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nick012000:

--- Quote from: 123456789blaaa on December 15, 2012, 04:11:46 AM ---Just found this vampire in an article on Bogleech.com. This is a very unique monster among mythological creatures. It seems more like something a creative modern fantasy writer would come up with than a monster locals would invent.

I can totally see this monster as still having a soul and Free Will like White Court vamps (and thus being playable). Another interesting touch is that this could potentially be the only vampire that you can turn yourself into without the original vampires consent (just plop the bird into your mouth once you get the original vampire to vomit it out).
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Hmm. So, Item of Power (the Black Chick) [+1] granting Feeding Dependency [+1], Human Form [+2], Blood Drinker [-1], Claws [-1] (the tongue), Wings [-1], and Inhuman Strength/Speed/Toughness/Recovery to taste.

hank the ancient:
sounds like the chick could be the catch as well.

...Henbane perhaps?

Violet Rook:
New here. I would like to give it a try.

Baba Yaga

Baba Yaga is a Slavic myth, renown mostly in Russia. It is said that Baba Yaga is old and powerful, and very ugly. She has a large hook nose and wicked cruel fingernails on her hands. She is covered in warts and moles. Baba Yaga has teeth similar to steel and they are pointy and noshing. She lives in hut that is very much alive, or at least golem-like.

High Concept: Ancient Winter Witch
Other aspects: Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge, Pain is a lesson on its own, Mother of Witches

Skills
Most of her magic skills are going to fall in the Legendary area. She's really old and powerful. So all her skills should reflect such. If a skill has something to do with magic it will fall at superb at the very least.

Powers
Unseeli Magic [-4]
Claws [-1]
Greater Glamours [-4]
World Walker [-2]
The Sight [-1]
Supernatural Speed [-4]
Supernatural Strength [-4]
Physical Immunity [-6]
   The Catch: Is cold iron (like fae)

Items of Power
Baba Yaga's Mortar and Pestle: Instead of using the traditional broomstick, the Mother of Witches flys around in a mortar and pestle. She sits in the mortar with her knees up around her eyes and uses the pestle like a rutter. She uses her Silver birch broom to sweep clear any traces of her passing as she goes (see below). She moves at Mythic Speed for the purpose of travel by this means.

Silver Birch Broom: By holding this in her left hand, Baba Yaga can remove any and ALL traces of her presence from a place or thing as she drags it across the place.

Baba Yaga's Hut: Her home is what appears to be a wooden thatch hut. It has no windows and no door visible to most folks. It is of course control by passwords and wards etc. The epic part of her home is that it can move to roam her demesne. Her hut sits on a pair of giant hen legs. At her command and in defense of Baba Yaga, the house can stand up and move or kick at offending parties.
   Kick attack: Weapon 3, Supernatural Strength 4. (That's some pain there).

Stunts
Unconventional Consumption: Anything Baba Yaga can put in her steel toothed mouth she can eat and digest. It is rumored that she can even consume items of power (destroyed). (For this she would give up a fate chip). All with no ill effects. This does not extend to potions and other liquids.

Stress
P: O O O O (at minimum)
M: O O O O (O O O) (at minimum)
S: O O O O (O O) (at minimum)

Refresh Cost: -24 (at minimum)

Note: Now, without giving anything a way...This could very well be another name for someone else already in the Dresden Verse.

Deadmanwalking:
Baba Yaga thematically requires Evocation and Thaumaturgy, likely with a large amount of Refinement, rather than anything sponsored on its' own. She's an extremely potent spellcaster, after all, in every version I've heard of, and is so in her own right, not simply with borrowed power. she might have some sort of Sponsored Magic in addition, but her power is her own.

Cold Iron is also a +3 Catch, which would drop her Physical Immunity's cost to -5. Personally, I'd go with Toughness/Recovery powers and a different Catch, though. She has steel teeth, which means if she's Fae she's somehow found a way around the standard weakness.

And now I have the idea in my head of Baba Yaga having once been a powerful Winter Court Faerie, but having bucked Mab's authority and become independent after finding a way around her weakness to iron. That's pretty appropriately epic and scary.

Hick Jr:
Ahem.

That's super awesome, but there's really only one witchy female faerie crone who's covered in warts with a hook nose and steel teeth, and happens to live in a very odd hut. On the off chance this is somehow a Cold Days spoiler, it's

(click to show/hide)Mother Winter. So your writeup there could be a mantle she wears occasionally?
But having a house as a golem is a super-awesome idea that i'm stealing for my Oneiromancer.

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