Matthew’s return to his life as Master Roydon in Elizabethan England was emotionally complicated. Let’s revisit season two’s major developments in preparation for the third and final season, which starts on Friday the 7 th of January 2022 on Sky Max in the UK, and on Saturday the 8 th of January on Sundance Now in the US. Now too, that Matthew and Diana are finally married and mated, there’s Diana’s pregnancy as another symbol of union between the species. On the other side are reformers like Marcus, Sophie and Nathaniel, a vampire and two daemons whose infant daughter Margaret is a witch. On one side are the traditionalists like Knox, who wants to eliminate the vampires and needs the Book of Life (or Ashmole 782, a magical text containing the secret of vampire creation, which Matthew and Diana travelled back in time to find, hoping to find a reason for and fix the present day dwindling power of magical creatures) to do it. The fantasy now stages a wider fight between bigotry and acceptance, between division and unity. In the 16 th century, Matthew battled past demons (literally, in the case of Kit Marlowe) and the secret of his vampire mother’s Ysabeau’s diseased bloodline was revealed.Īs season three approaches, the story has outgrown Diana and Matthew’s transgressive love. In season two, the pair time-walked back to Matthew’s old life in Elizabethan England where Diana completed her witch training and learned of her prophesied role in the future of magical creatures. In season one, Diana learned who she was and whom she loved – Matthew de Clermont, the son of a powerful vampire family with a historical prejudice against witches. It was the story of Diana, a scientist and witch whose extraordinary magic had been hidden from her by parents trying to protect her from the power-hungry Peter Knox, who sought to make it his own. Warning: contains spoilers for A Discovery of Witches seasons one and two.Ī Discovery of Witches began as a Romeo and Juliet-ish romance about the forbidden love between a witch and a vampire in a world where magical creatures were segregated by a centuries-old covenant.
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