Baba Yaga

Name	Baba Yaga
Race	Human
Type	Witch
Faction	Coven of Yaga
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	None Applicable

Baba Yaga

"Ooh, ghastly brew full of fright, tastes so good and it’s just right."

Biography

Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds

Baba Yaga stems by the forest near a very small town named Sertolovo in Russia. She came to the attention of Katerina Mordova, a 17 year old there after a family tragedy. Katerina had a sister named Yulia who was only seven years old. Just as Katerina had done in her childhood, so too did her sister and the other children play in the woods. However, one day Yulia and some of the other kids vanished. They went into the woods and did not return. The police did a search, and some of the townsfolk volunteered, yet those children were never found. Fiery and tenacious, Katerina vowed to search the woods every day until she could find Yulia. Her distraught parents saw this as a way for the older teen to vent her emotions, and within a few months life returned to normal. Katerina, meanwhile, regardless of weather, scoured the woods relentlessly. Eventually, she found a shoe belonging to Yulia! She searched the area, and found something unbelievable! A hut stood in the nearby forest- yet it stood on two legs! The large legs appeared as those of a bird, and she stumbled out of the woods up to it. Standing tall, there was no way to reach the door. Bewildered, Katerina ran back into the trees and waited. During that time, as she sat crouched in the cold, wet woods, she tried to form a plan. If she went back, no one would believe her, and in her heart, she knew that Yulia was inside the impossible house. Just before night fall, the house suddenly shifted. It took a step back with each leg and then lowered itself to the ground like a hen in a nest. A moment later, the door opened.

Katerina readied the only weapons she had- a small pocket knife and a piece of wood about the size of a baseball bat she had picked up from the forest floor. From the door emerged a beautiful woman! She had never seen so beautiful and tragic a woman in her life. The woman took a few steps out and sniffed the air, then she peered about as if she could smell Katerina. She knew she had stumbled upon Baba Yaga, an ancient witch, but even facing certain death, Katerina refused to let her sister go and she darted out from the trees towards the woman! She found the shriveled corpses of children and faced off with the witch, and while unable to kill her, she managed to cause the witch to flee in her flying house. She and the witch did cross paths from time to time over the years, but Baba Yaga always managed to slip away. Katerina even burned the witch’s magic cottage to the ground.

However, the powerful witch recently arrived at Forest Park by Portland. She set about converting the local druids into her own coven, and went to war with the dryad and the native creatures of the woods.

Desideratum: Blood Bonds

In Desideratum: Blood Bonds, Baba Yaga is the final boss encounter during the Forest Hunt. The Night Stalkers, Sani Lightfoot and Katerina Mordova, came to the forest’s aid. While they were strong enough to push the witches back, they knew they could not hold out forever. Absinthe Van Gothen followed the pair, and entered Forest Park. The goddess Hecate spoke to Absinthe and told her that balance needed to be restored to the forest. Absinthe managed to defeat both the forest’s guardians (thinking her evil) and the Coven of Yaga. She even managed to overcome Draeope, Lightfoot, and Katerina as well, saving the last from the powers of Baba Yaga. Then, Absinthe did the unthinkable and managed to slay Baba Yaga herself. Baba Yaga disappeared in a cloud of black smoke.

Appearance

Baba Yaga is a green plague witch with black hair. Her natural form is old and withered, but upon feasting on children's souls, she takes the form of a voluptuous young green witch.

Abilities

• Baba Brew
• Plague Magic
• Hypnosis

Notes and Trivia

After Baba Yaga disappears, one of her witches watches Katerina and Absinthe leave.

Gallery

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  Youthful Form