Atestat Shadowhunters Chronicles
Atestat Shadowhunters Chronicles
Atestat Shadowhunters Chronicles
THE SHADOWHUNTER
CHRONICLES
Coordinator teacher:
Kallai Cristina
Student: Jucan Alexandra-Elena
Grade: 12th B
2021
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Table of contents
Argument………………………………………………………………………. 3
Précis……………………………………………………………………............ 4
Introduction…………………………………………………………………….. 5
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..19
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Argument
I have chosen to write about the Shadowhunter Chronicles because I’m in love
with books, and The Shadowhunter Chronicles, more specific The Mortal
Instruments series, are the reason that I started reading. And by doing so I
opened my eyes and saw a new world, a world full of magnificent colors.
These works are set in a universe where fairy tales and mythologies, both pagan
and Judeo-Christian, exist with its figures existing alongside the mundanes
(normal humans). A race of humans who possess angel blood, the Nephilim or
Shadowhunters, is organized to patrol the Shadow World and prevent demons
as well as Downworlders, including warlocks, faeries, werewolves, and
vampires, from attacking the mundanes. There is an uneasy peace, a treaty
known as The Accords, between the governing body of the Nephilim, known as
the Clave, and the Downworlders, not all of whom want peace or respect the
Clave's authority.1
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadowhunter_Chronicles
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Précis
In the first chapter - The Infernal Devices - I’ll focus on the series The Infernal
Devices which is the second series written by Cassandra Clare and is also the
first series in the chronological order of the Shadowhunter universe.
The second chapter is about The Last Hours trilogy, in which we turn our
attention from the characters of The Infernal Devices to their children. The time
difference in which the stories are set between the two series is very small
(twenty five years), unlike the time difference between The Last Hours and The
Mortal instruments (somewhere around a hundred years).
In the third chapter I’ll proceed in revealing the events of The Mortal
Instruments series, which are rather full of plot twists and slow burning
romance.
The forth chapter is about The Eldest Curses where we follow some of the side
characters from The Mortal Instruments and we can see the development of the
relationship between Alec Lightwood, one of the best Shadowhunters of the
New York Institute and Magnus Bane, the High Warlock of Brooklyn.
One of the topics of the fifth chapter is the forbidden love of the two main
characters. The Dark Artifices is my personal favorite series from The
Shadowhunter Chronicles, the trilogy has everything you ever wanted:
forbidden love, interesting characters with a tragic past, a huge plot twist that
will make your brain explode and a crossovers with other shadowhunters
characters.
The sixth chapter is focusing on the upcoming series The Wicked Powers which
is probably the most interesting story but also the most unknown one. Cassandra
Clare hasn’t given us much information about this upcoming trilogy. But a lot
of fans have a lot of theories referring to this topic due to the fact that we
already know who the main characters are from the last series and the base of
the plot.
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The last chapter is about the single books that are connected to the
shadowhunter universe and in which we see the slow pass of the time from
different characters views.
The paper ends with the bibliography list which has helped me with my
research work.
Introduction
Judith Lewis (née Rumelt, born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name
Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for
her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.
Clare was born Judith Rumelt to American parents in Tehran, Iran. She is the
daughter of Richard Rumelt, a business school professor and author. Her
maternal grandfather was film producer Max Rosenberg. Clare is Jewish, and
has described her family as "not religious".
As a child, Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England,
and France. She returned to Los Angeles for high school, and from then on split
her time between California and New York City, where she worked at various
entertainment magazines and tabloids, including The Hollywood Reporter.
While living in Los Angeles Clare began writing fan fiction using the name
Cassandra Claire. The Draco Trilogy, based on Harry Potter, and The Very
Secret Diaries, based on The Lord of the Rings, were popular. However, she
deleted her fan fiction from the Internet shortly before her first novel, The City
of Bones, was published under the name Cassandra Clare.
She is also friends with author Holly Black, and their books occasionally
overlap, Clare mentioning characters from Black's novels and vice versa, such
as Val and Luis from Black's Valiant.
Clare is also credited by her publisher with creating the "City of Fallen Angels
treatment" where a tangible "letter" from one character to another is attached to
the back of physical copies of a book. The goal is to spur print book sales.
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As of 2013, Clare resides in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband, Joshua
Lewis, and three cats.2
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare
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The trilogy features William "Will" Herondale, James "Jem" Carstairs, Theresa
"Tessa" Gray, and other Downworlders and Shadowhunters in the London
Institute. It also features Magnus Bane, Camille Belcourt and other characters
who appear in The Mortal Instruments series.
The books also contain many quotes referring to famous pieces of Victorian
Literature like Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and the works
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Alfred Tennyson.
The series takes place in London
England in 1878, a short time after
the peace treaties between
Downworlders and Shadowhunters.
As Shadowhunters consider
themselves superior or purer than
Downworlders or demons, they may
have no qualms about killing either.
The first book in The Infernal
Devices is entitled Clockwork Angel and begins the story of Tessa Gray, an
orphan teenage girl who is looking for her brother Nathaniel Gray, who has
disappeared, and seeks her true identity.
Her search plunges her into a world she never knew existed, and reveals talents
she never knew she had. She will have to learn to master them if she wants to
find her brother, and must forge an alliance with Shadowhunters if she wants to
survive in this dangerous world. Many of the family names of the
Shadowhunters used in The Mortal Instruments are first introduced in this
series. Another character in The Infernal Devices, Magnus Bane, the High
Warlock of Brooklyn, also plays a
part in this series.
As Tessa Gray is drawn deeper into
the Shadow world, and goes on the
quest of finding her brother, she
falls in love with two
Shadowhunters–but when it comes
to choosing one, trouble begins to
brew and suspense finds its way into
her life. She will have to learn to
hide her feelings if she hopes to survive. However, as her heart rages for love
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but her mind is bent on saving her brother, will she hide her vulnerable side?
Which of the Shadowhunters will win her heart?34
3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infernal_Devices
4 https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/832603049859545661/
5 https://www.cassandraclare.com/series/the-last-hours/
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stories of the Blackthorns, Herondales and Carstairs, much like TMI and The
Infernal Devices interconnected despite taking place in different time periods
and locations.6
The Mortal Instruments is a series of six young adult fantasy novels written by
American author Cassandra Clare, the last of which was published on May 27,
2014. The Mortal Instruments is chronologically the third series of a planned
five in The Shadowhunter Chronicles but it was the first one published. It
follows Clarissa Fray (who interacts with a group of Nephilim known as
Shadowhunters) while also discovering her own heritage and her family history.
The Shadowhunters protect the world of mundane/human people, who are also
called mundanes or "mundies", from dark forces beyond their world.
The book series has become popular within the young adult genre of paranormal
romance/urban fantasy and supernatural, but Clare did not originally intend to
write the series for teens. When she began
writing City of Bones, she did not view it as a
young adult work, but first and foremost as a
fantasy novel, where the main characters just
happened to be teenagers. When she was
approached by a publisher interested in aging
up her characters, she ultimately decided that
she "wanted to tell a story about characters at
that crucial life stage just between adolescence
and adulthood, where your choices determine
the kind of person you're going to be rather
than reflecting who you already are."7
City of Bones is the first urban fantasy book in
author Cassandra Clare's New York Times
bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. The
novel is set in modern-day New York City and has been released in several
languages, including Bulgarian, Hebrew, Polish and Japanese.
6 https://www.goodreads.com/series/104049-the-last-hours
7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mortal_Instruments
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Clary goes to the Pandemonium club with her best friend, Simon Lewis, where
she sees a blue-haired boy and a black-haired girl sneak into a storeroom,
pursued by two other boys; one armed with what appears to be a knife. She
sends Simon for help and she follows the group into the storeroom, where she
witnesses the blue-haired "boy" being killed; whereupon he vanishes from the
room, with the explanation that demons "return to their home dimensions when
they die." Simon enters the storeroom with the bouncer in tow and questions
why she is there alone, and realizing no one else can see the others, she
mumbles an apology.
When she returns home, her mother,
Jocelyn, scolds her for staying out so late.
The next day, Jocelyn announces that they
are moving from New York City to the
country for the summer where Jocelyn's
best friend, Luke, has a house. Clary, upset
by the unexpected move, confides in
Simon that she knows almost nothing
about her mother or her entire family.
Simon mentions seeing thin, white scars on
Jocelyn's back and shoulders, but Clary
dismisses this. They go to a poetry reading
where Clary sees Jace, one of the boys
from the previous night, who privately tells
Clary about demon-hunters, called
Shadowhunters or Nephilim, and claims
Clary is not a mundane (ordinary human). This is because she has the Sight,
which allows her to see beings from the Shadow World. Clary answers a call
from Jocelyn, who frantically warns her not to come home and to tell Luke that
"he" has found her. The call ends abruptly.8
From here on we read the story of Clary where we follow her through the
dangerous and glorious Shadow World. She meets there vampires, warlocks,
werewolves, faeries, angels and demons.
Clarissa "Clary" Adele Fray/Fairchild is the sister of Jonathan Christopher
Morgenstern, and the daughter of Valentine Morgenstern and Jocelyn Fairchild.
To protect Clary, Jocelyn changes her surname to Fray in order to stay away
from the shadow world. Clary is described as having long, curly red hair and
8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bones_(Clare_novel)
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bright green eyes. She is very short, "a little over five feet" as first described in
City of Bones and often viewed as younger than her actual age. In the first book,
Clary turns 16 years old, about as old as Isabelle Lightwood. Clary is an artist,
and at the start of the first book, City of Bones, it is at first believed that she is a
mundane, an ordinary human because her mother kept it a secret from her. It is
later revealed that she is a Shadowhunter, or Nephilim: a human with angelic
qualities. Clary is described as being stubborn and often rushes into dangerous
situations without considering the consequences. Her best friend in the series is
Simon Lewis. He is in love with her, but she is romantically involved with Jace
(who uses various surnames).
Jonathan Christopher "Jace" Herondale (also referred to as Wayland,
Morgenstern, and Lightwood) is described as being tall and muscular with scars
across his golden skin from faded magical marks called runes. He has wavy
gold hair and golden eyes, and, like Clary, is a Shadowhunter. Jace is among the
Nephilim's best fighters, since Izzy stated that he's killed more demons than
anybody his age, and readily defends his family. Jace is often flirty and
insensitive, and is described as projecting a false arrogance due to an insecurity
that he is not good enough. Throughout the books, Jace's biological family is
unknown until the last few books, although he refers to Isabelle, Alec, and Max
as his siblings, and Maryse and Robert Lightwood as his parents (since they
adopted him).
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The Eldest Curses is the fourth set of books all to be published. The trilogy tells
the story of Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood's adventures together and
explore their relationship. Each book is set at different points in the franchise's
timeline: the first is set during the events of The Mortal Instruments; the second
is set between the events of The Mortal Instruments and The Dark Artifices; and
the last will be set after The Dark Artifices. The books were jointly written by
Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu.
The series title refers to the “eldest curses”, one of them being Magnus Bane
himself. The title is also derived from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3. The titles for the
three installments were already decided before its announcement, but in
September 2017, the order of the books were switched around to the current
order.
The books were initially planned to be released as an adult series, but after the
first installment was done, the publishers thought it more accurate to publish
them as YA.10
9 https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/774124915885726/
10 https://shadowhunters.fandom.com/wiki/The_Eldest_Curses
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Chapter V: The Dark Artifices
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The Dark Artifices is a trilogy written by Cassandra Clare. The series is
chronologically the fourth series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles and a sequel
to The Mortal Instruments. It is set in Los Angeles. The series consists of three
books: Lady Midnight, Lord of Shadows and Queen of Air and Darkness, in that
particular order. Centered around the protagonist, Emma Carstairs, the series
follows her journey as a Shadowhunter at the Los Angeles Institute, and her life
with her best-friend and parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, and his family. The series
is about a sacred bond of "parabatai", two bonded Shadowhunters, and it is
more valuable than any bond in this world. This bond makes the two more
powerful and strong, but there is only one drawback - it is forbidden to fall in
love with your parabatai. It so happens that Emma and Julian, two parabatai,
have fallen in love. The Dark Artifices is a trilogy about their struggle against
their enemies and how the two protagonists deal with their forbidden love and
the resulting consequences. The series is told from the point-of-view of the
various different characters in the story.
Emma Carstairs is known to be the next greatest Shadowhunter, or in other
words "the next Jace Herondale" (so to speak). In this book she faces a lot of
tough decisions about her future while fighting for
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children and Julian saved his younger brother. Julian has four younger siblings;
Ty (Tiberius), Livvy (Livia), Dru (Drusilla), and Tavvy (Octavian).
The main theme developing in Cassandra Clare's The Dark Artifices series is the
concept of maturing and the transition into adulthood. The conscious decision
one must make between responsibility and personal desire is explored through
Julian and Emma's hesitancy in Lady Midnight. The two struggle between
pursuing their feelings for one another and weighing the consequences of
defying Shadowhunter law, which could ultimately threaten the Blackthorn
family. Clare also explores the experience of having one's beliefs challenged,
and how to handle such instances. In Lady
Midnight, Emma and the Blackthorns learn
this the hard way when the family is
betrayed by their former-friend and warlock,
Malcolm Fade who wants to kill one of the
Blackthorns so he can perform necromancy
to revive the love of his life.11
11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Artifices
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Ty Blackthorn will be shown in the Scholomance. His grief and trauma over the
events of The Dark Artifices and Livvy's death will be addressed.
Certain plot points left off in Queen of Air and Darkness lead into this series,
including Thule, the new dynamics of The Clave, Kit Herondale's heritage, the
consequences of Ty performing necromancy and his link to Livia, among
others.
The epilogue of The Lost Book of the White is meant to point towards the
events of TWP. The third book of The Eldest Curses is set to take place during
the timeline of this series.
Helen Blackthorn and Aline Penhallow are set to return, possibly with children.
Mark Blackthorn, Cristina Rosales and the Unseelie King Kieran are also set to
make an appearance.
Being the final series installment, Cassie has plans for all the characters who are
still around to face the greatest threat they've ever faced, and the characters from
different generations of the Shadowhunter Chronicles will have to unite and join
forces in the biggest battle they'll ever have to take it down, and that something
will happen that will change the nature of Shadowhunters and what they mean.
She has also stated that "It will bring the Shadowhunter Chronicles to an end.
The Shadowhunter world will change forever."
The series currently isn't scheduled but Clare hopes to publish the first
installment in or around 2022, after The Last Hours and the second book of The
Eldest Curses and possibly alternating with her upcoming, non-Shadowhunter-
related Sword Catcher series.
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Cassandra Clare and other young-adult writers. It was released on November
11, 2014.
"What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything" (with Sarah Rees
Brennan)
"The Last Stand of the New York Institute" (with Sarah Rees Brennan and
Maureen Johnson)
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months revolving around Simon Lewis, first introduced in The Mortal
Instruments as Clary Fairchild's best friend, as he gets the chance to become a
Shadowhunter. The anthology was released in November 15, 2016.
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"A Deeper Love" (with Maureen Johnson)
Conclusion
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statement is Sebastian Morgensten, the villain from The Mortal Instruments. He
is so well written that many of the fans love and hate him at the same time.
The fans love the person who could have been Sebastian without the demon
blood that his father had injected him with when he was a baby. And they hate
Sebastian for killing and hurting so many people in his crazy plan to retrieve his
sister. In my personal experience, i didn’t think much of Sebastian, I really
hated him. But when he died I cried like crazy because of a simple line “His
eyes were green.” this ordinary line can make me cry everytime I read it,
because it has a double meaning and the emotion of this line is very intense.
This was the first and last villain I cried for.
And knowing that Cassandra Clare has such power over my emotions with only
her words is amazing and it shows how incredible she is as a writer.
I am really grateful for Cassandra Clare’s books because they helped me
through so many things and as Will Herondale once said “It was books that
made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest
with me, and I with them.”
Webography
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadowhunter_Chronicles
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infernal_Devices
4. https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/832603049859545661/
5. https://www.cassandraclare.com/series/the-last-hours/
6. https://www.goodreads.com/series/104049-the-last-hours
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7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mortal_Instruments
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bones_(Clare_novel)
9. https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/774124915885726/
10. https://shadowhunters.fandom.com/wiki/The_Eldest_Curses
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Artifices
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