Hello everyone !! I’m Clara, I’m French 🇫🇷, I’m 25 years old, my pronouns are she/her. I am (and have been for a long time) obsessed with books and fandoms of all kind, but especially The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare @cassandraclare 🥰 (and every book she wrote), as well as Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan, anything Grishaverse related by Leigh Bardugo and a bunch of other fantasy fandoms 🧜🏻♀️🧞♀️🧛🏻♀️🧝🏻♀️🧙🏻♀️
Love you all, Clara 🧚🏻♀️
Currently reading Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 🐺 🦊 🐉 🦅
Yep, I was inspired by the christmas art for 2021. I liked it so much that I've wanted to draw something based on it for a veery loong time, so here we go
Because I think about this series a normal amount, I went through my old copy of "An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters and Denizens of Downworld" from 2016 and my new kickstarter edition that arrived yesterday, and took notes on every change. Some characters were added, some were given new art or facts, some had their information updated, and some are the same as they ever were. I split all these changes into categories, so you can look up what interests you. Full spoilery details below the cut.
First off, the general formatting was changed slightly. Instead of characters being split into categories based on series (TID, TLH, TMI, TFSA, TDA) and alphabatized by first name within those categories, they're all in one cohesive list that's alphabatized by surname.
So, to start with, there were a couple overall changes. In my old edition, characters had their common names listed above their flower card (ex: Alec Lightwood), and their full names on the page to the left that held their facts and stuff (ex: Alexander Gideon Lightwood). Some characters also have their maiden name on their flower card but their married name on the fact page, or vice versa (Celine Montclaire and Celine Herondale, or Helen Blackthorn and Helen Penhallow-Blackthorn). In the new edition, everyone is referred to by only one name, the common name that was already on the flower card. The section in the personal information for married/maiden name was also removed for all characters except Sophie Collins, Jocelyn Fray, Tessa Gray, Cecily Herondale, Imogen Herondale, Maryse Lightwood, and Jessamine Lovelace Gray.
Characters with minor alterations to how their name is written:
Helen Penhallow-Blackthorn became Helen Blackthorn
Julian Atticus Blackthorn became Julian Blackthorn
Mark Antony Blackthorn became Mark Blackthorn
Emma Cordelia Carstairs became Emma Carstairs
Charles Buford Fairchild became Charles Fairchild
Charlotte Branwell became Charlotte Fairchild
Clary Adele Fray became Clary Fray
Amatis Herondale became Amatis Graymark
Linette Owens became Linette Herondale
Stephen William Herondale became Stephen Herondale
William Owen Herondale became Will Herondale
Alexander Gideon Lightwood became Alec Lightwood
Isabelle Sophia Lightwood became Isabelle Lightwood
Maxwell Joseph Lightwood became Max Lightwood
Celine Herondale became Celine Montclaire
Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern became Jonathan Morgenstern
Jonathan Fairchild Morgenstern became "True" Jonathan Morgenstern
Axel Mortmain (Hollingworth Shade) became Axel Mortmain
Aline Blackthorn-Penhallow became Aline Penhallow
Jaime Rocio Rosales became Jaime Rosales
Woolsey Marmaduke Scott became Woolsey Scott
Bartholomew Velasquez became Bat Velasquez
All of these names are unchanged on the actual flower cards, it's just that the names on the fact page have been changed to match the names already on the flower cards.
Characters with alterations to their personal information:
Magnus Bane's birth year was changed from "unknown" to "early 1600s"
Arthur Blackthorn's birth year was changed from 1973 to 1964, though 1973 still makes more sense with the timeline and I believe that 1964 is a mistake.
Drusilla Blackthorn's favorite weapon changes from unknown to "her sister Livvy's saber," and Rosewain is added to her family
Livia Blackthorn has Rosewain added to her family
Octavian Blackthorn has Rosewain added to his family
Tatiana Blackthorn's favorite weapon is changed from n/a to demonic magic
Tiberius Blackthorn's birth year is changed from 1997 to 1993 (which has to be a typo, Livvy is still born in 1997), his favorite weapon is changed from quarterstaff to sling weapon, and Rosewain is added to his family
Alastair Carstairs's family name is changed from Turan to Jahanshah, and his favorite weapon is changed from Cortana to spears
Cordelia Carstairs's family name is changed from Turan to Jahanshah
Jem Carstairs's birth year is changed from 1861 to 1860
Sona Carstairs's birth year is changed from 1850 to 1861 (the new year matches better with the TLH timeline), her maiden name is changed from Turan to Jahanshah, and her previous married name of Verlac is removed
Lily Chen's birth year is changed from unknown to 1885
Sophie Collins's favorite weapon is changed from hand mirror to hairbrush
Charlotte Fairchild's favorite weapon is changed from sword to whip
Matthew Fairchild's favorite weapon is changed from rapier to chalikers
Nathanial Gray has Moore added to his family
Gwyn ap Nudd's favorite weapon is changed from unknown to sword carved from the bone of a redcap
Cecily Herondale has Owens added to her family
James Herondale's family name is changed from Gray to Gray/Starkweather
Lucie Herondale's family name is changed from Gray to Gray/Starkweather, and axe is added to her favorite weapons
Will Herondale's birth year is changed from 1861 to 1860, and Owens is added to his family
Anna Lightwood has whip added to her favorite weapons
Jaime Rosales's favorite weapon is changed from poison to crossbow
Characters with new details added to their fun facts:
Lady Midnight is changed to Lady Midnight AKA Annabel Blackthorn, and her fun fact has information about Annabel added onto the legend of Lady Midnight
Drusilla Blackthorn gets a completely new fact about rigging up a projector to show Night of the Living Dead at the new Shadowhunter Academy
Helen Blackthorn has the last sentence of her fact changed to say that she's no longer banished to Wrangel Island
Livia Blackthorn has a completely new fact about Livia's Watch
Tiberius Blackthorn gets a new fact about a mystery he solved at the Schoolmance
Jem Carstairs has a new sentence added to the end of his fact acknowledging his new family with Tessa, Mina, and Kit
Sona Carstairs gets a new fact explaining the retcon about her poisoning Theodor Verlac by saying that as a youth she was attacked by a demon that caused untrue rumors about her to spread and be believed
Church has the last sentence of his fact changed to say that he's retired with Jem rather than at the LA institute
Ragnor Fell has a new sentence added to his fact saying that he and Catarina have been going on adventures together since he came out of hiding
Gwyn ap Nudd has a new sentence added to his fact saying that he's now able to confide his troubles in Diana
Jace Herondale has a new half sentence added to his fact
Kieran has two new sentences added to his fact about his reign as Unseelie King
Alec Lightwood has new sentences added to his fact about his role in the Clave-in-exile
Alien Penhallow has a new sentence added to his fact about how she's no longer banished to Wrangel Island
Jia Penhallow has the last sentence of her fact changed to no longer reference being separated from her daughter
Maia Roberts has a sentence added to her fact about her role in the Shadowhunter-Downworlder Alliance
Diego Rosales has a new sentence added to his fact about his new role as the Inquisitor
Characters with new art in the new book:
Drusilla Blackthorn
Alastair Carstairs
Cordelia Carstairs
Jaime Rosales
Characters added in the new book:
Adaon
Ash
Paige Ashdown
Inquisitor Bridgestock
Mina Carstairs
Zara Dearborn
Oliver Hayward
Kit Herondale
Janus
Jarog the Enraged
Divya Joshi
Shinyun Jung
Ke Yi Tian
Claude Kellington
Eugenia Lightwood
Rayan Maduabuchi
Nene
Oban
Thais Pedroso
The Riders of Mannan
Hypatia Vex
Manuel Villalobos
Characters unchanged from the old book:
Cameron Ashdown
The Band (Eric, Kirk, and Matt)
Camille Belcourt
Grace Blackthorn
Jesse Blackthorn
Henry Branwell
Maureen Brown
The Dark Sisters
Malcolm Fade
Jocelyn Fray
Luke Garroway
Tessa Gray
Edmund Herondale
Imogen Herondale
Tobias Herondale
Jordan Kyle
Simon Lewis
Benedict Lightwood
Gabriel Lightwood
Gideon Lightwood
Maryse Lightwood
Robert Lightwood
Thomas Lightwood
Max Michael Lightwood-Bane
Rafael Santiago Lightwood-Bane
Catarina Loss
George Lovelace
Jessamine Lovelace Gray
Meliorn
Beatriz Velez Mendoza
Chairman Meow
Valentine Morgenstern
Alexei de Quincey
Raziel
Johnny Rook
Cristina Mendoza Rosales
Raphael Santiago
Seelie Queen
Jonathan Shadowhunter
Hodge Starkweather
Michael Wayland
Diana Wrayburn
Brother Zachariah
Characters left out from the old book:
Asmodeus (it's literally just him I don't know why he wasn't included in the new one)
Anyways, I know this is a lot of dense information that might not be interesting to everyone, but I had fun putting it all together (because there is no joy like cross-referencing). Obviously there might be some mistakes because I am a failible human, but this should be more or less everything. If anybody wants exact wording on the changed/added facts then just ask and I can tell you.
Is it just me or there are A LOT of typos in the book ? Especially in the Blackthorn section. I mean, I don’t understand why they didn’t put Tiberius’s new flower card ??!! I know why they kept Livia’s old one (obviously) but there are so much typos I don’t get it….
this took so long to finish you can see my style changing halfway through lol. it was super fun trying to include subtle family resemblances
artist notes:
- ty's eyes are the same color as tessa's
- lucie and livvy have the same hair color, while the rest of the brunette blackthorns have tessa’s hair
- ash has sebastian’s coloring but clary/jocelyn’s features
- alec, anna, and kit have the same blue eyes as will and cecily, but i actually picture kit's eyes to be lighter. i just draw too many blonde haired/blue eyed characters
- the blackthorns were the most fun to draw :>
this took so long to finish you can see my style changing halfway through lol. it was super fun trying to include subtle family resemblances
artist notes:
- ty's eyes are the same color as tessa's
- lucie and livvy have the same hair color, while the rest of the brunette blackthorns have tessa’s hair
- ash has sebastian’s coloring but clary/jocelyn’s features
- alec, anna, and kit have the same blue eyes as will and cecily, but i actually picture kit's eyes to be lighter. i just draw too many blonde haired/blue eyed characters
- the blackthorns were the most fun to draw :>
Ron and Hermione don't always share interests, but they like to spend time together even if Ron's discussing Quidditch with Harry, and Hermione is knitting elf clothes and reading. Ron is happy to casually act as Hermione's book stand and make sure her wool doesn't tangle.
This romione sketch is a loveletter to everything I've been missing since trying out a new painterly style: dark lines, my pale pink overlay highlights, and scratchy details
Let’s talk about the battle in the Department of Mysteries for a sec. So after the group gets split up, Harry, Hermione and Neville go one way and Ron, Ginny and Luna the other. The next time we see the latter group Ginny’s ankle is busted and Ron’s brain is addled. Luna says that the Death Eaters blew up a planet in the planetarium and hit Ron with some sort of hex.
Let’s take a moment to examine that. If the curse that hit the planet had hit any of the kids, they’d be dead. So the Death Eater probably missed, hit the planet ahead of them, injuring Ginny. But here’s the important part: the one who actually gets hit by the hex? Ron.
Why is this important? Because Ron is consistently described throughout the series as tall. Like, every time Harry sees him after the beginning of summer he’s described as having shot up. Again. On the other hand Ginny is described as “the small one” by Bellatrix Lestrange. But Ron is behind her. I don’t know if you know this but tall people can run really fast. I am not particularly fit but I am tall. And I can pour on the speed when my adrenaline’s up, which I have no doubt was the case for everyone in the Department of Mysteries. But he’s behind her.
Because he did that deliberately. He kept his body between the Death Eaters and the girls. He shielded them from their spells. Because those he cares about are more important to him than his own life.
Ron is a strategist, and has already shown a willingness to take the hit for the team and be left behind. In any group, I think that’s just his default position; take the hit, buy more time for others to escape. He’s well aware that realistically, someone is going to be hurt. In this case, Luna is creative and smart enough to come up with something out of left field to throw the enemy off. Ginny is small, but she’s an athletic powerhouse who can throw strong hexes. If it comes down to a crunch, Ron knows that the two of them can fight their way out, and he can increase their odds by at least holding off the wave behind them.
Consistently throughout the series, Ron can be seen being taken out of the action somehow. AND IT IS NEVER BECAUSE HE IS WEAK.
Rather, it’s because Ron is a STRATEGIST, who CARES.
In Philosopher’s Stone, for example. Ron allows himself to be “taken” by the queen, because he knows that he is standing with the Boy-Who-Lived and the Brightest-Witch-Of-Her-Age and Voldy must be stopped and it’s SIMPLE to him. Ron is a strategist, like has been said. It’s a strategic decision - who cares if it puts himself in harm’s way?
In Prisoner of Azkaban, Ron and Harry are faced with the Grim, and what does Ron do? He pushes Harry out of Sirius’ path, in the process allowing the dog to latch onto his outstretched arm and pull him away, breaking his leg as they enter the Willow. This decision is simple too - it’s because Harry Potter means the world to Ron Weasley, and Ron would not hesitate for a moment in putting himself between Harry and danger.
“Wait,” said Bellatrix sharply. "All except… except for the Mudblood.“
Greyback gave a grunt of pleasure.
“No!” shouted Ron. “You can have me, keep me!”
“Right,” said Ron, squaring his shoulders. “So you can’t go, that’s
what he wants, what he’s expecting. You stay here and look after
Hermione, and I’ll go and get it —”
Where do people who claim Ron is a coward who hides behind his friends get their bullshit from?
