Margeth

Margeth was a forest witch who inhabited a secluded cottage in the woods outside Eastport, on the island of Farmarch. She is chiefly remembered as the caster of the Vegetable Curse of 1487 DR, which temporarily transformed the entire population of Eastport into sentient vegetation, and for a series of child abductions uncovered during the investigation that followed.

The Vegetable Curse

During a celebratory feast in the summer of 1487 DR, Margeth wove a magical blight into the festivities that transformed the villagers of Eastport into plants and shrubbery. The adventurers later known as the Heroes of Eastport traced the blight to her forest cottage, where they also discovered evidence that she had been kidnapping children for purposes described in contemporary reports only as "evil deeds".

Death

Margeth escaped the first confrontation at her cottage by slipping into the shadows. The party pursued her to Brae and later explored the Tomb of Tel'Amyr. On returning to Eastport, they were attacked by Margeth again and killed her. The timeline distinguishes the two encounters but does not specify precisely when the villagers' transformation ended.

Legacy

Members of the party who fought her have suggested that Margeth was not acting entirely of her own will, and that something else was controlling her — a theory given weight by the corrupted blight she left behind in the forest, which local druid circles continue to investigate. Whether her patron was connected to the root-tattooed cultists of Ithak'var remains unproven, and the witch took whatever she knew into the shadows with her.

Margeth's face later appeared on a stalk of the Shadow Harlequin beneath the Temple in the Fen, alongside the likenesses of several living, dead and missing people connected to the Heroes of Eastport. The display suggests a link to the wider threat but does not establish that Margeth served Ithak'var willingly, or at all.