Aqua Morte is a vampire-run Roman bathhouse.
Description[]
Aqua Morte is located in the historic center of Rome, along the Tiber river.
It has four large heated mineral baths, each the size of an Olympic swimming pool. The bathhouse also has many small rooms with single tubs filled with near-scalding bathwater.
History[]
The establishment is run by one of the local vampire clans. They had used the bathhouse as a controlled feeding zone for centuries, until Shadowhunters stopped it.
In October 2007, Shinyun Jung pretended to have been in touch with a contact at Aqua Morte and asked Magnus Bane to come with her. While there, she joined Magnus in his bath and told him the true story of her past to make him more empathetic to her. She used this distraction in order to give him a drink spiked with a potion that would make him lose his magic and to disable his phone. All so that when she took him to the Crimson Hand's latest base, he would be unable to fight them off or get help.[1]