Characteristics
Physical features
The Lady of the wood is a gnarled, purple-skinned crone with stringy black hair, yellow eyes, and red ram’s horns that curl back from her forehead, matching the description of a night hag. She also can take any female humanoid form she chooses.
Since her daughter destroyed her body, the Lady of the wood lacks a physical form and appears in dreams and nightmares or manifests as a black mare in the Murkendraw.
Lair
The lady of the wood is the spirit from which the Murkendraw is born; to a certain extent, she is the Murkendraw.
History
Many locals appear to believe the book
"She Who Knows", where the spirit is described as someone who arrived from far away and created three daughters and watched over the land. Locals would bring sacrifices like grain and men to her every Spring, but after she adopted Tasmiira, she started to slip more and more into madness to the point the land and its people were being destroyed. To save the area, the daughters killed their mother and imprisoned her immortal spirit.
However, as many locals worship one of the crones, Endelyn, youngest of her three daughters, and considering the long amount of time that's passed since the Lady of the Wood walked the land, the book may not be entirely truthful.
A draker tell detail the story of how a village angered the spirit when it lived. Transforming into a black mare, the spirit rode into the village to take revenge by possessing all the villagers. It then made all the villagers go crazy so that they killed each other, leaving a massacre in its wake.
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