Tamora Torquemada: We're All Mad Here

“It's number 103 again, she's acting up. She always acts up. Every night, she'll scream but it's not terror or to terrorise, she just screams… almost in annoyance. We go and ask her what it is, but all she babbles is something about cockatrices and chairs - we can't get a word of sense out of her.

I've called for the shrinks to take another look at her - maybe get some Sanguimancers in - but she's nuttier than a fruitcake. Maybe all those ghosts finally cracked her? I dunno, I'm not an expert.

Shame though, the file says she was quite a promising student at Bedivere - well, before Doubleday. And it seems she was quite promising on studying that Lich until she got cursed, but I wouldn't say that was her fault. At least, from what she says, she seemed to be doing the sensible thing, right?”

GUARD #4068 WAS HENCEFORTH REMOVED FROM DUTY AND SENT TO A LOWER RISK AREA OF THE PRISON. GUARDS ARE INSTRUCTED NOT TO TALK TO INMATE #103 REGARDING SOULS, NECROMANCY OR THE LICH.

- documents from Dartmoor Prison

As a prestigious family with a long history of dealing with wytches since Tomas de Torquemada first brought the family to prominence during the Spanish Inquisition, I believe the Torquemadas are singularily suited to understanding the perils of wytches born to normal parents. Tamora Torquemada was born at the end of the twentieth century, and manifested her curse early. Exiled to England, she soon proved troublesome to her more respectable relatives (employed as was traditional by the local magical regulators, HMMR). From her disastrous release of and subsequent attempts at friendship with an undead abomination, inappropriate use of a family heirloom, to magical experimentation causing the death of almost one hundred people, Tamora’s life was a constant danger to others. It is for this reason that I advocate the immediate adoption of magically inclined children by suitable host families as soon as their abilities become apparent, for surely the magical community are better placed to teach their children responsibility - with suitable supervision from regulatory bodies, of course. It is simply better that wytches, now they are publically living among us, keep to their own kind for the good of all.

From ‘The dangers of Wytches in non-magical families’ by Tansy Torquemada