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.
Rowan Mayfair - Born November 7, 1959, Rowan is Deirdre Mayfair's daughter by Cortland. She is the thirteenth witch in the line of Mayfair witches that Lasher chooses to try to realize his ambition to transform from spirit to flesh.
Ciprien Grieve (Tongayi Chirisa) is the father of Rowan's baby, but has no more rights than his sister Odette (Keyara Milliner) has over the suffragette infant she delivered for a loving same-sex couple with mutual assent.
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.
Summoned by Scottish witch Suzanne Mayfair in the 1600s, Lasher "goes on to bedevil her descendants down to the present day, seeing in them the means of fulfilling his ghastly and unnatural ambitions." Under Lasher's influence, the Mayfairs become an enormously wealthy family of witches, able to "attract and manipulate ...
In the finale, that gateway is the baby she conceived with Cip (Tongayi Chirisa), a pregnancy put into hyperdrive when Lasher seduces Rowan into embracing her powers and consummating their dark bond.
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).
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 ...
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.
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.
Mayfair Witches has shocked its audience with Rowan's sheer power after Season 1's finale. With Lasher, she has become the most powerful witch on TV. The following contains spoilers for Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches Season 1, Episode 8, "What Rough Beast," which debuted Sunday, Feb. 26 on AMC.
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.
The eponymous Lasher is a demon spirit who preys on female Mayfairs in his attempt to procreate. Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven who has borne Lasher's child, has now disappeared.
After the battle in Eyllwe, it is revealed that Maeve led Rowan to believe that Lyria was his mate and then had her and their unborn child killed to break him. His real mate is Aelin, and they were married discreetly by the ship's captain under the witness of Aedion and Lysandra.
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.
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.
Deirdre was murdered by a professional assassin, which means that her death was no supernatural event. It was a very human contract killing -- and the most plausible suspect in the AMC series is the zealous Aunt Carlotta Mayfair. That does not mean Lasher is completely innocent, however.
Her plan (to bind Lasher to 'weak matter' which can be destroyed by her mental killing abilities) backfires as Lasher enters her womb, and makes himself at home in the fetus. Rowan immediately goes into labor, which is violent and bloody, and Lasher is born. Michael in the pool.
Ciprien has a vision of his predecessor Stuart Townsend, a Talamasca agent who had been assigned to Deirdre's mother, Antha Mayfair, but disappeared. Stuart warns Ciprien not to die in the Mayfair house, or Lasher will trap him there forever.
Wind Magic: As a member of the Whitethorn House, Rowan possesses the ability to control and manipulate wind however he pleases. He can make cold breezes and warm breezes and can put out Aelin's fire with a thought.
Rowan used her powers to kill Carlotta, causing her to topple from the balcony herself, and thus ending her reign of zealot terror. And that was the key to Lasher's spell being broken.
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.
