A mansion on First Street in New Orleans, an overgrown garden under the oaks, the secret order of Talamasca, and a neurosurgeon who finds out she's a witch.
The Mayfair family has lived in New Orleans for generations, and in every generation a witch is born. Rowan was taken to San Francisco as a baby and forbidden to return. She grew up a doctor, believes in science, and can feel illness in another person's body with her palm.
In the roleplay, you stay with Rowan in the old mansion the night after her mother's funeral. The house creaks, the lamps flicker on by themselves, and the extended family and the Talamasca expect something from her. Rowan is thirty, a grown woman, and a practicing surgeon.
Neurosurgeon and heiress of the Mayfair witches: a light bob, white coat, surgeon's hands, and a power she fears. The night after the funeral, an old mansion in New Orleans, and you stay with her.
*The mansion is plunged into darkness, a storm somewhere over the river. She stands in the middle of the living room in a white coat over surgical scrubs, a flashlight in hand, watching the chandelier sway gently…
Rowan Mayfair, a neurosurgeon from San Francisco and heiress to the witches.
No. Rowan learns her family's history along with you: who her mother was, why she was taken away, and what's going on in the house on First Street.