Znaharka – A healer who reads the language of trees, animals, and birds. She cures, protects, and knows which spring holds living water — and which holds the dead.
Wuzhalka – Daughter of the snake king. Beauty above the waist, coiled tail below. Her lost ornament brings luck; her vengeance brings ruin.
Prayava – A forest ghost that slips from the bark to drag life back into the tree. With each soul taken, the tree grows taller, darker, stronger.
Rogana – A witch of legend, her name echoing in two tongues. Part wisdom, part menace, she stands in the same shadow as Baba Yaga.
