Category:The Three Hags of Tepest
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The Three Hags of Tepest, also referred to as the Sisters Mindefisk, are the collective co-Darklords of Tepest. All three were once seemingly normal human sisters raised as part of the Mindefisk family, albeit not born into the family but rather given to the mother by the fey because of her unfulfilled desire for daughters. Their individual names are Laveeda, Leticia and Lorinda.
As hags of great and horrific power, they are individually competent practitioners of hag magic[1]. However, when the three sisters come together as a covey, they are truly terrifying. They have created many powerful (and often horrific) magical artifices, ranging from potions all the way up to the corrupted treant Blackroot. They frequently use magic and deception to manipulate others to their ends, even going so far as to manipulate those within the Tepestani Inquisition into becoming their quislings and providing corpses for their black magic. Most if not all the Goblin tribes of Tepest unearth and carve up executed criminals and even procure live victims for the Sisters in return for minor magical items.
Although guilty of creating many evil perversions of magic, it is the hags' crimes of violence that earned the collective mantle of Tepest's darklords. Avid cannibals, they readily lure in unsuspecting victims into their home only for these to become their next cannibalistic feasts. Moreover, the Three Hags show ultimate loathing of beauty and youth and feel great envy toward anybody demonstrating the possibility of experiencing true love. To this end, they will often use kidnapping and magical deception to ruin the lives of would-be lovers. Their envy for even the potential of love even extends to each other's (nonexistent) love-lives.
Although ultimately unpredictable, the wrath of the Three Hags may be stalled with word games and riddles. From time to time, they may be visited by the brave or the foolish seeking the creation of some sort of magic item, though such a petitioner is likely to meet a painful end in their pot. Should that not happen, the Hags frequently require gruesome and strange recompense. However, few beyond the goblins that revere them know of the existence of the Hags. Their misdeeds are often misattributed to said goblins.
Lair
The Sisters Mindefisk dwell together in their cottage[2] at the heart of Wormwood.[3]
Each of the sisters is a competent practitioner of hag magic;[4] together they excel at the brewing of horrifying potions. Prominent among their crimes is the creation of Blackroot, through the awakening to consciousness and foul twisting of a great oak using such elixirs. The sisters seem also to be very competent with scrying magic. Indeed Azalin commissioned the equivalent of a crystal ball from them, in the form of a crystal shard.
The sisters stoke the fires of the inquisition so that they can harvest the corpses of those it condemns.
Apart from goblins, "S" is one of the few beings to see one or more of the Three Hags in their natural form and escape to tell the tale. [5] Another was Gesmas Malaturno, who had the distinction of attending a meal with the Sisters Mindefisk as a guest, rather than a meal.
Creations
The sisters created the Tincture of Midnight.
Because they are fond of showing their superiority, the hags are also fond of riddle competitions, which may buy prospective victims needed time to escape.[2]
If one of the hags should die, her sisters will attempt to revive her using their Cauldron of Reincarnation. A Mindefisk sister so revived will always come back as a hag.[2]
The Three Hags reside in their cottage[2] [[Category:Coven] ]
References
Chronology
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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Secrets of the Dread Realms |
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Secrets of the Dread Realms - p53 | |
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Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp51-54 | |
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Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp7,51-54 | |
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The Sisters Mindefisk |
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