The Silent City »
The Silent City is rightfully named residence of the Silent Brothers. It also serves as the final resting place for some of the fallen Shadowhunters.
The Silent City is the base of operations of the Silent Brothers. It is and extensive and complex city of levels and chambers so vast and deep underground. Found on the two upper levels of the city are its Archives and the Council chamber, where the Soul-Sword is kept nd normally hung above the Speaking Starts. Beyong this are several other levels kept mostly a secret from and off-limits to non-Brothers.
At the lowest depths of the city are a series of levels that holds the necropolis of the Shadowhunters - the graveyard, ossuary, mausoleums - where the bodies of those who die in battle are buried, entombed, and sometimes burned and used to fortify the City's marble arches; those who died of other means, such as suicide, are not accepted in the City and are instead burried in other places, including Idris.
On the very lowest levels are the prisons of the Silent City, known to hold both the dead and the living. Here are several jails cells, where the worst and most dangerous of Law-breakers and wrongdoers guilty of great crimes are confined and incarcerated, whereas those guilty of lesser violations are kept in Alicante, or in the keeps of Institutes. Some criminals are simply kept there before they are deported to Idris to stand trial before The Council. Sometimes, it is also used as a holding cell for those theyneed in the city overnight.