Mara Angnakak

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Mara Angnakak is a practitioner who has been in Jacob's Bell for possibly the longest. She's been there since before the colonist came and settled down the lands. She is noted to straddle the line between Other and Human, having centuries of limited knowledge and experience because she was only able to teach herself what she knew. It is suspected that she may be illiterate. An offhand comment by Maggie Holt suggests that she may occasionally take people who wonder into her woodlands and use them to maintain her youth.

Appearance

She appears as nothing more than middle-aged aboriginal woman to the untrained eye. She can alter her appearance to that of a withered old woman or a twelve-year old girl as well. It is thought to be a result of her reason for her long life.

Personality

Mara is noted in the notes left behind by Rose Thorburn Senior to be reserved but holding an extreme amount of hatred for the rest of the practitioners in Jacob's Bell. To this end no one tries to sit next to her during the meeting. She herself has no love of anyone who is white.

History

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.

In the Signature's arc Maggie Holt came to her home, where appeared as a little girl and tested her to see if she would free her from a 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 then appeared as Mags (Maggie's new name) was claiming her own demesne 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.

Trivia

• Crone Mara's character has many traits with Baba Yaga.