The Old Guard: Andromache & Quynh (tbc hopefully)
The year 1521 was not the first time they'd been called witches. Andromache and Quynh had been revered as wise women in many cultures, for their medicinal knowledge and steady nerves as much as for any spell they were said to have concocted. But the hysteria of the puritans had little room for women, certainly not those who traveled without the oversight of a man, and Quynh… Quynh was always ready to play on the paranoia of fools with "May your prick melt the next time you lie with your wife." Few men would risk claiming her curse had worked.
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The Reverend John Berwick was not such a man. Strangely proud to stand up and profess his impotence caused by "the China woman's spell," he worked the village into such a frenzied state that any unmarried woman was at risk. By the time Quynh and Andromache were brought to what passed for a trial, they could have been found guilty of raising the devil himself.
(John Berwick did not live to see another year. No sooner had they freed Andromache than Joseph and Nicholas disposed of him. By then it was too late, of course. The damage had been done.)