Elspet

The protagonist. Strangely enough - her actual names is so rarely spoken in the book. Miss a key page or two, and you'd never know her name is Elspet.

She is part of the contemporary coven, with a background in the civilized world where she went to school to learn to read. Being the only educated person in the coven also makes her a threat to those that want to keep her from reading sacred texts about the history of the coven.…more