Lives of The Mayfair Witches - The Mayfair Legacy

The Mayfair Legacy

The Mayfair legacy is a complex affair, composed of quasi-legal arrangements made between an international network of banks and investments. The legacy was created by Marie-Claudette Mayfair in 1789 just prior to the slave uprising in Saint Domingue (Haiti) which forced her to immigrate to New Orleans. It was greatly expanded by Marie-Claudette's great granddaughter Mary-Beth Mayfair into a massive financial empire which by the present day need only continue to exist in order to grow. The owner of this legacy (or designee) inherits the whole of it, as well as the famed Mayfair Emerald which has been passed down from mother to daughter since Comtesse Deborah Mayfair de Montcleve. Into each generation a witch is born (though there are many powerful, and not-so-powerful, witches scattered throughout the branches of the family) that is chosen as a future Designee by the present Designee. The present Designee (always a woman to date) usually chooses her daughter, which may or may not be her first-born daughter; this decision can be changed at any time, as with Mary Beth choosing her younger daughter Stella over the elder, Carlotta. Marie Claudette also chooses younger daughter Marguerite over older daughter Marie Claire. Because they could never be sure if the descendants of the male really had Mayfair blood, a male could only be chosen as designee if there were no surviving female siblings at the time of the current designee's death. The strength of the witch does not matter, Julien (referred to lovingly by the family as Oncle Julien) was considerably stronger than his sister Katharine who may not have been a witch at all. If the designee has no surviving children then the legacy passes to the closest female relative in the following generation as was the case with Mona Mayfair being named designee by Rowan Mayfair due to infertility.