Marquesa Sinclair

## Marquesa de Santa Clair

An old painting of Marquesa, circa 1545

**Marquesa de Santa Clair**, or **Marquesa Sinclair** is an old witch of the Sinclair family who is responsible for their infamous betrayal of the deity Hecate and joining up with Lucifer to perform a genocide against the mermaids. She died after the battle was over due to exerting herself too much and draining herself of magic. Her children and descendants followed in her legacy, swearing their allegiance to Lucifer and creating their own coven in the process, the **Sinclair Coven.**

### Throughout the Series

* First Season

When Isobel digs through the old Sinclair journals in hopes to find answers for herself, she comes across the name Marquesa multiple times. Unaware of who that was, she decided to go ask her grandmother Eleanor to find out. Eleanor told her that Marquesa was the first regent of the newly founded satanic Sinclair Coven after they had broken away from Hecate and the Coven of the Mother.

However, Eleanor purposefully hid some more horrifying information about Marquesa from Isobel that she later had to learn for herself. Revealed to her in a retrocognitive premonition, she saw Marquesa and her deal with Lucifer. Then, she saw Marquesa along with the rest of the coven at the beach with a group of merfolk. What she saw next was Marquesa use her magic to end the mermaids, one by one until there were no more left. Horrified by this information, she acted awkward around Annidra for a while and debated about telling her the truth or not.
### Powers and Abilities

As a witch, these are Marquesa's basic abilities:

* **Magic** - A witch’s most well-known and powerful weapon, to be a witch means you are able to manipulate and wield magic and mystical forces. The source of a witch’s magic usually comes from a single deity that the witch or their coven have chosen to worship.
* **Spell Casting** - To use their magic/mystical energy, a witch uses a medium in the form of verbal sentences known as spells. Spells are a carefully constructed usage of words that turns the mystic energy inside of a witch into reality to achieve any desired effect
* **Elemental Manipulation** - Most witches are very connected to nature and to the elements, and a lot of spells have been created in the manipulation of these elements. A witch is able to summon flames in her hands or create gusts of winds around her.
* **Summoning** - Witches are able to summon objects/people and bring it to themselves through the use of a spell in a ritual. Smaller objects are able to be summoned without the need of a spell, however larger objects and/or people need a spell to be summoned.
* **Binding** - Witches can bind people and things to other people or things for any number of circumstances. Witches can also bound peoples lifespans
* **Divination** - Witches can receive or interpret information through other, more mystical means such as through readings, premonitions, etc.
	+ **Clairvoyance**
	+ **Intuition**
	+ **Premonitions**
	+ **Psychometry**
* **Channeling** - To obtain their power, a witch must channel from their deity of worship. However, a witch can channel more power from their deity or can channel magic from objects for a brief period of time.
* **Telekinesis** - A witch can use telekinetic energy without need for an incantation
* **Telepathy** - A witch can use very latent telepathy without the need for an incantation, however anything more complex would require a spell.

As a psychic, these are Marquesa's basic abilities:

* **Telepathy** - Different from a witch's telepathy, a psychic has a greater capacity for telepathic abilities and prowess.
	+ **Mind Control**
	+ **Memory Manipulation**
	+ **Psychic Pain Infliction**
	+ **Psychic Illusions**
* **Telekinesis** - Different from a witch's telekinesis, a psychic has a greater capacity for telekinetic abilities and prowess.
* **Dimensional Creation** - A more rare ability for a psychic, every psychic has the ability to create their own dimension by releasing a large psychic blast under extreme emotional stress. However, not every psychic has the capacity to do this as it has only been successfully performed once in all of supernatural history.

### Weaknesses

* **Rhyme Dependent** - Most forms of magic require their written & verbal spells to be casted with rhyming sequences
* **Mortality**
* **Disbelief** - The disbelief in one's confidence or abilities could tamper with their ability to use magic, and may accidentally suppress themselves.
* **Magic** - Witches are susceptible to the power of other witches much like any other species.