#multivyrz amanita

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Introducing one of the first OCs we made in Pony.Town, Amanita Woodsbane, the potion mistress. She is a widow, and some say she killed her late husband with witchcraft. No one knows for sure, but there seems to be an Amanita in the marestales about a witch who poisons those who harm the innocent. This can’t be the same Amanita, though....can it?

Below is the backstory we have written for her. We took it from our Toyhou.se directly, and edited some portions after the fact. Some context and syntax issues needed fixing, and some still need adjusting but we aren’t sure how. We hope the story flows easily for you.

Amanita is a cold individual, hardened by a life full of hardship and pain, predominantly living her life in Snaffleshire, which would later become Damvers.

Married to a chemist [Lionel Wolfsbane], she wasn’t prepared for the responsibility of being a wife, and unable to have fawns of her own. This put a strain on what would be a long and miserable marriage, which would eventually lead to the place Amanita is now. Rumors of fighting, destruction of the apothecary, and ‘demonic possession’ circled the village, but no one dared interfere with the unhappy couple. The women in the village spoke of how reserved and meek Amanita seemed when she would visit on market days. That a deer such as her couldn’t possibly be a “spitting, biting, witch of a doe” as the men’s versions of the rumors called her. the village did note the growing absence of the two deer at the weekly sermon, though…

No one is sure what had happened, as Amanita had been sent to her mother’s estate in the city of Hoofminster a week before her husband had gone missing. He was last seen heading into the forest on a regular foraging trip, and had not returned for over a month. He was found during the first snow fall, collapsed at the base of a large tree, with mushrooms growing from his corpse. Partially consumed mushrooms, nuts, and berries strewn about him suggests he may have accidentally eaten poisonous fauna by mistake.

During the funerary preparations and service, those who saw her stated she never wept, and that upon hearing the news of her husband’s tragic end, she had gone into a catatonic state. Since her husband had owned the village apothecary, she had taken up duty in being the shop keep, and became the leading chemist in Snaffleshire. Rumors of her being a witch began to arise once again, and upon being harassed by children and villagers alike for the accusation, Amanita took to living in the very forest her husband perished in.

To this day, her cabin and farm are undisturbed by Damvers residents, passed off as only a folk tale. She does come to town on occasion for market days, insisting she is just a potion mistress. Most ponies believe she was just unfortunately named after the Deadly Doe of Damvers, and not the real thing. The Snaffleshire Witch Trials were over 300 years ago, deer don’t live THAT long.