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Why do you think Clary recgonizes Tessa?



Dude... Have you read the books yet? Clary is a Fairchild, and Tessa married a Herondale. Jace is a Herondale."
DUDE... apparently I need a refresh on all the family trees ;)


My theory is that when Clary was young and had the shadowhunter-baby-birth-protection-spells done, that Tessa was the female warlock and Jem (or Bro Z, whatever) was the Silent Brother. In City of Lost Souls (I think) there is a quick exchange between Jocelyn and Jem and Jocelyn says somethings like "Brother Zahcariah! I didn't know that you'd be here..." which makes me assume that they knew each other somehow. And I think in a Cassie Clare book having the Iron Sister switched with a female warlock is just too much to be a coinidence. I think that Clary somehow subconciously remembers Tessa. Or I could be totally wrong and she just thinks that Tessa resembles Jace. :)

Because Tessa is Jace's great great grandma (not sure how many greats lol) and he's talking to Magnus because he and her were friends and their both warlocks and because of being warlocks they never dies. Oh! And also brother Zacharia (don't know how to spell it) is jem BEACAISE in order to stay alive he became a silent brother that's he says I think in city of lost souls that the herondale are like very close or has given him a favour something like that and best of all in CoHF tessa is going to talk to Jace and Jem is going to be back as a shadow hunter because the light woods are. Going to help him.
Well, Tessa is married to Will Herondale, they also have children. In CoG, it is said that Jace's father is Stephen Herondale, which means that Tessa and Jace are related and resemble each other. So Tessa probably looked familiar to Clary. It would make sense.

Clary sees Magnus talking to Tessa on Page 478 in the epilogue of City of Glass.

Tessa and Will had two children. That is on the epilogue. Also, I have a family tree in my copy of Clockwork Princess. Tessa is not a warlock-it is the closest thing they can assume of what she is. But she is a shadowhunter-demon hybrid

And on Tessa Grays Shadowhunter Wiki you can read that she might be introduced to Clary by Jocelyn...but who knows ;D

OMFG WHAT PAGE IS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She did have kids! Spoiler alert! She ends up with Will! Therefore causing the Herondale blood line and name to continue! If you don't know what I mean check out The Infernal Devices. Thank GOD! Tessa ended up with Will. God I hated Jem so much.

She ends up with Will marries him has kids he dies and so does jem. The end. Sorry I thought you might want to know.

No! That would make her and Jace related! We had enough of that I think we can all agree!

They do have kids. She did marry Will and stood with him until his death when he was like super old. The only logical explanation would be that somehow they had kids and the bloodline and family name carried on through the years.

its at the very end of City of Glass. During the party (after Jace and Clary had talked on the stairs I think) Clary sees Magnus talking to a girl with brown hair by the woods. Clary recognizes something familiar with the girl. Cassandra Clare has since confirmed that the brown-haired girl is Tessa Gray. (I don't know page numbers so I did the best I could with that)

After reading a lot of the comments and ideas, my theory is that Tessa was the female "warlock" (warlock is typically used to describe Tessa since it is the closest term for what she it: half shadowhunter, half demon) that preformed the protection ceremony thing on Clary. I don't think it says how old Clary was when it was done, so she could have been old enough to remember it. The ceremony was arranged by Magnus Bane, who, based on the epilogue of Clockwork Princess, has kept in contact with Tessa. It is very possible that Magnus asked Tessa to be the female warlock to take the place of an Iron Sister (Tessa is the only female warlock mentioned in any of Cassandra Clare's works who is still alive, and they needed a warlock because Jocelyn was supposed to be dead and the Clave couldn't know about her or Clary). Brother Zachariah (aka Jem Carstairs) could also have been the Silent Brother needed for the ceremony due to his yearly meetings with Tessa. In one of the Mortal Instruments books, Jocelyn acknowledges her previous acquaintance with Brother Zachariah. And, in the form a snippet from the not-yet-released City of Heavenly Fire, Jocelyn introduces Clary to Tessa in a manor that infers that Jocelyn personally knows Tessa. Jocelyn may have very well met both of these characters through Clary's ceremony, and this seems like a very good way for Cassie to have TMI and TID cross over.

I agree with your assumption that Tessa might make an appearance in MI6. Probably why Clare wrote ID between books MI5 and MI6. Also, remember that Tessa mothered Will's children. Will was a Herondale. Who knows what blood lines in the current MI series have Tessa's blood (related and part demon). Your talking almost 100 years.
The only thing that stands in the why of Tessa's appearance in MI6, is Jem's comment about dark times for the Shadowhunters (on the bridge - CWP). Jem and Tessa meet up after the events of MI, and Tessa didn't seem to know about the dark times. Also, if Jem was Brother Z, if Tessa is in MI6, then Brother Z would not be. Could be possible, since I think the shock Brother Z received from Jace at the end of MI5 is what cured Jem.
Purely theories.



because she is a downworlder so she is immortal sortof

Tessa and Clarry are related- through the Fairchilds.
Tessa's mom didn't know she was a Shadowhunter because she and some mundane baby were switched at birth. The other baby died while receiving her ruins-marks-tats when she later grew up, and Tessa's mom was able to conceive Tessa with the demon because she'd never gotten hers.
This stuff is all clearly explained in the ID in books #1 and 2.

Ew no, that would make her and Jace related. We DO NOT! DO YOU HEAR ME CASSIE DO NOT! Want to relive something like that whole being related thing again

I hope Jem dies. Sorry. I hope that Will has some kind of reincarnation too. That would lead to some sick drama

Ew no, that would make her and Jace related. We DO NOT! DO YOU HEAR ME CASSIE DO NOT! Want to relive something like that whole being relate..."
I just laughed out loud and spit out my coffee!! :) This is exactly what I was thinking!!

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BECAUSE TESSA WAS THE FEMALE WARLOCK WHO HELPED MAGNUS ALTER CLARY'S MEMORIES!!!

When was there a mention of a second witch helping Magnus with Clary's memory spell? Been awhile since I read the series, but I don't recall that. Why would Tessa be involved? She's a shapeshifter, nothing more. She didn't have any spell abilities.

she can, she is jace's great great great grandmother and will is her great great great grand father according to the inside of the dust jacket for clockwork princess
Midwestocean wrote: "I like the theory that Clary and Tessa are related somehow."
and that would mean that clary and jace are related… like for real this time

She's a warlock, so she lives forever, remember?

She's the offspring of a Shadowhunter and demon, Eidolon, which usually results in a stillborn, but since Tessa's mother never bore any Marks,Tessa could be born, a rare, if not unique case.

Maybe because Tessa is Jace's great-grandmother.

Tessa ~Theresa Gray,Main character of infernal device,Jace ancestor,shape-changer girl
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She did have the ceremony done. Magnus arranged for a silent brother who was sworn to secrecy (I'm thinking Jem given their history) and a female warlock. I thought Tessa would be the female warlock. It didn't say how old she was when the ceremony was done.