As the lights dimmed at the onset of WGN America's Salem panel at Comic-Con, fans in attendance were treated to a big video package featuring memorably gruesome moments from Season 1, along with a few foreboding words for Season 2. Words spoken by Janet Montgomery's Mary Sibley, ending with "Welcome to Salem, Welcome to Hell."

(Note: I'll post the video here as soon as WGN America makes it available online)Season 2 is being called "Witch Wars," and as co-creator Brannon Braga explained, "Think of it as a Mafia story.""Mary has completed the Grand Rite and there are other covens in other places that sense that the Grand Rite has been completed. And so Mary Sibley is like Michael Corleone and gets pulled back in. All the other covens want to know how Mary pulled it off and they want a piece of the action."Braga took the stage along with co-creator Adam Simon and stars Shane West, Janet Montgomery, Seth Gabel, Ashley Madekwe, Iddo Goldberg, Elise Eberle, and EP Josh Barry.Not only will Mary now have to contend with new covens, but also "Queen of the Night" Mercy who, as star Elise Eberle explained, is feeling quite betrayed. "Mercy never had a mother figure in her life or a strong female presence and so she just became so obsessed with Mary. And then Mary broke her promise and it was earth-shattering for her."Also, as Adam Simon stated, Anne (played by Tamzin Merchant, who couldn't be in attendance) is a "cradle witch." Meaning that she was born with her powers as opposed to being someone who was indoctrinated into witchcraft like Mary had been. Meaning that Anne is potentially more powerful than Mary, if she can ever come to terms with what she did to her own parents."If our motto last season was 'A Witch Among Us,' our motto this year is 'Witch wars,' Simon said. "Witch versus witch. In fact, witch versus witch versus witch versus witch. It all becomes about who carries on the true line of the Essex witches. And then the German witches want in on everything too."Star Shane West spoke a bit about John only finding out about Mary being a witch in the finale. But, as he said, "I think, as strange as this might sound, the fact that she never showed up to meet him in the woods might affect him a little bit more that him finding out she was a witch. That the reality part and the relationship part might mean more to him than the supernatural part."And what of Mary and John's seven-year-old son? "We always knew that we wanted to reveal that the baby was alive," Braga stated. "And that it, or he, was the coven's 'ace in the hole' should Mary ever try to leave."So, obviously the town of Salem still exists, right? But how? After the Grand Rite and all? Simon may have explained the answer while talking about Iddo Goldberg's Isaac. "Isaac threw himself on a grenade and may have changed the course of some things," he said, talking about Isaac seemingly taking, perhaps, the brunt of the pestilence there at the end of the season finale after the evil apple sprayed him in the face.We don't know what that means for Isaac, but Goldberg was on the panel and no one talked about him being written off the show in any way or form.Another witch Mary might have to look out for is Tituba. Will their relationship ever be what it once was? "I spent so much time with Janet and working with Janet that I think it would be nice to explore things as enemies," Ashley Madekwe said. "But of course all so that we can eventually come back together. I think Tituba ultimately really does love Mary."And poor Cotton. Off to Boston after being duped into killing his own father. "He's in shock," Seth Gabel explained. "Cotton likes Mary and she kind of played this thing from the very start with him where she seemed like she was charming him, or casting a spell over him. So I feel like he really doesn't know what he did there in the end."

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