“Emma looked at the ocean and felt what she always felt; a mixture of yearning and terror, a desire to throw herself into the green cold that was like the desire to drive too fast, jump too high, leap into battle unarmed.”
Emma Carstairs - The Dark Artifices
Alastair had a collection of daggers, and he had brought quite a few of them with him from Cirenworth. They were the only beautiful things Cordelia remembered Alastair ever paying special attention to. @alastair-appreciation-month
The Herondale family is an old Shadowhunter family. They have lived in a variety of places; notably in Wales, Yorkshire, London, Idris, and New York. The men of the family are known to be born with star shaped marks on their shoulders, originating from when Will Herondale's shoulder came into contact with the angel Ithuriel in the late 1870s. The symbol of the family is the heron. Their ring, in particular, has a pattern of the birds in flight. The name Herondale comes from the words "Heron" and "Dale". "Heron" is a bird and "dale" means broad one.
There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.