Authors Note: This is my first fanfiction ever so please be gentle. This is very much an AU so please keep that in mind. Thank you for reading!
Disclaimer: These characters and the world they inhabit do not belong to me.
Prologue
The Shadowhunters had gone too far this time. The restrictions they had put on the Downworlders were bordering on enslavement. They were restricted to camps all over the world, unable to leave or travel at all. Their reproduction was restricted, for those that could do so. The Warlocks and Faerie had their magic bound. The children of moon and night forced to share living quarters. The Shadowhunters may be necessary to deal with the demon plague, but this was too much.
The Downworlders refused to deal with it anymore. They would rather the world was overrun with demons and drained dry than be subjected any longer. The days they were hunted by the Nephilim were preferable; at least then they could die with dignity. It was time to end the rule of the Shadowhunters.
It began in Asia. The Downworlders banded together to throw off their oppressors. The first group to break free was in Iraq. The fighting spread around the world eastward as more and more camps rebelled. Finally all that was still under Nephilim control was Europe. There were more Shadowhunters there because of Idris. Thus began the use of Guerrilla warfare. The Downworlders would attack groups of the Shadowhunters at night and melt away before dawn.
After five long years there was only one last stronghold of Shadowhunters, Idris. More Shadowhunters than they had faced before inhabited the warded country. And still, there was the problem that only the Shadowhunters could truly keep the demon threat at bay. They could not simply kill all that were left in Idris.
The Warlocks and the Faeries hatched a plan. With their combined powers they created wrist shackles that prevented the wearer from disobeying a direct order from their captors and prevented the enslaved from harming those who held authority. They made these shackles by the hundreds.
The Downworlders finally invaded Idris. It was high summer, so they made it through the mountains Warlocks opened five-dimensional doors into the city. The battle lasted for a month. As time passed more and more Shadowhunters wore shackles and made to fight against their people. The Downworlders came out victorious, having bound nearly all the Nephilim. Thus began the age of the Downworlders.