Jeny Greenteeth

Jeny Greenteeth was a green hag in the Quivering Forest near Phlan in the 1480s DR.

Description
Jeny used illusions to make herself appear as an elderly woman wearing a floral print dressing gown over a lacy apron, tying her hair back in a neat bun, held by a bone hairpin. Her true form was that of a scaly, clawed hag.

Personality
Jeny was a personification of malice and hate. She hated humanity with all her being and acted to make human lives miserable. Jeny was however also a great actress, acting like a sweet and loving grandmother. She enjoyed helping mortal heroes because it put them in her debt, and those debts could be used to twist goodly folk to her own ends.

History
Jeny lived in the Quivering forest for a long time. She was responsible for the pact between the dark fey of the forest and Cvaal Daoran that saved Phlan from the shadovars' ire in 1380 DR. When, in 1456 DR, Cvaal's son Talaric led woodsmen into the forest to harvest timber in direct contravention of the deal his father had made with her, she tortured and killed him for his arrogance.

When Halvin Graingle went to make a new bargain, the negotiations did not go well and she killed him.

Enraged by the intermission and believing the pact totally broken, Jeny ambushed five other villagers who went to search for Halvin. She killed two of them, captured two others, and sent Rerk back with horrible injuries after torturing him. After Jeny was confronted by an adventuring party hired to find the missing people, she was at last defeated in combat.

A few years later, Jeny intercepted an old Gur named Ozzcar who pleaded with her to help protect his family against some evil force. She declined and took the man captive, dragging him around the forest on a leash instead.

During the period when Vorgansharax ruled over Phlan, many of the Quivering Forest's inhabitants were drawn into Barovia, and Jeny was no exception. She set herself up as a powerful spellcaster, making fey pacts with mortals in exchange for magical services. Jeny grew in her own abilities while living in Barovia, which she called "the Realm of Dread" but was also haunted by the ghost of Talaric Daoran who sought revenge against her for his death decades before.

Though Jeny greatly enjoyed the increase in power afforded her by the Dark Powers of the Domains of Dread, she knew that such power did not come without a price, and wished to return home to Faerûn before that price had to be paid.

In order to defeat the vestige of a dead god, brought back by a girl named Esmae (whose combined powers had drawn in the Quivering Forest to Barovia in the first place), and to return home to the Moonsea, Jeny formed a temporary coven with two mortal women and enacted a scrying ritual to find Esmae which allowed adventurers to confront and defeat her, thereby allowing those trapped in Barovia to return home.

Jeny's next noted encounter with mortals was when, as part of a favor owed to the imp Pipyap, she somehow opened a portal to Malbolge, though Jeny's own motivation for doing so was to enact a rescue of Cyric's Chosen Elisande, who had been captured on that plane.

Behind the scenes
It is possible, but very difficult, for the players to convince Jeny to forgive the villagers and not break the pact. However, from later adventures, it is clear that the pact was broken.

Appearances

 * Organized Play & Licensed Adventures
 * Tales Trees Tell • Suits of the Mists • The Ghost • The Darklord • The Love Triangle Contract''