William Herondale

[close] Will has black hair and blue eyes which are considered very memorable. He is considered handsome by many, and girls seem to fancy him. He appears to been roguish in looks as well as manner.

Seventeen-year-old Will is the sort of young man nice Victorian girls were warned against. He drinks, gambles, and enjoys the company of ladies of questionable virtue—at least, as much as he enjoys anything. Will hates everyone and everything, with the possible exception of Jem, and even that's in some doubt. Charlotte despairs of keeping him alive past the age of nineteen.

Will Herondale is a Welsh Shadowhunter in nineteenth-century London. He is well aware of his own charms. He allows people to believe his is an orphan, but he is not. His father was a Shadowhunter but fell in love with a mundane and ran away to Wales in an attempt to live a normal life. However, Will decided to leave them as a boy and made his way to the London Institute and joined the Clave. [close]