Meliorn

**Meliorn** is a Seelie knight.

## Biography

#### Before Canon

A couple years before canon, Meliorn met Shadowhunter Isabelle Lightwood. They started a sexual and information relationship, though it eventually morphed into a more romantic connection. Their relationship lasted for a couple of years and was non-exclusive.

Meliorn valued Isabelle, despite her racist tendencies. They often met up in his home and would occasionally use the opportunity to get information out of each other.

Though he did not say it, Meliorn cared for Isabelle.

#### Clary Fray

In 2016, Isabelle asked him about ways of getting into the vampires' lair, the Hotel Dumort—information he would have because he has slept with the clan's leader, Camille Belcourt—and Meliorn shot back with questions about Clary Fray and the Mortal Cup. Though neither explicitly gave straight answers and find ways to dodge the questions, each deduced the answers they needed.

Shortly after faerie scouts sent by the Clave to spy on Valentine Morgenstern were killed, the Seelie Queen stopped communicating with the Clave. Meliorn was mourning the scouts' deaths when Isabelle returned to him with her adoptive brother, Jace Wayland, in hopes of finding out why the Queen cut the Nephilim off. Shortly after, Isabelle, pressured by her mother to change, sent him a fire-message, ending their affiliation.

Meliorn was invited to the New York Institute some time after by its new interim head, Lydia Branwell. Without warning, he was arrested and interrogated under orders from the Clave. When Lydia failed to get the information they needed, it was decided that he would be brought to the City of Bones to be interrogated by the Silent Brothers. Isabelle and the others intervened by staging an ambush and helping him escape.

In exchange for saving him, Meliorn felt he owed a life debt to Clary, offering to help Clary find her mother. He told her that her necklace is a shard from a Portal in another dimension, which allowed the user to go to place they have never been to. He brought Clary and Jace to the Seelie Glade and opened a gateway into the other dimension and kept it open for her. When it was revealed Clary had the Mortal Cup and it was needed to save Isabelle, Meliorn allowed Jace to cross the portal. He shut it behind him.

Meliorn suspected that he would be executed if the Queen found out that he'd let Clary and Jace into one of her realms. The Queen did find out, but he was not executed; he was given the Iron Seed and became one of the Seelie Knights.

## Personality and Traits

Meliorn can, at times of need, be manipulative, as shown when he uses his time with Isabelle to gather intel. He is also cunning, able to evade questions by giving indirect answers or responding with his own questions as a way around his inability to lie. Meliorn also exhibits honor and gratitude, wanting to immediately repay debts.

## Physical Appearance

Meliorn has black hair with some blue locks.

Meliorn used to have a green leaf on the left side of his face. As part of his punishment from the Queen, his face was mutilated, and the leaf was cut from his face, leaving a rough, crescent-shaped scar around his eye. The stem was burnt. He then received the Iron Seed, and an iron stem started sprouting.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Heightened senses**: like all full-blooded Seelies, Meliorn possesses the unnatural abilities of swiftness and grace, and heightened senses of smell and hearing.
* **Seelie Magic**: like all full-blooded Seelies, Meliorn can use Seelie magic/Elemental magic. It allows him to open interdimensional portals, harness powers from the leylines and summon weapons directly from the Earth.
* **Expert in combat**: Meliorn is skillfull in both armed and unarmed combat.
* **Diplomat**: Meliorn has long been a Seelie Envoy, a diplomat to the Clave.
* **Longevity**: like all Seelies, Meliorn's life is very long and he ages very slowly

## Trivia

* Seelies cannot lie, so Meliorn cannot lie.