#RPGaDAY2026: Day 7 Mercy

Mercy is the hardest magic for a witch to learn.Any witch can curse. Any witch can hex. Any witch can call down fire, rot, silence, madness, or whatever else the old books and older powers are willing to teach her.Mercy is different.Larina is powerful, loyal, brilliant, and brave. But she is not famous for her impulse control or her anger control. Sometimes she sees the cruelty, the monster, the threat to someone she loves, and her first instinct is simple enough.Burn it all down. Burn fucking everything.And sometimes, that is the right call.But mercy asks something harder of her. It asks her to stop. To breathe. To decide whether justice really needs fire this time.For a witch, mercy is not weakness.Often, it is choosing not to become the next thing people need saving from. Jackson, IL NPCThis is Week 2, and the topic is Intellect. It's Friday, and Friday's Child is "Loving & Giving." Mara Ashcroft. Mara is a librarian at St. Michael's Catholic School who quietly places the right…