6Īt first, Baba Yaga made her base within a large burial mound known as a kurgan, one of many that had been built by a long-vanished culture that lived on the steppes before even Baba Yaga's birth people did. This act also erased whichever moral concerns she might once have had. At the age of 102, when her body started irrevocably failing, she finally made the leap. 5Īlthough she already knew how to overcome mortality as a young woman, she desired to live out the rest of her mortal life and reach old age, considering it foolish to grab at things without considering all possibilities. It was during this time that she acquired her present name, as the Rus people she traveled among gave her the appellative "Baba"-"Grandmother"-due to her great age, and came to mispronounce "Yanca" as "Yaga". Yanca eventually grew disgusted with the nature of humanity, due both to their constant supplications and the depths they were willing to go to obtain fame and power. She pondered a great deal about the nature of power as she did so as her fame grew, more and more people began to come to her to seek favors and aid. 5Īfter finishing Vigliv's tutelage many years later, Yanca left the spring and took to wandering across the plains. Having no other choice, Yanca returned to Vigliv to continue her training as a witch. Yanca was enraptured by the norn's knowledge, and eagerly listened to the lessons Vigliv imparted when she finally remembered the task that had first guided her to the spring and climbed back out with her water, she found that two years had passed and that her tribe had long since given her up for dead and moved on. In the sheltered grotto she found at the fissure's bottom, she encountered an ancient norn known as Vigliv, who was struck by the unusual length and luster of the thread of Yanca's fate and decided to tutor her in magic. One day, during the particularly long and bitter Winter of Cruel Loss, Yanca left her camp to fetch water and stumbled upon a deep fissure in the earth warmed by a heated spring, which she entered to obtain both the water and shelter from the wind and cold. She was originally named Yanca, and belonged to a tribal people known as the Sarmatians. 4 Origin Birth and rise to powerīaba Yaga was born over two thousand years ago on a distant planet known as Earth, in an area of steppe that would one day be part of the nation of Russia. 3 Appearanceīaba Yaga appears as an ancient human crone, often seen carrying her witch's broom and a large basket filled with sundry items on her back. 2 In 3313 AR, she invaded Golarion, declared war on the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, and established her realm of Irrisen after the 23-day-long Winter War. She has a hundred schemes on Earth (where she originated), Triaxus, Golarion and across the Great Beyond alike. Source: The Witch Queen's Revenge, pg(s). 74–75īaba Yaga (pronounced BAH-ba YAH-guh) 1, the Queen of Witches, is perhaps the greatest witch in existence.
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