Jonah Carstairs was a Shadowhunter who ran the Shanghai Institute until the 1870s. He was the husband of Ke Wen Yu and father of Jem Carstairs.
History[]
At some point in his adult life, he married Ke Wen Yu, a Chinese Shadowhunter, and together they had a son, Jem Carstairs. Not long after, Jonah was given the job of running the Shanghai Institute.
When his wife destroyed a demon nest, she inadvertently put the Carstairs family in danger. The demon who spawned the nest, Yanluo, took revenge on them by taking the three of them captive and torturing Jonah and his wife to death. Jonah was the first to die, and his wife followed within a day.
During their time in captivity, Jonah and his wife were forced to watch as their son was repeatedly injected with the demon drug yin fen, which gave him hallucinations. His son survived, but his body became addicted to the demon drug, which he was forced to take for the rest of his life until he became a Silent Brother.[1]
To avenge their deaths, Jonah's brother, Elias Carstairs, and sister-in-law, Ke Yiwen, hunted down Yanluo and slayed him.[2]
Appearances[]
- Clockwork Angel (first mention)
- Clockwork Angel: Manga (flashback)
- Clockwork Princess (mentioned only)
- Chain of Gold (mentioned only)
- Chain of Iron (mentioned only)
- Learn About Loss (appeared in an illusion)
- The Wicked Ones (alluded to)
- The Lost Book of the White (mentioned only)
- The Land I Lost (alluded to)
- Forever Fallen (mentioned only)