I've been reading through the Reign of Winter Adventure Path (I might be running it soon) and it got me thinking of how I might be able to integrate one of Baba Yaga's more famous daughters, Iggwilv.
I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas or suggestions or if they had tried anything like this in their own campaigns.
Well, if you are talking about the Greyhawk Iggwilv, consort to Grazz't and mother of Iuz the Evil... She would be Mythic AND Epic. And I shudder to think about her "you lose XX character levels" signature spell. Not only could she one-shot a whole party, Baba Yaga would be really screwed regardless of her inmunnity to being killed...
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Xagroth - there's a great deal of evidence that suggests that Iggwilv and Tashanna are intended to be one in the same. They share a great deal of character history in the form of ties to Baba Yaga, demon summoning, and the use of a demon lord. Tasha was also an alias used by Iggwilv, who was quite skilled long before her arrival in Greyhawk. One could easily treat her time in Golarion as Iggwilv's origins and subsequent events in Greyhawk as just that - subsequent events.
To answer your question OP...
I don't think she works well at low levels (e.g. books 1-4) and the high level books (5-6) are pretty firmly on the rails in a way that makes an appearance by Iggwilv difficult to fit in. I don't know that there is really a good place to fit her in during the course of the standard adventure path in any way more meaningful than some foreshadowing (works of hers, references to her, ect).
I'd most likely try and fit her into the post Book 6 hooks as a potential ally or antagonist, depending on the party's relationship with Baba Yaga. They might be asked to hunt down Iggwilv by Baba Yaga or could attempt to ally with the Witch Queen against Baba Yaga. Alternatively you could have Elvanna working for her older sister, casting the end of "Witch Queen's Revenge" as ending only that specific plot, and not putting an end to the greater danger Iggwilv presents.
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Thank you Peter.
Yeah I am working on the assumption that Iggwilv is Tasha, so I don't think she would have been in Golarion in her youth. I did think that with the dimension hopping it would be easier to involve her somehow.
I do like the idea of having her as a future antagonist though. I could really have some fun forshadowing her appearance .
I worked this thing up as an alternative overlay to the plotline of Rasputin Must Die, and has some interesting ideas you might find useful.
Yeah I am working on the assumption that Iggwilv is Tasha, so I don't think she would have been in Golarion in her youth.Have you read The Witchwar Legacy yet? ;)
I haven't, but I do notice it is on sale.
Even with that adventure though, I frankly love the tie in between Iggwilv and Tashanna and the way in which they are set up in such a way that they can be the same person. That certainly seems to be the way my GM is running it in our long running Savage Tide game. He stitched together (note the map at the top of the page) a bunch of different settings, and has suggested that after Tashanna fled her mother she ended up in Greyhawk and took up the alias Tasha before eventually becoming the being we known as Iggwilv.