drinks some of the water by accident; this causes her to hallucinate because the lake's water is poisonous to Shadowhunters. Luke then takes her to his sister Amatis for healing. During her stay in Alicante, Clary ventures to find Ragnor Fell, who will be able to help her with the potion. She is escorted there by Sebastian Verlac, whom she recently met, in an attempt to make contact with Fell. Instead, she finds Magnus Bane. He tells her of Ragnor's death and how he was called as a replacement and requests that she find him the
Book of White in return for his help. She returns to Alicante, where Sebastian kisses her. She rejects him after having feelings of "wrong" while he kissed her, and they continue back to Alicante. She then learns that something called the
Book of White has been hidden in Wayland Manor, and travels with Jace to retrieve it. Inside the Manor, they find the angel Ithuriel tied up and left for dead in the basement. He gives both Shadowhunters visions of Valentine experimenting on his children with the demon and his angel blood in an attempt to make a stronger warrior. They escape from Wayland Manor, after freeing Ithuriel so that he can finally die; the two then share a moment of passionate romance. They return to Alicante to see it burning from the first assault on the city, and after things are in order, Clary meets with the others and they go to free Simon who was taken to a Conclave prison called The Guard. They return to see the Clave, and Clary uses her rune ability to create a binding rune, enabling Shadowhunters and Downworlders to share powers. All those of age go to the battle on Brocelind Plains, and Clary has to give Simon the Mark of Cain so that the vampires will join the fight. At last, Magnus wakes Clary's mother Jocelyn, who informs Clary that Jace isn't her brother. Her real brother is Jonathan Morgenstern, who has, this whole time, pretended to be Sebastian. It is soon revealed that Sebastian is a spy for Valentine and that he tried to seduce Clary into teaming up with him. Clary then tries to locate Jace to help him. She runs into Valentine, who ties her down in order to complete his summoning of the Angel Raziel by using her blood. Then, when Jace arrives to rescue her, Valentine forces her to watch as he fatally stabs Jace in the chest. Upon summoning the angel, Clary changes the marks on Valentine's summoning circle, giving her the ability to control the Angel, and after Valentine is slain, wishes to have Jace back. After Jace is brought back to life, the two get together. In the fourth book,
City of Fallen Angels, Clary and Jace are happily in love. But soon, Jace starts to behave strangely and avoids her, leading Clary to assume he wants to break up with her. In truth, he has been influenced by Lilith, mother of all demons and former wife of Adam before Eve, who sent him dreams in which he kills or hurts Clary, because when he was raised from the dead by
Raziel, all of his protections placed on him at birth were stripped away, leaving him vulnerable to demonic influence. During the party, when Lucian's pack celebrated his engagement with Clary's mother Jocelyn, she is kidnapped by a fully possessed Jace and taken to Lilith. There, she learns her brother Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern/Sebastian Verlac is going to be raised from the dead by Simon, who is blackmailed by Lilith for the life of Clary, and she was brought just to make him do that. Using Jace's affection for her (which remains undiminished because his possession has no effect on that part of him), she cuts the rune which enabled Lilith to control him. Jace and Lilith fight fiercely until Lilith stops him by torturing Clary. Seeing his chance, Simon comes in the way of Lilith's blow to Clary, the Mark of Cain possessed by him returns the blow sevenfold to Lilith, destroying her. After Lilith's destruction, Isabelle and Alec appear on the scene, but Jace shoos them away since he doesn't want to be consoled as he feels terrible for hurting Clary, in spite of the fact that he wasn't himself. Alec then shoves Clary back to the room as they get into the elevator, feeling that only she can help him. Clary and Jace reaffirm their love after she convinces him he is not a horrible person. The last words Clary says to him before going down are, "I'll be back. Five minutes," and they share a kiss before she leaves and comes back to find him gone, unaware his rune has healed and he is possessed once again. In the fifth book of the series,
City of Lost Souls, Clary has realized that Jace has gone away with Sebastian Morgenstern. The Clave was alarmed by the sudden disappearance of Sebastian and Jace and started to search for any signs of them, after two weeks of repeating the same statement about what happened at the rooftop, before Clary left him with Sebastian, alive by Simon's blood. But other problems come to the Clave and it has to set aside the search for Jonathan. Clary is outraged by the news. Using the bell given to her by Kaelie Whitewillow, a waitress and subject of the Queen's, she goes to the Seelie Queen's palace where she has to beg for help due to the limited resources. The Seelie Queen has requested that Clary is allowed to steal the faerie rings kept inside the institute. Clary steals the rings but doesn't give them to the Queen because of the appearance of Jace and Sebastian at the library, all healthy looking and safe. Afterwards, Clary accepts their offer of coming to them. When the plan of Sebastian was finally revealed to her, she couldn't believe what could happen. When Sebastian finds her communicating with Simon through the Faerie rings, he fights her and attempts to rape her. At the enchantment ceremony, she was surprised when Amatis was turned into a dark Shadowhunter by the blood of Lilith. At the same time, Magnus, Alec, Maryse, Isabelle, and Simon arrived, with Glorious in hand. When Glorious was handed to her, she struck Jace, the mark of Lilith burning, making him cry out in pain. In the epilogue, she was concerned why she couldn't visit Jace because of her thoughts telling her she almost killed Jace, but reassured by Isabelle she didn't do anything to make Jace mad. She visited Jace, but she almost thought she wasn't going to be allowed to go in due to Brother Zachariah. By the consent of Brother Zachariah, she entered, hugging Jace and reaffirming their relationship. Finally in
City of Heavenly Fire, Sebastian has taken many shadowhunters and turned them into his Endarkened. The remaining shadowhunters retreat to Idris for safety. Sebastian offers to leave them alone if he is given Clary and Jace. Before the Clave can make a decision Clary, Jace, Simon, Isabelle and Alec sneak off to Edom, the demon realm Sebastian is hiding in; he has Jocelyn, Luke, Magnus and Raphael prisoner. After spending days trying to find him they come upon his castle, a dark version of Alicante. Sebastian offers Clary a place next to him, in exchange for leaving everyone she knows and all of the Shadowhunters alone. She accepts it, knowing that she has to keep everyone safe. When Sebastian is momentarily distracted she stabs him with the Morgenstern blade, containing Heavenly Fire. He is returned to the brother that she could have had before he then dies. The group manage to escape after Simon gives up his immortality and memories of the Shadow World to Magnus Banes's father, Asmodeus. Months later Clary talks to him but he doesn't remember her. At her mother and Luke's wedding, Simon tells her he remembers her. She and Jace are happy, as the others; they are coping with all the losses of the dark war. After all that Jace finally finds out what Sebastian did to Clary. ;Physical appearance Clary is 5'2" with curly red hair, green eyes, pale skin, and freckles. She is said to look like her mother, who is described as beautiful and small. Clary sometimes doubts the fact that she is as beautiful as her mother, believing herself to be a duller version of her mother, with less defined features. She is rather small and thin. She is described by Jace many times throughout the series as "delicate". She is portrayed by
Lily Collins in the film adaptation of the book and
Katherine McNamara in the television series. She gained her ability to create runes when Valentine fed her mother angel blood while she was in the womb. ;Appearances in books •
City of Bones (2007) •
City of Ashes (2008) •
City of Glass (2009) •
City of Fallen Angels (2011) •
City of Lost Souls (2012) •
City of Heavenly Fire (2014) •
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy (2015) •
Lady Midnight (2016) •
Lord of Shadows (2017) •
Queen of Air and Darkness (2018) •
Lost Book of White Jace Herondale Jonathan Christopher "Jace" Herondale is a Shadowhunter living at the New York Institute with his adopted family, the Lightwoods. Jace's legal name changes throughout the series, from Jace Wayland (when his father is thought to be Michael Wayland), to Jonathan Morgenstern (when thought to be Valentine's son), to Jace Lightwood for the family that has taken him in, to Jace Herondale (when his true father is revealed to be Stephen Herondale). His mother was the young Céline Herondale, a member of Valentine's inner circle with Stephen Herondale, his father. Jace did not like being called Jonathan. He was either Jace Herondale or Jace Lightwood. The nickname "Jace" was given to him by Maryse Lightwood after his (fake) initials J.C. (Jonathan Christopher, because no one but Valentine and Jocelyn knew Jace was not his real son), when he first began living with Maryse Lightwood and her family, because of his dislike for his name. Jace was given the blood of an angel named Ithuriel by Valentine when Celiné was pregnant with him. This gave him enhanced abilities, even compared to regular Shadowhunters, such as enhanced durability, enhanced speed, and enhanced stealth. For most of the books, Jace's sarcastic, cold remarks and behavior hide his tortured and angry soul. In
City of Ashes, his strong "bad-boy" personality makes Maryse Lightwood (his adoptive mother) somewhat scared of him, realising his alikeness to Valentine, who was believed to be his real father until the assumption was proven false in
City of Glass. Jace and Clary fall in love in
City of Bones, making Clary the only girl Jace has developed real genuine feelings for, but after they find out they are "siblings", each attempts to get over the other by dating other people. He is naturally overprotective and caring for her, although Clary does not see this due to her internal suffering. At the end of the third novel,
City of Glass, Jocelyn contradicts Valentine's avowal that Jace and Clary are siblings, telling Clary that Jace is actually the son of Celine and Stephen Herondale. The truth frees Jace and Clary from the torture of having seemingly incestuous feelings for each other, allowing them to accept their mutual feelings and become a "real" couple. By
Lady Midnight, the first book in the third series (
The Dark Artifices) of
Shadowhunters, Jace has proposed to Clary. They are 23 and 24 respectively. However, she refuses him, because she believes that she is going to die (she has been having visions of her lying dead, and Jace is crying over her dead body). Clary admits to Emma at the beginning of the second book,
Lord of Shadows, that Jace has, in fact, proposed to her, but she is afraid that she will die, leaving Jace without his love/ wife. Since she considers marriage as a promise of staying, she refuses his proposal in order to focus on their mission. By
Queen of Air And Darkness, however, we discover that she had, in fact, been having visions of Thule, where Jace is Endarkened and Clary is dead. Clary proposes to Jace, and he agrees. We see the chapter end on them kissing, and the Midnight Flower opens in front of them, unnoticed. ; Physical appearance Jace has wavy dark golden-blond hair and dark golden eyes. He has a slim, muscular build, and is about 5'11". His face is described as being pretty and angular, and Clary often refers to him as beautiful and leonine, with a narrow mouth. His eyes were much lighter in
City of Bones,
City of Ashes, and
City of Glass; Clary describes his eyes and hair as darker in
City of Fallen Angels. His eyes are brown with flecks of gold that lighten and darken with his moods. In
The Bane Chronicles; Magnus describes Jace as being the gold to Alec's silver. Like all other Shadowhunters, he is covered in thin, pale scars from years of applying various magical runes with a stele for battle and healing purposes. It is said that Jace is seventeen years old, though that was assuming he was Valentine (or Michael Wayland's) son, and his real age is between a few years younger than Jonathan Christopher and a year or so older than Clary. Jace is also left-handed (like Valentine). He has often said (and tried to prove) that the only trait he got from his father was his attitude. He is described to be extremely good looking. Jace is portrayed by
Jamie Campbell Bower in the film adaptation of the book In
Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy, Simon trains as a shadowhunter and becomes Clary's parabatai.
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City of Bones •
City of Ashes •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld •
Lost Book of White Luke Garroway Luke Garroway (birth name Lucian Graymark) is Jocelyn Fray's best friend who later becomes her husband and step-father to Clary Fray. He is a werewolf who was a Shadowhunter and member of the Circle which was run by Valentine Morgenstern. In his early life, Lucian was raised in Idris with his mother and older sister Amatis. Later, his mother left to join the Iron Sisters, leaving Luke to be raised by his sister. When Luke was young, he met Jocelyn Fairchild (Jocelyn Fray) and they were later sent to Alicante to train and attend school. When they arrived at Alicante, Luke wasn't the best in school and often contemplated quitting, until Valentine Morgenstern offered to tutor him. ;Lycanthropy Before Luke turned into a Werewolf, he was a Shadowhunter, Valentine had invited Luke to go hunting to help clean out the werewolves' nests that had killed Valentine's father, while they were scouting out the nests, a werewolf bit Luke. After he was bitten, Luke wasn't sure if the bite was enough to infect him with Lycanthropy. At one point, he went seeking aid from his sister Amatis for help and shelter and was sent away. He, along with Jocelyn and Valentine had kept quiet in following weeks while they awaited for the full moon. To his dismay, he did Change after the attack. Valentine then took him to the forest and gave Luke his father's dagger and told him to be honorable and kill himself. Valentine then led everyone to believe that Luke was dead. Instead Luke sought out the werewolf that had turned him to kill him and himself in the process. When Luke finally found him, he turned out to be the leader of a pack in Brocelind Forest. Luke had fought and killed him. By werewolf law, Luke had become the new pack leader, and accepted the position and began his new life. ;Physical appearance Luke has blue eyes and brown, uneven hair with ragged-looking clothes. He is tall, with squared shoulders and wears glasses. His favorite shirts to wear are flannel shirts. He is portrayed by
Aidan Turner in the film adaptation of the book, and
Isaiah Mustafa in the television series.
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City of Bones •
City of Ashes •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld Isabelle Lightwood Isabelle Sophia "Izzy" Lightwood is a Shadowhunter and lives in the New York Institute. She was born on May 31, is the younger sister of Alec and Jace and is older than Max. Passionate and with a high sense of fashion. She is rebellious and very beautiful. Her cooking is often made fun of by Jace and Alec. She is known to be dangerous and often carries weapons in her tall boots that are never less than seven inches. Her signature weapon is an electrum whip with which she is quite skilled. She dresses well, as shown when she gave Clary to wear clothes that she picked for Magnus's party. She is shown to take responsibility for situations, shouldering the blame for her brother Max's death, despite having been struck unconscious at the time. She is comforted by Simon, and ends up sleeping (in a literal, non-sexual sense) with him. She begins to casually date Simon—who is also dating Maia at the same time—and then later upon finding out about Maia, breaks up with him. After this and seeing how she is genuinely hurt by it, begins to slowly realize that she may actually be in love with Simon, but refuses to admit it. Izzy obviously cares for Jace and Alec, and is fiercely protective of both of them. Because of this, she is constantly torn over the fact that her brother is struggling with his sexuality and when Jace is heartbroken over Clary during their supposedly sibling relationship. In
City of Glass, she yells at Clary for only thinking of herself and not realizing how much pain Jace is in due to how much he really loves her. ;Physical appearance Isabelle is very beautiful and tall. She has very dark brown eyes with hints of gold that initially appear to be black. She is curvaceous and has long black hair that is described as "black as spilt ink" by Clary. She dresses stylishly, often with high heels. However, she despised her height and hated towering over everyone and wished to be small and delicate like Clary. She is portrayed by
Jemima West in the film adaptation of the book, and
Emeraude Toubia in the television series. ;Family Isabelle is the middle child in the Lightwood family. Her parents are Maryse and Robert Lightwood, who were once in the Circle with Valentine until the Uprising. Her older brother is Alec and her younger brother was Max, who died at the hand of Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. Jace is her adoptive brother. Her parents run the Institute in New York.
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City of Bones •
City of Ashes •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld •
Lost Book of White Alec Lightwood Alexander "Alec" Gideon Lightwood was born on September 10; he is the son of Robert & Maryse Lightwood, and older brother of Isabelle 'Izzy' and Max Lightwood; he shares a vincule with his adopted brother Jace Herondale who is his Parabatai. He lives in the New York Institute with his siblings. Soft-spoken and serious, he tries his best to act wisely and is not as reckless as Jace. For much of the series, Alec denies his homosexuality and attraction to males (particularly Jace & Magnus), which results in him lashing out at people. When he finally accepts himself, he becomes more relaxed and comes out as gay to the whole Clave and everyone there, including his family and parents, by publicly passionately kissing Magnus. Alec becomes a much more central character in
City of Lost Souls and is one of the book's narrators. He was portrayed by
Kevin Zegers in the film adaptation of the book and
Matthew Daddario in the television series.
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City of Bones •
City of Ashes •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
Lady Midnight •
Lord of Shadows •
Queen of Air and Darkness •
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy •
The Bane Chronicles •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld •
The Red Scrolls of Magic •
Lost Book of White Magnus Bane Magnus Bane is the (former) High Warlock of Brooklyn. He regularly tampered with the mind of
Clary Fray after designing a spell that would erase her memories of the Shadow World once every two years as a favour to her mother, Jocelyn. He first meets the other Shadowhunters at one of his Downworlder parties. He later has Clary retrieve the Book of the White for him in
City of Glass, and agrees to help revive her mother with it. In
City of Heavenly Fire, he admits to Alec that he is almost 400 years old, although he often lies about his age. He wears much makeup, such as glitter around his eyes and blue lipstick, and likes to flaunt his bisexuality by wearing flashy and sometimes bizarre clothing. However, despite his flamboyant appearance and whimsical personality, he is a kind yet jaded person who yearns for love and acceptance, but has great trouble revealing his honest desires and personal secrets to others due to his long and traumatic past. His life has frequently been entangled with the fates of certain Shadowhunters, but he doesn't become closely involved with the workings of their society and their struggle for survival and reformation until he meets Alec Lightwood, who goes on to become the love of his life. In
City of Heavenly Fire, his father is revealed to be Asmodeus, the Greater Demon of Lust and ruler of Edom. ;Physical appearance Magnus Bane is described as being of Asian descent, due to his human parent being half-Dutch, half-Indonesian. He is said to be lean, but not skinny, with lightly muscled arms. He has brown skin and black, nearly shoulder-length hair that is usually styled and dyed. He is said to be about 19 years old, physically. He is portrayed by
Godfrey Gao in the film adaptation of the book, and
Harry Shum Jr. in the television series by
Freeform.
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City of Bones •
City of Ashes •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
The Bane Chronicles •
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy •
Clockwork Angel •
Clockwork Prince •
Clockwork Princess •
Lady Midnight •
Lord of Shadows •
Queen of Air and Darkness •
Ghosts of the Shadow market •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld •
The Red Scrolls Of Magic Maia Roberts Maia Roberts is a biracial teenager born and raised in a New Jersey suburban neighborhood. She was abused by her brother, Daniel, as a child, leading her to hating and fearing some boys, even after her brother's death. In tenth-eleventh grade, Maia met Jordan Kyle and they began dating. However, during their relationship, he soon began to become controlling and abusive and she broke up with him. He became enraged at her break up with him and, in werewolf form, attacked her on her way home from a party. (She was a mundane and did not know that he was a werewolf or anything about the Shadow World.) Jordan vanished shortly afterward, and Maia soon turned into a werewolf on the next full moon. She ran away from home and joined the wolf-pack in New York and became good friends with Luke, the leader of the pack. She became associated with the Shadowhunters and develops a crush on Simon, and in
City of Glass gets into a competition with Isabelle for his attention. Maia is described as having curly, brown and gold hair (her eyelashes are described as the color of toast), light brown skin and amber-brown eyes. She is also described as having a heart-shaped face and rather curvy figure. She is portrayed by
Alisha Wainwright in the television series.
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City of Ashes •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld Jocelyn Fairchild/Morgenstern Jocelyn Morgenstern/Fairchild/Fray/Garroway/Graymark is Clary's mother and a former Shadowhunter. Jocelyn grew up in Idris with Luke, Valentine, and the other Circle members. She was married to Valentine at the age of 19, though she says she married him because she loved him, she later realized that he was torturing innocent people. She fled Idris when she found out she was pregnant with Clary, so he could not do harm to her daughter like he did on Jonathan (Sebastian), her first-born son. Later it is said that Luke tracked her down and Clary, being around the age of 3–5 at the time though it does not specify, opened the door to him. He then stayed in their lives and he and Jocelyn lived their lives in New York, also taking a large part in raising Clary, until Jocelyn is located by Valentine. She takes a potion, putting herself in a coma to protect her secrets and remains unconscious until she is revived by Magnus Bane in
City of Glass. She is also a Shadowhunter warrior. In
City of Glass, after Valentine was killed by the angel Raziel, Lucian Graymark (Luke) finally declared his love for her, telling her he's been in love with her for over 20 years. After he walks out the door, initially believing she did not return his feelings, she soon runs after him to tell she loves him too. It is then later revealed in
City of Fallen Angels that they are engaged to be married and also are "disgustingly in love" as described by Clary. Later in
City of Lost Souls, after Luke is wounded by Sebastian and in critical condition, Jocelyn says to him how she regrets failing to have noticed his feelings for her back when they were younger and wishes he would have told her how he felt about her so she would have married "the right guy" instead of Valentine. Hence things would have been "different" and could have turned out better than they were currently. However, Luke doesn't have any regrets saying how if things had been any different, "they" wouldn't have Clary, making Jocelyn happy since he said "as though he was sure Clary was his own daughter". Jocelyn is described of being elegant and beautiful, with long red hair. She is portrayed by
Lena Headey in the film adaptation of the book and
Maxim Roy in the television series.
Family Jocelyn has two children, Jonathan Christopher and Clarissa Adele. Her parents were killed in a fire set by Valentine Morgenstern, in which she also believed that Jonathan had been killed. She is engaged to Lucian Graymark (Luke) as of
City of Lost Souls, and they were married in
City of Heavenly Fire.
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City of Bones •
City of Ashes (mentioned) •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld Valentine Morgenstern Valentine Morgenstern is the main antagonist of the first half of the series, and is the former husband of Jocelyn Fairchild. This also makes him biological father to Clarissa Morgenstern and Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern (also known as Sebastian). In his youth he was a very skilled Shadowhunter from a rich family in Alicante. His best friend was Lucian Graymark while they were in school, among other Shadowhunters including Maryse Lightwood (née Trueblood), Robert Lightwood, Hodge Starkweather, Stephen Herondale and Michael Wayland. Upon the death of his father, Valentine fell in love with Jocelyn Fairchild, and together he and his group of young Shadowhunters formed the infamous group known as the Circle. With him leading the Circle, they had intended to share the gift of the Nephilim with the rest of humanity by using the Mortal Cup. Valentine and Jocelyn married and all was well until his ideas for the Circle became more radical, as Valentine wanted to kill all Downworlders. He infects his son with Demon blood and is betrayed by his former best friend, Lucian Graymark, and his wife at the Uprising of the Accords. Upon fleeing the battle, Valentine is assumed to be dead and goes into hiding with his son and Jace Herondale. Years later, when
City of Bones begins, Valentine finds Jocelyn and wants her to reveal where the Mortal Cup is located. He kidnaps her, but is unable to extract information from her due to her self-induced comatose state. He eventually secures the Mortal Cup, and the Mortal Sword and goes to the Mortal Mirror to summon the Angel Raziel. His arrogance, however, as well as his torturing of the angel Ithuriel, Raziel's brother, causes the angel to slay him. During the series, it is also revealed he faked his death and took on the name of Michael Wayland, raising Jace Herondale as Jace Wayland. ;Physical appearance Valentine is said to be tall and very handsome. He is broad-shouldered and has light blond, almost silver hair. He also has black eyes. Though in the movie he has dark brown hair and blue eyes. He is portrayed by
Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the film adaptation of the book and
Alan van Sprang in the television series. ;Family Valentine is the former husband of Jocelyn Fairchild, with whom he had two children (Clarissa "Clary" Adele Morgenstern and Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern). Clarissa realizes that she is Valentine's daughter in the first book,
City of Bones, but being raised by Jocelyn her whole life is void of Valentine's influence. His son however, was tutored by him to be a very talented Shadowhunter and ruthless killer. He later becomes Valentine's spy, taking the name Sebastian Verlac. Valentine also adopts Jace Herondale as his son, training him as well as Jonathan, making him as skilled a Shadowhunter as Jonathan. Valentine also experimented on his children. Hoping to make a stronger and better Shadowhunter, he infused Jonathan with demon blood while in Jocelyn's womb. However, a side effect of the blood was that it would "burn out his [Jonathan's] humanity as poison burns the life from blood." This gave him a son capable of incredible feats, but with little to no compassion or ability to love. The experimentation on Jonathan led to Jocelyn feeling sick and very depressed. To make her feel better he gave her powdered Angel blood, not knowing that she was carrying a second child (Clary), infusing Clary with Angel blood in the same way that Jonathan was with Demon blood. With Jace, upon the failure of Jonathan to show any compassion, he gave Angel blood to Jace's mother (Celiné Herondale), hoping to create a stronger warrior, without the side effects Jonathan suffered from the use Demon blood. In the end, Valentine trained Jace, but was forced to abandon him when he was 10 years old, making Valentine the only father Jace has known. It is also thought that of the two boys, the angel and the demon, that Valentine loved Jace more than his own son.
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City of Bones •
City of Ashes •
City of Glass •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Fallen Angels (mentioned) •
City of Heavenly Fire (mentioned) •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld Jonathan Morgenstern Sebastian Verlac/Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern/Sebastian Morgenstern is the son of Valentine Morgenstern and Jocelyn Fairchild, and brother of Clary Fray. His real name is Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern, but he went by Sebastian Verlac (cousin of the Penhallows) in
City of Glass. He is very sadistic in nature, as a result of having been experimented on with the blood of the Greater Demon Lilith, which robbed him of his humanity. He first appears in
City of Glass as Sebastian Verlac, charming his way into the lives of the Lightwoods. He takes Clary to see Ragnor Fell, and kisses her, disgusting her. Upon Clary's return with Jace to Alicante, it is discovered that Max Lightwood had seen someone climbing the demon warding towers. Sebastian was the person climbing the towers, and it was his blood that was used to bring down the wards. During the first attack on Alicante, he also kills Max Lightwood and severely injures Isabelle Lightwood. He is eventually tracked down and killed by Jace, before the summoning of Raziel by Valentine, but his body is never recovered. He is taken by his "mother", Lilith, and taken to safety. She uses Jace as leverage and tries to bring him back from the dead. In
City of Fallen Angels he is awoken, and uses a rune put on Jace to control him. He becomes the main antagonist in
City of Lost Souls, using Lilith's bond to alter Jace's memories to believe they are on the same side and plans on raising and army of demons and Dark Shadowhunters to destroy the world. Clary infiltrates his inner circle through Jace and they both continually mistrust each other but are forced to work together when they are attacked by enemy demons. Eventually Clary learns the truth of his plans and they engage in a bloody battle. Unable to kill him because it will kill Jace too, she gives up but successfully destroys their base of operations with one of her runes. After a dark ritual, he uses the Infernal Cup to create more Dark Shadowhunters and almost turns Clary but is quickly stopped by the arrival of the Lightwoods and their allies. Before he manages to escape, Clary is forced to stab Jace with the angelic sword Glorious, severing his bond with Sebastian and causing the latter horrible pain. At the end of the book he sends a message to Maryse Lightwood: severed angel wings with a single piece of paper saying
I am coming. In
City of Heavenly Fire, Sebastian is attacking institutes around the world and turning Shadowhunters into Endarkened. He then goes and attacks the Citadel, and kills many Shadowhunters but is forced to flee when Jace loses control of his Heavenly Fire. Sebastian then later visits Clary and tries to convince her to leave with him, offering her mercy but she refuses. Once again Jace and Sebastian fight but Sebastian proves that he cannot be hurt by anything other than the Heavenly Fire after he stabs himself and then leaves unharmed. Sebastian offers to leave all of the Shadowhunters in Alicante alone, and return Jocelyn, Luke, Magnus, Raphael and Meliorn, whom he has kidnapped, if the Clave turn over Clary and Jace to him. Clary, Jace, Simon, Alec and Isabelle all travel by portal to the Seelie court and travel through to Edom, where Sebastian is hiding. Sebastian is well aware of this and plans for them. When they arrive Sebastian defeats them all and forces Clary by his side. When he is unaware, Clary stabs him with a sword that contains the Heavenly Fire, burning away all of the demon blood in him. He dies surrounded by Clary, Jocelyn and Jace. Clary mourns for the brother that she could have had. Clary later spreads Sebastian's ashes over Lake Lyn. ;Physical appearance He is said to be the spitting image of Valentine. He has naturally white/silver hair, is very buff, and has deep black eyes. He dyes his hair black in
City of Glass while he is impersonating Sebastian Verlac. He is portrayed by
Will Tudor as Sebastian and
Luke Baines in his true form in the television series. ;Family Jonathan is the birth child of Jocelyn Morgenstern (née Fairchild) and Valentine Morgenstern. He was experimented on by Valentine while Jocelyn was pregnant with him. When he was born, Jocelyn knew that something was wrong with the child and had to try very hard to be around him. He is Clary's brother, and has an unusual sexual attraction to her, freely kissing her in
City of Glass and almost forcing himself on her in
City of Lost Souls with Clary having to fight him off, repulsed by his actions. The Demoness Lilith also claims that Jonathan is her "son" due to the fact that it is her demon blood that flows through his veins.
Appearances in books •
City of Bones (mentioned) •
City of Ashes (mentioned) •
City of Glass •
City of Fallen Angels •
City of Lost Souls •
City of Heavenly Fire •
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy (mentioned) •
A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of the Downworld •
Lady Midnight (mentioned) •
Queen of Air and Darkness ==Secondary characters==