Why is magnus immortal

Long story short, Magnus goes after Alec after all, gets kidnapped, held prisoner in a hell dimension and the gang, including Alec saves him. Alec accepts the notebook and they get back together.

Aware of his father's influence, Magnus occasionally brought up his power and notoriety and used this in his favor. Being a very skilled and powerful warlock, Magnus began charging for his services fairly young, even before he was a full-grown warlock.

Though he was only less than twenty years old, he had already begun lying about his age, claiming to be hundreds of years old, old enough to know historical figures such as Julius Caesar and certain oracles, to increase his clients' confidence in him.

At one point, Magnus fell in love with someone and had, for the first time in his long life, stayed with his lover for the duration of the girl's mundane life.

Even for thirty years after that, Magnus still had not moved on from the pain, though it had become tolerable, and was still on an extended vacation, seeking adventure in places like Peru , unable to settle somewhere with the thought of his late lover still stinging. In , Magnus was able to coerce his friend Ragnor Fell into going to Peru with him. They toured the city of Lima and eventually went to Arequipa, one of Magnus's favorite cities in Peru.

There, a woman named Guiliana guided them through the rainforest, where Magnus was chased by a dominant male spider monkey, which he narrowly escaped. Infuriated at the discovery that guano was, in fact, bird droppings, and that they accidentally fell into the cargo hold, Ragnor ended up throwing a magical fit onboard that would then sink the ship and the cargo, rendering them both foul and unpaid.

In June the same year, during the time of the French Revolution, Magnus was enjoying himself in Paris , the city that widely embraced his fashion principles. He was later literally caught in the middle of it when Count Axel von Fersen approached and asked him to help break out the royal family from Versailles. Charmed by the Count, Magnus agreed to his plans in exchange for dinner with him, and the two became friends.

On the night of the escape, after he successfully glamoured Queen Marie Antoinette , the plan hit a snag when the queen ended up lost and ran into vampires , particularly Coselle of the Paris vampire clan. She was immediately brought to the party being thrown by the leader of the clan, Marcel Saint Cloud where, coincidentally, Magnus was also at. Unable to convince the vampires to let the Queen go, he had to improvise and resort to trickery to get away with the queen.

With a hot air balloon, he escaped with the queen and met with the Count. Magnus's efforts were then greatly awarded when the grateful Count kissed him before they parted ways. Because of the incident at the party, Marcel retaliated against Magnus by having his vampires trash his place and take his servants, Claude and Marie.

One of Marcel's subjugates, Henri , stayed behind to escort Magnus back to him. Magnus refused and instead had him pass on a final message calling for a truce to Marcel. To avoid any more trouble, Magnus immediately left Paris, with his new monkey, Ragnor , after. He fled to the Alps, where he would go on to avoid anything French, not wanting to worry or think about his vampire problems or the Revolution affair, to no avail.

Through an escaped nobleman from Dijon, he heard the news of the eventual capture of the king and queen in the Varennes. Worried for his safety, Magnus wrote a letter to the Count, only to hear back from his sister, Sophie instead. When Sophie asked Magnus to try to dissuade Axel from risking his life, Magnus, finding mundane lives so complicated yet fleeting and knowing that the Count would be determined and impervious, chose to ignore her request and move on with his life.

In , Magnus visited London to attend a Clave meeting with fellow Downworlders. There, he met the stubborn Shadowhunter Edmund Herondale who fell in love with a mundane, Linette Owens.

Having been present on the day the pair met, Magnus bore witness to what would later lead to the heartbreaking decision that Edmund made: to leave his Shadowhunter life behind to be with his love. At the same time, Magnus also first encountered the vampire Camille Belcourt and made a pass at her. The pair connected, and Magnus found himself competing with the werewolf Ralf Scott for Camille's affections.

Influenced by Edmund's heartbreak, Magnus decided to give the mortal Scott a chance at love with Camille. As a parting gift, Magnus bought Camille an enchanted, and expensive, necklace , bought for the price he got after selling his house in Grosvenor Square. Magnus bid Camille farewell, and they parted with a kiss and a promise to meet again.

By , Magnus had returned to London and reunited with Camille, having finished her time with the now-deceased Ralf. At one point, Magnus was with Camille, Ragnor, who had then already become the High Warlock of London, and de Quincey at one of the Pandemonium Club events and was seen by an investigating Shadowhunter, Will Herondale. In an attempt to get revenge on Alexei de Quincey , the vampire who had Ralf killed, Camille told the London Enclave about his illegal Downworld parties.

To help with the infiltration, Camille had Magnus meet Tessa Gray , who had shape-shifted into Camille, and Will at de Quincey's party. He escorted them through the house and, since the group was suspecting that de Quincey was the Magister, helped them make sense of an automaton blueprint riddled with a binding spell they found in de Quincey's library.

Afterward, he took them to the ceremony to witness de Quincey breaking the Law themselves. Due to Camille's involvement in the death of de Quincey, she was forced to leave London to avoid the wrath of de Quincey's followers.

To Magnus's disappointment, she left without telling him where she was headed. Though Magnus contemplated simply leaving her London home and subjugate Archer , which Camille left in his care, he couldn't since he still loved Camille and hoped she would return to him. Shortly after their last encounter, Will Herondale went to Magnus and asked him to break his curse—a curse which endangered the people he loved or grew close to, supposedly cast by a demon that Will released from a Pyxis when he was a child.

Intrigued by the boy's haunting sorrow, Magnus agreed. In the following months, Will continued to secretly visit Magnus as they continued to look for the blue demon that cursed him. They performed many spells and summonings in an attempt to draw the demon out, though none of the demons seemed to ever be the right one.

Knowing that Benedict's parties were notorious for danger, Magnus went and ended up interrupting Will and Tessa kissing, under the influence of a warlock drug, on the balcony.

He warned them that Will was easily recognized by Archer and that they should leave before anyone else recognizes them. He transports the pair to the estate grounds, where Will suddenly ran off to chase after a blue demon—the one that cursed him. Later that night, Will came to Camille's house, wiped out, injured and messy, with the demon's tooth embedded in his arm after being bitten. A frantic Will wanted Magnus to summon the demon for him immediately, which Magnus explained was not possible.

Will then collapsed due to the poisonous bite and Magnus healed him. A little while later, Camille unexpectedly returned and showed up at the house. As a test, Magnus asked her where she had been. Camille claimed to have come from Paris ; Magnus immediately knew that it was a lie as he had previously tracked her subjugate Walker to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where Magnus's informants have told him that Camille was living with a mundane lover.

Finally accepting that Camille did not love him the way he loved her, Magnus ended his relationship with Camille and, using the barely conscious Will's presence to his advantage, pretended to be in a relationship with Will and kissed him.

He left with Will soon afterward as even Camille, who was enraged that Magnus dated a Shadowhunter and dallied with him in her own house, kicked Magnus out and ended further relations with him. When Will, in confusion, asked Magnus if he had just kissed him, Magnus denied it, telling him that it must be the painkilling spells causing him to hallucinate.

Magnus later reconnected with his werewolf friend Woolsey Scott and temporarily moved in with him. Eventually, Magnus contacted Will and called him to Woolsey's home. In Ralf's room, Magnus proceeded with summoning the demon that owned the tooth Will obtained, finally, the same one that cursed him— Marbas. Finally successful, Will confronted the demon, only for it to reveal that Will was in fact merely tricked into believing he was cursed—a particularly cruel trick that haunted Will for five years.

During this time, Magnus had grown to know the man Will was at his core and eventually realized the real reason he wanted to rid himself of the curse: he had fallen in love with Tessa. He became more concerned for him, even as the truth was finally revealed. Woolsey, at one point, pointed out that if Magnus truly did not feel anything for the boy, then it must be Magnus's desire to "save every fallen bird. After the truth was revealed, Will avoided Magnus because seeing him was a painful reminder of his torment.

Will did, however, write him a short letter, telling him that Tessa was engaged to Jem Carstairs but asked him to not reply. Some weeks after, Jem, whose life depended on yin fen , ran out of his own supply of the drug and had no other source, as Axel Mortmain had accumulated the rest in London, prompting Will and Tessa to approach Magnus for advice on how to possibly save Jem.

While Magnus was initially skeptical to help them, he eventually agreed to provide aid somehow, though even he wasn't sure in what way. Magnus, having reclaimed the enchanted pendant that he had given Camille, later gave it to Will for precaution. During an attack on the Institute , Tessa was kidnapped by clockwork creatures, and Jem collapsed after trying to rescue her.

Desperate Will summoned Magnus and told him that he didn't know what to do: stay with Jem, or leave after Tessa. Warlock asked if Jem knew about Will's feelings towards Tessa, to which he answered negatively. Magnus told Will that being there at the end of Jem's life was not what important, but being there for every other moment.

He then said that he would stay and watch over Jem while Will would go after Tessa. Then Magnus left the room to give a chance for Will to say good-bye to Jem. To buy Will time on his rescuing mission, Magnus joined with Henry Branwell to build a device that could help defeat Mortmain.

Together they created a Portal in order for the Shadowhunters to get to the Cadair Idris. There Magnus first found Will and Tessa and released them. Later they joined the battle together. After Mortmain was defeated, Magnus joined the Sophie's Ascension celebration party, during which he found Will near the institute front doors.

He came to bid farewell as he was leaving London for New York. Magnus and Ragnor later returned to Peru in with Catarina Loss , mainly for a job they were hired and offered a large sum for by Nayaraq to help her retrieve her family's treasure from the ruins in Pachacamac. Upon fulfilling their part, Magnus realized that it was not the treasure but the truth and reality of faeries and her family's connection to them that Nayaraq was truly in search of.

Due to this assignment, however, the trio was marked wanted criminals for desecrating a temple. Convinced by Catarina, the three remained in Peru for much longer after that last task. Five years later, in , they were in the city of Puno , living by Lake Titicaca , when Magnus met Imasu Morales , a musician.

Wanting to spend more time with him, Magnus asked to be taught to play an instrument. Magnus began playing the charango , rather terribly, much to the horror of those around him that not even his friends could tolerate it. Eventually, Imasu made him stop, admitting that he had their lessons showed, and may never, show improvements in his music playing and that he agreed to teach him because he had also wanted to get to know him.

With this, Magnus finally decided to give up music, causing the city to hold a festival in celebration. Imasu had been one of the few people Magnus grew to love since the death of his previous lover. Despite this, he still found himself unable to fully open up to him, especially about his past and his true nature.

Just when he began to truly consider telling him, even just about magic, and settling down with him, Imasu left him, reasoning that he felt Magnus to be ephemeral, much to Magnus's amusement and dismay.

With Catarina and Ragnor's help, Magnus was able to deal with and overcome his sorrow. In , Magnus had been summoned to London by Tatiana Blackthorn with a very generous offer in exchange for his service. Assuming that it was to perform a spell for her ward, Grace Blackthorn , he agreed. While passing time at a club, Magnus saw James Herondale —a spitting image of the boy's father, Will, whom by then he considered an old friend—shooting out chandeliers in the club.

Magnus confronted him and the conversation soon led to Magnus chasing him around London for a few hours. After he collapsed, Magnus delivered James home to the London Institute.

There he made conversation with his old friends and explained the night he'd had before departing for his meeting with Tatiana, making promises to keep in touch and see each other soon.

At Chiswick house , Magnus was struck by Grace's beauty and enchantment, reminiscent to him of Camille. Realizing that Grace could not be the reason she required his services, Magnus asked what is she would like to hire him for. She replied that she wished for him to kill five Shadowhunters for her in a specific way. Coming to the conclusion that she would use these deaths for dark power to possibly resurrect her son, he denied her and went to leave.

Grace came after him on her mother's orders but need not try to stop him from leaving. Magnus asked her if she needed help to escape, to which she responded by holding a blade to his throat and threatening him not to share her mother's plans.

He then made a comment of James, putting it together that James was tormented by his love for her, before departing. Some months later, Magnus returned to London after receiving word from both Tessa and Ragnor in Jakarta of a daylight demon plaguing the city.

He arrived at the Institute several hours early and ended up walking in on James and his friends vanquishing a Palpis demon in the Sanctuary. Following his inquiries, Matthew Fairchild , James, and Cordelia Carstairs quickly filled him in on what they were up to.

He agreed to assist them in glamouring Tower Bridge so no mundanes would be hurt while they attempted to trap the Mandikhor demon in a Pyxis. On their way there, Magnus pulled James aside to talk with him. He explained that Henry had sent him a vial of dirt James had given him to analyze and that Jem had also reached out to him about the search into James's grandfather.

He told him the sand came from a realm belonging to the Prince of Hell Belphegor ; though he was most likely not his grandfather. He continued to say that he should give up his search for his grandfather and that he had advised Jem to do the same as no good could come of it. Days later, Magnus was visited by Anna Lightwood , requesting he help put up extra wards after her brother Christopher had been attacked by Khora demons. He did so provided that she owe him a favor. He was later present at an Enclave meeting at the London Institute about the recent developments around London.

He stayed quiet during the meeting, intent just to observe until Charlotte Fairchild accused of Tatiana of having dark magic items; to which Magnus recounted his visit with her earlier that year. He also attempted to pass the blame of Blackthorn Manor burning down from James and his friends to the dangerous objects she owned. Magnus then attended James and Cordelia's engagement party where he confronted Matthew, whom he had grown concerned over his drinking.

However, he noticed that Matthew was clearly infatuated with Cordelia and tried to offer him sympathy. It was then that Matthew explained it was a marriage blanc and that James didn't love Cordelia, which shocked Magnus as he saw them to be very in love.

The mystery—and the suspected drama to come—convinced Magnus to stay in London for a while and send for his cat. In , Magnus was running a speakeasy, Mr. Dry's , during the Prohibition era. The mundane world was heavily influenced by the economy and financial problems. Aldous Nix , the High Warlock of Manhattan, had some hidden cards up his sleeve and planned to do some dark magic. Magnus decided to not get involved and warned the Institute. By October , after all those long alcohol parties and hangovers, he finally noticed the mundane financial crisis, after saving one of his fellow drink buddies, Alfie , from a suicide jump out of the window.

Apparently, at the same time, in the Hotel Dumort , Aldous Nix opened the door to the Pandemonium , which in turn swallowed him up and did not miss conjuring up half of the hotel along with the warlock.

Closing the Portal took a major amount of Magnus's energy and a bit of his blood. By the time he returned back to his hotel room, he encountered Dolly. After following her, he discovered that she was sent to him at the very beginning by Camille to give him a hint about the things about to occur. In , Magnus decided to try his hand at being a detective.

His first client was Guadalupe Santiago , who asked him to find and save her son, Raphael. However, it was too late for the boy, as he had already been turned into a vampire. He took the boy with him and helped him adjust to his new and learn to control himself, after which Raphael returned to his family. It was in that Magnus returned to Peru once again, this time alone. At Cuzco, Magnus met a girl named Kitty , a con-artist whom Magnus charmed into leaving her then target, Geoffrey , to be with him.

The pair became a couple and stayed together for a summer, during which they had a magical crime spree. At one point, the High Council of Peruvian warlocks met in secret and decided to ban Magnus from Peru for "crimes unspeakable. In , Magnus finally returned to New York from a trip that he intended to only run for a week but instead kept getting extended until he was away from home for two years.

Shortly after arriving, Magnus immediately realized that the city had changed for the worse. He also discovered that Camille and her vampires, while doped up on drugged humans, had begun uncontrollably feeding on and killing mundanes. Though he managed to help the New York werewolf pack solve the problem, Magnus found the disturbing circumstances of his most recent encounter with Camille too painful.

I have to say that the second seems to me to be a much bigger commitment. Alec and Magnus have the same happy ending Jace and Clary do, except that someday one of them will die. As opposed to Jace and Clary, who will both die. I gather that this is considered happier, and I think this is a place for reasonable disagreement to exist.

Which is okay. Six months into a relationship after a breakup is not the time for anyone to be becoming un-immortal or immortal, however committed and in love they may be. Maybe in a few years — and we will see them a few years down the road even if they will not be protagonists again — they will be. Maybe Magnus will decide to make himself un-immortal and figure out a way how to do it. Maybe Alec will change his mind about not wanting to be immortal.

Either way they get a lifetime together, which is all anyone ever gets, and is what I consider a happy ending. It was such a magical ending, so thank you so much for that. My question though is about Malec: I was wondering if they could adopt? Sure they could. In fact Magnus has plans in that direction. Alec is special.

Magnus tells him so and he has no reason to lie. There are things Magnus has never done with anyone beyond getting old and dying with them: marriage. A child. A Shadowhunter child, perhaps, or a warlock child, or a fairy changeling, since so many of all those wind up abandoned or orphaned. Anyway rest assured this gets explored in future writings. The relationship between the Shadowhunters Clary and Jace began in The couple run the New York Institute together and are currently engaged.

As heroes of the Mortal and the Dark wars, their love story became famous among other Shadowhunters. Destiny 2. Why is Magnus no longer high warlock? Does Magnus Bane lose his immortality?