All Myths Are True: Lampshaded explicitly several times.Vampires are a little closer to Immortality, as they possess Healing Factor, although they can still be killed, most obviously by sunlight. This is also implied to be the case with the Fair Folk. They do not age after reaching adulthood, but are not significantly more resistant to physical injury than humans. Despite his dark past, he is consistently a reliable person to lean on. But he is actually centuries old and thus technically more of an 'adult' than even the oldest Shadowhunters. Physically he looks to be about nineteen, slightly older than the protagonists. Anyone who isn't is either insane with power, revenge, or a spy. While Jace's group of inexperienced youths are pursuing the Mortal Instruments, the maniacal Valentine, and attempting to stop The End of the World as We Know It. Every single higher-up is at a Clave meeting.Please put all character-related tropes there. The first episode was aired in January, 2016 and the last in May 2019. There is also a television series entitled Shadowhunters. The author found that dissatisfactory, however, and added another three books to the series, and began working on several other series set in the shared universe.Ī film version called The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was released August 2013, with Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower having been cast as Clary and Jace the sequel was scheduled to start filming in 2014, but has since been cancelled. Originally conceived as a trilogy, dangling plot threads were meant to be tied up in a graphic novel.

Clary's personal life is not without its own drama - her relationship with Simon is slowly getting more and more complicated, and what is she to do about the beautiful and elusive Jace, who seems very attracted to her? There's a war on the horizon - the Shadowhunters against massive demon forces conjured by the man who took her mother, Valentine. The three teenagers, Jace, Alec, and Isabelle, explain their world to her: mythical creatures such as vampires and werewolves do exist, known to them as Downworlders, and that Shadowhunters are a special 'breed' of people that act like supernatural policemen, making sure that Mundanes are safe and never find out about the demons that are invading their dimension.īut things aren't over for Clary just yet. Soon she and her Childhood Friend, Simon, are dragged into the world of Shadowhunters. Not long later, she goes home to discover that her apartment's been trashed and her mother's gone missing. The series follows the teenage Clary Fray after she witnesses three teenagers apparently commit murder in a nightclub - but no one else can see them. A 2007-2014 Urban Fantasy series by Cassandra Clare, and the books that spawned the The Shadowhunter Chronicles.

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