Non-player character
Witch of the Cottage
AliveA nameless, veiled old woman who lives among ravens in a decaying cottage in the Burnt Wood.
- Ancestry
- Human
- Gender
- Female
- Location
- Burnt Wood
- Factions
- None
Overview
No one knows her name. The party knows her only as the Witch of the Cottage, a strange recluse who lives near Shadukar in the Burnt Wood.
She is thin and frail, with a sunken face, a large nose, night-black hair, and an uncomfortable smile. She dresses entirely in black beneath a mourning veil. Dozens of ravens share her decaying cottage and follow every visitor with their eyes.
The Party’s Visit
The party reached her cottage during a sudden thunderstorm. When an undead horde advanced through the rain, the Witch of the Cottage greeted its arrival with laughter and warned that the dead yearned for the visitors’ flesh.
After the party destroyed the horde, she performed a disturbing ritual on Kaelvhen. She pressed his head against the earth and forced black death larvae into his mouth. The ritual showed him a small black heart in a dry underground grotto, with purple and blue energy radiating through cracks around it and a constructed altar nearby.
The party fled the cottage after the vision.