Both were created to allow Silent Brothers access to the extensive research materials in those cities. The first two entrances to the city outside of Idris were built around 1300: one in what is now the city of Bangalore, in southern India, and one in the city of Heidelberg, in what is now southern Germany. Their living quarters, archives, laboratories, gravesites, and the council chamber, then known the Sword-Chamber, expanded and were moved and separated into different levels. The Silent Brothers and Iron Sisters continued to excavate the caverns, and the Cloister expanded over the years. Back then, before the Silent City could be considered a city, it was called the Silent Cloister.
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According to David's records, it began as a cavern of worked stone beneath Idris, consisting of a small council chamber, a small area that served as their living quarters, and a graveyard. The actual construction of the city took roughly four hundred years to attain its current size and reach. With the help of the Iron Sisters, the cave was exorcised, and the beginnings of the Silent City was built. The Silent City was initially built around an anonymous cave in Idris, where David the Silent, the first Silent Brother, witnessed the ritual sacrifice performed by a Greater Demon that horrified him and made him a Silent Brother. Interrogations with the Mortal Sword for truths can take place in this pavilion. 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. The floor in this room is made up of red and bronze tiles. The pavilion is sometimes called the pavilion, or the great square, of the Speaking Stars. The Mortal Sword is hung on the dark wall by the Speaking Stars. 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, while the Shadowhunter(s) they are addressing stands in front of them, on a larger black marble square on the ground engraved with a parabolic design of silver stars-aptly named Speaking Stars. The Silent Brothers have council rooms in the Silent City, particularly on the second level below ground. Despite its fame, it is also rarely seen by anyone other than the Silent Brothers. It guards and lights the entrance to the Silent Brothers' living quarters. Standing at thirty feet tall, it is in the form of the Angelic Colossus, a triptych of Raziel with the Mortal Instruments. One entrance in New York is found beneath the New York City Marble Cemetery in Manhattan, accessed by depositing Shadowhunter blood into the stone cup resting in the hands of an angel statue.Īpparently, the largest single witchlight crystal in the world can be found in the Silent City. However, because of the secrecy of the Brothers with their city levels, regular Shadowhunters are not permitted to do so by tradition and Law. The Silent Brothers, and occasionally Iron Sisters, use this to their advantage to quickly travel between distant places to be rapidly deployed where they are needed. Much like the Adamant Citadel, the Silent City can be reached through one of a number of entrances scattered around the world. Sometimes, it is also used as a holding cell for those they need in the city overnight.
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Some criminals are simply kept there before they are deported to Idris to stand trial before the Council. Here 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, or in the keeps of Institutes. On the very lowest levels are the prisons of the Silent City, known to hold both the dead and the living.
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Beyond this are several other levels kept mostly a secret from and off-limits to non-Brothers.Īt the lowest depths of the city are a series of levels that holds the necropolis of the Shadowhunters-the graveyard, 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 those who died of other means, such as suicide, are not accepted in the City and are instead buried in other places, including Idris. 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. It is an extensive and complex city of levels and chambers so vast and deep underground. The Silent City is the base of operations of the Silent Brothers.