Hawthorne

Hawthorne is a Moros of the Silver Ladder. She is a member of the Pendle Witches and has achieved the rank of Lictor within the Ladder.

History
Born in the lap of luxury, Hawthorne's life has continued that trend. The manorial house she now owns has been in her family since the early 1800s. The collection of classic cars, however, is her own.

As a teenager, the woman who would become Hawthorne had a nasty run-in with some people she realised partway through her struggle were a vampire and his ghouls. While it has been hypothesised she became a Sleepwalker during this time, she did not Awaken, but did manage to stake the vampire, buying her time to fend off the ghouls. She escaped and the bloodsucker was caught, trapped in torpor, in the sunlight.

Instead, she Awakened at her dying mother's bedside, sitting quietly. As she sat there, eyes unseeing, soul adrift in the Watchtower of the Lead Coin, another woman sat down beside her. When she returned to awareness, Demdike introduced herself.

Twenty-two years old, Hawthorne sat politely and listened to a woman fifteen years her senior explain the whys and wherefores of the magical world. She nodded, at the end, and said simply, "Someone has to be working to improve this."

Given two options, she chose the Ladder over the Free Council. She began work immediately, jumping into a project enthusiastically alongside Perseus and Firebrand, though very much their junior, but refused to even consider an offer of a place in the Gregson Five (that spot would instead go to Gwyllion), sticking with Demdike, with whom she had rapidly realised she had much in common.

A year or so later, Hawthorne found herself, in her civilian identity, being taken by a confidence trickster. She found it amusing and used her magical abilities to even the score, toying with him somewhat, and enjoying it as a flirtation, until he pulled off something that beggared belief. Investigating, she realised he was Awakened, and further realised that he didn't know what that meant.

She introduced Constantine to Perseus and Branwen, welcoming him into Awakened society and finding him a place in Alis Aquilae.

Her place in the Pendle Witches appears to fit her comfortably; she's established herself as both an excellent woman to have on a project and, before promotion to Lictor, an efficient Sentinel, and one of the foremost experts available to the Consilium of the Stone Circle on the undead.

Following the Rose's encounter with a vampire at Rufford Old Hall, she and Moonlight have been working together in dealing with Rufford's Kin.

Her estate holds a Demesne, and she appears very generous in its use - and generous in general, moreover.