Persephone Lupton: The Wytch Who Mastered Death

The name of Persephone Lupton has gone down in the annals of our time as a modest, self-effacing hero. A young woman who had only recently left home, she nevertheless fought tirelessly against the Lich, possibly the single biggest threat that humanity faced in those days. Her research and effort ensured its final enclosure within Mount Snowdon, and in the process she brought light to the long-dark arts of Necromancy…

- 2014: The Year of the Wytch, a retrospective

Following the events of the Covens, Persephone retreated from public life, though for the next year or so she could sometimes be met around the British Isles in the company of her familiar Hecate, an Oriental Fire-Bellied Toad. She travelled otherwise alone, but would occasionally stop and help people who needed healing or advice. Once all restrictions on travel were fully lifted, she disappeared for a few years but came back with a tan and a wide-ranging collection of exotic frogs.

Eventually, however, she settled down in the cottage in the woods which had once belonged to Nancy. Even Necromancers cannot halt death forever, and at the end Nancy departed this life content to hand her cottage, and her legacy, on to her favourite acolyte. Persephone continued to live a somewhat reclusive life, willing to heal or help those who came looking for her and didn't annoy her too much. She never published her work, but occasionally sent letters to various august institutions arguing how they should be teaching things she knew more about than them. Upon her eventual death at the age of 150, her cottage was found to have been left in perfect order, apart from the giant conservatory-vivarium structure now appended to one end of it, which specialist animal handlers had to be called to deal with.