Daughter Dooley

A witch and midwife known colloquially as The Witch Queen. Biological daughter of Edith “Edie” Dooley, adopted daughter of Kathryn “Katie” Dooley. Emigrated as an infant with her mothers from somewhere in the UK to Williamsburg, Virginia.

After a scandal in which her mothers succeeded where physicians failed, joined a group called the Monroe Company travelling West to the Cumberland Gap. En route, the whole of the Monroe Company (with the exception of herself and one Marvin) succumbed to sickness or violence. The Daughter Dooley and Marvin encountered the Blessed Folk of His Unending and Undying Gracious Love, who were also travelling West, and joined the group. They settled in what would become Jacob County, Kentucky in approximately 1777. The Daughter Dooley lived with this group for one year before her being a witch was discovered.

She was banished from settlement to a secluded cottage in the woods, where she lived for a year and a day before encountering Horned Head. First encounter it took the form of Edie. Second encounter it took the form of Katie. Daughter recognised the ruse and demanded to see its true form. Third encounter it took the form of a giant black stag with glowing amber antlers. Contracted with Daughter to grant her eternal life and dominion over her land. Her homestead was near what has since become either Eassau County VA or Jacob County KY.

In 1794, Horned Head sent her to Last Harbor, where she took up the role of midwife and nurse in assistance to Doctor Harold Gillespie, and cared for elder folk who passed away. She realized that Horned Head had cursed her so that she was draining people's lives and growing younger as a result, and that Doctor Gillespie, who had enabled her interaction with the weak and the wounded, was likely involved.

She found Doctor Gillespie at the town limits with a newborn infant and confronted him, but Horned Head appeared and knocked her out. She awoke in her home to find Doctor Gillespie dead and Horned Head announcing that he planned to kill the baby and reduce Daughter Dooley to infancy, then raise her as a servant of the Deep Things. She refused and cut Horned Head off from his power, and the two began to fight.