The Buenos Aires Institute is the main Institute of Argentina.
Description[]
The original building was said to have been beautiful with a red arched roof before it was leveled in 2007.
The current Institute, unglamored, is described as an atrocious looking tall edifice painted a dull rusty color. One wing of the Institute was destroyed during the Dark War and is still a charred ruin. The paint of the Institute was mixed with blood while they were applying it. The inside of the Sanctuary looks like a church that has suffered a blast, with the long windows boarded up and the floor blackened. To mundanes, the building is said to look like a large crypt in an abandoned cemetery, in a profusion of ghost-like flowers.
This is where the Buenos Aires Conclave meet and very occasionally give assistance to mundanes and Downworlders in need of their help.[1]
History[]
The Buenos Aires Institute was one of the Institutes Sebastian Morgenstern attacked at the beginning of the Dark War. As with other attacks, Sebastian Turned the majority of the Conclave's Shadowhunters—including its head Matthias Gonzales—into Endarkened; the elderly and young were simply murdered.[2] The Institute was destroyed during this attack. Those who survived, fled to the nearest Institute outside the city and managed to mostly defend that building against the Endarkened. In the following years, the local Shadowhunters discussed returning to and rebuilding the Institute in the city, but they eventually abandoned the idea.
After the Dark War, with Shadowhunters in Buenos Aires severely diminished, the Clave sent Clive Breakspear to rebuild. In this position, he isolated the male Shadowhunters at his disposal and turned them into mercenaries; decimating relationships between them and the Downworlders of the Buenos Aires Shadow Market. Additionally, he collaborated with a warlock in abducting female werewolves for experiments.
In 2012, Alec Lightwood and Lily Chen visited the Institute while they were on a mission at the Shadow Market. The Institute was very unwelcoming to them as it was allied to the Cohort. Upon discovery of Clive's dark plans, Alec put a stop to his tyranny and his role as head of the Buenos Aires Institute was given to Joaquín Acosta Romero.[1]
Residents[]
- Matthias Gonzales † (former head)
- Clive Breakspear (former head)
- Joaquín Acosta Romero (head)