Small correction to how she ended up where she was in 5th ed: She eventually took a page from her mother’s book and sequestered herself in the Feywild, where she assumed the guise of an archfey and carved out a spectacular domain for herself. Gradually, Iggwilv transformed into a Fey creature, though she outwardly appears human.
In real life Tasha was a girl who wrote to Gary Gygax suggesting a spell involving laughter, I wonder if she knows she has gained D&D immortality? In Gary’s D&D lore Tasha and Iggwilv were two separate people.
I did not know that, very cool stuff, is that in a dragon magazine or something? Dnd does that sometime they just take two names of characters from older lore and claim they’re the same person, I swear every notable wizard has had 3 aliases
Tasha joins Doctor Doom in the list of supervillains who could easily conquer the world but after a few tries just decide it's too much of a bother and settle on ruling their own small domain.
When I found out it was her in wild beyond the witch light, it initially caught me off guard and was a interesting twist for where her tale went. Over all I got mixed feelings, but, it's great to see her still around.
Good video on my all-time favorite D&D villain, although you did seem to miss a few things: her adopted LG sister Elena, the Hura identity in Lopolla, her time as a member of the Company of Seven, her daughter Drelzna, and any mention of the cloak Fiend's Embrace (the image of Graz'zt setting it on her shoulders is possibly my favorite D&D artwork of all time). Also, "Demonomicon" has five syllables, not six. On the other hand, thank you for reminding me why I hate most of 5e lore with the recap of whatever happened in the garbage carnival module they stuffed her into.
Yet, I get the distinct feeling that, if not to make her own weave, become a candidate to replace its present being? I think she's on a long path to transforming herself as "a little bit of everything" towards something of that end.
Man I recall the encounter with her in Wild Beyond the Witch Light. I became scared and terrified of our situation because of my player knowledge, and due to my character being a Hag hunter due to his backstory. I asked my DM if the name was known to my character due to his backstory. Which, one of the rare times for me, the DM said yes I **DO** know the name and the weight, lore, and history behind it. The other players, not knowing the lore of the character, were all shock when my Blood Hunter took a knee and with a grudging, but fearful respect to Iggwilv I said. "I had hoped to never cross your shadow, despite the many hags I felled with my sacred mission. Yet, here we are and I know I stand no chance against the Queen Mother of Witches. I only hope a swift end if nothing else." Oddly and perhaps due to the DM just liking us enough, had Iggwilv not merc my Blood Hunter on the spot; especially since at the time our party had rack up a body count on Hags since our Ravenloft expedition.
Ed is still the best. His lore and vocalizations is still as incredible as it was in my youth. You and R.A are the reasons i feel in love with Drow and their lore.
I can’t brook Tasha just deciding to be good. Like, she can have a redemption arc, but goddamn, she had no accountability and thinking she could just flip the script sounds exactly what some powerful being would do. And so she the real villain of Witchlight for me. And i think it’s way more in step that she stole Prismeer from some other archfey, played the long game w him, bided her time, and pulled the rug out. The characters will have a resolution much like Witchlight offers, but there will be big loose threads, and they will KNOW who she is and what she did and they will know that they set her loose once again. It’s largely up to them to do something about it
She didnt plus she inortal so and its exsplained her mum allways tol her her flaw was her greed foe power and she was in denial for centuries she also been through alot to realize what she did wrong She also isnt hood she is chaotic neutural curently
@@demonic_myst4503 U can quibble over what alignment the book gives her if u want, but I look at her actions. Nothing neutral about them. Still has to be accountable, and I don’t see what immortality has to do w being accountable or not
@@basementmadetapes whe n u l;ived thousands of years a single decade is not worth redemption or hate over she isnt human their zero logic behimnd her caring for acountability for small acts she did in less than 1% of her life when she has melenias to go plus her actions are chaotic neutural she only rewards u if u do what she wants she akso a troll if u read any her notes in tasha couldron she trolls the reader giving usless jokes instead of exstra info she also still summons demons and enslaves them to her will one her main attacks is a rip in reality that hurts everyone around it but also summons three enslaved demons
I ran Wild Beyond The Witchlight. Definitely added Baba Yaga as a looming threat that might return for the players to deal with if we continue in the Feywild. More importantly, I definitely showed the players the power of Tasha and who they were really dealing with at the end of the campaign. Tasha’s only in Prismeer to amass power and avoid enemies who are now working together to hunt her down. Soon, she will unleash her fury upon them. My players understood very quickly that she had near deity-level power and that they would not survive a fight against her. They saw the aftermath of how she massacred her captors, haha.
It's a shame that they decided to kill Greyhawk and just rip some of its famous NPCs out and shove them into other stories. Becoming a fey is so out of character for Tasha/Iggwilv. She hated the feywild when she lived with Baba-Yaga.
My players are running wbtw, and im planning on writing a story about her and the demon prince that would justify her will to do good, it's pretty complicated on one leg, but it is pretty ooc. (Tbh it's strictly so my good aligned players will want to work with her and i can run it without an alignment clash which my players love to exploit)
@@maordahan2257 Lol I mean I can accept her becoming a sort of chaotic being that loves to mess with people. But how did she become a fey? Is that even explained at all?
I love Ed Greenwood and the realms. But I agree I hate them ripping things out of greyhawk and placing them in the realms. They have so much they can use in the realms without cannibalizing Greyhawk
Hello from the future. Greyhawk is base setting for 2024 base set books. Maybe they will revive this setting somehow? :D idk what happens in Vecna but multiverse included this setting also. So.. maybe they are cooking
Iggy attacks Earth? Like, actual Earth? Are we given a timeline on those attacks? I wonder if she ever ran into Imaskari wizards that attacked Earth as well. Would be an interesting encounter!
It’s a parallel world from Earth, the original Greyhawk setting. Gygax said there were 4 alternate earths; Aerth, Iarth, Yarth and Oerth. Each of the parallel worlds are similar to Earth but each one is more magical than the last.
@@xxxpyrosxxx OE is a reference to a specific rune of the old Norse Alphabet It's often used for "Home" or "Origin"". Showing the world as Ancient and magical, but nonetheless, Home. It's actually pretty cool.
In my wild beyond the witchlight, the baba yaga runs the moving inn, and gives insight on zeblyna. Leading the characters to the dark carnival and Isolde. The characters will realize the person they're saving has been the problem this whole time. Will they help Isolde get vegenance???
If I’m not mistaken she also is a character in Magic: The Gathering. If it’s the same one she is a real pain in the 4th point of contact that always gives me a headache against a deck containing her.
I liked her original Iggwilv version better than the whitewash. Also not a fan of her Cauldron of Lysenkoism. But that's just WotC throwing her name on it.
Semi-new to DnD lore, and was intrigued by "Tasha the Witch Queen." I think I'm just more confused now tbh, but I mean, I guess that's the fey for you. lol
Brother, if you think I got enough pictures and fan art of Tasha to fill the video I got bad news for you. I’m searching witch queen out here and taking what I can get. It’s a visual aide anyway, if MTG and Warhammer didn’t exist these videos would be half stock footage
@@The_NaturalOnesI get the struggle bro. I really do. But using the poster child for MTG was still probably not the best move 😅. Resources are limited it’s true but there was a better call and focusing on it for half a minute didn’t do a to. Of favors either. Still great video!
Small correction to how she ended up where she was in 5th ed:
She eventually took a page from her mother’s book and sequestered herself in the Feywild, where she assumed the guise of an archfey and carved out a spectacular domain for herself. Gradually, Iggwilv transformed into a Fey creature, though she outwardly appears human.
What about the iconic wizard elminster? he needs a video too! he is as iconic if not more than mordekainen
@@Crystalwizardtrue I was surprised it took a upside mountain top with a city on it to finally take him out
Interesting did not know that had happen. Probably also explains my Blood Hunter's survival when our party encountered her... maybe.
In real life Tasha was a girl who wrote to Gary Gygax suggesting a spell involving laughter, I wonder if she knows she has gained D&D immortality? In Gary’s D&D lore Tasha and Iggwilv were two separate people.
I did not know that, very cool stuff, is that in a dragon magazine or something? Dnd does that sometime they just take two names of characters from older lore and claim they’re the same person, I swear every notable wizard has had 3 aliases
LOL "Citation Needed" 😊
Love the idea, though.
@@The_NaturalOnescited on the Iggwilv Wikipedia page, from Gary’s EN World Q&A. I was surprised it was true
@@josephdelaney4913 That is amazing! Love it.
Tasha joins Doctor Doom in the list of supervillains who could easily conquer the world but after a few tries just decide it's too much of a bother and settle on ruling their own small domain.
When I found out it was her in wild beyond the witch light, it initially caught me off guard and was a interesting twist for where her tale went. Over all I got mixed feelings, but, it's great to see her still around.
Exact opposite of how it feels to find out what happened to Mordenkainen
@@ArrakisHeir88 you mean in ravenloft and the aftereffects left on him?
@@shanekelley9042 yeah lol, there's no way he should've lost that fight
Good video on my all-time favorite D&D villain, although you did seem to miss a few things: her adopted LG sister Elena, the Hura identity in Lopolla, her time as a member of the Company of Seven, her daughter Drelzna, and any mention of the cloak Fiend's Embrace (the image of Graz'zt setting it on her shoulders is possibly my favorite D&D artwork of all time). Also, "Demonomicon" has five syllables, not six. On the other hand, thank you for reminding me why I hate most of 5e lore with the recap of whatever happened in the garbage carnival module they stuffed her into.
Yet, I get the distinct feeling that, if not to make her own weave, become a candidate to replace its present being? I think she's on a long path to transforming herself as "a little bit of everything" towards something of that end.
She's originally from the World of Greyhawk campaign setting.
Man I recall the encounter with her in Wild Beyond the Witch Light. I became scared and terrified of our situation because of my player knowledge, and due to my character being a Hag hunter due to his backstory.
I asked my DM if the name was known to my character due to his backstory. Which, one of the rare times for me, the DM said yes I **DO** know the name and the weight, lore, and history behind it. The other players, not knowing the lore of the character, were all shock when my Blood Hunter took a knee and with a grudging, but fearful respect to Iggwilv I said.
"I had hoped to never cross your shadow, despite the many hags I felled with my sacred mission. Yet, here we are and I know I stand no chance against the Queen Mother of Witches. I only hope a swift end if nothing else."
Oddly and perhaps due to the DM just liking us enough, had Iggwilv not merc my Blood Hunter on the spot; especially since at the time our party had rack up a body count on Hags since our Ravenloft expedition.
Ed is still the best. His lore and vocalizations is still as incredible as it was in my youth. You and R.A are the reasons i feel in love with Drow and their lore.
I can’t brook Tasha just deciding to be good. Like, she can have a redemption arc, but goddamn, she had no accountability and thinking she could just flip the script sounds exactly what some powerful being would do. And so she the real villain of Witchlight for me. And i think it’s way more in step that she stole Prismeer from some other archfey, played the long game w him, bided her time, and pulled the rug out. The characters will have a resolution much like Witchlight offers, but there will be big loose threads, and they will KNOW who she is and what she did and they will know that they set her loose once again. It’s largely up to them to do something about it
She didnt plus she inortal so and its exsplained her mum allways tol her her flaw was her greed foe power and she was in denial for centuries she also been through alot to realize what she did wrong She also isnt hood she is chaotic neutural curently
@@demonic_myst4503 U can quibble over what alignment the book gives her if u want, but I look at her actions. Nothing neutral about them. Still has to be accountable, and I don’t see what immortality has to do w being accountable or not
@@basementmadetapes whe n u l;ived thousands of years a single decade is not worth redemption or hate over she isnt human their zero logic behimnd her caring for acountability for small acts she did in less than 1% of her life when she has melenias to go
plus her actions are chaotic neutural she only rewards u if u do what she wants she akso a troll if u read any her notes in tasha couldron she trolls the reader giving usless jokes instead of exstra info
she also still summons demons and enslaves them to her will one her main attacks is a rip in reality that hurts everyone around it but also summons three enslaved demons
I ran Wild Beyond The Witchlight. Definitely added Baba Yaga as a looming threat that might return for the players to deal with if we continue in the Feywild. More importantly, I definitely showed the players the power of Tasha and who they were really dealing with at the end of the campaign. Tasha’s only in Prismeer to amass power and avoid enemies who are now working together to hunt her down. Soon, she will unleash her fury upon them.
My players understood very quickly that she had near deity-level power and that they would not survive a fight against her. They saw the aftermath of how she massacred her captors, haha.
It's a shame that they decided to kill Greyhawk and just rip some of its famous NPCs out and shove them into other stories. Becoming a fey is so out of character for Tasha/Iggwilv. She hated the feywild when she lived with Baba-Yaga.
My players are running wbtw, and im planning on writing a story about her and the demon prince that would justify her will to do good, it's pretty complicated on one leg, but it is pretty ooc. (Tbh it's strictly so my good aligned players will want to work with her and i can run it without an alignment clash which my players love to exploit)
@@maordahan2257 Lol I mean I can accept her becoming a sort of chaotic being that loves to mess with people. But how did she become a fey? Is that even explained at all?
I love Ed Greenwood and the realms. But I agree I hate them ripping things out of greyhawk and placing them in the realms. They have so much they can use in the realms without cannibalizing Greyhawk
@@Arnsteel634 right? Like just make up a new evil witch that becomes a weird fey creature. Why cannibalize something else?
Hello from the future.
Greyhawk is base setting for 2024 base set books. Maybe they will revive this setting somehow? :D idk what happens in Vecna but multiverse included this setting also. So.. maybe they are cooking
Good video, I hope this gets more views m8!
Thanks man!
just found this channel loving the content already! cant wait to see more!
Thanks so much!
Iggy attacks Earth? Like, actual Earth? Are we given a timeline on those attacks? I wonder if she ever ran into Imaskari wizards that attacked Earth as well. Would be an interesting encounter!
Oerth not earth lol. Her plane of origin
@@godking4621 Oh, haha okay. Completely misheard that. Thank you for the correction!
It’s a parallel world from Earth, the original Greyhawk setting. Gygax said there were 4 alternate earths; Aerth, Iarth, Yarth and Oerth. Each of the parallel worlds are similar to Earth but each one is more magical than the last.
@@ProxyGaming.
Back when fantasy nerds were the phoniest.
@@xxxpyrosxxx OE is a reference to a specific rune of the old Norse Alphabet It's often used for "Home" or "Origin"". Showing the world as Ancient and magical, but nonetheless, Home. It's actually pretty cool.
In my wild beyond the witchlight, the baba yaga runs the moving inn, and gives insight on zeblyna. Leading the characters to the dark carnival and Isolde. The characters will realize the person they're saving has been the problem this whole time. Will they help Isolde get vegenance???
Dudes stuff should have way more subs
Thanks! We’re on our way
tasha is waifu material❤
Video about Tasha the Witch Queen:
Shows Artwork of Liliana Vess from Magic the Gathering.🤣
And not the first one even to do this.
Neat!
The witch-doctor jekyll and Ms Hyde
Underrated Account
If I’m not mistaken she also is a character in Magic: The Gathering. If it’s the same one she is a real pain in the 4th point of contact that always gives me a headache against a deck containing her.
It's the same Tasha, that card is from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms sets that are DnD crossovers
Wow great video
Thanks!
I liked her original Iggwilv version better than the whitewash. Also not a fan of her Cauldron of Lysenkoism. But that's just WotC throwing her name on it.
Semi-new to DnD lore, and was intrigued by "Tasha the Witch Queen." I think I'm just more confused now tbh, but I mean, I guess that's the fey for you. lol
Your videos rule dude
Thanks!
What about isolde and the underdark?? This is one of the reasons i clicked on this video😢
sad they made her kinda lame in 5e, as is usual with the lore. Great video! :) 👍
Typical...I fall for a hot chick and she turns out to be either mad, evil, or a split personality.
By earth you mean Faerun?
I’m not sure when the video you’re referring but I probably meant “Oerth”, which is Greyhawk setting. Faerun being FR
Let’s just thank WOTC for trying to be clever but only making things confusing for the future 😭.
Dude what's with the extra syllable? DE-MO-NOM-I-CON
I add as many syllables as possible for maximum watch time
That said, pretty educational and entertaining presentation
Thanks! Ya I’m not sure why I struggle with Demonicon, I say it like the necronomicon so I always seem to add that extra onom
@@The_NaturalOnes it was bitchy of me to make an issue of it hahaha cheers
Baba Yaga is the greatest witch!!!
Redemption!? That's some B.S!!
6:29 that is Liliana Vess from mtg bro 😂 not the witch queen
Brother, if you think I got enough pictures and fan art of Tasha to fill the video I got bad news for you. I’m searching witch queen out here and taking what I can get. It’s a visual aide anyway, if MTG and Warhammer didn’t exist these videos would be half stock footage
@@The_NaturalOnesI get the struggle bro. I really do. But using the poster child for MTG was still probably not the best move 😅. Resources are limited it’s true but there was a better call and focusing on it for half a minute didn’t do a to. Of favors either. Still great video!
DE-MO-NO-MI-CON not DEMONINOMICON
Are you sure? I think there’s at least another inominom in there somewhere
L'IMPÉRATRICE DE L'ALGÉRIE .
Great video. Love Iggwilv, but hate 5e Tasha. Weak & out of character, like most in 5e
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Nice
lol um, spoiler... like massive spoiler for WBtW...>?>
The vid is clearly Tasha's lore. Expect spoilers dumb dumb.
What did you expect 🤷♂️