In the book The City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare, the character hodge is the mentor of three extrodinarilly talented shadow hunters(people who are half human and half angel dedicated to protectin humanity against demons evil super natural beings such as faeries, warlocks, and vampires, and werewolves). Hodge is a character that has deep thought and is the wise old hermit of the story but at the same time has something else going on. The reason he is so hermity if thats a word, is because he is cursed to stay in one place for his entire being. this curse is cast upon him by the clave (a magical society in which is like our supreme court but made up of super natural beings). This curse was descended on him because he was once part of a circle of evil shadow hunters that were devoted to killing all down worlders involving demons, faeries, forsaken, warlocks, vampires, and werewolves.This is terrible because the shadow hunters are suppoed to be living in harmony with the down worlders so they do not completely destroy each others species.
The way the down worlders and the shadow hunters keep this truce going is at the accords which takes place every ten years. The problem with this is that the evil circle of shadow hunters thought that they rose higher than any other species so at an accords they sought to destroy all down worlders while they were at the accords but were finally defeated. The clave thought they had taken down the leader of the group valentinewhile in actuallity he was still alive just made evryone believe he was. The master of the three young shadow hunters was part of the evil circle but claimed when he joined he was just friends with valentine and was innocent and unfairly punished even though all three of the young shadow hunters parents were also in the circle but wnted out.
*SPOILER ALERT*
The mentor hodge in actuallity after this was still valentines right hand man after pretending to be still good. Hodge betrays the three young shadow hunters by after they find and rescue a powerful instruement that can be used to valentines advantage takes it from them while one is dying and one is watching over the dying one and nokes unconcious the third. Hodge is also a week coward because he does all of this to get his curse lifted and lets valentine take the unconcious shadow hunter even though he opposes it but lets him do it anyway because he's scared.
When I read this, I thought Hodge was such a fascinating character and by the end I wanted to go back and reread to see if i could figure him out. I wonder what C. Clare was up to by having a mentor who flipped on his mentees at the end...
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