The Coven
Long ago in the highlands of Kacera, a human woman secretly visited an elf tribe, where she met an elf woman, who she fell in love with. With the time they spent together in the forests, the elf woman taught her elven magic, which was more intuned with nature at the time since elves lacked complex applications of magic. Unfortunately, her tribe figured this out and thought she was being lured into the elves to be taken advantage of, so they decided to ambush the tribe. She found out about the attack in the morning and found her lover's corpse, mangled and torn, being pecked by crows, and her tribe's leader proclaimed that she was saved, and was married off to a man she never interacted with or cared for shortly after the event. The only thing she kept to remember her lover was the crow feather that one of them dropped.
Over time, she pondered the tragedy, and kept practicing the magic the elf lady taught her, but mixed the ways of human magic with it, saying chants and working with herbs and such. At the same time, she had 4 children and her husband abused her as he felt like he never got enough attention. After enduring this type of abuse and practicing this new, weird type of magic, she came to a revelation when she was sleeping, holding the feather in her hand: she briefly saw a divine-like being, a goddess surrounded by crows, who have a dress as black as them. She thought she must pass on the teachings to her daughter, who was intrigued by her mother's strange magic, and on her deathbed, she gave the crow feather to her, asking her to promise to not let her teachings and beliefs die, as the word of the goddess must not be forgotten.
Over the next few centuries, these practices were kept alive secretly by human women, who spread across Kacera and taught their own daughters of it. Many recall these strange women in the woods doing "forbidden magic" and speaking devilish enchants, and the word "witch" was given to these types of women, and it wasn't long before a particular group of these women adopted it for themselves, seeing it as another revelation of their goddess, Nevra, the goddess of the witches. During the golden age, the groups in Kacera started to connect more and secretly met in places like Desmir, where they could convene and spread their beliefs across the sea, and they very well did spread across the world (except Olumba and Orcana for obvious reasons). In Desimirs capital vault, the coven managed to sneak coordinates, maps, a list of names, and communication crystals inside a chest that would allow them to make contact with the witches across the world. The destruction of Desimir, however, has locked the chest outside of any witch reach, as it was in the vault, and with the collapse occurring, the structure of communication with each other broke. They have seen a resurgence in Anersha following a witch named Elizabeth, who formed a group of witches and created a thriving community of witches. It will only be a matter of time until they get out of the region, or an outsider witch finds them.
Type
Religious, Coven
Alternative Names
Witches
Demonym
witch
Government System
Monarchy, Elective
Permeated Organizations
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