Editing Mara Angnakak (section)

==History==
Mara herself states that she is one of the first humans to come to the Americas, her parents bringing her across to [[Canada]] in reed rafts; and that she had performed the same daily routine for more than nine million days, at least 24,657 years. She also declared that she had lived been reborn at least a thousand times, again suggesting an age in the tens of thousands of years.<ref name=":0">“The town will fall, just as it rose, two hundred and fifteen years ago.  Before that, I was here.  I watched people come and go.  Settlements rose and fell.  Not many, not large, but a number.  Before that, I was here.”<br><br>“Been here a while,” I said.<br><br>Her eyes narrowed.  “The man and woman who brought me into this world came to this place on a raft of reeds, and I was so small I had to be carried. We traveled from the west to here over my lifetime, following the deer and the hunt.  When my parents passed, I stayed.  I was one of the ''first'' to lay claim here, and I have never given it up.”<br><br>“Over the water to the west?” Peter murmured.  “The lake?”<br><br>“Ocean,” Tiff said, her voice almost a whisper.<br><br>“I nurtured those who followed after me or passed through, offered them my hand and my amassed knowledge, so they could be communities, a ''people''.  Many are ''mine''.  Hundreds of years of work.  I saw things follow in our wake, things stirred into existence by our ''being''.  Your Others, echoing our intelligence, echoing our pride and fear and pain, to join those Others that were here before the first people.  I am familiar with them all.  I know what ''man'' is, and I know that your love and law and fairness are ''invention.'' Invention younger than I am.”<br>[...]<br>“You know the power of [[Pattern|your repetition]].  Three times, you do something.  Three times you bind it to make it so.  Agreed?”<br><br>“That’s the gist of it.”<br><br>“''Invention.''  But at the core, there is truth.  I have not counted, but I can still be utterly confident in saying that I have woken up in the same place for more than nine million of your days.  I have gathered, hunted, cooked and eaten the same foods on those same days.  I have been born, bled for the first time, and been reborn on more than one thousand occasions.  The wheel of life and death turns forward and I am an indelible part of it, especially here.  This is a pattern, this is my ''ritual. '' Now tell me, what is the truth of this.  What does it make me?” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/sine-die-14-6/ excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.6]]</ref>

[[Roselyn|Rose Sr]] notes she was around before the Algonquins, which was more than 2000 years old.{{Cite}} Mara described herself as having nurtured the communities that grew up around her for centuries.<ref name=":0" />

=== Pact ===
Mara first appeared in the story after [[Molly Walker]] had died, due to a fail-safe that showed the majority of the major parties in Jacob's Bell to [[Blake Thorburn]] while he slept. She later appeared during Blake's first council meeting.
===Signatures===

[[Maggie Holt]] came to her home, where Mara appeared as a chained little girl and tested Maggie to see if she would free Mara from her chain. Maggie refuses by putting her identity together, with Mara stating she would have been compost if she had tried and then telling her they wouldn't deal. She arrived as Maggie was claiming a new name, [[Mags]], and originally planned to oppose her. When Mags stated that what she was doing was the harder path and she would suffer more because of it, Mara decried 'no contest' in allowing her to form it.
===Null===
She appeared in the council meeting where they were determining who would participate as a competitor for the position of Lord, with her remaining out of it. She seemed to recognize [[James Corvidae]].

=== Sine Die ===
She appears in the form of a thirteen-year old girl in the forest, trimming the trees as [[Blake |Blake's]] group arrives. She then confronts them on the fact that they have intruded on her lands, confirming that she would not have allowed them to enter or come if asked by [[Mags]], the Ambassador. Blake refuses her offer of killing one so that another may go, but when a conflict started [[Rose Thorburn Junior|Rose]] appeared and tried to shoot her only for her to dodge the bullet. She then gives a member of the [[Knights of the Basement]] who was close to death a heart attack and planned on killing another person with a touch, utilizing the rule of three to enable her to kill with a word after. To that end she killed Corvidae to break him of his bindings and then summoned him again, trying to trick Blake until he realized the trap and used [[the Hyena]] to finish the Corvidae off for good and take her hostage.

They put her in a circle and bind her, and Blake explains that he's going to ask her questions and swear an oath, knowing that she'd lie over and over until she was powerless. While she made offers otherwise, they were insistent and her forest started to collapse around her every time she lied until she confessed that it was [[Johannes]] making the town sink and pointed out that by wasting their time with her he has a clear shot at the [[Hillglades House]]. It was after this that she mentions a deal would be made where everyone got what they wanted, only for it to be lesser, after seeing her house burned down.