 During this era, she is able to regain her immortality by besting Death in a card game.Other incidents in her long years of life include a doomed lesbian love affair during the Spanish Inquisition.In the 1940s, she has a sexual relationship with John Zatara, who wishes to marry her, but she foresees his true love, and the later existence of his daughter, Zatanna, "a love with whom she could never compete."