

However, it’s the secret compact she makes with Father Hubbard that will likely come back to haunt Diana once Matthew learns what she’s done. When Diana returns to the present, her child will undoubtedly become a target, but Marcus’ groundbreaking proposal to repeal the covenant could bring the clans together rather than drive them further apart. However, that may not, in fact, turn out to be true. Since demon couple Nathaniel and Sophie give birth to a witch, the initial thought is that Diana’s child may also be a witch since vampires are created not born.

We’ve not been given much clarity as to the genetics behind the creature landscape, but baby Margaret is clearly in imminent danger from Knox and the witch clan.

And once obtained, will these pages in conjunction with Ashmole 782 help explain the reproductive difficulties the creatures encounter and set a renewed path for their futures?īabies also generate a lot of interest here, and once The Congregation learns Diana’s pregnant, the internal squabble should escalate. Though we’re not entirely certain how and where Emily hides the witch’s page, it’s the lack of clarity regarding the demon and vampire pages that keeps us wondering whether the search for them will highlight the show’s final season. Rather than view the missing pages as a fantasy literature trope, we should instead look to Edward Kelley’s prescient decision to bequeath one page to each creature species. As she points out to Gallowglass, the book needs to stay in the 16th century so that she can find it in the 21st. Dee even though Diana hasn’t really been able to read the contents. That said, it’s easy to question why the pair decides to return the book to Dr. Nevertheless, watching young Jack utilize his skillset to recover the book from Lord Burghley’s henchmen is delightfully subtle.

Throughout the season the actions of the principal characters center around the acquisition of the book, and though Diana and Matthew acquire the tome with relatively little effort, holding onto it proves a bit more problematic. It’s been a wild ride as Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont continue their search for The Book of Life amidst the creature underworld of 16th century Elizabethan London, and not surprisingly there’s a lot to unpack about the season finale. Not every television series learns exactly how many episodes it has to tell its story, and the Shudder/Sundance Now fantasy drama A Discovery of Witches takes full advantage of that knowledge leading viewers down a season two path that intentionally raises more questions than answers. This A Discovery of Witches article contains major spoilers.
