The room they entered was bigger than the ballroom she had seen before. It was longer than it was wide, with rectangular oak tables set down the middle of it, vanishing up the far wall, which was painted with an image of a angel. Each table was illuminated by a glass lamp that flickered white. Halfway up the walls was an interior gallery with a wooden railing running around it that could be reached by means of spiral staircases on either side of the room. Rows upon rows of bookshelves stood at intervals, like sentries forming alcoves on either side of the room. There were more bookshelves upstairs as well; the books inside were hidden behind screens if fretted metal, each screen stamped with a pattern of four Cs. Huge, outward-curving stained glass windows, lined with worn stone benches, were set at intervals between the shelves. A vast tome had been left out on a stand…

• love and sacrifice
• blood that created the Shadowhunter race

• represents that Shadowhunters are similar to a religion
• power, divinity

• victory, birth of Nephilim

• knowledge, origional shadowhunter gear depicted in artwork

• mourning, purity, innocence

• heavenly, represents the lost

• Shadowhunter gear
• runes are black when created before they fade to white when power fades
• good outline colour to separate the colours

• Film set:

• Props:

• The incense, gold box and candle are inspired by Warlock spell descriptions and their collections of antiques.
• The pearls and wooden box are representative of nature

• I may not have time to rebind the books that I have collected in order to fit in with my ideal aesthetic. As a solution, I am going to select some of the most important titles and find vintage clothbound editions that do not distract from my final piece