Place: Silent City

Notable Residents: Silent Brothers

"The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."----City Of Bones.

The Silent City can be reached through one of a number of entrances scattered around the world. The Silent Brothers, use this to their advantage to quickly travel between distant places to be rapidly deployed where they are needed. One entrance in New York is found beneath the New York City Marble Cemetery in Manhattan.

The largest single witchlight crystal in the world can be found in the Silent City. Standing at 30 feet tall, it is in the form of the Angelic Colossus, a triptych of Raziel with the Mortal Instruments. It guards and lights the entrance to the Silent Brothers' living quarters.

The Silent City is the base of operations of the Silent Brothers. It is an extensive and complex city of levels and chambers so vast and deep underground. Found on the two upper levels of the city are its archives and the council chamber, where the Soul-Sword is kept and normally hung above the Speaking Stars. Beyond this are several other levels kept mostly a secret from and off-limits to non-Brothers.

At the lowest depths of the city are a series of levels that holds the necropolis of the Shadowhunters, ossuary, and mausoleums, where the bodies of those who died in battle are buried, entombed, and sometimes burned and used to fortify the City's marble arches.

On the very lowest levels are the prisons of the Silent City, known to hold both the dead and the living. There are several jail cells, where the worst and most dangerous of Law-breakers and wrongdoers guilty of great crimes are confined and incarcerated, whereas those guilty of lesser violations are kept in Alicante.

The Silent Brothers have council rooms in the Silent City, particularly on the second level below ground. The chamber where the Mortal Sword is kept is a square pavilion, at the center of which is a black white-veined, basalt table where the Silent Brothers often gather around. The Mortal Sword is hung on the dark wall by the Speaking Stars. The pavilion is sometimes called the great square, of the Speaking Stars.

The floor in this room is made up of red and bronze tiles. Each corner of the pavilion is marked by a spire of carved bone, and the room is lit by torches held by onyx holders along the sides of the square. Interrogations with the Mortal Sword for truths can take place in this pavilion.

In 2007, Clary was taken to the Silent City to have her mind examined by the Silent Brothers. She was taken to the council chamber, and she stood on the Speaking Stars, and even bled on it after injuring her arm. There, they discovered Magnus Bane's signature in the blocks on her mind.

Weeks later, Jace, then thought to be the son of Valentine, was temporarily held within the confines of the Silent City's jail cells under orders from Inquisitor Herondale. He was kept there overnight, and he was in the cells when Valentine came to steal the Mortal Sword. Clary, Alec, and Isabelle later arrive at the city as the first responders to the distress signal that was sent. The older members of the Conclave later arrived and examined the scene themselves.

Even later, Jace was again brought to the city after Jace began receiving troubling nightmares from Lilith. He and Clary were interrogated, in the Speaking Stars pavilion, about the nature of the dreams. Jace was kept overnight, with plans to redo his protection spells. Jace left the city before the spells could be performed on him.

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