[Taken Into Underhill And Married To Her Half-Brother's-Youngest-Half-Brother, The Youngest Legitimate Son Of The King Of The Unseelie Court.]

As you may have guessed, Mariah had been taken by the Fairfolk, for the mystical herbs she had been gathering and using to cure sickness and injury came from glades on the borderlands of Fairie: not quite part of the Fae Realms proper, yet not wholly part of mortal Ireland either. The man who had offered for her hand was her 'half-sibling's-youngest-half-sibling', and as such not related by blood to her at all, a Fairie lord whose true name, like all his fathers get, is unrecorded, but who went by the nom-de-gare "An-Sionnach-Bua" meaning "The Victorious Fox". He had a sly and foxy sort of face, and as a legitimate heir of the current King of the Unseelie Court, he commanded a regiment of his father's army, in command of which he had never yet suffered defeat, thus earning the moniker.

He also was the only one of his legitimate siblings who favored their father's two bastards by Mary Cross-Born and had thus been convinced to save Mariah from the wrath of the heir apparent 'An-Mac-Tíre-A-Mharú', "The Kill Wolf", who, had he but taken the time to notice her excursions into the borderlands that he considered a rightful part of Fairie, would have marked her for ****. As his youngest legitimate brother's first wife, however, her 'depredations' in the borderlands would be hers to take by right, and any previous indiscretion in that sphere forgiven by the grace of her new spouse's standing as a Prince of the Unseelie court.

Of Mariah's time in Underhill little is known. She was married to the Unseelie King's youngest legitimate son and bore him seven children over the course of seven mortal centuries. Once in every fifty mortal years, seemingly at random, she would return to the world of men for a season, curing ailments and righting wrongs with a train of fairies attending upon and protecting her.

These visits ceased in the Year of Our Lord 777 A.D. when her procession was accosted outside what is now the Town of Wexford in the county of the same name, in southern Leinster. The local priest came forth and denounced Mariah as a Witch and her escorts as demons in service to Satan, to which Mariah responded by having him stripped naked, bound to a pair of hastily located fallen logs of recent vintage, and tossed in the river to learn the error of his ways by repeated re-baptism while he was carried downstream. (It was attested by seven local witnesses fetched for the occasion that she carved runic charms into each end of each log such that until the priest was removed they could not be flipped over such that he should drown...) After that incident, she quit the mortal realm forever, and was never seen again since...

However, in the year 800 A.D. a young woman, very fae in appearance, took up residence on one of the abandoned farms on the island of Na Saltí five miles off the coast of what would become Wexford county, who was later joined by others, forming the village of Na Saltí. For the next thousand years, the village would be a quiet and unassuming backwater ignored by the rich and powerful and allowed to go its own way and largely govern itself, until 1845, when a wave of new residents came from the mainland fleeing the beginnings of the great famine, and brought the eye of the bloody-handed British to the small and isolated community.