Name: Margaret Barclay

 

Alias / Known As: Maggie; Maggie Dein (by marriage)

 

 

Age: 30

 

 

Origin: Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland

 

 

Affiliations: Midwife, healer, wife of Alexander Dein, sister-in-law to Sarah and Leonard Dein

 

 

Summary:

 

 

Margaret Barclay is a healer caught between faith and folklore, mercy and judgment. Raised with knowledge of herbs, charms, and whispered prayers, she walks a narrow path—one foot in the kirk, one in the glade. When her whispered curse seemingly comes to pass, Maggie finds herself branded as a heretic in a town that once leaned on her mercy. Her strength lies in quiet defiance, in compassion that survives betrayal, and in the aching refusal to give up on grace—even when heaven grows silent.

 

 

 

 

 

Notable Traits:

 

 

— Deep spiritual conflict rooted in both Christianity and ancestral practices

 

 

— Fiercely empathetic, especially toward abused or outcast women

 

 

— Unwilling conduit for supernatural power through her bond with the colt Rowan

 

 

— Carries the weight of a name spoken in both reverence and fear

 

 

 

 

 

Status: Accused witch, prisoner of the Tolbooth, clinging to faith where all else has failed