Editing Baba Yaga (section)

==Pathfinder==
However, it is in ''[[Pathfinder]]'' that she has truly shone, as [[Paizo]] has no shame about stealing from real-world myth and folklore (and TSR product) to pad out [[Golarion]]. Baba Yaga is a central figure of the ''Reign of Winter'' Adventure Path, which lays her entire history and power set bare in its final issue. Born on [[Earth]] in 75 BC, she managed to become a powerful [[Witch#Pathfinder|witch]] despite coming from humble antiquity Sarmatian peasant girl stock when she was taught the arts of sorcery by a powerful faerie for shits 'n' giggles. As her powers grew over the centuries she became renowned in regional Slavic folktales. She would eventually begin to travel the planes and, about 1,500 years ago, she made a few visits to Golarion before deciding it would be a nice place to put down roots. With an army of [[Troll#Fantasy_trolls|ice troll]]s, giant [[Winter_Wolf|wolves]], [[giant|frost giants]], [[Chromatic_Dragon#White_Dragon|white dragons]] and other evil creatures of cold and fey nature, she overran the eastern half of the [[viking|Ulfen]] kingdoms. After winning this Winter War in less than a month she carved the new territory into her kingdom of Irrisen, locked the entire country in a perpetual winter, put her eldest daughter Jadwiga on the throne, and then promptly fucked off, a process which repeats every one hundred years. When she returns she collects her daughter and all her children, and installs another one on the throne to rule for another century, and then fucks off again. The only thing scarier than what Baba Yaga does to her daughters once their rule is at an end is what it is like to actually have to fuck Baba Yaga for her to get those daughters in the first place. Occasionally one of Baba Yaga's daughters will attempt to resist being dethroned, knowing that whatever fate awaits them can only be grim, but it generally ends poorly and swiftly for them as Baba Yaga is as wily as she is powerful.

Baba Yaga's lore is actually written to imply, without stating it for legal reasons, that this is the ''same'' Baba Yaga used in D&D. The author for ''Rasputin Must Die'' took this to the ultimate conclusion. In a forum post he gives an unofficial conversion that details how, if your group wasn't of the temperament to enjoy traveling to World War I Russia and fighting Rasputin in a reverse [[Isekai]], you can instead have it be about going to [[Oerth]] and fighting [[Iuz]]. Since both Rasputin and Iuz are descendants of Baba Yaga, and both Russia and the Empire of Iuz are close enough in weather (lots of snow) this change requires surprisingly little modification.