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Offline Crimson Overcoat

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The Baba Yaga
« on: July 07, 2016, 06:13:25 PM »
Is she established in Dresdenverse canon? And if not, is she just a powerful witch or fae?

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Re: The Baba Yaga
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2016, 10:02:57 PM »
This Word of Jim pretty thoroughly implies that Baba Yaga is Mother Winter.  Or Mother Winter is Baba Yaga.

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Re: The Baba Yaga
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2016, 12:57:29 PM »
Harry calling her "She of the Iron Teeth" when trying to summon her kind of clinched it for me. But I see it as Baba Yaga being one part of Mother Winter, along with all those other beings Harry wraps up in the same calling.

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Re: The Baba Yaga
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2016, 12:59:28 PM »
Page 106 and 107 of the Paranet Papers has an entry about her. It says she isn't fae. She is unique.

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Re: The Baba Yaga
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2016, 01:51:48 PM »
Page 106 and 107 of the Paranet Papers has an entry about her. It says she isn't fae. She is unique.
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Re: The Baba Yaga
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2016, 06:32:38 PM »
This is the information that I needed. Thank you very much. I planned on using her as a piece of background lore, having had someone's Russian several hundred year old granny claim to have learned Thaumaturgy from Baba Yaga.