https://thelightwoods.webs.com/apps/photos/ Runes Soundless, Heightened Speed, Clairvoyant Sight, Strength, Insight/Foresight, Fearless, Deflect/Block, Iratze/Heal/Painless, Angelic Power, Speak In Tongues, and Gift/Talent. https://thelightwoods.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=182635541 182635541 Stamina, Agility, Courage in Combat, Fortitude, Equilibrium, Precision, Bind To/Alliance, Recall, Mourning, Love, and Wedding Union. https://thelightwoods.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=182635542 182635542 The Gray Book is a sacred ancient text, a tome, some might say. The pages are special paper for holding runes, with some runes so powerful, they'd burn through regular pages. In it is copied every rune Angel Raziel wrote in the original Book of the Covenant. There are few copies left as they have to be specially made. Shadowhunters learn one rune at a time from the book, and it usually takes a while for one to learn a single rune. Gray is short for Gramarye which means 'magic' and 'hidden wisdom'. https://thelightwoods.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=182640670 182640670 Parabatai are a pair of Nephilim warriors who fight together and are closer than siblings, regardless of their gender. They are partners who would lay down their life for the other. Being ones' parabatai is not merely a matter of promising to guard each other. The pair must stand before the Council and swear and oath to lay down their lives for each other. Not all Shadowhunters are required to have parabatai though, and it is actually less common to have them. A Shadowhunter has only eighteen years to find and choose a parabatai. Once older than that, the ritual is no longer open to the Shadowhunter. Shadowhunters are also forbidden from falling in love with their parabatai. Most Shadowhunters don't know the reason, but it apparently stems from a dark Clave secret. https://thelightwoods.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=182640752 182640752 Parabatai share each other's powers and can feel a strong connection between them. They also share a part of their strength with each other. Parabatai can be separated by several circumstances: if one dies, if one becomes a Silent Brother, if one becomes a Downworlder, and if one leaves his life as a Shadowhunter to be with a mundane. It is stated that when this happens, they will feel the connection break. https://thelightwoods.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=182640753 182640753 The Silent Brothers are a powerful group of all male Shadowhunters. To strengthen their minds, they have taken upon themselves the most powerful of runes known to Shadowhunters. However, the process mutilates their appearance. They are among the most feared and dangerous Shadowhunters. They are so powerful that they even scare other Shadowhunters. The Silent Brothers are Archivists. They keep the records of the Nephilim within the confines of the Silent City in which they reside. They are duty bound to assist Shadowhunters in their quests to defeat the forces of demons. They are not fighters in the way that other Shadowhunters are. They constantly do everything in their power to learn more. Primarily, The Silent Brothers are archivists. They keep extensive records of all Shadowhunter transactions and operations. They hold the histories of the Nephilim within the confines of their Silent City. They keep the information on all recorded cases of reparations within their archives. Additionally, the Silent Brothers keep exhaustive records on all members of the Clave. They have knowledge of all Shadowhunters. Their records even stretch so far as to knowing the Shadowhunters since the beginning of the race. They are also the keepers of Maellartach, the Mortal Sword. The Silent Brothers usually cover themselves with heavy hooded robes the colour of parchment and with an intricate runic design along the hem and sleeves in the colour of dried blood. Underneath the robe they have bald heads that are as white as eggs. They have no eyes, just indents where they had once been. Their lips are crisscrossed with a pattern of dark lines that resemble surgical stitches. Their skin is as thin as parchment paper and inked all over with runes. The Silent Brothers can read the minds of those around them and extract information. They can also destroy minds. The Brothers have the ability to crack a man's mind and send him into madness, if they so desired. https://thelightwoods.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=182641069 182641069