Overview
Iron Taviah is a recurring hag antagonist tied to Graveclaw operations, Axan Wood activity, and multiple poison-related plot threads. Party-facing intelligence repeatedly links her to operational movement, allied infrastructure, and downstream violence, but her present status remains unresolved in current notes.
Current Status
- Reported active/alive in later campaign intelligence, but not conclusively confirmed on-page.
- Identified in current notes as a vetalara vampire profile that feeds on emotions rather than blood.
Role in Story
- Serves as a persistent pursuit target across the Axan Wood and Hollow Flesh Market arcs.
- Connects multiple lines: Graveclaw operations, poison production logistics, and the Benefactor conflict chain.
- Current party-side investigation also links memory-loss/disappearance concerns to Taviah’s movement line.
Timeline Highlights
- Early arc: identified as a major hag figure in Axan Wood with a known cottage and attached attendants.
- Mid arc: tied by journals and witness statements to ingredient operations and downstream plot continuity.
- Recent arc: repeatedly reported moving south with clues converging toward Hollow Flesh Market and beyond.
Session Evidence
- Reported to be exceptionally old and widely feared.
- Lived in the Mwangi Expanse before later settling in Axan Wood.
- Never fully recovered from injuries said to have been dealt by the Magaambyans.
- Raised Kepgeda and taught her necromancy and ritual magic.
- Described as unusual for an annis hag due to strong scholarly tendencies.
- In Session 18, Drusilla claimed Taviah took her husband, Neboah, and had a child with him.
- In Session 19, a cottage encountered by the party was stated to belong to Taviah.
- In Session 19, cottage attendants were identified as Quicks, including Bardano.
- In Session 20, Smirtlbin reported Taviah was downstairs with a fledgling and Midnight.
- In Session 20, Smirtlbin reported Taviah’s son (described as Kepgeda’s twin brother) had died in the attic.
- In Session 21, the party confronted Taviah in the basement chamber of her cottage.
- In Session 21, Taviah was encountered with Midnight and a fledgling.
- In Session 36, Nathnelma journal notes described Taviah’s ingredient work as skillful but slow.
- In Session 38, Seldeg Bhedlis said poison traces continued and stated he believed Taviah was still alive.
- In Session 38, the party returned to Taviah’s cottage site in Axan Wood to investigate.
- In Session 41, the party found a letter to Taviah from The Benefactor of Thornhearth welcoming her to his estate and encouraging undeath.
- In Session 43, captured fairy Zizzyspark Moss said a mean lady matching Taviah’s description came through three weeks earlier and was holding The Benefactor hostage.
- In Session 45, party notes describe a dining-room haunt of Taviah attacking the Benefactor.
- In Session 46, party notes said Taviah headed south into the forest toward Hollow Flesh Market.
- In Session 46, party notes said Taviah wanted the Benefactor dead because he changed her into an emotion-feeding vampire type and blood makes her sick/poisoned.
- In Session 48, witness Junissa said Taviah went to where the vines grow near Market’s Edge/Undermarket and took her family there.
- In Session 47, party notes recorded missing people and memory-loss patterns in the active Taviah pursuit zone.
Relationships
- Membership tie to Graveclaw Coven.
- Mentor/guardian influence on Kepgeda.
- Geographic tie to Axan Wood.
- Claimed personal tie to Neboah through Drusilla’s account in Session 18.