While doing the video and going through all the content on Tasha/Zubilna/Iggwilv, I noticed one interesting thing. In the Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the is a moment with Time Jars (you can check those on my preview btw!) that show Zubilna past(as Iggwilv, Tasha), present (as Zubilna) and future (as some crone!). But who is that? My guess would be either Zubilna transition is not over and WOTC hinted us that she will return in next adventures as the powerful crone, OR she is actually going to become next Baba Yaga and the cycle starts anew, OR Baba Yaga had a long-term scheme playing and she's preparing a powerful host for herself! What do you think?
I do have a hard time believing that Baba Yaga, that child eating crone, would care for and raise any other tasty children without a VERY big ulterior motive driving her, such as, as you said, A new powerful host for her to occupy.
@@zengunslinger well since Baba Yaga could travel with her hut through multiverse (she even had stuff from WW1 and some cyborg equipment in the hut), she definetly could have travelled back to teach herself some arts.
THANK YOU!!!!! This is extremely helpful for me as a DM running Wild Beyond the Witchlight! I am planning to do an extension of the campaign involving Baba Yaga, and am in LOVE with the idea that Tasha/Iggwilv/Zybilna is actually destined to become Baba Yaga. I also love the idea that she has always been Baba Yaga and basically adopted her younger self to teach herself magic!
“When I first learned magic from Baba Yaga, I couldn’t help but add spectral chicken legs to all my spells. She said she wasn’t a fan, but I caught her grinning a few times. So of course I still add those legs. What use is magic if you can’t harness it to amuse your mom?” -Tasha, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything There is so much to unpack from this one quote, and I love it. That Tasha was so eager and playful with Baba Yaga as a child. That Baba Yaga actually has a side with a more wholesome sense of humor. That Tasha still holds affection for Baba Yaga as her mother after all these… centuries? millennia? The fact that Tasha, witch par excellence and [spoiler], not only dishes out ninth level spells that have magical chicken legs sprouting from them as they fly through the air, she PROUDLY has this fact published in her book for all to read. Somebody had a lot of fun fleshing out her character beyond power-hungry, ambitious and Graz’zt’s Kismesis.
oh man. I've been running WBTW for half a year or so now and this just completely blew my mind. Glad I found this. It has completely changed how I see Zybilna and how the ending of this campaign is going to play out. This must have been a ton of work and for that I thank you. Amazing summary. Holy moly has this woman had a long and crazy life.
@TellmeLore every time I watch your videos I wonder what it would be like to play in your D&D 5e game. I really enjoy all your lore videos. Especially this one! Your accent makes the lore videos feel so much more real and epic af.
I just started a new campaign in Greyhawk and we are going to be uncovering the history as we explore. This video is absolutely perfect for that! Plus your voice really fits the content and Tasha so well! Please keep making them and I'll keep watching them.
On Tasha though, I will note for all those people who think she's good now, no, she's still a villain. If you look in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft under the entry for Isolde, who runs The Carnival domain of dread, it makes it pretty explicitly clear that Tasha enslaved her to run it for her, against her will, and then even went so far as to manipulate and alter her mind and memories so that she couldn't't escape. Tasha, a white woman, enslaved Isolde, who is very clearly depicted in VRGtR as black. She's still a villain.
How much of Zybilna is just an act? She obviously still has sadistic impulses, but she also does seem to be protective of children and apparently even recognizes the players if she met them in their youth. Is that all just a mask, or has pretending to be a good person actually made her a better person? She’s been “feeding her good wolf” as it were.
Actually, the Jars of Time on page 199 show us that her future form will be of a “white-haired crone or hag”. So even if her current guise as Zybilna is at least partially earnest, as things stand, she seems destined to become an even darker creature than she once was.
@@TellmeLore Oh! I actually like that as an explanation! I was hung up on a sense of “duality”, such as her Cauldron, how she has the company of Hags as well as Snicker-Snack, how she helps children yet has done such evil things in the past, etc. It made me think she was meant to portray her ultimate nature as ambiguous and her fate open to interpretation… up until the Jars shows us what she will become. But the idea that her nature could change back and forth so readily makes much more sense to me. Perhaps after being a Hag she will turn into a Angel (she made Tasha’s Otherworldly Guise after all) for a time, then after that a Devil, etc. Edit: it also really contrasts her with her maddeningly True Neutral mentor/foe/chess partner Mordenkainen.
I'm happy you liked it. I wanted to make it as transparent as possible through timelines, where those can be applied. I think it gives a better picture on a larger scale of events.
Thank you for the video! I’d love to hear more about Graz’zt. You brought up things I’ve never known about Tasha. I’m wondering if you can bring up things I’ve never known about him as well please.
Definately a formidable foe on the level of fighting a Demon Lord. And she did all this without having to become a Lich. I have The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth module. I need to reread it and look for her. I love Puggy! I think he is a fan of Greyhawk and would like to see a video on "The White Kingdom of the Ghouls" in the Underdark.
In my Witchlight, our paladin is aligned to zyblna. I reskinned the "moving inn" to be baba yaga's hut. The group will be setting out to rescue zyblna from the carnival of fear, where she is being imprisoned by Isolde. Baba Yaga will give them insight into her past, conflicting thier cause, and hopefully they side with Isolde and let her have her vengeance. Or they could still try to set Zyblna free and have to fight Isolde and the Carnival of Fear.
Iggwilv is one of my favourite NPC's in a upcoming campaign my character is the son of Iggwilv but he does not know this because he was abandoned when he was a baby Iggwilv has been known to do this sort of thing over the years on different planets it's only her son Iuz and her daughter Drelzna that she raised and considering how they turned out I can see why she abandons her children
This was such an amazing video! I think it's the most complete I've ever watched! I have one question, though: is Zubilna an old version of her Archfey name? Whenever I've read the name it has been Zybilna, so now I'm curious 😯
@@TellmeLore Oh, I see! Both of them sounded kinda right to me, so I thought that maybe Zubilna was the name in 4e or something XD In any case, it's such an impressive video, congratulations!
In your option, what would be a sarcastic pet name for Graz'zt's to call Iggwiiv? I have Grazt'zt gating into the end of a temple where the party has found a special dagger of Thraxxia (graz'zt's daughter) he then smells one of the nine that reminds him of Iggwiv. Any suggestions?
Since its about 1496DR at the moment and the event with hag happens around 1480DR+- , we may assume she was in statis for about 15 years. But there is an optional rule for Feywild - 'Time Warp'. Meaning that time flows chaotically and differently in comparison to Material Plane. So you never know. I mean if you are ruling the campaign you may technically change it as much as you see fitting. But if you speed it up too much, you may end up in Interstellar setting, when players return from Feywild after 1 month, and see it's actually 7 years forward on material plane😅
While doing the video and going through all the content on Tasha/Zubilna/Iggwilv, I noticed one interesting thing. In the Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the is a moment with Time Jars (you can check those on my preview btw!) that show Zubilna past(as Iggwilv, Tasha), present (as Zubilna) and future (as some crone!). But who is that?
My guess would be either Zubilna transition is not over and WOTC hinted us that she will return in next adventures as the powerful crone,
OR she is actually going to become next Baba Yaga and the cycle starts anew,
OR Baba Yaga had a long-term scheme playing and she's preparing a powerful host for herself!
What do you think?
I do have a hard time believing that Baba Yaga, that child eating crone, would care for and raise any other tasty children without a VERY big ulterior motive driving her, such as, as you said, A new powerful host for her to occupy.
Maybe Baba Yaga IS her future self. No one said that her timeline was linear
@@zengunslinger well since Baba Yaga could travel with her hut through multiverse (she even had stuff from WW1 and some cyborg equipment in the hut), she definetly could have travelled back to teach herself some arts.
THANK YOU!!!!! This is extremely helpful for me as a DM running Wild Beyond the Witchlight! I am planning to do an extension of the campaign involving Baba Yaga, and am in LOVE with the idea that Tasha/Iggwilv/Zybilna is actually destined to become Baba Yaga. I also love the idea that she has always been Baba Yaga and basically adopted her younger self to teach herself magic!
@@TheGillianReed welcome!
“When I first learned magic from Baba Yaga, I couldn’t help but add spectral chicken legs to all my spells. She said she wasn’t a fan, but I caught her grinning a few times. So of course I still add those legs. What use is magic if you can’t harness it to amuse your mom?” -Tasha, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
There is so much to unpack from this one quote, and I love it. That Tasha was so eager and playful with Baba Yaga as a child. That Baba Yaga actually has a side with a more wholesome sense of humor. That Tasha still holds affection for Baba Yaga as her mother after all these… centuries? millennia? The fact that Tasha, witch par excellence and [spoiler], not only dishes out ninth level spells that have magical chicken legs sprouting from them as they fly through the air, she PROUDLY has this fact published in her book for all to read.
Somebody had a lot of fun fleshing out her character beyond power-hungry, ambitious and Graz’zt’s Kismesis.
oh man. I've been running WBTW for half a year or so now and this just completely blew my mind. Glad I found this. It has completely changed how I see Zybilna and how the ending of this campaign is going to play out. This must have been a ton of work and for that I thank you. Amazing summary. Holy moly has this woman had a long and crazy life.
I’m planning to run it! Would you mind sharing how and what you altered? ☺️
THIS IS GREAT! I’ve always thought that Tasha was a very underused character of DnD lore. Thank you for spotlighting her!
Totally agree, I was excited when I saw her in WBLW adventure. Nice come back.
Wow this is absolutely perfect, thank you so much! I've been looking for this video to gain some insight in Tasha for running TWBTW.
I like to see that my vids help people! Good luck with your campaign! And don't miss the next videos, maybe they'll help you too ;)
Terrific! Thank you for this very deep dive 🧙♀️
Glad you enjoyed it!
@TellmeLore every time I watch your videos I wonder what it would be like to play in your D&D 5e game. I really enjoy all your lore videos. Especially this one! Your accent makes the lore videos feel so much more real and epic af.
Another great video and glad to see you back! (Sidenote, you look like you have an arrow through your head with your background ;)
Haha, now I see it too😆 Too bad it's not Halloween, it would be a great attribute!
I just started a new campaign in Greyhawk and we are going to be uncovering the history as we explore. This video is absolutely perfect for that! Plus your voice really fits the content and Tasha so well! Please keep making them and I'll keep watching them.
Thank you, I enjoyed doing video on her, she is quite a creative one! Great that it helped you. Welcome to the channel and good luck with a campaign!
Excelent content! I can see you are growing to be one of the best lore channels on youtube.
Thank you! I just like to tell good stories on interesting characters for great people😊
On Tasha though, I will note for all those people who think she's good now, no, she's still a villain. If you look in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft under the entry for Isolde, who runs The Carnival domain of dread, it makes it pretty explicitly clear that Tasha enslaved her to run it for her, against her will, and then even went so far as to manipulate and alter her mind and memories so that she couldn't't escape. Tasha, a white woman, enslaved Isolde, who is very clearly depicted in VRGtR as black. She's still a villain.
Good addition about the Carnival, thanks!
What does Skin color has to do with this? Isn't slavery bad on itself?
Working this plot hook into witchlight is the best alternate ending one could hope for.
Awesome video - great storytelling, very evocative :-)
Thank you! Glad you liked it! :)
How much of Zybilna is just an act? She obviously still has sadistic impulses, but she also does seem to be protective of children and apparently even recognizes the players if she met them in their youth. Is that all just a mask, or has pretending to be a good person actually made her a better person? She’s been “feeding her good wolf” as it were.
Actually, the Jars of Time on page 199 show us that her future form will be of a “white-haired crone or hag”. So even if her current guise as Zybilna is at least partially earnest, as things stand, she seems destined to become an even darker creature than she once was.
I think she would play along and pretend to be better as long as it's beneficial for her. But switching natures is kinda of her nature lol
@@TellmeLore Oh! I actually like that as an explanation! I was hung up on a sense of “duality”, such as her Cauldron, how she has the company of Hags as well as Snicker-Snack, how she helps children yet has done such evil things in the past, etc.
It made me think she was meant to portray her ultimate nature as ambiguous and her fate open to interpretation… up until the Jars shows us what she will become.
But the idea that her nature could change back and forth so readily makes much more sense to me. Perhaps after being a Hag she will turn into a Angel (she made Tasha’s Otherworldly Guise after all) for a time, then after that a Devil, etc.
Edit: it also really contrasts her with her maddeningly True Neutral mentor/foe/chess partner Mordenkainen.
Thank you for making this video, I was always curious about the timelines in dnd history so I’m really happy to get to know when these took place.
I'm happy you liked it. I wanted to make it as transparent as possible through timelines, where those can be applied. I think it gives a better picture on a larger scale of events.
@@TellmeLore Yeah, the timelines helped a lot!
Very interesting! Thank you, it's exactly what I needed to introduce her to my modified Dungeon of the Mad Mage... NOW Dungeon of the Witch Queen!
I like the idea!
This video is amazing!!! Thank you!!!
Thank you for the video! I’d love to hear more about Graz’zt. You brought up things I’ve never known about Tasha. I’m wondering if you can bring up things I’ve never known about him as well please.
Thank you! Yes, Graz'zt is one of characters who is on my to do list🙂
@@TellmeLore Thank you, Kate! :)
Very complete and useful, congratulations!
Thank you!
Great content as always.
Thank you!
I'm preparing to run The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, this is precious! thank you!!
You're so welcome!
Very impressive and very helpful! Thank you!
Thanks! Glad you liked it🙂
great video!
Thank you!
Definately a formidable foe on the level of fighting a Demon Lord. And she did all this without having to become a Lich.
I have The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth module. I need to reread it and look for her.
I love Puggy! I think he is a fan of Greyhawk and would like to see a video on "The White Kingdom of the Ghouls" in the Underdark.
Ha, I actually thought the same! Plus one more villian to "I'm not a lich" club😄
Who is Puggy?
In my Witchlight, our paladin is aligned to zyblna. I reskinned the "moving inn" to be baba yaga's hut. The group will be setting out to rescue zyblna from the carnival of fear, where she is being imprisoned by Isolde. Baba Yaga will give them insight into her past, conflicting thier cause, and hopefully they side with Isolde and let her have her vengeance. Or they could still try to set Zyblna free and have to fight Isolde and the Carnival of Fear.
Iggwilv is one of my favourite NPC's in a upcoming campaign my character is the son of Iggwilv but he does not know this because he was abandoned when he was a baby Iggwilv has been known to do this sort of thing over the years on different planets it's only her son Iuz and her daughter Drelzna that she raised and considering how they turned out I can see why she abandons her children
Natasha has the best BDSM costume I've ever seen
I think it might take her couple of rounds to put it on
Cool story!
Thanks🧡
My favorite D&D character.
They should have added more of her spells to 5e spellbook
This was such an amazing video! I think it's the most complete I've ever watched!
I have one question, though: is Zubilna an old version of her Archfey name? Whenever I've read the name it has been Zybilna, so now I'm curious 😯
Ah actually you are correct. Thats my mispelling. Its Zybilna!
@@TellmeLore Oh, I see! Both of them sounded kinda right to me, so I thought that maybe Zubilna was the name in 4e or something XD
In any case, it's such an impressive video, congratulations!
In your option, what would be a sarcastic pet name for Graz'zt's to call Iggwiiv? I have Grazt'zt gating into the end of a temple where the party has found a special dagger of Thraxxia (graz'zt's daughter) he then smells one of the nine that reminds him of Iggwiv. Any suggestions?
Such a helpful video! Do you have any idea how long she was trapped in temporal stasis?
Since its about 1496DR at the moment and the event with hag happens around 1480DR+- , we may assume she was in statis for about 15 years. But there is an optional rule for Feywild - 'Time Warp'. Meaning that time flows chaotically and differently in comparison to Material Plane. So you never know. I mean if you are ruling the campaign you may technically change it as much as you see fitting. But if you speed it up too much, you may end up in Interstellar setting, when players return from Feywild after 1 month, and see it's actually 7 years forward on material plane😅
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