Runes, "Twilight Hunters": labels that impart supernatural abilities

In this article we will examine the runes of Twilight hunters and their significance, Cassandra Claire has detailed this topic in her books. The famous writer claims that the symbols of Raziel - a complex runic language, which gives strength in the fight against demons. They are the most common weapon of its heroes.

Who are the Twilight hunters? This is the race of the Nephilim, which appeared several thousand years ago. In those days, the angel Raziel shared his blood with the mortal man and handed him the Gray book with the runes and the Cannon of Death. Nobody has managed to create new symbols till now.

Signs

What are runes? These are labels that give beings supernatural powers. They consist of famous angelic and demonic runes, which give Twilight hunters the power of a hundred times more than primitive ones. Tags are burned to the skin of warriors with the help of stelae and are often used by them in the fight against demons.

Chronicle

So, the first generation of the heroes of Cassandra Clare's books received from Angel Raziel a weapon to fight the demons, whom they were instructed to exterminate. Each rune is found both in the Covenant book and in the Gray Book, which is a special edition. A copy of this collection is very difficult to find, since it needs to be specially manufactured because the steels, created from the holy metal of adamas, burn simple paper.

The Cain mark was the very first recorded symbol. She protected him from harm: any evil directed against the master returned to the offender sevenfold.

In 2007, Sebastian Morgenstern, with the help of the Chalice of Hell, drew the Twilight hunters into the Dark, so that angelic runes disappeared from their skin. Thus, the Dark Twilight hunters after the conversion were able to apply only demonic symbols.

Information

The Twilight hunters' runes and their significance are wanted to study by those who are interested in the fate of the Nefelim race. It is known that some characters cause inconsequential stinging pain to the owner, but most labels are completely harmless. Nevertheless, Mark Blackator, who fairies fifty percent and has the blood of the creatures of the Lower World, the application of runes caused unbearable pain.

The Twilight hunter receives his first mark at the age of ten - when he starts to train officially. As a rule, this is the rune of Focusing. In special cases, it can be replaced by another symbol. So, once it was decided to sick Adelie Starkweather to provide first the rune of the Force. The first rune on the heroes of the books of Cassandra Claire, as a rule, is put on the solemn meeting, which is conducted by the Silent Brothers.

Application

What are the runes for? Twilight hunters gave them different effects and abilities, applying to their own bodies or physical objects. Many of these signs were applied to the tools of the heroes of books so that demons could not be cured of the wounds received in battle. Sometimes runes were used for locking and unlocking doors, igniting various objects and other actions.

Nefelim are exceptional beings who can use the Angel's marks. When runes are applied to ordinary people, they burn the skin. Mighty symbols of a common man are made crazy and turned into the renounced, and in werewolves cause a demonic disease that grows into lycanthropy, and then the effectiveness of the label disappears.

Other creatures marked by the Lower World are also unable to use the runes, since they may perish. The only exception is the rune Alliance: it was specifically created for use by Nefelim and the creatures of the Lower World. Magnus Baine said that symbols can only be applied to hunters, because they are half angels.

Law violation

What else are the runes famous for? Twilight hunters claim that they are an integral part of the personality. If someone leaves the Nefelim society of their own free will, marks are removed from him - this is a very painful process. They lose the symbols and those who are expelled because of the violation of the law. Thus, Twilight hunters turn into primitive hunters. There have been cases when Clave insisted on turning the exiles through torture and punishment, although this was prohibited by law.

Twilight hunters sometimes use labels that are only symbolic. The rune of Love, for example, serves as a simple sign for two people and can not begin a real feeling, and the Rune of Sorrow only reduces the sense of losing the master, displays mourning and honors the dead.

Usually, the labels are displayed in their entirety, but there are symbols that can be painted in part from the beginning. When the carrier wishes to activate the sign, then he completes it completely.

Efficiency

So, we continue to study the runes further. Twilight hunters have an innate talent for the magic of symbols, with which the strengths and efficiencies of these extraordinary marks are related. The more accurately the sign is drawn, the more effective it is.

The power of runes is affected by their arrangement: the closer the drawing is to the heart, the more powerful it is. Separate tags are placed on the hands and feet. By the way, the more force was used in the process of applying the runes, the longer they will act.

When Twilight hunters become bosom friends, they can be called parabatai. In fact, they turn into brothers and even more. If the mark is applied by someone's parabatay, it is characterized by colossal power. Also there are runes, which only parabatay can use - with their help each other they draw strength doubled.

It is known that Clary Fray is capable of putting marks that are much more powerful than the symbols used by Twilight hunters. She has additional angelic blood, which gives her the power needed to create new runes, although this ability takes away a lot of energy from her.

Duration

When do runes disappear? Twilight hunters paint them in different colors: red, blue, silver and gold. Fresh symbols are black. Many of them are short-term and therefore disappear after a certain period of time. They always leave behind themselves a muddy silver or white scar that has the outlines of a symbol. To re-feel the effect, rune must be applied again.

Treating the runes is quite an interesting activity. Thus, the signs of Focus, Mnemosyne, and also intended for mourning, marriage and rituals of parabatai are permanent. They never disappear and are always effective for their owner.

Marriage marks are unchanged, but can be very painfully divided into two parts. The same happens with the Parabatay runes: they disappear when the connection breaks (something much more serious than the end of the marriage). This happens, for example, when someone becomes a Silent Brother or an Iron Sister. The runes of marriage dissolve when the marriage is annulled.

Counteraction

What other properties are the runes of Twilight hunters? The gray book contains many labels that, thanks to the instinct of the owners, take root on the body. Some hunters resist marks, others experience a slight pain. It is known that in individuals, the first symbols could be completely rejected, which plunged them into insanity or caused shock, unbearable pain, agony. The owner fell ill with such a strong fever that it was possible to save his life only by erasing or cutting the fleece.

Those who could not bear labels, were forced after their removal to live their lives as primitive. The fever could last an indefinite amount of time (a week, a month, perhaps, an eternity). Of course, the Twilight hunter could die, but if he survived, then his body no longer resisted the runes.

Knowledge

The only permitted runes are those that are placed in the Gray Book. Demonic runes, often used in summons and available to sorcerers, are prohibited by law and can not be used by Twilight hunters. Angel blood is also negative on them.

There are other runes of God's messengers, which apparently appeared in time immemorial and were not granted to the Nephilim. The most famous of them are the Cain mark and the First mark.

Only often used signs are denoted by their real name, while the others have unofficial names. Their real names are written in Hebrew and serve as exclusive words from the language that people are allowed to know.

Also there are some very powerful runes available only to the Iron Sisters and the Silent Brothers. They are hidden in the secluded corners of the Gray Book and give the owners another magic, through which they can perform special actions.

Clary Fray

The main label language is not understandable to Twilight hunters, so they do not know how to create new characters. But Clary Fray has a talent for remembering ancient runes that were not recorded in the Gray Book. This gift was given to the angelic blood of Ituruel, which her father gave to her mother at the time she was pregnant with Clary.

The girl is associated with the angel Itouriel, and he gives her images of those ancient runes that are not in the Gray Book. These symbols were known long before the advent of the Twilight hunters. Perhaps they are the Heavenly runes that arose in the time of the angels. They include the labels of Fearlessness, Resurrection and Alliance, Cain and others. These signs come Clary in dreams or visions, usually when she calls to them, thinking about something, or spontaneously if necessary.

Raziel

Raziel is an angel in Judaic mythology. It is known from Kabbalistic and post-Biblical sources. He is called the "angel of secrecy" or "the guardian of secrets". It is compared with the Sefira Hochma in the Olam Beria - one of the worlds of the kabalistic spiritual world order. Sometimes he is called Akraziel ("the herald of God") or Galizur ("unlocking the rock").

Gray Book

What is the Gray Book? This is the volume containing the exact copy of the Covenant book in which the angel Raziel inscribed the runes allowed for use by the Nephilim. Previously, he was known as the Gramaray book.

To produce this collection, a special paper is used that can withstand the strength of runes. Each institute and Magnus Bain, the High Mage of Brooklyn, own a copy of this masterpiece.

All young Twilight hunters should know the labels by heart. But since the human mind is too fragile, most babies grow by studying one rune for several years. Reading a set of runes at a time seems to cause a student a headache.

Dark Twilight hunters are the Nephilim who drank a mixture of the blood of the Great Demon Lilith and Sebastian Morgenstern from the Chalice of Hell. They became stronger and more agile than the Nephilim, but their alliance changed from the angelic to the demonic. They could no longer use the blades of the messengers of God, who know how to invoke the name and spirit of the Cherubim, their runes faded on their bodies. The Dark Nephelims could only use demonic tags.

Since their lives were connected with the Chalice of Hell, its destruction led to the death of every Dark, which she created.