Doe is a MEDICINE WOMAN WITCH with SPIRITUAL HEALING/HARM powers.
Doe is the eldest of Lee Solares’ children, and she’s always taken the responsibility seriously. Sweet-natured and dutiful, she’s devoted herself to the protection of her brother and the caretaking of her family–a title she extends to the workers, riders and cowhands of the Double Six ranch. Her predictability made her sudden disappearance–and reappearance, one month later–even more of a disturbing shock for those that loved her best. Her cheerful disposition remained unchanged, and her total refusal to explain both the absence and the pregnancy that resulted from it revealed a stubborn streak that had always run straight down to the bone. Plenty of people outside the family have trouble understanding how sullen, awkward Aracely came from bright and big-hearted Doe, but the Solares clan isn’t much surprised. Whatever the price for her only child, Doe paid it gladly.
Doli “Doe” Solares
Alice Storen
Alice is a PURITAN WITCH with ELEMENTAL powers.
Alice Storen is a woman of independence, strength, and restless energy. She’s as much at home in the saddle as she is among the ranch’s sprawling acres, her skills as a horsewoman renowned by anyone who’s had the pleasure of witnessing her ride. Unmarried and disinterested in the idea of a husband or children, Alice has always been more focused on her freedom than on societal expectations. She’s never once been tempted by the idea of a traditional life, preferring the wide-open spaces of the ranch and the wild, unpredictable nature of her powers.
Alice has a deep connection to the earth, the wind, and the sky. She can summon rain in a drought or calm a storm before it hits, though she prefers to keep her powers subtle, using them only when absolutely necessary. Her control over nature is as strong as her determination to carve out a life on her own terms.
Despite her independent nature, Alice feels a restlessness she can’t shake. She’s loyal to her brother, Willard, and supports him in every way she can, especially after the tragedies that have haunted him. But as she spends her days tending to the ranch and navigating the strange dynamics of Never, she can’t ignore the gnawing feeling that there’s more for her out there — A life that might not be bound by the same rules or constraints. While she loves her brother dearly, Alice feels like something is calling her beyond the ranch, and she’s not sure how much longer she can keep that desire for freedom buried.
Gloria Aguilar
Gloria is a MEDICINE WOMAN WITCH with SPIRITUAL HEALING/HARM powers.
Love moves mountains, or so goes the old saw. Gloria learned early in life that ramming your head repeatedly into a rock, no matter how large or how small, will never give you what you want. Better to push little by little and bit by bit, nudging at all the exposed surfaces until their edges wear down smooth. That flexibility let her survive a childhood that might have drowned a less adaptable soul. She and her sister, Imelda, endured together by lifting each other up when one or the other started to sink below the surface. They escaped as soon as they could, but Gloria never forgot how she’d had to make herself small and bend herself into uncomfortable shapes to keep both of them safe. Hiding and pretending seemed like a miserable future for her family. Fortunately, her husband agreed, and together they packed up and rolled eastward until she could stand in the grass and feel magic sparking upward through the soles of her feet. She knows that leaving the Aguilars back in California hurt her husband and causes him no little regret. She would still make the same decision in a heartbeat.
Chooli “Lee” Solares
Lee is a MEDICINE WOMAN WITCH with PHYSICAL HEALING/HARM powers.
Chooli has been called a lot of things during her life. The least insulting of them is obstinate. From the moment she could walk, she either went her own way or refused to go another step. Fortunately, her talent for good medicine–health regained, curses lifted, balance restored–outweighed the frustration she otherwise caused her family and the rest of their band. They nurtured dreams of a powerful future for her as wife and mother and eventual elder, but Chooli always had a strong sense of bad things coming. She saw a darkness like a thunderhead on the horizon, and damned if she was going to stand still waiting for it. When her family refused to listen, she saddled up with a man who did: Jesus Santiago Solares, traveling east from California and looking to spend his mined gold on land and cattle. He wasn’t looking for a wife, but he did believe in the kind of magic that would bring the right woman walking out of the desert and into his arms. She was only seventeen when Jesus bought the land that would soon become the Double Six. Years later, when the Long Walk took her band, she was hundreds of miles away and safe in the arms of the family that she and Jesus had built together.
That family, and the ranch that sustains it, has grown into the love of her life. No matter the shortcomings of her children–and their children–she will defend them ferociously. Losing Jesus and gaining full ownership of the Double Six has only sharpened her resolve.
Ofelia Aguilar
Ofelia is a PURITAN WITCH with ILLUSION powers.
Ofelia would never admit that she struggles to pay attention, especially when she’s meant to be working the forge. She’d rather her family chide her for being self-centered and lazy than confess to her frequent absent-mindedness. Time just seems to slip through her fingers, minute by minute and hour by hour, until suddenly she looks up and the sun is setting…or the fire has burned out, or the horse she was meant to be shoeing has grown bored and wandered away. Her saving grace is her magic, which has always come easily, no matter how her mind might wander or her focus might waver. Her natural talent pleases her mother, and the strength of their bond creates a helpful buffer between Ofelia and the exasperation of the rest of her family.
Ada Blaesy, aka Kitty
Ada is a NAGUAL WITCH.
Ada Blaesy, known as Kitty at the Pearl, is a vision of beauty in the heart of Never’s wealthiest and most exclusive gambling hall. With a face and figure that seem to belong to the painted canvases of the world’s finest artists, Ada captivates every man who crosses her path. But what they don’t know is that behind the delicate features and soft-spoken charm lies a sharp mind, a practical heart, and a will of steel.
A cunning strategist in a world where appearances are everything, Ada plays her part with precision. Kitty is exactly who she needs to be to thrive in the Pearl’s high-stakes, high-society game. Her magic is as fluid and adaptable as the persona she wears. Her particular gift lies in shape-changing, a skill she has honed over the years to perfection. With a thought, she can become someone else entirely: Someone more suited to the whims of a client, someone who can slip through the cracks when danger looms, or someone who can disappear into the shadows when she wishes.
Though she wears the mask of a sultry courtesan, Ada knows the rules of Never’s dark underbelly all too well. She has learned to manipulate those around her without them ever realizing it, shifting her form and her intentions as easily as the moon shifts the tide. In a town where things are never quite what they seem, Ada keeps her secrets close. After all, it’s better to be a mystery than a pawn, and Kitty might be the perfect mask, but Ada Blaesy is the one who holds all the cards.
Imelda Salazar
Imelda is a MEDICINE WOMAN WITCH with PHYSICAL HEALING/HARM powers.
Imelda “Madrita” Salazar would deny that she moved to Never to flee her own heart, but her total reluctance to discuss her prior life might suggest otherwise. Unable to prevent her physician husband’s death at the hands of a group of bandits, she accepted her sister Gloria’s invitation to join her and her family in Never, and now stubbornly applies all of her time and energy into healing others. She charges little when she charges at all, and refuses to lose patients to even the most dire of wounds or maladies. She hopes that in some way, she can thus make up for the most important life she could not save.
Aracely Solares
Aracely is a NAGUAL WITCH.
Aracely thinks she might be cursed. Animals have shied away from her for as long as she can remember; milk sours if she looks at it sideways for more than a second or two; fires won’t light in the stove or the hearth unless she leaves the room. Her mother, sunshine incarnate, says it’s just the magic in her blood working itself out. Her grandmother says she needs a good dose of balance. Aracely just wants the people in town to quit crossing to the opposite side of the street when they see her coming. If they knew about the visions of disaster that she’s started seeing in her dreams, they would like her even less.
Sophie Grey
Sophie is a PURITAN WITCH with ILLUSION common powers.
Sophie Grey is the daughter of Never’s polished and calculating mayor, Samuel Grey — A young woman of poise, beauty, and a mind sharper than any silver-plated revolver. Nearing adulthood, she moves through the town like a specter of her father’s influence, knowing exactly when to charm, when to disarm, and when to simply watch. She has always understood that power isn’t just about control, but rather perception. And lately, perception has become her playground.
Unaware of her father’s true demon nature but taught secretly at her witch mother’s side from an early age, she is finally coming into her full powers. The illusions she weaves — Innocuous at first, little shifts in light and shadow, whispers mistaken for the wind — are growing stronger. Now, she can make people see things that aren’t there, or worse, fail to see things that are. Faces blur when she wishes them to. Locks seem to open of their own accord. And sometimes, when she looks in the mirror, her reflection does not move quite in time with her.
Rosa Grey
Rosa Grey is the enigmatic and graceful wife of Never’s mayor, Samuel Grey — A woman of quiet strength, deliberate words, and a gaze that lingers just a little too long. To the townsfolk, she is the perfect image of a mayor’s wife: poised, elegant, and ever watchful. But beneath the silk and lace lies something far older, far sharper. Rosa is no ordinary woman, but rather a witch of illusions, a master of veils both seen and unseen.
She was not always Rosa Grey. Once, long ago, she was a frightened girl with no name worth keeping, trapped in a house where love was a myth and cruelty was law. Desperation led her to a crossroads, where she met a man who was not a man at all. Samuel Grey offered her a bargain: Safety, power, and a new name in exchange for something she did not yet understand. She accepted without hesitation.
Decades later, her illusions have shaped more than just fleeting tricks of the eye — They have shaped a town, a family, and a legacy that walks the line between salvation and damnation. She has woven her children in shadows of protection, hiding the truth from them as long as she can. But illusions are fragile things, and Rosa knows better than anyone that sooner or later, all veils must fall.