McGinnis lore and story
An editorial guide to McGinnis's background, motive for entering the Ritual, and possible wish from a Patron.
Who is McGinnis?
Maggie McGinnis always had a knack for building things. At 4 she was using Lincoln Logs to recreate architectural marvels. At 10 she built and rewired a custom light fixture for her parent's anniversary. At 15 she designed a machine that refined the souls of the dead...that last one got a little more attention than the Lincoln Logs. Now the head of Fairfax Industries Military R&D department, McGinnis spends her time in the machine shop, not in a lab. She's not interested in theory, to her science is magic you can touch.
McGinnis enters a Ritual in which six heroes aid a Patron against its rival. Victory matters beyond the match: the successful Patron can offer each ally a wish, turning every combatant's private motive into part of the city's larger occult crisis.
What would McGinnis wish for?
Her confirmed motivation reads more like an engineer's opportunity than a desperate plea: the Ritual offers the ultimate proving ground for her inventions. A specific wish remains unclear.
Not yet confirmed. Deadlock remains in development, so Lock Lab separates explicit canon from dialogue-based implication and editorial interpretation.Lock Lab reading
McGinnis's story connects a personal problem to the larger struggle over the Amber Hand and Sapphire Flame. Precise placement is everything for McGinnis, whether she's creating a killzone or splitting the enemy team. She can help keep her team running making them hard to dislodge when entrenched. is the gameplay expression; the lore asks what someone with that temperament would risk for a single supernatural bargain.
The Patron bargain makes this motive important: a wish is not simply a reward, but a test of what McGinnis values and what price they may accept when an elder power controls the terms.
McGinnis's relationships
Character dialogue reveals alliances, suspicions, and personal history that biographies leave unstated. These dossiers summarize the clearest interactions currently supported by voice lines.
Lock Lab has not found enough reliable, character-specific dialogue to publish a relationship dossier for McGinnis yet. We will add connections only when the underlying exchange can be reviewed.