Name: Leonard Dein

Alias / Known As: Maggie’s brother-in-law; The Drowned Man; The Spark

Age: thirty-two at time of death

Origin: Irvine, Ayrshire

Affiliations: Husband to Sarah Dein; brother to Alexander Dein; merchant sailor aboard The Gift of God

Summary:

Leonard Dein was the kind of man a town tolerates until it doesn’t. Quick with his fists and quicker with his temper, he left bruises behind closed doors and charm at the tavern threshold. Maggie tended his wife’s wounds in secret. Then one day, she cursed him aloud—and soon after, the sea answered. His death aboard The Gift of God sparked more than mourning; it cracked open old fears, old legends, and new suspicions. He was no witch, no prophet—just a man who made people suffer. And in dying, he made them afraid.

Notable Traits:

— History of domestic abuse

— His death coincides with Maggie’s spoken curse

— Helped provoke the witch trials without ever living to see them

— Feared by family, forgotten by none

Status: Deceased; drowned at sea in the wreck of The Gift of God, along with the ship’s full crew and former Provost Andrew Tran