
Meet the Spellchasers team!
Posted on 17/02/2017 in Lari Don Spellchasers
You’re on a quest to lift your curse. You’ve just been surrounded by the grey men of Ben Macdui. You need someone to help you escape. Who would you choose for your Spellchasers team?
Would it be Molly, Innes, Beth, Atacama, or the mysterious toad?
Each member of the Spellchasers team has unique skills and strengths, as well as being a different species! Who do you think would be best in helping you combat cursed-hatched crows and vanquish villains?
Take a look at our Spellchasers team profiles to help you choose.
The Spellchasers team
Species: Human, part-time hare
Strengths: speed (when a hare), fast learner, leadership skills
Weaknesses: limited shapeshifting control, lack of magical knowledge
How to recognise: short brown hair, long ears
Age of curse (at start of workshop): 2 days
Quote: “Being a hare for a wee while is fine, so long as I don’t meet a fox or a greyhound. But thinking it would never end was horrible.”
Species: Kelpie (water-horse)
Strengths: Shapeshifting, speed, strength, bravery, loyalty (but to whom?)
Weaknesses: recklessness, short temper
How to recognise: blond hair, white mane, green tentacles
Age of curse (at start of workshop): one year
Quote: “You are my prisoner, defeated by my hooves, in my circle, under my power. You will answer my questions.”
Species: Dryad (tree-spirit)
Strengths: Controlling wood, communicating with trees, strong principles
Weaknesses: rigid and conservative attitude to magic
How to recognise: Purple hair, green eyes, black clothes, silver jewellery
Age of curse (at start of workshop): more than 300 years
Quote: “When I enter the trees’ world, I see what they see. And they see dark-magic users growing rotten inside…”
Species: Sphinx
Strengths: wisdom, calmness, claws
Weaknesses: conflicting loyalties
How to recognise: cat’s body, human face, long tail, small wings – all black
Age of curse (at start of workshop): 1 week
Quote: “I don’t want you to hurt them. But I can’t let you through unless you answer my riddle.”
Species: Toad/Unknown
Strengths: mysteriously fast outhouse building
Weaknesses: can’t speak, or write, or solve riddles
How to recognise: Warty skin, sand-coloured, big eyes, crawls rather than hops
Age of curse (at start of workshop): unknown
Quote: “Croak”
Let us know who you’d choose for your Spellchasers team and why. Vote using our teams hashtags on Twitter and Facebook.





Find out more
The Shapeshifter’s Guide to Running Away, the second book in Lari Don’s Spellchasers trilogy is available now. Look out for The Witch’s Guide to Magical Combat, the dramatic final book in the trilogy, coming Autumn 2017.
Have you missed Molly and the team’s adventures so far? Catch up in The Beginner’s Guide to Curses.
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