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Baba Yaga

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Name:Baba Yaga

Alias(es):the Little Grandmother,the Hag,the Cannibal Hag,the Iron Hag

Embraced:5000 B.C.

Final Death:(presumably)2000

Clan:Nosferatu

Generation:4th

Sire:Absimiliard

Childe(r):Gutka,Sergei Voshkov,Melitta Wallenberg

Allegiance:Independent

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Baba Yaga was an enormously powerful Nosferatu methuselah, over 7000 years old. She was the famous childe of the Nosferatu Antediluvian that was not blood-bounded to her Sire. The little mother was the upholder of the Shadow Curtain, and some believe, the progenitor of the entire modern incarnation of the Nosferatu clan. 

Picture the most hideous hag imaginable, and you might be able to imagine Baba Yaga. She is an eight-foot-tall monstrosity with four-inch iron (yes, iron) claws, sharklike iron fangs, stringy hair, grey, scarred flesh covered in pustules, rheumy eyes thick with cataracts and a long, crooked nose marred by numerous hairy warts and moles.

 

Biography

On dark nights, the Little Grandmother, the Iron-Toothed Hag would fly across the skies of Russia on her magic mortar, and under her shadow milk spoiled and babies were born dead, or so they said.

Who she was originally — whether she was a shaman of the Rus punished for defying an Antediluvian, the rebel mother of the Nosferatu, or the first of the Nictuku — is now moot. For millennia, the creature Baba Yaga slept under the soil of Russia, perhaps from the time of Kiev to the time of Stalin. However, one night in 1990, she finally awoke — and the legends were a pale approximation of the truth.

To the rest of the world, the Brujah who ruled Russia since the revolution disappeared, as did everything else in the Rodina ; a curtain of occult power (the "Shadow Curtain") separated them (and their grisly fates) from the rest of the world while the Little Grandmother rose, found the world not to her liking, and remade it to her needs, occasionally pausing to swat an arrogant sept out of her way.

Baba Yaga might have ruled Russia in perpetuity, but for the legend of Vasilisa, the little girl who completed three impossible tasks for the Little Grandmother. In this case, though, Vasilisa was a Nictuku, and fulfilled her sire's order to hunt and slay all of his unfaithful descendants. Baba Yaga was (presumably)killed in 2000 in a prelude to the Gehenna to follow.

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The Shadow Curtain

The Shadow Curtain was a supernatural phenomenon enacted by the Methuselah Baba Yaga, being akin to the Soviet Union's Iron Curtain in the mid 1900's.

In essence, it blockaded the Umbra of Northern Europe from supernatural influence, preventing arcane modes of communication, spying, or passage in and out of the region. This allowed Baba Yaga to dominate the local kindred population, while culling those who would otherwise have been a threat thanks to outside reinforcements.

It also meant that outsiders could not spy on Russia via occult means, nor Russia on them. It was only after the death of the Little Grandmother, at the turn of the millennium, that the curtain was finally lifted, for the ancient nosferatu was finally destroyed by the Nictuku Vasilisa.

But Rumors spread that Baba Yaga survived the attack by Vasilisa and then lifted the curtain herself so she would be presumed dead to the rest of the world.

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