Magnus Bane

* Brooklyn Loft, PH1, Nightingale Towers, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NYC (current)

## Affiliation

### Known Relatives

* Asmodeus (father)
* Jaana/Aliyah † (mother)
* Andries Willemsen † (step-father)
* Raphael Santiago (foster son)

### Significant Other(s)

* Camille Belcourt (girlfriend, former)
* Dorothea Rollins (girlfriend, former)
* Alec Lightwood

## Personal Information

### Eye Color

* Dark Brown (Glamour)
* Gold (Warlock Mark)

### Warlock Mark

Golden Cat Eyes

**Magnus Bane** is an immortal, very powerful warlock who has lived for centuries.

Other Versions* Alt Magnus

## Biography

#### Before Canon

Magnus was born from an Indonesian mother, Aaliyah, and a Greater Demon father, Asmodeus, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, on December 8th 1648. He was named Christiaan Andrieszen at birth, and nicknamed Noor by his mother. He was raised by his mother and his step-father, a Dutch colonialist named Andries Willemsen.

When Magnus was nine years old, his mother realized that his cat eyes were a sign that he was part demon. She could not handle the fact that she bore the son of a demon, so she committed suicide by using a keris. Magnus found his mother's lifeless body in her bed moments before his step-father did. His step-father called him an abomination and blamed him for his mother's death. Magnus then killed him by burning him with his magic.

Homeless, he was found in the streets of Batavia by Asmodeus, who'd come up to Earth to search for the power of the child he'd fathered. Magnus followed Asmodeus, a man with the same eyes as his, to Edom. There he stayed for around six decades, growing up and being taught how to use his power.

After years of psychological abuse from Asmodeus, he escaped from Edom and arrived in France, where he met Ragnor Fell. The older warlock took him under his wing and helped him accept his sexuality and his identity.

Magnus chose the name Magnus Bane soon after.

Eventually, Magnus and Ragnor met Catarina Loss and Dorothea Rollins, two other warlocks.

At one point, Magnus became involved with the musician Imasu Morales, who played the charango. The relationship lasted—much to Magnus's friend Ragnor Fell's surprise—but the couple eventually broke up. Magnus made no effort to fix the relationship, feeling that Imasu wanted more than he could give.

In 1857, Magnus sold his London house and purchased a ruby necklace to give to his then lover, Camille Belcourt. At one point during the early 1870s, life got very tough for Magnus that he attempted suicide at the Blackfriars Bridge. Camille stopped him, and he has since viewed her with much gratitude as his savior, and his "rock" in life. He and Camille broke up several times during the course of their relationship, and though he loved Camille very much, because of her cynical views of love and her emotionally manipulative tactics, she eventually broke his heart. When Magnus found out that she had been having an affair with a mundane Russian, they parted ways.

At one point, Magnus picked up the habit of helping new Downworlders navigate through the Downworld, wanting to help them in the way he would have needed it in his youth. One of the Downworlders he helped was Raphael Santiago, a newly-Turned vampire.

Decades later, Magnus had become the High Warlock of Brooklyn. Being well-known in the city, former Shadowhunter Jocelyn Fairchild went to him and begged him to take her daughter, Clary's, memories of the Shadow World. He warned against it, saying Jocelyn would essentially be deceiving her, but she insisted, and he obliged. Magnus went on to feed these memories to the Greater Demon Valak, in case Valentine came in search of the Cup.

Magnus also eventually came to own and run the Pandemonium, a night club in New York.

#### Regretting helping Jocelyn

One evening, Magnus was at his club when he spotted two Circle members inside. After a brief confrontation, he kicked them out. Clary later ran into him. Magnus recognized her, and Clary recalled a bit of him after catching a glimpse of his face as well. Additionally, Magnus realized that the Circle may come after Jocelyn again, so he called Dot to warn them.

When word of Valentine's return, and the fact that he was looking for the warlock that gave Jocelyn her sleeping potion, reached Magnus, he opened a Portal in his club and escaped with several other warlocks. Dot tried to stop him and convince him to help Clary; instead, Magnus offered to take her with him before disappearing into the Portal.

#### Helping Clary

After being haunted by dreams of her memory of Magnus taking her memories, Clary finally told her friends about him, prompted by Simon's revelation that Camille suspected that it was Magnus who took them. The Shadowhunters of the New York Institute, believing that Magnus's hedonism and greed would get him out of hiding, set up a meeting with him, promising the necklace he'd given to Camille in exchange. Magnus, despite being in hiding with his people and in spite of and his adviser Elias's pleas against it, agreed to go, as the necklace had great sentimental value for him.

They met at a rave at Hardtail, where Magnus told Clary that he cannot return her memories, as he had fed them to a memory demon Valak, to protect her and her mother in case Valentine ever interrogated and tortured him for Jocelyn and the Cup's whereabouts. When a Circle assassin arrived, Magnus immediately fled through Portal, but not before being saved and entranced by Alec Lightwood. Clary also accidentally grabbed a button from his coat, which Izzy and Alec used to track him.

Upon his arrival at his previously heavily-warded lair, Circle members had already infiltrated the place and killed many of the warlocks seeking refuge there with him. The Shadowhunters he had just met with arrived and helped subdue the Circle members. Alec intervened in a fight between Magnus and a Circle member, and Magnus was visibly charmed at first sight. Magnus moved the lair to a safer location and finally agreed to help Clary try to get her memories back. They summoned Valak, who then demanded a memory of the one they ached for from each of them, but the bond was broken when Alec let go. Realizing that Alec was scared about people's reaction to the fact Raj, a male Shadowhunter, was the one Alec ached for, Magnus tried to console him.

Magnus immediately took liking to Alec, seeing in the man the closeted person he had once been. Despite his obvious tenderness towards the Shadowhunter, he pretended that his plan was to seduce him and ruin his life when asked by Catarina. As a result, Magnus called Alec to ask him out on a date. Alec initially agreed but quickly took his answer back; Magnus mistakenly believed that this was Alec playing hard to get, when in fact, Clary, who'd been left under his supervision, had run off.

The next day, Clary arrived in catastrophe to his loft, carrying an injured and dying Luke. While Magnus treated him, Clary asked for more information about her parents. Though it was painful for Magnus to recount the events of the Uprising, he revealed to Clary the truth about Valentine Morgenstern, and Jocelyn and Luke's involvement. He took the occasion to ask for Alec to come to the loft, under the pretense of needing his specific energy. Alec arrived right when Magnus' magic was close to exhaustion, and gave his entire energy and trust to Magnus. Magnus was able to save Luke. Alec accepted the offer to stay the night, and slept on Magnus' couch after several cocktails.

Though they were both very different people, and though Magnus did not carry Shadowhunters in his heart, a special sort of trust formed between the two men.

#### Falling for Alec

A couple days later, he received a 3am call from Alec, during which he told Alec about his sexuality, and shared some wisdom about self-acceptance. Soon after, he was called to the Institute to consult in on a Forsaken that had breached the wards and attacked Alec. During that consult, him and Alec shared another heartfelt talk. Magnus urged Alec to follow his heart.

The following day, he was called again, and fixed the wards of the Institute under Robert's and Alec's surveillance. To Magnus' surprise, Alec seemed distant. Confronted with Maryse Lightwood, he warned her that Alec had learned about the Lightwoods' past with the Circle.

As he finished working on the wards, he bumped into Alec again, who told him he had proposed to Lydia. Hurt, Magnus left the Institute. Back in his apartment, he tried to convince himself that he was done helping the Shadowhunters.

However, his vow was broken when Alec came to him asking for help when Isabelle was arrested for breaking Meliorn out. Magnus put on his best lawyer suit, and in exchange for Alec's bow and arrows, he went to defend Izzy. It was a complex task, but his political skills and the promise of the Mortal Cup being given to the Clave was enough to convince Inquisitor Herondale to step down. Despite his insistence, Alec kept on his path to marry Lydia, and Magnus tried to get himself to give up on the man.

Jocelyn's body was retrieved from Valentine's claws and, again, Magnus tangled himself with the stories of Shadowhunters, both to distract himself and help. With a change of style and a search through his belongings, they found out Ragnor Fell was the one who had made Jocelyn's potion.

Magnus accompanied Jace and Clary to Ragnor's house near London. Shortly after arriving, however, a Shax demon attacked Ragnor. Magnus took his old friend back to his apartment, and while Ragnor was resting, talked to him about Alec and the wedding. Ragnor convinced him to go, as he had been invited.

Magnus rushed to the Institute, late for the wedding. As he arrived, the ceremony had already started. Alec noticed him the moment he arrived, and Alec promptly left Lydia at the altar to kiss Magnus.

Quickly afterwards, Magnus left Alec and the Shadowhunters to go back home, and try to deal with everything that had happened.

They came to ask for help again, this time accompanied by Camille Belcourt, who took the occasion to remind Magnus of their shared past, and try to mess with Magnus' budding relationship.

Camille's meddling failed, and Alec and Magnus escaped to make out in her apartment. They were found and captured by Circle Members and held that seraph blade point as Valentine taunted Clary, Jace, injured Izzy, and took Jace with him.

When they regrouped back to the Institute, Alec busied himself with helping his injured parabatai, while Magnus woke up Jocelyn.

#### Hunt for Jace

When Magnus was unable to track Jace after he joined Valentine, Alec lashed out at him and everyone around him. Magnus was then interviewed by the Institute's new stand-in head Victor Aldertree, and was later banned from the Institute, along with all other Downworlders.

The tension between the new couple continued because of Alec's frustration at Jace's absence and at the growing homophobia he was suffering from. When Alec accused Magnus of being ungrateful, Magnus called him out by reminding him that he did not stop his own wedding for Magnus, but for himself. Magnus left the Institute, refusing to be treated so horribly by Alec, and returned to his apartment.

 Alec eventually apologized to Magnus and the pair made up; Magnus told Alec not to push him away when things get difficult.

Meanwhile, Simon Lewis, under dire circumstance, was desperate to find Camille. Magnus agreed to help him, and he Portaled them to Camille's residence in Agra, India. While Simon looked for ways to find Camille, Magnus took it upon himself to search for items that Camille never returned to him. Among those items, he found a keris, the weapon his mother used to kill herself when she learned of his true heritage.

Before they left, they also found the fire-breathing snake he had given to Camille as a gift. Once back in his apartment, Magnus offered to continue to help Simon as much as he can in navigating throughout the Downworld, not wanting Simon to go through the same thing he did, which was having to learn everything on his own.

Magnus and Alec were together when Izzy told Jace to come find shelter at Magnus' apartment, much to Magnus' annoyance, as no one had asked for his opinion in the matter.

Magnus offered to go over Aldertree's head to keep Jace from prison. He then had an argument with Jocelyn, since she asked him to portal her to the wolves' den. It prompted him to immediately go see Izzy and explain to her why her attitude was wrong.

Following his explanation with Izzy, Alec came to apologize to him for his behavior. Magnus then helped them save Jace, only for him to be arrested when he came back to the Institute.

For defying his orders, Aldertree informed Magnus that he would be punished.

#### Budding relationship

Desperate, Raphael finally approached Magnus for help, though he initially did not want to bother him with his problems. Because he had already been helping Simon with Camille, the box they found at Camille's, which turned out to be her grave dirt, gave them a way to summon Camille.

Despite the weight of their shared past and her importance for him, Magnus summoned Camille, alone. Her careless behavior and words towards Raphael and the rest of the vampires settled his decision, and sent her to the Clave.

When Alec came to his loft after killing Jocelyn, Magnus tried to help him deal with his self-hatred and guilt.

## Personality and Traits

Magnus is fierce, intelligent, cunning, and wise. He is caring and deeply compassionate, understanding people's motivations with ease due to the experiences he's lived through over hundreds of years.

He is incredibly protective of his people, considering his role as their leader seriously and taking responsibility for the safety of all warlocks. This takes priority over his own happiness. He is often distrusting of Shadowhunters because of the Downworlders' history with them and their constant mistreatment of Magnus and his kind. Despite this, he is not past being friendly with Shadowhunters, especially those who do not mean them harm.

This protective instinct is not limited to warlocks only, as he has also helped many new Downworlders navigate through the Downworld. He made a promise to himself after having to learn everything about the Downworld on his own and has since harbored, protected, and guided other Downworlders. He considers all the Downworlders he's helped as his children, something that means a lot to him since warlocks cannot bear children of their own.

Magnus has difficulty leaving people who need help and guidance to fend for themselves, though he would sometimes request heavy payment from those affiliated with the Clave and their ideals, or complain as he lends people a hand. He also has a deep sense of gratitude towards those who help him and his people.

Aside from his power and skill, he is also known for his eccentric style and his exquisite tastes. Magnus can be sarcastic and never hesitates to snap a witty retort when annoyed or hurt. As much as he may appear aloof and uncaring at times, it hides how lonely his life has been and how vulnerable he can be.

As a warlock employed for his services or help, Magnus is incredibly reliable, able to come up with magical solutions for most problems. Despite usually requiring hefty payments, he has helped others countless of times free of charge, particularly during his tenure as High Warlock.

Magnus is openly bisexual, having been with many men and women, nor does he discriminate between kinds as he has dated mundanes, Downworlders, and, most recently, a Shadowhunter. After Camille broke his heart, he closed himself off to feeling love for anyone else. That changed briefly with his friend Dot, and again when he met Alec Lightwood.

Magnus is emotionally guarded, and though he does not keep grudges, some wounds take time to heel. As a result, he does not take well to Shadowhunters being around him, the Uprising still too fresh in his mind.

## Physical Appearance

Magnus stopped aging in his late 20s to early 30s. He is Asian, has golden skin, is tall, muscled, and broad-shouldered. He often wears some facial hair in a goatee.

He is widely considered handsome, with high cheekbones, dark black hair, and dark eyes. His warlock mark is his golden cat eyes.

He currently wears his hair with close-cut sides and longer locks on the top, and often uses magic to add streaks of color in his hair. He often wears makeup, always eyeliner and nailpolish, though he sometimes he adds different eyeshadows to the look.

His preferred style of clothing is an elegant eclectic look, varying between sharp suits, interesting pieces, and simple dress pants and shirts. He's always sophisticated, and favors dark colors and metallic accents. He always wears jewelry, choosing his necklaces, earrings and rings according to his mood or outfit.

He owns an impressive amount of clothing, usually separated by the occasion. His party clothing tends to show more skin, while his lounging clothing is looser, and made of softer and shinier materials.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Immortality**: As a warlock, Magnus has been granted immortality. Physically, Magnus does not age and has maintained the appearance of a young man for centuries.
* **Magic**: Magnus has access to magical powers that often manifest themselves as flames or smoky sparks at his fingertips. Magnus is capable of casting spells, performing summoning rituals, healing, and memory magic. His magic often appears blue but also appears in different colors, depending on the type of magic and intent with which he is using it.
* **Swordsmanship**: Despite being able to use magic to defend himself, Magnus also trained with various blades and is a skilled and proficient fighter.
* **Hand-to-hand Combat**: Despite being able to use magic to defend himself, Magnus also trained in martial arts and is a skilled and proficient fighter.
* **Fallen Angel Blood**: Magnus' father being a Fallen Angel, Magnus' demon blood is actually fallen angel blood. It allows him to use seraph blades and witchlights, though they glow red in his hand instead of the usual white. In theory, Magnus should be able to use a stele, though he has never tried to.

## Appearances

Shadowhunters 2.0. - Discovery

* The Mortal Cup
* Raising Hell
* Moo Shu To Go
* Of Men and Angels
* Major Arcana
* Bad Blood
* Rise Up Part 1
* Rise Up Part 2
* Blood Calls to Blood Part 1
* Blood Calls to Blood Part 2
* Malec Part 1
* Malec Part 2
* Morning Star Part 1
* Morning Star Part 2

Shadowhunters 2.0. Dive

* This Guilty Blood Part 1
* This Guilty Blood Part 2
* A Door Into the Dark Part 2
* Lover Lost Part 1
* Lover Lost Part 2
* Lover Lost Part 3
* Day of Wrath Part 1
* Day of Wrath Part 2
* Day of Wrath Part 3
* Dust and Shadows Part 1

## Trivia

* Magnus has PTSD, and has been through depression and suicidal tendencies.
* Magnus' coping mechanisms are far from always healthy, and he sometimes drinks too much for that reason.
* Magnus has "complex feelings about his own gender". He usually labels himself as a man anyway, for simplicity's sake and because it feels the closest to what he feels is his gender. He uses he/him pronouns because he prefers those.
* Magnus uses both queer and bi to identify himself, having switched to bi much more recently after using queer for years.
* According to him, Magnus' bodycount would shock many.