Witch

## Appearance and Physical Traits

Unlike most women, witches didn’t go for perfume. They always smelled a little earthy, no matter how well made up. In Lily’s case, her aroma was identical to her name.

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Hexene used to smell like a cabinet full of fresh herbs. She still did, only now they were all dead and beginning to rot.

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“Got a description of a witch shaking down a missing mummy. A witness said she had lots of red hair.” “Maiden,” supplied Hyacinth. “Yeah, I know. Which means there’s a mother and a crone out there too, but as you ladies prove, those labels can be somewhat... ah... less than accurate.”

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“I was wondering,” I said to Lily, “when they changed you, your hair changed colors, just like that? It’s not... I mean... it’s not dyed?”

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It was hard to tell if she was telling the truth. I mostly saw how much she looked like her mom. The old pictures of Daisy Mooney with the long mousy hair and the doe eyes were pretty far from the bombshell she had become after the change.

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## Socio-Cultural Characteristics

“I get a call at my shop. My coven,” and here her lips turned into an irritated line, “was getting ready for some weather ritual. Bringing rain to the southland. But who pays for that? No one, that’s who. And who cares that witches are doing it? No one! Why? We’re dames. Skirts.” “Luh... ladies. I always say ladies.” “Ladies,” she sneered. “Or that. No, I’m not fixing the weather for you people. Either it’s a bunch of monsters who won’t let us join their little clubs or it’s humans thinking we’re going to turn them or curse them or boil them up in a cauldron and eat them, I don’t know, as soup.”

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Looks wasn’t something mummies went for, was it? Vampires, sure. Witches, sometimes. But mummies? They always got covered up with bandages. A pretty kisser seemed like a waste.

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Since they were among the more powerful and less respected monsters out there, you had a recipe for some tense interactions.

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## Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses

**Magic:** Witches have a powerful and versatile magical ability which they can invoke via spoken words written runes and material ingredients like dried thistles.

“When you use hexes regularly, you sort of build up a tolerance. Same way for all curses. So he was needing more and more to stay normal.” “All curses?” “It’s why witches like to switch things up. Or make sure we don’t have to curse the same person too many times.”

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* **Familiar Creation:** A familiar is a witches conduit for their powers without which they have no powers (while keeping their weaknesses and phobias) although if they are destroyed they can be restored.
	+ **Clairvoyance:** witches can see through the eyes of their familiars.
* **Role Embodiment Empowerment:** The closer a witch is to representing the supposed ideal of their role as maiden, mother or crone the more power they and their coven get. In contrast a coven whose members are only *technically* a maiden, mother and crone due to being all one year apart in age will be weaker to the point that they can be blocked by a lone maiden. Additionally if they get thrown out of balance, by say one member losing a familiar, then every previously cast spell will go haywire replaying but "wrong" starting with the big ones.
	+ **Maidens:** have the most power and the least skill and have beguiling powers while projecting an aura of desire.
	+ **Mothers:** have a balance of power and skill and can heal illness and injuries while projecting an aura of sanctity.
	+ **Crones:** have the least power and the most skill and have divination abilities while projecting an aura of fear.

**Immortality:** As Witch's only age when transferring to mother then crone they can theoretically live forever unless they are killed or a crone chooses to "*move beyond*".

**Enhanced Durability:** While bullets will kill a witch it will not be as easily done as compared to a human.

**Conversion:** can turn human women into Witches.

**Evil Eye:** phobia, the evil eye will cause Witches to panic and flee.

**Water:** weakness, water will cause a witch to melt.

## Trivia

* Witchs are one of three prime monsters that all others are descended from.

## References

1. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 991-993)
2. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 340-342)
3. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 5059-5062)
4. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 3985-3986)
5. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 356-357)
6. ↑ She was the perfect Irish lass, with her wavy red hair, green eyes, and freckles. “Oh, so the… you changed, then.” “Not all Irish people went to the US,” she said, apparently reading my mind. “Some went to Mexico, including my family. One of the reasons Hermosa and Hechalé picked me was the hair and eyes. The closer you are to the supposed ideal, the more power you and the coven get. And those that don’t look the part change physically. Sometimes.” - Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1429-1432)
7. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 917-919)
8. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 1005-1007)
9. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 379-390)
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11. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 3617-3618)
12. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 300-304)
13. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 3617-3618)