Bheur

Bheurs, also known as winter hags or blue hags, were found commonly in Auril's realm within the Deep Wilds as well as within the nation of Rashemen on the Prime Material Plane.

Description
Bheurs appeared as wrinkled beldams, gaunt as if they had survived hard times by subsisting on inedible matter. Fittingly, they had pallid, blue-white skin like they had died of hypothermia and pale hair as white as snow. The flesh surrounding their muted eyes was dark as if it was bruised and their voices were like howling winter winds. They were known to wear ragged, grey-blue shawls and often carried gnarled, wooden staffs taller than themselves, the gray bark contrasting against the dry blood that typically stained their hands. They were also once reported to have the ability to disguise themselves as ordinary crones.

Personality
Winter hags were creatures of cruel depravity that lived for the pleasure of bringing icy doom to as many people as they could. They considered selfish actions justified by unrelentingly circumstances, normally the overpowering cold, especially enticing. Using their mastery of cold weather, they spread misery and despair to communities during winter seasons with intent to create enough desperation to instill a miserly mindset.

The pitiful attempts of unprepared mortals to survive, such as eating leather in place of actual food, their suffering and the suffering they brought to others, such as by murdering people or defiling the sacred for resources, and their eventual deaths were all delightful to a bheur. The sweetest part of such times for bheur hags were when the selfish acts were committed unnecessarily, like when individuals hoarded more resources than then could possibly use, and the conniving crones loved planting such excessive ideas.

Bheurs themselves had great knowledge of nature and substantial survival skills.

Abilities
Bheurs were vulnerable to lightning or electricity.

Society
Bheur hags were the most common of Auril's handmaidens.

Every winter, just before Tarsakh, hathrans were sent to battle the bheurs. If the hathrans failed in their battle, then spring was delayed for several more weeks in Rashemen.

Rumors and Legends
Some folk believed that orglash also worked together with bheur, but it was not known if such tales were true.

A common legend in Rashemen and surrounding lands suggested that there was only one bheur alive, because no more than one was ever seen at a time. This was, in fact, false, and it was far more likely that it was because they were solitary wanderers.

Notable Bheur Hags

 * Tselelka

Appearances

 * Novels:
 * Frostfell
 * Windwalker