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{{Infobox VTM character
  
{{Infobox VTM character
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|name = Baba Yaga
 
|image = Baba CbNR.jpg
  
|image = Baba CbNR.jpg
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|alias = * The Little Grandmother
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|caption =
  
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* The Hag
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|born =
  
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* The Cannibal Hag
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|mother =
  
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* The Iron Hag
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|father =
  
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|gender = Female
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|embraced = [[5000m BCE (cWOD)|5000 BCE]]
  
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|death = [[1998 (cWOD)|1998 CE]]
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|embraced = [[5000m BCE (WOD)|5000 BCE]]
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|death = [[1998 (WOD)|1998 CE]]
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|clan = [[Nosferatu (VTM)|Nosferatu]] ([[Nictuku]]<ref>Baba Yaga is listed as a [[Niktuku]] in ''[[Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages|V20 Dark Ages]]'', ''[[Die Stadt, Das Blut, Der Tod: Frankfurt bei Nacht|Frankfurt bei Nacht]]'' and ''[[Beckett's Jyhad Diary]]''</ref>)
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|clan = [[Nosferatu (VTM)|Nosferatu]] ([[Nictuku]] in [[V20]]<ref>Baba Yaga is listed as a [[Niktuku]] in ''[[Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages]]'', ''[[Die Stadt, Das Blut, Der Tod: Frankfurt bei Nacht|Frankfurt bei Nacht]]'', and ''[[Beckett's Jyhad Diary]]''</ref>)
 
|generation = [[Fourth Generation|4th]]
  
|generation = [[Fourth Generation|4th]]
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|sire = [[Absimiliard]]
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|sire = [[Nosferatu Antediluvian]]
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|childer =
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|childer = * [[Gutka]]
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* [[Gutka]]
  
 
* [[Sergei Voshkov]]
  
* [[Sergei Voshkov]]
 
* [[Melitta Wallenberg]]
  
* [[Melitta Wallenberg]]
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* [[Siamko]] (rumored)
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|allegiance = Independent
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|allegiance = Herself
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|rank =
  
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|caption =
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|name = Baba Yaga
  
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}}'''Baba Yaga''' was an enormously powerful [[Nosferatu (VTM)|Nosferatu]] [[methuselah]], over 7000 years old. She was the famous [[childe]] of the [[Nosferatu Antediluvian]] that was not [[Blood Bond (VTM)|blood bound]] to her [[sire]]. The Little Grandmother was the upholder of the [[Shadow Curtain]] and, some believe, the progenitor of the entire modern incarnation of the Nosferatu [[Clan (VTM)|clan]]. 
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|alias =
 
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* The Little Grandmother
  
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* The Hag
  
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* The Cannibal Hag
  
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* The Iron Hag
  
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'''Baba Yaga''' was an enormously powerful [[Nosferatu (VTM)|Nosferatu]] [[methuselah]], over 7000 years old. She was the famous [[childe]] of the [[Nosferatu Antediluvian]] that was not [[Blood Bond (VTM)|blood-bound]] to her [[sire]]. The Little Grandmother was the upholder of the [[Shadow Curtain]], and some believe, the progenitor of the entire modern incarnation of the Nosferatu [[Clan (VTM)|clan]]. 
  
   
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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.
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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 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==
  
==Biography==
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On dark nights, the Little Grandmother, the iron-toothed hag, would fly across the skies of [[Russia (cWOD)|Russia]] on her magic mortar, and under her shadow milk spoiled and babies were born dead, or so they said.
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On dark nights, the Little Grandmother, the iron-toothed hag, would fly across the skies of [[Russia (WOD)|Russia]] on her magic mortar, and under her shadow milk spoiled and babies were born dead, or so they said.
   
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Who she was originally – whether she was a shaman of the Rus punished for defying an [[Antediluvian]], the rebel mother of the [[Nosferatu (VTM)|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 (cWOD)|1990 CE]], she finally awoke, and the legends were a pale approximation of the truth.
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Who she was originally – whether she was a shaman of the Rus punished for defying an [[Antediluvian]], the rebel mother of the [[Nosferatu (VTM)|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 (WOD)|1990 CE]], 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 {{w|Personifications of Russia|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.
  
To the rest of the world, the [[Brujah]] who ruled Russia since the revolution disappeared, as did everything else in the {{w|Personifications of Russia|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.
   
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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 [[Absimiliard|sire]]'s order to hunt and slay all of his unfaithful descendants. Baba Yaga was killed in [[1998 (cWOD)|1998]] in a prelude to the [[Gehenna (Event)|Gehenna]] to follow.
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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 [[Absimiliard|sire]]'s order to hunt and slay all of his unfaithful descendants. Baba Yaga was killed in [[1998 (WOD)|1998]] in a prelude to the [[Gehenna (Event)|Gehenna]] to follow.
   
 
===Trivia===
  
===Trivia===
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{{Character Sheet Vampire VTM
  
{{Character Sheet Vampire VTM
 
|name = Baba Yaga, the Little Mother
  
|name = Baba Yaga, the Little Mother
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|source = {{b|CWOD|A World of Darkness|page=57}}, {{b|WTA|Rage Across Russia|page=90-91}}
  
 
|clan = [[Nosferatu (VTM)|Nosferatu]]
  
|clan = [[Nosferatu (VTM)|Nosferatu]]
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|sire = [[Absimiliard]]
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|sire = [[Nosferatu Antediluvian]]
 
|nature = Fanatic
  
|nature = Fanatic
 
|demeanor = Monster
  
|demeanor = Monster
 
|generation = [[Fourth Generation|4th]]
  
|generation = [[Fourth Generation|4th]]
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|embrace = [[5000m BCE (cWOD)|5000 BCE]]
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|embrace = [[5000m BCE (WOD)|5000 BCE]]
 
|apparent age = Indeterminate
  
|apparent age = Indeterminate
 
|physical = Strength 8, Dexterity 6, Stamina 9
  
|physical = Strength 8, Dexterity 6, Stamina 9
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|talents = Alertness 4, Brawl 7, Intimidation 8, Subterfuge 5
  
|talents = Alertness 4, Brawl 7, Intimidation 8, Subterfuge 5
 
|skills = Animal Ken 4, Etiquette 6, Pilot (Mortar & Pestle) 7, Stealth 4, Survival 6
  
|skills = Animal Ken 4, Etiquette 6, Pilot (Mortar & Pestle) 7, Stealth 4, Survival 6
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|knowledges = Alchemy 8, Area Knowledge ([[Russia (cWOD)|Russia]]) 9, Investigation 3, Linguistics 3, Medicine 2, Occult 9
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|knowledges = Alchemy 8, Area Knowledge ([[Russia (WOD)|Russia]]) 9, Investigation 3, Linguistics 3, Medicine 2, Occult 9
 
|disciplines = [[Animalism (VTM)|Animalism]] 7, [[Auspex (VTM)|Auspex]] 7, [[Celerity (VTM)|Celerity]] 3, [[Dominate (VTM)|Dominate]] 8, [[Fortitude (VTM)|Fortitude]] 8, [[Obfuscate (VTM)|Obfuscate]] 7, [[Potence (VTM)|Potence]] 7, [[Presence (VTM)|Presence]] 8, [[Thaumaturgy (VTM)|Thaumaturgy]] 9, [[Protean (VTM)|Protean]] 3
  
|disciplines = [[Animalism (VTM)|Animalism]] 7, [[Auspex (VTM)|Auspex]] 7, [[Celerity (VTM)|Celerity]] 3, [[Dominate (VTM)|Dominate]] 8, [[Fortitude (VTM)|Fortitude]] 8, [[Obfuscate (VTM)|Obfuscate]] 7, [[Potence (VTM)|Potence]] 7, [[Presence (VTM)|Presence]] 8, [[Thaumaturgy (VTM)|Thaumaturgy]] 9, [[Protean (VTM)|Protean]] 3
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|thaumaturgical paths = [[Thaumaturgy (VTM)#Alchemy|Alchemy]] 5, [[Thaumaturgy (VTM)#Path of Blood|Path of Blood]] 5
  
 
|backgrounds = Fame (Legends) 3, Resources 4, Retainers 3 (cat, mouse, and something else), Status 7
  
|backgrounds = Fame (Legends) 3, Resources 4, Retainers 3 (cat, mouse, and something else), Status 7
 
|virtues = Conscience 0, Self-Control 2, Courage 4
  
|virtues = Conscience 0, Self-Control 2, Courage 4
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|merits/flaws = Eat Food, Mansion (Chicken Hut), Occult Library / Inability to harm a truly virtuous person, Monstrous
  
|merits/flaws = Eat Food, Mansion (Chicken Hut), Occult Library / Inability to harm a truly virtuous person, Monstrous
 
|derangements = Delusions (?) of grandeur
  
|derangements = Delusions (?) of grandeur
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|source = {{b|WOD|A World of Darkness|page=57}} / {{b|WTA|Rage Across Russia|page=90-91}}
 
}}
  
}}
   
 
==Gallery==
  
==Gallery==
 
<gallery>
  
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Baba yaga grp5.jpg|Baba Yaga [[VTES]] card. Art by [[Gínes Quiñonero]]
  
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Baba Yaga 1.jpg|From ''[[Nights of Prophecy]]''
  
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Baba yaga cabin.jpg|Baba Yaga & [[Vasilisa]] showdown
  
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The death of Baba Yaga.jpg|Baba Yaga's [[Final Death]]
  
 
Baba AWoD1.jpg|From ''[[A World of Darkness]]''
  
Baba AWoD1.jpg|From ''[[A World of Darkness]]''
 
Baba AWoD2.jpg|From ''[[A World of Darkness Second Edition]]''
  
Baba AWoD2.jpg|From ''[[A World of Darkness Second Edition]]''
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Baba Yaga 1.jpg|From ''[[Nights of Prophecy]]''. Art by [[Vince Locke]]
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Baba yaga cabin.jpg|[[Vasilisa]] confronts Baba Yaga. Art by Vince Locke
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The death of Baba Yaga.jpg|Vasilisa [[Final Death|destroys]] Baba Yaga. Art by Vince Locke
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Baba yaga grp5.jpg|''Baba Yaga, the Iron Hag'' [[VTES]] card. Art by [[Gínes Quiñonero]]
 
</gallery>
  
</gallery>
   
 
==References==
  
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{{Reflist}}
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* {{b|VTM|A World of Darkness Second Edition|page=81-82}}
  
* {{b|VTM|A World of Darkness Second Edition|page=81-82}}
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* {{b|VTDA|Transylvania by Night|page=22}}
  
* {{b|VTDA|Transylvania by Night|page=22}}
 
* {{b|WTA|A World of Rage|page=71-76}}
  
* {{b|WTA|A World of Rage|page=71-76}}
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* {{b|V20|Beckett's Jyhad Diary|page=266-285}} - "The Death(s) of Baba Yaga"
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* {{b|DAV|Dark Ages Europe|page = 126}} 
 
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Revision as of 22:44, 4 February 2020

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 bound to her sire. The Little Grandmother 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 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 CE, 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 killed in 1998 in a prelude to the Gehenna to follow.

Trivia

For the mythological figure see Baba Yaga.

Character Sheet


Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Baba Yaga is listed as a Niktuku in Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages, Frankfurt bei Nacht, and Beckett's Jyhad Diary
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