In the season finale of Mayfair Witches, Dr. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) gives birth to her child and opens a portal, discovers that Cortland Mayfair (Harry Hamlin) is her real father, and embraces her demon lover, Lasher (Jack Huston).
Ciprien's interrogation also reveals that Lasher has possessed the assassin. Ciprien explains that Lasher was not in control of the man when he killed Deirdre.
Who is the father of Rowan's baby in Mayfair Witches?
Rowan initially rejects her offspring/lover, but ultimately protects him from Cortland (Harry Hamlin), who was revealed to be her father through rape; and Cip, who planned to take the baby to his bosses at the nefarious Talamasca agency –– at least that's what he told them.
But after the two made love in this other realm, Lasher left Rowan to go through a haunting tour of her family lineage. To her horror, Rowan's pregnancy rapidly progressed in this transition, revealing the purpose of the 13th witch in this prophecy: she was the doorway for Lasher to come into the real world.
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Is Rowan pregnant with Lasher baby?
Fulfilling the prophecy
With Suzanne providing assistance, Rowan gives birth to baby Lasher, who grants her great power, enough to solidify Cortland in stone and nearly strike Ciprien down with lightning.
Daddario told EW that after tonight's action packed finale of Mayfair Witches, Rowan now "fully knows who she is." And all it took was bringing a child (a.k.a. portal) into the world, discovering that Cortland Mayfair (Harry Hamlin) is her real father, and embracing her demon lover, Lasher (Jack Huston).
An evil spirit called Lasher has haunted the Mayfair family for generations, seducing the witches and using their powers for his own sinister motives. While not much about Lasher is really changed from book to show, Spalding revealed that they came to cast Huston because he had a certain rock 'n roll je ne sais quoi.
But no matter what Ciprien and the Talamasca or Carlotta and her Christianity may think about it, Lasher insists he is wholly devoted to Rowan and her desires.
Jo leaves Ciprien alone for precisely the length of time it takes him to touch everything in the room, including a Mardi Gras mask from the night Deirdre got pregnant — which shows him not only that it was Cortland, not Carlotta, who murdered the floppy-haired teen but also that Cortland raped and impregnated Deirdre ...
One theory as to why Lasher wants the 13th witch is that she is, in fact, his daughter. While Lasher has not revealed his true nature, he has behaved in ways that are associated with demons and could be one of the Devil's many forms in the Anne Rice series.
He is called into being by Suzanne Mayfair in the 17th century, in Scotland. In return for power and wealth, Lasher tells Suzanne that the family must engage in incest so that with each generation a witch strong enough to command him will be born.
Lasher's ultimate goal in doing so was to create a witch so powerful that she could conceive a child that would be strong enough to hold Lasher's spirit and return him to flesh-and-blood.
Her daughter is taken from her at birth by her great aunt, Carlotta Mayfair. In 1966, she receives a photograph of her daughter in San Francisco from Ellie Mayfair. In 1976, Deirdre is diagnosed with irreversible brain damage and prescribed Thorazine.
Thora Birch guest stars as Gifford Mayfair, a self-deprecating tarot card reader and wannabe-bohemian who lately spends a lot of time at her lake house. Season 2 of “Mayfair Witches” is currently in production in New Orleans and will debut later in 2024.
In this week's episode, while sitting with Rowan at the Mayfair House during Deirdre's wake, Carlotta reveals that she was approached by Lasher when she was just eight years old. However, instead of being seduced by Lasher, Carlotta rejected him and has been trying to protect the women of the family ever since.
Merrick Mayfair was originally a witch taken in by the Talamasca, where she later became a member. Making contact with her old mentor David Talbot, Merrick is introduced to the Vampire Louis and falls in love instantly and is later turned into a vampire by Louis de Pointe du Lac.
Her name is Rowan Mayfair and further into the novel she marries the now psychic Michael Curry and becomes pregnant w/ their first child. Despite how Michael tries to prevent any harm coming to Rowan, on Christmas day, Lasher is born, and w/ Rowans help the infant grows into a fully grown man w/in seconds after birth.
In the season finale of Mayfair Witches, Dr. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) gives birth to her child and opens a portal, discovers that Cortland Mayfair (Harry Hamlin) is her real father, and embraces her demon lover, Lasher (Jack Huston).
The incubus spirit that dominates the Mayfair family, he signifies the transcendence of mundane consciousness through ecstasy and union with the supernatural.
Lasher returns to Scotland after Elizabeth I takes the throne, and is killed there while performing Christmas Mass by followers of the protestant reformer John Knox.
Who killed Deirdre Mayfair? (SPOILERS) Deirdre Mayfair was killed by none other than the demon, Lasher. Lasher is an old entity that's been following the Mayfair family since before the 1600s, and developed a relationship with Deirdre at an early age.
