: Usually a figure of overwhelming power whose motives are tied to the protagonist's lineage or a past grudge against elven kind.
He pictured starving on the streets, wrists scraped raw from new ropes, his name called not by kin but by the gaoler's rod. He thought of the slow vengeance of the witch if crossed. The barn roof creaked and the moonlight moved like a clock hand. the elven slave and the great witchs curser new
She brought forth a small cup, its surface like the skin of a lake. From a jar of powdered night she dusted three pinches into the draught. "Drink this," she said to Kethril, extending the cup. : Usually a figure of overwhelming power whose