Talk:Marilia Caldwell

<IXJac> What happened? Amaryllis de Sable was a young woman who caught Eli Caldwell’s eye in the post war mopup of the Nephandi. She was a young fighter in the French Resistance, who’d been tortured by a German Nephandus (Nevaleinn)
<IXJac> Merry (Amaryllis) de Sable – became Caldwell’s lover and eventually (scandal!) wife, and the woman who died to save him from Jodi Blake.
<IXJac> Mari’s grandmother was raped by Caldwell as part of a magickal ritual, Mari is actually his granddaughter, and the reincarnated soul of Amaryllis de Sable. When Caldwell realized this he had a bit of a BSOD. Took it as a message from the Tellurian, and he’s been trying to atone ever since
<IXJac> I don't recall exactly what I had for that but it was more they died because of who Mari was, which is how Caldwell found out about the reincarnation of Amaryllis.
<IXJac> Basically, Caldwell was screwing around with powerful umbrood and used Mari's grandmother as part of a ritual, then moved on.
<IXJac> Except Mari's grandma - and then mother - now had the attention of a powerful umbrood
<IXJac> A demon, essentially
<IXJac> So they had one of those weird Bostonian family spook stories
<Gloria_S> righto
<IXJac> So Mari grew up with the women in her family being haunted
<IXJac> The Umbrood reincarnated Amaryllis' soul into Mari to lure Caldwell back and trap him in turn
<IXJac> As I said, very convoluted.
<IXJac> I had some vague idea of a trip down Mari's memory lane as an extended ghost story but never got around to it