The Shadowhunters and the start of a changing of the Gard.
The younger shadow hunters see the law very differently and don’t understand why some of the laws are in place and the role the accords play in this as well as we see that they don’t get what people are doing and are doing it because it is the law but at what point do they realize that they are part of a system that needs to change and we see that it will change and how it changes deserves its post as we see that people can see links to real-world historical events and how we see that the shadow hunters are blindly following the laws or in the case of the lightwoods, not following orders of the Clave but this at times is the morally right thing to do and this is quite interesting in a way that we see that it shows that the younger lightwoods including Alec at times are aware that the Clave is very self-serving and doesn’t want to change. We see that the consul is elected by the clave and lives in ideas and has the power to imprison people without trial and we see that they don’t