Chiostro: How Agnes Bewitched Alejandro

Old Agnes

In the Character Bios section of the Special Features, you can read about Agnes Chiostro.  The short version is that Agnes is a witch who's 512 years old.  For the purposes of today's A to Z Blogfest post, we're focusing on her last name and how she got it.

Agnes was born as Agnes Joubert and she lived for almost 300 years with that moniker.  Then one day Agnes went to a church in Marseilles, France for the christening of a friend's daughter.  After the service, Agnes saw a handsome younger man praying for good weather so that he could return to Italy.

It was love at first sight--at least for Agnes.  The man didn't see her and if he had, she would have appeared to be an elderly woman.  Agnes took care of that back home using a potion of her own design to make her young and beautiful again.  She also used a spell in order to create stormy weather around Marseilles that would keep the man from leaving.

Young Agnes

The next day she went back to church and found the man there again.  This time she caught his eye.  She learned then his name was Alejandro Chiostro and he was the owner of a vineyard in Tuscany.  Agnes's family was also in the wine business, which gave them plenty to talk about as their courtship proceeded on normal lines.

The problem for Agnes is that a witch is not supposed to marry a normal person, a "mortal."  It's a crime that could lead to her being stripped of her powers or even killed by the rest of her coven.  Instead Agnes's punishment was in some ways perhaps more severe.  The head of her coven told her that her punishment would be watching her new family grow old and die while she remained living long after them.  Despite that, Agnes still doesn't regret becoming a Chiostro.

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