
Throughout Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Helping Clary

Still believing that his father, Michael, was killed, Jace made it his life mission to seek revenge on the people responsible. He and the Lightwood children have since come to treat each other as siblings, and he was treated like a son by their parents, especially Maryse. He became particularly close to Alec Lightwood, who eventually became his parabatai. Jace was then taken in by the Lightwoods and has since been raised at the New York Institute with other Shadowhunters. When he was ten, Valentine faked his death, leading the young Jace to believe he was killed by Valentine and partly because of the Circle's Uprising. Jace was raised by Valentine Morgenstern but was led to believe that he was the son of Michael Wayland-whom Valentine posed as in his childhood-and that his mother died when he was a baby. 2 Throughout Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments.Shadowhunters will also be “darker” and “sexier” than Freeform’s other dramas, according to the EP. “You can’t tell a saga from the point-of-view of one person.” While the books were told closely from Clary’s perspective, the show “expands out the world” by revealing what other characters are up to during major events, Decter described.

Transferring the story to television did have its advantages, though. One of the novels’ elements that for now has ended up on the cutting room floor - Idris, the capital of the Shadowhunters - “We’re saving that for a second season, if we’re so fortunate,” Decter explained.

“Some of the things that we have in the story come from Book 6,” while published offshoots such as The Bane Chronicles will occasionally offer “solutions to things that we wanted to clarify in the story.Īs subsequent seasons, in success, unfold, “We’re not going one-to-one with the books,” Decter said, “because the cast, the amount of money we have… All these different things tell us where we can go with the story.” The series has a wealth of source material to pull from, but the first season is “generally Book 1,” City of Bones, Decter said.
