Freeform. Family Magnus' mother and step-father began to fear him when he started nearing the age of ten, after they realised he wasn't fully human. It is revealed that his mother was in fact tricked into sleeping with a demon who disguised himself as her husband, and when she realized, sometime after Magnus' birth, that Magnus was a warlock (in other words, someone half-human, half-demon) and not her husband's child, she hanged herself in her family's barn in the novel while, (in the TV show, she slits her throat with a knife on her bed). Soon after, his step-father tried to drown him in the novel (but not in the TV show), and Magnus burned him alive in an attempt to save himself from his father. He was then brought up by the Silent Brothers of Madrid, who also came up with his name. Cassandra Clare revealed on Twitter that Magnus was born in what was once Batavia of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Jakarta, Indonesia). Camille does state in City of Lost Souls that his biological father is a Prince of Hell, therefore implying he is a high-ranked demon. Whenever asked who his father is, Magnus always avoids the question or changes the subject. In City of Heavenly Fire, his father is revealed to be Asmodeus, the Greater Demon of Lust and ruler of Edom. Because Asmodeus is also a fallen angel, Magnus is capable of interacting with witchlights—he can make them glow red. Love interests Alexander "Alec" Lightwood (boyfriend in City of Ashes, until their break up in City of Lost Souls; the two reconcile and get back together in City of Heavenly Fire): Magnus and Alec meet during one of Magnus' parties and Magnus openly flirts with him, eventually starting a secret relationship with him (since Alec was not ready to come out as gay yet) later on in the novel. The couple's relationship is revealed when Alec passionately kisses Magnus in front of the entire Clave right before a war is about to start in City of Glass (however in the TV show Alec kisses Magnus right in the middle of Alec's arranged marriage to Lydia Branwell after he called of the wedding). Alexander faces both public and private backlash (from the Clave and his father, respectively) because of this, but manages not to fully give in to his pain and frustration with some support from