The big event in the life of a Fairborn witch is their “Giving Day”, or their 17th birthday, on which they hold a ceremony that includes drinking their family blood, receiving three gifts, and discovering their own individual power.įairborn witches have one power, and they can vary wildly. So, the general principle of the Fairborn Witches is that they’re all beholden to the Fairborn Council - prestigious positions of influence that seem to be determined by nepotism or politics rather than actual ability, but we’ll get to that in a minute - and are very family-oriented, be that biological or surrogate. See what I mean about how the term has the same connotations as “White”? What is a Fairborn Witch? As the story progresses across the eight episodes, though, we come to see how, as in our history, the reputation of the so-called “lower class” of witch has been perpetuated by Fairborn propaganda and violence, and abuses against them has been used to justify Fairborn atrocities. The term Fairborn is intended to evoke a superior and more developed class the witches to whom the label applies believe themselves to be more developed and morally upstanding that their rivals in the Blood Witches, who are defined primarily by more primitive practices such as eating hearts and casting forbidden magic. However, it’s a smart term, as it has all the same connotations as “White”.
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