Baba Yaga
Crone of Tridesy
Vicegerent of the Triple Goddess
Ancient (Inmortal) Cailleach (Witch)
Unknown age, Cis Woman

Baba Yaga is a woman of variable age - sometimes a young woman, sometimes a mature woman, sometimes an elderly woman - who always has a sharp nose, a large frame, bony legs, and iron teeth. She is the leader of the kuritsa, the witches of Tridesy and other fey peoples throughout Ranu, and she seeks to maintain magic against imperial dominance, elemental passivity, celestial embrace, or unaligned rigidity. She honors the Lore and the Tradition and is a fundamental story herself.

PRO 15
ATH 15
STR 15
AWA 25 +6 Scarf
WIL 25 +6 Scarf
PRS 19
STH 17 +6 Scarf
ESS 25

Skills
Witchcraft
Legend lore
Story lore
Fairy lore
Lore and Tradition
Herbalism
Alchemy
Philosophy
History
Politics
Dragon lore
Undeath lore
Elemental lore
Forest lore
Medicine
Bird lore
Mirror lore

Ancient Powers
Ferocious appearance (+6 intimidation)
Beauty glamour (+3 allure)
Knowing gaze (AWA, knows story of anyone who visits her)
Story restoration (will return to life to fulfill her story after a year and a day)
Ancient bones (her bones remember her story every life)
Traditional binding (may bind any fey power or ability of anyone within eyesight to permanence of the Tradition, reverting its form to its most ancient or not allowing it any flexibility or growth)
Stretched form (may stretch out her body as long as her hut is)
Killing shadow (anyone who is under her shadow as she flies in her mortar may roll ESS vs ESS or die instantly)
Storybook forest control (any fey forest she is in will answer to her WIL)
See narrative (AWA, she can see where a story is going)
Vanish (6/day)

Cailleach Abilities
Eyes of the forest (AWA, she can see out of the eyes of any living thing in her forest)
Animalspeech
Plantspeech
Fungusspeech
Cloud form (1/day, 10 minutes, form of a soft white cloud)
Moonlight circle (as long as there is a moon above at night, she may create a circle of repelling energy)
Winter breath (she can breath a blast of frosty wind, 11/17/23/29)
Snakeskin (she can make her skin snakelike, +3/+3 armor, resistant to poison, +1 ATH in heat, -1 ATH in cold)
Pelican throat (can swallow things too large to swallow)
Earthen hand (may call a hand of earth out of the ground within eyesight, STR 19, about 6' tall and wide)
Phallic charm (may turn any vaguely phallic object into a fertility charm)
Forest maze (may turn the forest she is in into an impenetrable maze for a day and an hour)
Fire control (may control any fire within eyesight with ESS)

Vicegerent Abilities
Spell restoration (any magical ability that is used up may be restored, this may be done once per day)
Doublecast (uses two magical powers or ability per round, twice per combat)
Hex (she may inflict a bad thing on a single target in eyesight at power ESS)
Spell of bonding (she may bond to another fey being and exchange magic with them via a ritual)
Spell of binding (she may bind any magical being via ritual, sealing up to 11 magical powers or abilites)
Divining spell (she may have a divining vision once per week)
Poppet (she may turn any doll she crafts into a poppet with a piece of someone, using sympathetic magic)
Bond familiar (she may bond a mundane animal as a familiar, granting it intelligence and magical powers)
Blood curse (she may spill her own blood to curse someone who has offended her)
Counterspell (she may dispel any spell cast near her 11 times per week)
Circle of power (she may create a circle of magical power that amplifies any power or ability used within it, up to 11 times)

Inventory
Flying mortar (her mortar can carry up to 2 other people, its shadow is deadly, speed 100 ft/rd)
Heavy pestle (+6/+3 club, blocks one magical power or ability in target on normal stun until end of combat, will inflict a curse on special+ hit)
Self-working mop (mops her floors without her needing to control it)
War broom (attacks invaders without her needing to control it, +3/+0 attack on handle, +1/-2 attack on bristles, tripping attack, sweeping spell power 16)
Bird-summong horns (must be blown soft, louder, loudest, then birds of all local types appear, including a firebird)
Firebird feather (+3 fire control, 1-time resurrection, fire resistance)
Babushka scarf (+6 AWA, WIL, and STH)
Heavy skirts (+6/+6 armor, 2/daily use of Entangling Shadow, 2/daily use of Teleport 500')
Witch's blouse (+6/+6 armor, 2/daily use of Magical Aura, 2/daily use of Insubstantial Form, Glamour 16)
Fairy spectacles (See Magic, See Story, and See Court, AWA)
Iron fingernails (+6/+6, Poison 16, Sleep 13, Paralyze 10, Confuse 7, removes a Conviction Motivation on exceptional hit)
Bubbling cauldron (combines ingredients on its own, +6 mixing, cooking, alchemy, herblism, etc.)
Tome of legends (legend lore +9)
Tome of witches (witchcraft +9)
Tome of three faces (+6 to any three Vicegerent Abilities on any given day)
Mirror of Tridesy (reveals anything within Tridesy)
Ring of 11 mothers (if she is in Mother form, she will have 11 extra spells per day)
Crone's bowl (if she is in Crone form, she will be able to fill this with raw magic thrice daily)
Daughter's blades (an athame and boline that, in Daughter form, allows her to cut magic)
11 magical candles: fairylight illusions, confusing light, magic-revealing, repelling light, magic-enhancing light, summoning light, candle of testing, fate/luck revealer, charming candle, sleeper candle, and magical blaze candle, all power 19, 27 hours' use

Hut
Khizhina, Hut on chicken legs, movement 50'/rd, PRO 16, STR 30 Kick +10/+10, ATH 12, STH 12
River of flame (appears near her hut, heat power 22/29/36/43 if you fall in it)
Moving garden (travels with her, contains 33 different fey magical plants and fungi at any given time)
Rabbit hutches (always contain 11 foolish rabbits)
Great stove (+6 cooking)
Slender bed (perfect night's sleep every use)

Any object in her hut may be summoned to her or activated at will

Allies
Spirit of Tridesy, Father Reindeer, Otets-olen'
Sisters Ježibaba in Paurek and Gorska Maika in Burev

Steed
Pig Fyrkan'ye
Warrior pig, very big, huge tusks, can vanish at will, teleports 500', immune to curses
Topic revision: r2 - 11 Oct 2026, SallyJaneBlack
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