Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Áine O'Toole (1421)

Áine O'Toole
Witch leader of the Coven of Fire. Daughter of Donnchad O’Toole

You are the daughter of Donnchad O’Toole, the leader of the O’Toole clan. Ever since you were a little girl your grandmother has been teaching you the magical arts. When you finally reached womanhood your grandmother turned you loose to form your own coven. You have managed to keep this a secret from your clan so far. However this has been more difficult since your clansman Fergus O’Sullivan and his brother had that hunting accident. You were unable to save his brother. When you all split up to look for Fergus, just before the sun rose, you found him. You thought he was dead but before you could call out to the other clan members he moved. When he asked for your help you realized that he was, in fact, undead. You did the only thing you could think of you buried him.

Since then he’s proved a wonderful ally, and has put you in contact with many people. You know that the Kelly’s are all members of the undead race. You are also under the protection of Úna O’Reilly the wife of Cormac who leads the Irish. This woman has been a source of opportunity and woe for your coven. She put you in contact with an English undead member who hired your group out to ruin the fields of the Irish. This, you did gladly, not only because of the money, but to exact revenge for the years of persecutions against witches that the Irish have doled out.

As your famine took grip, Dublin was struck by an obviously magical plague. There are no other magical groups operating that you know of, until now. Úna came to you asking that you stop the plague, the Irish needed all the English help they could get, because of the Barley that they could provide. Weakness from famine is one thing, but outright starvation is another.

After your coven examined the source of the plague (the river) Generis came up with a solution. There are two problems with the solution, however. The small one is that she has to be the one to cast it, but she is being married off Saturday after the Joust (see below). The BIG one is that you need to completely exsanguinate a Vampire to get a needed spell component. The O’Casey twins have come up with a way to freeze the undead in position with a spell called “Touch of the grave”.

This weekend, there is a big meeting in Dun Boyne. It is a Dance, followed by a joust the next day. Your coven can use the dance to locate all of the undead beasts and use them to your advantage, assuming they don’t eat you. You can also curry favor amongst the elite of both the English and Irish. Finally, it will give you a chance to meet with and get information from Beatrix, the English witch that seems to love women more than men. Above all, the joust shouldn’t be taking place, because you need to preserve Generis’ chastity. If it does take place, you need to render the winner impotent. I’m sure that you have some potion that will take care of that…

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