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, and later revealed she switches bodies with her own children. Roselyn notes she was around before the Algonquins, which means she's possibly pushing past 2000 years old.

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, body-swapping with her children.

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 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.

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.

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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 recognise James Corvidae.

Trivia

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