History Franchise / TheShadowhunterChronicles

* ''Literature/TheLastHours'' (2020-): A sequel series to ''The Infernal Devices''. In 1903, Cordelia Carstairs becomes entangled in the politics of the London Enclave that prominently involves her two family friends, James and Lucie Herondale.

** ''Literature/GhostsOfTheShadowMarket'' (2019): A short story collection about brother Zachariah and the Shadowmarket.

** ''Literature/GhostsOfTheShadowmarket'' (2019): A short story collection about brother Zachariah and the Shadowmarket.

* UrbanFantasy: ''The Mortal Instruments'' and ''The Dark Artifices'' series, the movie and the TV-series are set in the 21st century, and features a FantasyKitchenSink living alongside humans.

* GaslampFantasy: ''The Infernal Devices'' and ''The Last Hours'' are set in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, respectively.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming:
** ''The Mortal Instruments'' books are all titled "City of [x]"
** ''The Infernal Devices'' books are all titled "Clockwork [x]"
** ''The Last Hours'' books are all titled "Chain of [x]"
** Averted with ''The Dark Artifices'', whose books do not have idiosyncratic titles.
* {{Interquel}}: Several books from ''The Shadowhunter Chronicles'' are interquels:
** The first two books from ''Literature/TheEldestCurses'' are both interquels. The first book, ''The Red Scrolls of Magic'', takes place in the TimeSkip in between ''City of Glass'' and ''City of Fallen Angels'' from Literature/TheMortalInstruments series. The second book, ''The Lost Book of the White'' will take place in between ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' and ''Literature/LadyMidnight''.
** Most of the short stories from ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles'' are interquels too. The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth stories are set between the events of ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' and ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' series. The eighth story is set between ''City of Ashes'' and ''City of Glass'' and the tenth story takes place during the events of ''City of Bones''. Finally, the last story is set sometime between ''City of Lost Souls'' and ''City of Heavenly Fire''.
** ''The Last Hours'' series is set 25 years after ''The Infernal Devices'' series and 104 years before ''The Mortal Instruments'' series.
* MadLibFantasyTitle: The main novel series all follow the format of "The [Dramatic Adjective] [Noun]" -- ''Mortal Instruments'', ''Infernal Devices'', ''Dark Artifices'', and so on.
* OneSteveLimit: Very much averted, probably due to the multiple series that span more then 200 years with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and a lot of DeadGuyJunior.
** The most common name is definitely Jonathan. The very first Shadowhunter was named Jonathan Shadowhunter, so a lot of Shadowhunters name their child after him. Other than him, there are six other Jonathans: Jonathan Christopher Herondale (best known as Jace), Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern (Clary's older brother, better known by the alias Sebastian), Jonathan Clark (the Frays' mundane neighbor whom Jocelyn told Clary to be her father), Jonathan Wayland (Michael's son who died as an infant), and Jonathan Cartwright (or Jon, one of Simon's classmates in the Shadowhunter Academy). Plus Kit, whose full name is simply a reverse of Jace's: Christopher Jonathan Herondale.
** There are three people named Max. Maryse’s brother Max Trueblood is the first and her youngest son Max Lightwood (named after her brother) is the second. The third one is the adopted warlock child of Maryse’s eldest son Alec, named after the second Max.
** Magnus' and Alec's adopted second son, Rafael, shares his name with vampire Raphael Santiago.
** Alec and Isabelle's grandfather, and the Blackthorn siblings' father are both named Andrew.
** Gabriel Lightwood shares his name with the leader of the New York werewolf pack, who was murdered by Luke.
** There are also two people named Clive: Clive Breakspear (the head of the Buenos Aires institute) and Clive Cartwright (A student at the Shadowhunter Academy who bullies James). They are both complete Jerks.
** Two Emmas: Emma Bayliss, the deceased mundane girl whom Tessa is forced to Change into so she could access her memories, and Emma Carstairs, the main protagonist of ''The Dark Artifices''.
** There are two people named Cordelia Carstairs: the protagonist of ''The Last Hours'' and Emma’s mother. Although Carstairs is only the name of Emma’s mother by marriage. Her maiden name is Townsend. Emma herself has the full name "Emma Cordelia Carstairs".
** Granville Fairchild (Charlotte's father) and Granville Fairchild II (Jocelyn's father).
** There are James "Jem" Carstairs and James "Jamie" Herondale, who is named after the former.
** There are two people named Alexander Lightwood. The first is the third child of Gabriel and Cecily, who lives in the early 20th century. The second is Alexander "Alec" Lightwood, the first child of Robert and Maryse.
** Two Christophers: Christopher Lightwood (second child of Gabriel and Cecily) and Christopher "Kit" Jonathan Herondale.
** Thomas Lightwood is named after [[DeadGuyJunior the late Thomas Tanner]], who was a good friend of his mother Sophie.
** You also have Jules Montclair (Céline's father) and Julian "Jules" Blackthorn.
** William "Will" Herondale is named after his grandfather, William Herondale.
** Similarly, Barbara Lightwood was named after her grandmother Barbara Lightwood (née Pangborn).
** There’s also some people with similar sounding names like Jonah Carstairs (Jem’s father) and John Carstairs (Emma’s father) and Catarina Loss (Magnus' fellow warlock and friend), Katerina (the Blackthorns' teacher who gets turned into a Dark Shadowhunter) and Catherine Ashdown (who escorted Jace to New York in ''Literature/GhostsOfTheShadowmarket''.

* TangledFamilyTree: The relations between the different Shadowhunter families are quite complicated.
** First you have [[BigBad Valentine Morgenstern's]] complicated family. He has two children with his wife Jocelyn: Jonathan and Clary. Clary is raised by her mother, and thinks of her mother's devoted, if platonic, boyfriend Luke (who is really a Shadowhunter named Lucian Graymark who was best friends and parabatai with Valentine until he got turned into a werewolf) as her stepfather. He later gets a RelationshipUpgrade with Jocelyn and marries her. She believes her biological father was a human soldier killed in action, but later finds out that it is actually Valentine. Her brother Jonathan was raised by his father. He later disguises himself as Sebastian Verlac, a cousin of the prominent Penhallow family. Jonathan also has a BrotherSisterIncest desire for Clary (Clary is not interested).
*** ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'' reveals that [[spoiler:Jonathan had a son named Ash with the Seelie Queen, which links the Morgenstern family to the royal families of the faerie courts.]]
** The Gray/Moore family is also quite complicated mostly due to a FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo and a case of SwitchedAtBirth. Tessa Gray is introduced as the daughter of Elizabeth and Richard Gray, the younger sister of Nate, and the niece of Harriet Moore. Yet just a few chapters into ''Clockwork Angel'', we learn that Richard's just an adoptive father; her actual father is an unnamed Greater Demon, making her a warlock. Then we learn in ''Clockwork Prince'' that [[spoiler: Tessa and Nate are only cousins; Nate is the son of Harriet, who left him in the care of Elizabeth because she had him out-of-wedlock. Then we learn in ''Clockwork Princess'' that [[spoiler: Elizabeth was never Harriet's sister, Nate's aunt, or even a part of the Moore family for that matter. She's actually Adele Starkweather, the long-lost granddaughter of Aloysius Starkweather, the Shadowhunter head of the York Institute who was [[ChangelingTale switched by the faeries]] in exchange for the real Elizabeth Moore, a sickly mundane girl. This means that Tessa is the only known person born of a Greater Demon and a Nephilim, meaning that she inherited both angel and demon blood and thus a warlock who can have children. And she's not related to Nate at all. Sorry, Nate.]]
** The Lightwood, Herondale and Blackthorn families are all related to each other trough various marriages during ''The Infernal Devices'' and ''The Last Hours'' series. First off Tatiana Lightwood marries Rupert Blackthorn and has one son with him named Jesse. She later also adopts a girl named Grace. Tatiana's brother Gabriel Lightwood marries Cecily Herondale. They have three children together (Anna, Christopher and Alexander). Christhoper then goes on to marry his adoptive cousin Grace. Cecily's brother Will marries Tessa Gray (who has her own complicated family history as mentioned above) and they have two children together: James and Lucie. Lucie later marries Jesse Blackthorn.
*** Alec, Isabelle and Max Lightwood are the great-great-great-grandchildren of Cecily Herondale and Jace is the great-great-great-grandson of her brother Will. This means that Alec, Isabelle and Max are Jace's fifth cousins as well as his adoptive siblings.
** Jace also has a rather complicated family history. He is the adopted son of Robert and Maryse Lightwood and their children (Alec, Isabelle and Max) are his adoptive siblings. Michael Wayland (Robert's late parabatai) is supposedly his biological father. But then it turns out that Michael was murdered and the man who supposedly fathered him was really Valentine Morgenstern, leading to a BrotherSisterIncest problem with Clary. It later turns out that his actual biological parents were Valentine's right-hand man Stephen Herondale and his second wife Céline. Needless to say, Jace goes through a great many surname changes, although he often uses Lightwood after his adoptive parents and siblings. Although after ''City of Heavenly Fire'', he adopts his father's last name, Herondale. Also worth noting is that Stephen had previously been married to Luke's sister, Amatis.
** The Shadowhunters are not the only ones with complicated family trees though. The Faerie courts also have one. The Unseelie King has over 50 sons with many different women. He also has one daughter (he had all his other female offspring murdered) named Auraline with the Seelie Queen. She fell in love and had children with Roland Loss, one of the Lost Herondales descended from Tobias Herondale (Will and Cecily's great-uncle). Auraline and Roland are the ancestors of [[spoiler:Kit Herondale.]] The Seelie Queen also had a son [[spoiler: named Ash with Sebastian Morgenstern]].
* TrilogyCreep: A notorious case. Cassandra Clare originally planned to write just the first three books of ''The Mortal Instruments''. Needless to say, she got a bit addicted on writing more. ''City of Glass'' (which concludes the first half of ''The Mortal Instruments'') has a definitive ending that features no SequelHook[[note]]In the ending, the Seelie Queen offers to make a DealWithTheDevil with Clary, but the latter rejects it, saying that she has everything she wanted[[/note]], unlike ''Clockwork Princess''[[note]]Concluding ''The Infernal Devices''[[/note]], ''City of Heavenly Fire''[[note]]Concluding the second half of ''The Mortal Instruments''[[/note]], and ''Queen of Air and Darkness''[[note]]Concluding ''The Dark Artifices''[[/note]], all of which feature blatant {{Sequel Hook}}s obviously written so the readers will stay tuned.
* UrbanFantasy: ''The Mortal Instruments'' and ''The Dark Artifices'' series are set in the 21st century, and features a FantasyKitchenSink living alongside humans.

* WebcomicTime: A given series usually takes place in a tight timeline where all the events occur.
** The six books of ''The Mortal Instruments'' (published from 2007 to 2014) mostly take place within a five-month timeframe, from August to December 2007. The epilogue of ''City of Heavenly Fire'' skips another five months to May 2008, where Luke and Jocelyn hold their long-postponed wedding.
** ''The Infernal Devices'' (published from 2010 to 2013) mostly takes place from April to December 1878. However, the epilogue more than makes it up, skipping ''129 years'' to January 2008.
** ''The Dark Artifices'' (published from 2016 to 2018) takes place within three months, from August to October 2012.

** ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles'' (2014): A short-story collection about the life of warlock Magnus Bane.
** ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' (2016): A short-story collection about Simon's time at the Shadowhunter Academy.
** ''Literature/ALongConversation'' (2017): A short-story about the engagement party of two characters from ''The Mortal Instruments''.
** ''Literature/GhostsOfTheShadowmarket'' (2019): A short-story collection about brother Zachariah and the Shadowmarket.

** ''Literature/TheShadowhunterCodex'' (2013)
** ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles'' (2014)
** ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' (2016)
** ''Literature/ALongConversation'' (2017)
** ''Literature/GhostsOfTheShadowmarket'' (2019)
** ''Literature/TheEldestCurses'' (2019-)

** The Gray/Moore family is also quite complicated mostly due to a FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo and a case of SwitchedAtBirth. Tessa Gray is introduced as the daughter of Elizabeth and Richard Gray, the younger sister of Nate, and the niece of Harriet Moore . Yet just a few chapters in, we learn that Richard's just an adoptive father; her actual father is an unnamed Greater Demon, making her a warlock. Then we learn in ''Clockwork Prince'' that [[spoiler: Tessa and Nate are only cousins; Nate is the son of Harriet, who left him in the care of Elizabeth because she had him out-of-wedlock (being set in the 18th century, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance illegitimacy is seen in a negative light]])]]. Then we learn in ''Clockwork Princess'' that [[spoiler: Elizabeth was never Harriet's sister, Nate's aunt, or even a part of the Moore family for that matter. She's actually Adele Starkweather, the long-lost granddaughter of Aloysius Starkweather, the Shadowhunter head of the York Institute who was [[ChangelingTale switched by the faeries]] in exchange for the real Elizabeth Moore, a sickly mundane girl. This means that Tessa is the only known person born of a Greater Demon and a Nephilim, meaning that she inherited both angel and demon blood and thus a warlock who can have children. And she's not related to Nate at all. Sorry, Nate.]]

** The Shadowhunters are not the only ones with complicated family trees though. The Faerie courts also have one. The Unseelie King has over 50 sons with many different women. He also has one daughter (he had all his other female offspring murdered) named Auraline with the Seelie Queen. She fell in love and had children with Roland Loss, one of the Lost Herondales descended from Tobias Herondale. Auraline and Roland are the ancestors of [[spoiler:Kit Herondale.]] The Seelie Queen also had a son [[spoiler: named Ash with Sebastian Morgenstern]].

* FantasticRacism: Relations between the Shadowhunters (human) and the Downworlders (fantasy creatures) have always been testy, with the former looking down on the latter.

** The Lightwood, Herondale and Blackthorn families are all related to each other trough various marriages during ''The Infernal Devices'' and ''The Last Hours'' series. First off Tatiana Lightwood marries Rupert Blackthorn and has one son with him named Jesse. She later also adopts a girl named Grace. Tatiana's brother Gabriel Lightwood marries Cecily Herondale. They have three children together (Anna, Christopher and Alexander). Christhoper then goes on to marry his adoptive cousin Grace. Cecily's brother Will marries Tessa Gray (who has her own comlicated family history as mentioned above) and they have two children together: James and Lucie. Lucie later marries Jesse Blackthorn.

** Jace also has a rather complicated family history. He is the adopted son of Robert and Maryse Lightwood and their children (Alec, Isabelle and Max) are his adoptive siblings. Michael Wayland (Robert's late parabatai) is supposedly his biological father. But then it turns out that Michael was murdered and the man who supposedly fathered him was really Valentine Morgenstern, leading to a BrotherSisterIncest problem with Clary. It later turns out that his actual biological parents were Valentine's right-hand man Stephen Herondale and his second wife Céline. Needless to say, Jace goes through a great many surname changes, although he often uses Lightwood after his adoptive parents and siblings. Worth noting that Stephen had previously been married to Luke's sister, Amatis. Although after ''City of Heavenly Fire'', he adopts his father's last name, Herondale.

** The Gray/Moore family is also quite complicated mostly due to a FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo and a case of SwitchedAtBirth. Tessa Gray is introduced as the daughter of Elizabeth and Richard Gray, the younger sister of Nate, and the niece of Harriet Moore . Yet just a few chapters in, we learn that Richard's just an adoptive father; her actual father is an unnamed Greater Demon, making her a warlock. Then we learn in ''Clockwork Prince'' that [[spoiler: Tessa and Nate are only cousins; Nate is the son of Harriet, who left him in the care of Elizabeth because she had him out-of-wedlock (being set in the 18th century, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance illegitimacy is seen in a negative light]]). Then we learn in ''Clockwork Princess'' that [[spoiler: Elizabeth was never Harriet's sister, Nate's aunt, or even a part of the Moore family for that matter. She's actually Adele Starkweather, the long-lost granddaughter of Aloysius Starkweather, the Shadowhunter head of the York Institute who was [[ChangelingTale switched by the faeries]] in exchange for the real Elizabeth Moore, a sickly mundane girl. This means that Tessa is the only known person born of a Greater Demon and a Nephilim, meaning that she inherited both angel and demon blood and thus a warlock who can have children. And she's not related to Nate at all. Sorry, Nate.]]

** The Lightwood, Herondale and Blackthorn families are all related to each other trough various marriages during ''The Infernal Devices'' and ''The Last Hours'' series. First off Tatiana Lightwood marries Rupert Blackthorn and has one son with him named Jesse. She later also adopts a girl named Grace. Tatiana's brother Gabriel Lightwood marries Cecily Herondale. They have three children together (Anna, Christopher and Alexander). Christhoper then goes on to marry his adoptive cousin Grace. Cecily's brother Will marries Tessa Gray (who has her own comlicated family history) and they two children together: James and Lucie. Lucie later marries Jesse Blackthorn.
*** Alec, Isabelle and Max Lightwood are the great-great-grandchildren of Cecily Herondale and Jace is the great-

** First you have [[BigBad Valentine Morgenstern's]] complicated family. He has two children with his wife Jocelyn: Jonathan and Clary. Clary is raised by her mother, and thinks of her mother's devoted, if platonic, boyfriend Luke (who is really a Shadowhunter named Lucian Graymark who was best friends and parabatai with Valentine until he got turned into a werewolf) as her stepfather. [[spoiler: He later gets a RelationshipUpgrade with Jocelyn and marries her]]. She believes her biological father was a human soldier killed in action, but later finds out that it is actually Valentine. Her brother Jonathan was raised by his father. He later disguises himself as Sebastian Verlac, a cousin of the prominent Penhallow family. Jonathan also has a BrotherSisterIncest desire for Clary (Clary is not interested).

** The Shadowhunters are not the only ones with complicated family trees though. The Faerie courts also have one. The Unseelie King has over 50 sons with many different women. He also has one daughter (he had all his other female offspring murdered) named Auraline with the Seelie Queen. She fell in love and had children with Roland Loss, one of the Lost Herondales descended from Tobias Herondale. Auraline and Roland are the ancestors of Kit Herondale. The Seelie Queen also had a son [[spoiler: named Ash with Sebastian Morgenstern]].

*** ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'' reveals that [[spoiler:Jonathan had a son named Ash with the Seelie Queen, which links the Morgenstern family to the royal families of the faerie courts.

* ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'' (2016-2018): A sequel series to ''The Mortal Instruments'', which follows young Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs as she investigates and avenges her parents' deaths.
* ''Literature/TheLastHours'' (2020-): An upcoming sequel series to ''The Infernal Devices''.

** ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles''
** ''Literature/TheShadowhunterCodex''
** ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy''
** ''Literature/ALongConversation''
** ''Literature/GhostsOfTheShadowmarket''
** ''Literature/TheEldestCurses''

* ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'' (2013): A film adaptation of the first book of ''The Mortal Instruments'', starring Creator/LilyCollins as Clary and Creator/JamieCampbellBower as Jace. Plans for a sequel were eventually shelved.

** The most common name is definitely Jonathan. The very first Shadowhunter was named Jonathan, so a lot of Shadowhunters name their child after him. The first one is Jace Wayland, one of the main characters of ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', whose name is short for Jonathan. [[spoiler:Although it later turns out that Jace is not actually Jonathan Wayland and that the real Jonathan Wayland is dead.]] The second one is Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern, [[spoiler:Clary’s older brother, who is also known as Sebastian]]. The third one is Jonathan Clark, a completely unrelated mundane neighbour of Jocelyn Fray whom she pretended was Clary's father. The fourth one is Jonathan "Jon" Cartwright from the ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' short stories, who is a [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]] whom Simon despised. The fifth one is Jonathan "Johnny" Rook, although it is very likely that this is actually a fake name.
** There are three people named Max. Maryse’s brother Max Trueblood is the first and her youngest son Max Lightwood (named after her brother) is the second. The third one is [[spoiler:the adopted warlock child of Maryse’s eldest son Alec, named after the second Max, after he got murdered during the war.]]
** [[spoiler:Alec's other adopted son, Rafael Lightwood-Bane]] shares his name with vampire Raphael Santiago.
** Alec and Isabelle's grandfather, and Jules' (and his [[MassiveNumberedSiblings six siblings]]) father are both named Andrew.

** There are also two people named Clive: Clive Breakspear (the head of the Buenos Aires institute) and Clive Cartwright (A student at the Shadowhunter academy who bullies James). They are both complete Jerks.
** "Jace" is normally a short form of Jason, though, in-universe, he got the name because his adoptive mother likes the nickname over Jonathan, and the nickname stuck. There's a mook called Jason in ''City of Heavenly Fire'' who gets turned into a Dark Shadowhunter.
** Emma Bayliss is the name of a deceased mundane girl whom Tessa is forced to Change into so she could access her memories. Emma Carstairs, meanwhile, is the little Shadowhunter who gets [[BreakTheCutie Break The Cutie'd]] in a span of a single night in ''City of Heavenly Fire'' and who stars in ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices''.
** There are two people named Cordelia Carstairs: the protagonist of ''Literature/TheLastHours'' and Emma’s mother. Although Carstairs is only the name of Emma’s mother by marriage. Her maiden name is Townsend.

** [[spoiler: Tessa]] and [[spoiler: Will]]'s son is named [[spoiler: James]], a sort of a DeadGuyJunior in honour of [[spoiler: their friend, James "Jem" Carstairs]], even though the latter is not dead yet.
** There are two people named Alexander Lightwood. The younger brother of Anna and Cristopher Lightwood from ''Literature/TheLastHours'' and Alexander "Alec" Lightwood from ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' who is actually descended from Christopher.
** Speaking of Christopher: There are also two of those. The first is the aforementioned Christopher Lightwood. The second is Cristopher "Kit" Rook/[[spoiler:Herondale]] from ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices''.

** Similarly, Barbara Lightwood was named after her grandmother Barbara Lightwood (née Pangborn)

* UrbanFantasy: Most of the novels are set in the 21st century, and features a FantasyKitchenSink living alongside humans. The exception is the ''Infernal Devices'' setting, instead a Victorian-era GaslampFantasy.
* TheVerse: A shared universe, with multiple characters appearing across different media.

** The most common name is definitely Jonathan. The very first Shadowhunter was named Jonathan, so a lot of Shadowhunters name their child after him. The first one is Jace Wayland, one of the main characters of ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', whose name is short for Jonathan. [[spoiler:Although it later turns out that Jace is not actually Jonathan Wayland and that the real Jonathan Wayland is dead.]] The second one is Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern, [[spoiler:Clary’s older brother, who is also known as Sebastian]]. The third one is Jonathan Clark, a completely unrelated mundane neighbour of Jocelyn Fray whom she pretended was Clary's father. The fourth one is Jonathan "Jon" Cartwright from the ''TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' short stories, who is a [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]] whom Simon despised. The fifth one is Jonathan "Johnny" Rook, although it is very likely that this is actually a fake name.