History Characters / PathfinderAdventurePathReignOfWinter

* BladeOnAStick: Bescalyie has a lance, Efrixes carries a glaive nearly as long as he is.

* AnAxeToGrind: She wields a +1 greataxe when in human form.

[[folder:BabaYaga]]

!!Literature/BabaYaga
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->'''Race:''' Human (Sarmatian)
->'''Class:''' Witch/Archmage

Yes, ''the'' Literature/BabaYaga. Born centuries ago on "our" Earth in the depths of Russia, she accidentally stumbled across one of the fae, which whimsically decided to tutor her in witchcraft and set her down the path to becoming a demigod-like witch. Travelling between worlds in her Dancing Hut, she came to Golarion centuries ago on a whim, establishing the kingdom of Irrisen, "the Land of Eternal Winter", on a whim. To rule it, she set up a matriarchal [[TheMagocracy magocratic]] dynasty comprised of female descendants of hers -- this time for a more practical reason. Baba Yaga sustains her youth by being a LifeDrinker of her many female descendants, and returns to Golarion every century to take the current Queen of Irrisen as her latest meal. When the adventure begins, the current Queen, Elvana, has conspired with her kinsman Rasputin to overthrow Baba Yaga and take her place, forcing the party to be responsible for saving Baba Yaga.

* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Despite being ''physically'' over 100 years old and chronologically about twenty times that, she has numerous children across the multiverse, including some born relatively recently.
* AgeWithoutYouth: Deliberately invoked. Baba Yaga knowingly waited until she was a withered old crone before she became immortal, because she didn't want to be distracted by pleasures of the flesh or other youthful foolishness. This hasn't prevented her from having many children since.
* TheArchmage: 10th-rank archmage, besides being a 20th-level witch.
* EnemyMine: She's actually one of your ''allies'' in Reign of Winter, as well as the key to stopping the EndlessWinter caused by her daughter. One of the AP's goals is to free Baba Yaga so she can set up her next heiress.
* EvilIsPetty: In Baba Yaga's Hut, the players will find the doll that helped Literature/VasilissaTheBeautiful, that Baba Yaga captured and has tortured since her passing.
* EvilOldFolks: She's well over a millennium in chronological age and, by deliberate choice, a withered, haggard old crone. She's also far and away one of the most villainous, wicked and cruel beings in the adventure path she appears in.
* EvilerThanThou: She's managed to make herself a very dangerous enemy in Kostchtchie, Demon Lord of cold, giants, and revenge. He was mortal when she first met him.
* EvilVirtues: She returns respect given to her freely, admires those capable of self-reliance, and keeps to the letter and spirit of a bargain.
* EyeScream: Only Baba Yaga knows the recipe for destroying her Dancing Hut. One of the ingredients? Her left eye.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She's a dangerous, powerful old crone who nonetheless treats her lessers (translation: [[NeverMessWithGranny every]][[TheArchmage body]]) like a kindly granny addressing misbehaving children.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She started out as just a young girl who was lost in the Russian wilderness while gathering firewood, who was taken in by a fey creature who taught her witchcraft. Centuries later, she's a spellcaster with the power to rival demigods.
* AGodIAmNot: The whole reason she left Earth was because she was sick of people begging for her aid; she feels like having to deal with prayers day in and day out would drive her mad. That said, in terms of actual ''power'' she's on about the level of minor gods or DemonLordsAndArchdevils.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She and all of her daughters.
* {{Gonk}}: Her design is deliberately grotesque. Her backstory claims that she made herself this way on purpose to discourage those asking for help.
* GreaterScopeVillain: All of the evils of Irrisen are as nothing compared to Baba Yaga, an insanely powerful 20th-level mythic spellcaster.
* HealingFactor: Her bond with her ''Dancing Hut'' gives her one. This can only be circumvented by destroying the ''Hut'', itself an extremely difficult task.
* ImmortalityImmorality: When she became immortal, the last tiny shreds of her morality left her.
* KingIncognito: The most powerful woman in the universe is... a batty crone with peasant garb and a broom.
* LifeDrinker: She maintains her immortality from draining the life from her daughters.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Never, ever, EVER. At CR 30 (the same CR as ''Cthulhu''), Baba Yaga is the most powerful humanoid in the ''Pathfinder'' universe.
* NobleDemon: The prices she asks for help are set as high as possible, and she makes no bones about the fact that it will cause more problems than it solves, but if paid, she (grumpily, but honestly) holds up her end without question.
* OffingTheOffspring: How she sustains her immortality.
* OutsideContextProblem: Baba Yaga was born on Earth and travels across countless worlds. She has nothing at all to do with the affairs of Golarion, and her conquest of Irrisen was totally unexpected.
* PragmaticVillainy: While wholly evil, she is deeply indebted to the [=PCs=] at the end of Reign of Winter. Just about the only request she won't grant is ending Irrisen's eternal winter; she'll even leave Golarion forever if they ask.
* PublicDomainCharacter: One of the {{Big Bad}}s of Russian folklore.
* Really700YearsOld: Baba Yaga was born in 75 BCE to Sarmatian nomads on the Eurasian steppe, making her around two thousand years old.
* ShoutOut: To ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'', where she ''also'' had a daughter (Iggwilv) who became a witch-queen. She's explicitly noted in ''Pathfinder'' to travel to many different worlds, and ''The Witchwar Legacy'' mentions a daughter of hers with a name (Tashanna) similar to Iggwilv's alias (Tasha). ''Artifacts & Legends'' also mentions a female wizard named Louhi who claims to be Baba Yaga's daughter; in ''Greyhawk'', Louhi was another one of Iggwilv's aliases.
* SorcerousOverlord: Of Irrisen, though she rarely visits.
* StartOfDarkness: According to a folktale in ''Lost Sea Legends'', Baba used to be a helpful adventurer on Earth, but as her fame grew, more and more people came to her to solve their problems as a first solution, no matter how large and harmful the price was. She grew disgusted with how lazy and indolent sentient life was, and grew misanthropic and selfish, vowing to herself to help nothing and no one unless they were fine with destroying themselves, and to find the flaws with everything.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: When you look at Baba Yaga, and then at any of her daughters, you really have to wonder how they're related. Even their taste in clothing is radically different -- Baba preferring slightly ratty Russian peasant garb while her daughters make the most of their royal post in Irrisen with elegant, tailored gowns. Justified in ''Lost Sea Legends'', where it's said she was a lot more comely in her youth but [[EvilMakesYouUgly spite]] ruined her body.
* WickedWitch: She's the archetypal ancient, hunchbacked evil old crone scheming and working wicked magic over a cauldron. She's also a 20th level witch in-game, and easily the most powerful and successful witch in the ''Pathfinder'' universe.
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[[folder:Rasputin]]
!![[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin]]
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->'''Race:''' Human
->'''Class:''' Oracle
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Once again, ''the'' Rasputin. Secretly a son of Baba Yaga, left behind on Earth after he was born. Rage and envy at being abandoned by his birth-mother led him to conspire with his distant female sibling, Queen Elvana, to overthrow her. Appearing in the fifth adventure of the path, Rasputin guards Baba Yaga's prison and seeks to claim her near-divine mantle for himself.
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[[folder:Nadya]]
!!Nadya Petska

!!Greta

[[folder:Nazhena]]
!!Nazhena Vasilliovna

[[folder:Solveig]]
!!Solveig Ayrdahl

!!Bescaylie and Efrixes

!!General Malesinder

Yes, ''the'' Literature/BabaYaga. Born centuries ago on "our" Earth in the depths of Russia, she accidentally stumbled across one of the fae, which whimsically decided to tutor her in witchcraft and set her down the path to becoming a demigod-like witch. Travelling between worlds in her Dancing Hut, she came to Golarion centuries ago on a whim, establishing the kingdom of Irrisen, "the Land of Eternal Winter", on a whim. To rule it, she set up a matriarchal [[TheMagocracy magocratic]] dynasty comprised of female descendants of hers -- this time for a more practical reason. Baba Yaga sustains her youth by consuming the LifeForce of one of her many female descendants, and returns to Golarion every century to take the current Queen of Irrisen as her latest meal. When the adventure begins, the current Queen, Elvana, has conspired with her kinsman Rasputin to overthrow Baba Yaga and take her place, forcing the party to be responsible for saving Baba Yaga.

* BadassBeard: Doubling as a BeardOfEvil, Rasputin still has the iconic beard.

%%* OurDragonsAreDifferent

* OffingTheOffspring: Ends up being an oddly sympathetic version, as said daughter [[SelfMadeOrphan tried to kill her in order to steal her powers]].

* {{Gonk}}: Her design is deliberately grotesque.

%%* OffingTheOffspring:

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: When you look at Baba Yaga, and then at any of her daughters, you really have to wonder how they're related. Even their taste in clothing is radically different -- Baba preferring slightly ratty Russian peasant garb while her daughters make the most of their royal post in Irrisen with elegant, tailored gowns.

* BadassGay: Used to be a freedom fighter in the devil-worshipping kingdom of Cheliax, and is now the leader of a freedom fighting band in Irrisen. Also a lesbian who is still deeply in love with her opera singer ex-girlfriend.

* AGodAmI: [[DefiedTrope Defied.]] The whole reason she left Earth was because she was sick of people begging for her aid; she feels like having to deal with prayers day in and day out would drive her mad. That said, in terms of actual ''power'' she's on about the level of minor gods or DemonLordsAndArchdevils.

* AgeWithoutYouth: Deliberately invoked. Baba Yaga knowingly waited until she was a withered old crone before she became immortal, because she didn't want to be distracted by pleasures of the flesh or other youthful foolishness.

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* AGodAmI: [[DefiedTrope Defied.]] The whole reason she left Earth was because she was sick of people begging for her aid; she feels like having to deal with prayers day in and day out would drive her mad.

* BigBad: Of the ''Reign of Winter'' adventure path.

* KillItWithIce: A Silver Dragon with an ice sword.
* LightIsNotGood: As before, her scales tell you nothing of her nature.

* EvilOldFolks: Certainly has the look.
* EvilerThanThou: Has managed to make herself a very dangerous enemy in Kostchtchie, Demon Lord of cold, giants, and revenge. He was mortal when she first met him.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Never, ever, EVER. At CR 30 (the same CR as ''Cthulhu''), Baba Yaga is the most powerful humanoid in the Pathfinder universe.

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: When you look at Baba Yaga, and then at any of her daughters, you really have to wonder how they're related. Even their taste in clothing is radically different - Baba preferring the slightly-ratty Russian peasant garb while her daughters make the most of their royal post in Irrisen with elegant, tailored gowns.
* WickedWitch: Patron of them.

* ActionMom: She a mother of three at the age of 26, and a skilled ranger who regularly traverses the dangerous wilderness of Irrisen on weeks-long trading journeys and later guides the [=PCs=] to their attack on the Irriseni capital -- and potentially follows them beyond that on the rest of their adventure.

* CanisMajor: In her true form, she a bear-sized she-wolf.

* StartOfDarkness: When she was seven, she offered a female cousin a momentary act of kindness. Said cousin repaid her by breaking her arm. Nazhena was told that her pain was her own fault, and if she wanted justice, she would have to take it herself. It wasn't the only "lesson" she learnt at her ancestor's court, but it definitely started her descent into malice and cruelty.

%%* ActionMom
* BreakTheCutie: Lost her husband at a fairly young age, Just lost her daughter at the beginning of the Adventure, and if the PC's aren't on the ball, can lose one of her sons too. Life is not kind to this woman.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields a +1 greataxe when in human form.

* CanisMajor: In her true form, she a bear-sized she-wolf with freezing cold bite and BreathWeapon attacks.

* InterspeciesRomance: Will unwittingly try and enter this if she believes a PC to be a fellow winter wolf. Nothing explicitly forbids a [=PC=] trying to woo her from the start without the rimepelt, either, and it's noted that winter wolves in Howlings and Redtooth do occasionally take human lovers.
* LoveRedeems: It's explicitly noted that Greta's "worldview can expand, and even her alignment can change over time," if she has someone special to give her a reason to do so.

* SinisterScythe: Wields the enchanted sickle Emberchill.

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