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|| MUNDANES OR HUMANS||
The mundane world is the world you know. It is the world from which, new Nephilim, you have come, and its people, the mundanes, are the people you knew and the people you yourself were, until recently when you were change. The mundane world, the humans are protect by the Nephilim, in other words, by Shadowhunters.
Mundanes lives their lives in ignorance of the shadows surrounding them, and it is the Shadowhunter job to protect that ignorance and, as much as possible, maintain it.
Mundanes are, of course, not allowed into Idris (the home of Shadowhunters), or into any Institute, under normal circumstances. The Law allows for Shadowhunters to offer mundanes sanctuary if they are in imminent danger from a demon or Downworlder attack, or danger from the result of a demon or Downworlder attack. Note that the Law does not obligate Shadowhunters to do this. The Nephilim holy mission is to protect mundanes, but not at the expenses of our own safety.
Mundanes/Humans can be or turn to be Shadowhunter if they have the Sight, in other word, if they are able to see the world as it is, and not as normal human see.
|| THE FORSAKEN||
It was only shortly after the creation of the first Nephilim that humanity came to know, to its detriment, what happens if you Mark a person who does not have Shadowhunter blood, or who has not been made a Shadowhunter by drinking from the Mortal Cup. A single Mark is likely only to cause a burning pain where it has been inscribed on the skin, but a number of Marks - and it does not take many - will drive a mundane to agonizing pain and mindless, insane rage. The Mortal Cup, or inherited Shadowhunter blood, steels the body against the overwhelming strenght of angelic power that flows through the Marks, but an unprepared mortal will die.
They do not eat or sleep, and they ignore their injures and wounds. As a result they are short-lived creatures, and it is only a matter of change whether they are killed off first by starvation, exhaustion, or infection.
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