The Shadowhunter's Codex (45 page)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clare, Cassandra.

The Shadowhunter’s Codex : being a record of the ways and laws of the Nephilim, the chosen of the Angel Raziel / as compiled by Cassandra Clare & Joshua Lewis.—First edition.

p. cm.

Summary: “A fictional guide to the Shadowhunter’s universe”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-4424-1692-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4424-9683-5 (eBook)

[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Demonology—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction.]

I. Lewis, Joshua. II. Title.

PZ7.C5265Sh 2013 [Fic]—dc23

2013008628

Table of Contents

I NTRODUCTION

What Is a Shadowhunter?

The Shadowhunter Oath

Shadowhunter Names

The Shadowhunter’s Glossary

I. T REASURY

Arms

Armor and Other Tools

II. T HE A RTS

Combat Training

The Tradition of the Parabatai

How to Report a Demon

III. B ESTIAIRE P ART I: D EMONOLOGIE

What Are Demons?

How Do We Kill Them?

The Void and the Demon City of Pandemonium

Demons, Demons, Demons

IV. B ESTIAIRE P ART II: D OWNWORLDERS

Werewolves

Vampires

Warlocks

Faeries

V. B ESTIAIRE P ART III: A NGELS AND M EN

Angels: Our Mysterious Patrons

Mundanes

The Forsaken

Ghosts and the Dead

VI. G RIMOIRE

An Introductory Note on Magic

Why?

Glamours and the Sight

Angelic Magic

Demonic Magic

VII. “S ED L EX , D URA L EX ”

“The Law Is Hard, but It Is the Law.”

The Life of a Shadowhunter

Silent Brothers and Iron Sisters

VIII. G EOGRAPHIE

Idris, the Nephilim Homeland

Alicante

The Silent City

The Adamant Citadel

Institutes of the Clave

A PPENDIX A: E XCERPTS FROM A H ISTORY OF THE N EPHILIM

Before the Nephilim

The Rise of Nephilim in the World

The Hunts and the Schism

The Accords

A PPENDIX B: T HE N INTH A CCORDS , 1992

Artist Acknowledgments

About Cassandra Clare and Joshua Lewis