Morgantha

Morgantha was a Night Hag masquerading as a kindly old woman selling pastries in the village of Barovia. She was destroyed, along with her daughters Bella and Ophelia, at the Battle of the Bonegrinder outside of Vallaki.

History
The party first encountered Morgantha at the Burgomaster's Mansion while attending to Ismark and Ireena. At the time, she was acting as an old woman selling "dream pastries" to troubled villagers who wanted to momentarily forget the decrepit state of their lives. During their initial encounter, the party was able to learn that Morgantha lived with her daughters in the windmill outside of town and that they assisted her in making their "dream pastries." They had the sense that there was more to this crone than she was letting on, but there was little concrete information to go on.

Upon examination of the pastries Lucstarious, with his divine sense was able to determine that they were crafted with dark magic.

When the party came upon the windmill on the road to Vallaki, and learned that Morgantha and her daughters were keeping children prisoner, they wasted little time in launching an offensive against them and kicking off the Battle of the Bonegrinder.

Dream Pastries
Following the defeat of the hags and the release of Freek and Myrtle, the sinister plot of Morgantha and her daughters was revealed. They had been using the old mill, now dubbed "the Old Bonegrinder", to grind the bodies and bones of kidnapped children into filling for their dream pastries. After imbuing their blasphemous creations with terrifying, eldritch magic, Morgantha would sell them to the villagers or Barovia. Eventually their additive properties would make the consumers willing to do nearly anything to keep the supply coming in, including selling their own children into Morgantha's service. Thus the cycle would repeat itself.

After their release, Freek and Myrtle gave an account of their captivity. They were, in turn, force fed and made to endure physical torment intended to illicit tears. The former can be explained as an effort to fatten them up in preparation for becoming dream pastry filling. The latter, however, Donavich found to be curious upon hearing the story. Apparently, only certain people in the realm of Barovia are capable of such overt displays of emotion.

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