...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Solitary Sorceress
- 425 statements
- 82 feature instances
- 58 referencing feature instances
| Solitary Sorceress | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Solitary Sorceress | label |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress | page |
SolitarySorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress | comment |
Out in the wilderness, probably in an Enchanted Forest, lives a woman with magical abilities. She may be a sorceress, witch (wicked or otherwise), demigoddess, supernatural creature in human form, or some combination of these. Whatever the case, she at least looks like a woman, lives apart from the rest of society, and has some kind of special ability. She becomes important to the story when the characters decide to seek her aid, whether for information (achieved by scrying or prophecy) or magical service (a magical item for later, healing, removal of a curse, application of a protective enchantment, etc.) This aid may be given in good faith or as a means to her own ends; freely, or at a price. She may have interfered via a third party to bring the protagonists to her door, but she may also be sought out as a known provider of services, or simply someone the protagonists stumbled across in the course of their travels. In order for the characters to encounter her at all, her solitude must not be absolute: perhaps she lives within walking distance of an otherwise normal village, maybe even right on the outskirts of town. She may be a friend of the community, visited frequently by its members according to their need, or be shunned and feared by them. This latter characterization is common of a Wicked Witch, who may even prey on the townsfolk, steal babies, etc. Whatever her reputation, her abode will be a simple house or cottage, where she may have a familiar or bevy of servants, but no family members. And the interior of her residence would likely be a Wizard Workshop. A notable exception to this trend exists, however: sisters. Specifically, three of them, often according to the pattern of The Hecate Sisters. Like the Fates, a typical trio of sisterly witches function narratively as a single unit and thus qualify as "solitary" for the purposes of this trope. The Solitary Sorceress can be beneficial to the cast, malevolent—perhaps even the main villain of the story—or ambiguous, either serving her own ends at the expense of everyone else or giving aid only at great cost to the characters. She is Older Than Feudalism — see Circe — and a stock figure of the Chivalric Romance. This character type leans heavily female, but male versions do exist, usually living in a Mage Tower instead of a cottage. Hermit Guru is a related trope that is usually male. The main distinction between the Guru and the Sorceress is that while characters will consult a Hermit Guru for the kind of training, enlightenment, or wisdom that comes from years of discipline, study, and contemplation, they will consult the Solitary Sorceress specifically for supernatural aid. |
|
| Solitary Sorceress | fetched |
2024-04-19T01:17:20Z | |
| Solitary Sorceress | parsed |
2024-04-19T01:17:20Z | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingComment |
Dropped link to ConanTheBarbarian: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingComment |
Dropped link to FallenAngel: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingComment |
Dropped link to IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingComment |
Dropped link to SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingComment |
Dropped link to TakenForGranite: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheHero: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingComment |
Dropped link to WickedWitch: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Solitary Sorceress | processingUnknown |
ConanTheBarbarian | |
| Solitary Sorceress | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1029dc09 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1029dc09 | comment |
Inkmistress: Asra is a demigod with many magical abilities. She lives in a mountain cave alone when the story starts, though a village is nearby whose people she provides with her services, and Asra's mortal lover visits her frequently. Asra leaves home after a spell which she cast goes awry, resulting in the villagers being slaughtered, with her lover as the Sole Survivor. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1029dc09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1029dc09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Inkmistress | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_1029dc09 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1be2f653 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1be2f653 | comment |
Sleepy Hollow (1999) by the same director has the Witch of the Western Woods. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1be2f653 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_1be2f653 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sleepy Hollow (1999) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_1be2f653 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_220c8c36 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_220c8c36 | comment |
The Adventures of Strong Vanya: The witch Baba Yaga lives in a lonely cottage built in the heart of a moor. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_220c8c36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_220c8c36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Adventures of Strong Vanya | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_220c8c36 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2247a14a | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2247a14a | comment |
In The Chronicles of Prydain, Taran and his friends journey multiple times into the treacherous Marshes of Morva to seek the counsel of the Three Sisters, Orwen, Orgoch, and Orddu, inscrutable witches of unspeakable power who like to play with people's lives. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2247a14a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2247a14a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Chronicles of Prydain | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_2247a14a | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2372359 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2372359 | comment |
The Belgariad has Vordai, the Witch of the Fens. Shunned by her homeland because of her powers, she's lost more or less all interest in the rest of humanity, and lives in the swamplands of southern Drasnia. She's also become fond of the fenlings, otter-like critters that are native to the fens. When Belgarath and Garion are passing through, she compels them to give the fenlings the power of speech in exchange for passage back out of the fens, on the grounds that she doesn't have long left, and wants them to be able to look after themselves after she's gone. This is potentially problematic, partly because it would be insanely difficult, partly because Belgarath had recently been strained almost beyond his capacity in his fight with Ctuchik, and was believed at the time by Garion and Polgara to potentially have burnt out his powers, and since he's the de facto Big Good, if he'd found his gifts were no longer there, the domino effect would have been horrific. As it is, it works - while Belgarath later notes that he could have slid out of it fairly easily if he'd wanted to, he felt sorry for Vordai. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2372359 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2372359 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Belgariad | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_2372359 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_265fb4f1 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_265fb4f1 | comment |
In Hyrule Warriors, the role of the Guardian of Time was a solitary sorceress that oberved the flow of many timelines without interfering with them. In her loneliness, she began to fall for The Hero that she kept seeing and ended up corrupted by Ganondorf to Yandere levels of obsession with him. After Cia is defeated, Lana — her literal Good Side — attempted to take over the role. With the expanded storyline in Legends, Cia gets resurrected and the two now share their original role. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_265fb4f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_265fb4f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hyrule Warriors (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_265fb4f1 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2dec2fe3 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2dec2fe3 | comment |
The old woman Betta stays with for a time in "Pintosmalto" lives alone and teaches the girl spells to get back Pintosmalto. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2dec2fe3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_2dec2fe3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pintosmalto | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_2dec2fe3 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3651bc0c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3651bc0c | comment |
Mama Odie in The Princess and the Frog is an elderly, blind voodoo priestess living in the Louisiana bayou who helps Naveen and Tiana break the curse that turned them into frogs. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3651bc0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3651bc0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Princess and the Frog | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_3651bc0c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3862458a | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3862458a | comment |
Alice Grove: Alice is a high tech version of this trope. She is superhuman instead of supernatural, but lives by herself in a cottage in the woods, and helps the local townspeople. She even calls herself a witch. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3862458a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3862458a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alice Grove (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_3862458a | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_38fa34eb | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_38fa34eb | comment |
Wonder Woman: The witch Circe is one of Diana's most dangerous and constant foes, and while she wouldn't require superhero intervention in her actions if she just stayed away from humanity altogether she still lives, or at least in Volume 2 lived until Diana messed up her set up, on her solitary island with a bunch of animals and monsters that were once human. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_38fa34eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_38fa34eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wonder Woman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_38fa34eb | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3a729756 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3a729756 | comment |
Glinda of Oz: Reera the Red is a Yookoohoo (a powerful magic user specializing in transformations) and lives isolated with her pets in a cottage in the woods, because she dislikes human company. Usually she neither helps nor harms others, but Ervic the Skeezer manages to trick her into restoring the Three Adepts to their true forms. She takes being tricked with good grace, but tells him and the Adepts not to spread the word of her uncharacteristic helpfulness, because she doesn't want people to start pestering her for help all the time. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3a729756 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3a729756 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Glinda of Oz | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_3a729756 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3e1e745c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3e1e745c | comment |
Enchanted Forest Chronicles: The witch Morwen lives out in the Enchanted Forest with a ridiculously large number of cats. She has a few notable friends who will journey into the forest to visit her, including a dragon who regularly borrows her crepe pan, but for the most part she's alone with her cats and she likes it that way. She provides aid to other main characters in all four books, usually when they encounter her house by chance. The magician Telemain is Morwen's male counterpart. He's an eccentric who spends most of his time in the middle of nowhere doing Sufficiently Analyzed Magic experiments. In Talking to Dragons Daystar and Shiara happen upon his Wizards Tower while in need of aid. The fire-witch in Calling on Dragons doesn't fit the mold, but he ended up in the position of one, taking over the role from his sister Rachel, who inherited the isolated tower from the original Solitary Sorceress when she retired. Rachel got tired of misguided adventurers trying to "rescue" her and so gave the place up to her brother, who got tired of the same thing and eventually filled in the road, making the tower truly isolated. The protagonist party wouldn't have encountered him at all but for a teleportation mishap. A different fire-witch in Talking to Dragons lives in an invisible castle that teleports randomly around the Enchanted Forest (presumably she had some way to track it down). She attacks passersby in order to turn them to stone and use them as decoration for the castle. |
|
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3e1e745c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3e1e745c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Enchanted Forest Chronicles | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_3e1e745c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3f35c69c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3f35c69c | comment |
Deverry: In order to hide he doesn't die, this is one of the guises Nevyn routinely evokes, every several decades going to a poorly settled section of the kingdom where some ancient ruins are nearly buried under a hill by time. He lives there for 20-30 years, studying magic and administering healing and aid to the nearby village. He doesn't mind visitors, as long as the Wildfolk are behaving. Near the end of The Silver Mage, Salamander decides to invoke this, living in a tower far from current settlements, committing to the intense studies he's put off for decades. But it's not for the isolation; the ancient tower is not far from where the Horsekin will have to pass if they get it in their heads to try and invade elven and human lands again. Dweomer and dragons are the best early warning and defense systems if the Horsekin get antsy again. |
|
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3f35c69c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_3f35c69c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deverry | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_3f35c69c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_41b0198a | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_41b0198a | comment |
In The Dresden Files, the Queen Mothers of Faerie courts, most powerful of their kin and theoretically mortal enemies, live together in what seems to Harry a simple cottage. Their isolation here is near-absolute: they occupy a corner of the Nevernever that is inaccessible by normal means, and don't like uninvited visitors. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_41b0198a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_41b0198a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dresden Files | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_41b0198a | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_42ffb88e | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_42ffb88e | comment |
SCP Foundation: SCP-352 ("Baba Yaga"). She's the original Baba Yaga, including child eating. She used to live in an "Enchanted Forest" in southern Russia before the Foundation captured her. She can lift more than 200 kilograms of weight and move at speeds of more than 70 km/hour. She secretes an enzyme that renders her prey helpless and has Prehensile Hair. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_42ffb88e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_42ffb88e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SCP Foundation (Website) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_42ffb88e | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4668ebe | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4668ebe | comment |
In Big Fish there is a Witch who lives in a very dilapidated house outside of the suburbs, and supposedly if you look her in the eye you see how you will die. According to the Unreliable Narrator, he and some friends in their boyhood went on a Scare Dare to knock on her door. It ended badly, but she turned out to be Not Evil, Just Misunderstood. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4668ebe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4668ebe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Big Fish | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_4668ebe | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_468bebb0 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_468bebb0 | comment |
Discworld: Witches on the Discworld live this way, Nanny Ogg being an exception — she lives in a huge sprawling house in Lancre town as the matriarch of her massive family. Witches are given a grudging and sometimes hesitant reverence by the community, which they consider it their duty to protect, even without gratitude. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Discworld | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_468bebb0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4829c36b | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4829c36b | comment |
In Wise Child, Juniper is introduced as this, being a mysterious healer who lives on her own outside the village and is reputed to be a Wicked Witch by the locals. In reality, she's a kind woman with abilities that are based on nature and don't include magic spells. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4829c36b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4829c36b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| WiseChild | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_4829c36b | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_49a88442 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_49a88442 | comment |
In Final Fantasy XIV, Y'shtola brings Alphinaud and the Warrior of Light to see her former master, Matoya, who lives in a cave complete with a remix of the first one's theme as its background music. This Matoya helps them get to Azys Lla, the forbidden land, and she also holds the secrets to the Antitower.. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_49a88442 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_49a88442 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_49a88442 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4b187e74 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4b187e74 | comment |
Circe of The Odyssey may be a candidate for Ur-Example for Western culture. She lives on an island and turns shipwrecked sailors into pigs, in order to fill her larder. Though often described as a sorceress, she is technically a demigoddess. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4b187e74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4b187e74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Odyssey | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_4b187e74 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f3a33a4 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f3a33a4 | comment |
"The Nix in the Mill-Pond": The wife climbs up a mountain to meet an old sorceress. The old woman herself brings up she lives in a lonely, out-of-the-way cottage. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f3a33a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f3a33a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nix in the Mill-Pond | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_4f3a33a4 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f7a49d9 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f7a49d9 | comment |
Durothé, the Wizard Everlasting/Last Wizard, though hardly by choice, in The Keys Stand Alone. Before the four removed it, her anti-communication curse meant that she was better off not mingling with her people (who revere her), but she was dying for the curse to be removed so she could be a real leader to them, not just a figurehead. Only her Interpreter was allowed to speak with her, largely because that person had the only hope of being able to make any sense of what she said—or at least to interpret her in acceptable ways. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f7a49d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_4f7a49d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Keys Stand Alone (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_4f7a49d9 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_501b2ca1 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_501b2ca1 | comment |
Lemony Wee the witch may well be the only human in Brackenwood, though she spends a lot of her time with the Auld Sage, an ancient, naked bigfoot. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_501b2ca1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_501b2ca1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Brackenwood (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_501b2ca1 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_541debc | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_541debc | comment |
In one of the Lythande stories, Lythande is under the influence of a cursed lute that leads the way to a small house isolated in a swamp, with a single beautiful woman living there. Initially she's taken to be a hedge-witch hiding her power from society, but it turns out that she's a dragon in human form. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_541debc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_541debc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lythande | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_541debc | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_54787448 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_54787448 | comment |
Witchie of Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands moves to a forest near the town in Story of Seasons (2014), invoking this trope. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_54787448 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_54787448 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_54787448 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_55b2edff | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_55b2edff | comment |
In The Knight Before Christmas the "Old Crone" Sir Cole Christopher Fredrick Lyons meets in the woods outside Norwich, England in 1334 is a benevolent, but meddling, witch. She gives out magical time travel amulets and sends people on personal quests - sending him to 2019 Ohio. She also seems to be able to time travel and teleport international distances herself as she pops up to check on him in 2019 at first. The woods appear to be her usual home. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_55b2edff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_55b2edff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Knight Before Christmas | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_55b2edff | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_5908ee91 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_5908ee91 | comment |
In Skyrim, Anise is a kindly old lady who lives in a cabin on the outskirts of Falkreath until you find a letter of her conspiring with her Hagraven sister in her basement, where she becomes hostile. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_5908ee91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_5908ee91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_5908ee91 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_629cd094 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_629cd094 | comment |
Flemeth initially appears to be just an elderly "apostate" mage hiding out in the wilderness from the church's enforcers when you first meet her in Dragon Age: Origins. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_629cd094 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_629cd094 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_629cd094 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_67cdde7d | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_67cdde7d | comment |
Dragon magazine #82 article "Wounds and Weeds". A fighter wounded in battle encounters an old woman living by herself. She saves him from death with her knowledge of herbal healing. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_67cdde7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_67cdde7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragon (Magazine) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_67cdde7d | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_69fa7496 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_69fa7496 | comment |
Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Subverted with Magica: she lives in a cottage near the crater of Mount Vesuvius (close enough it's a quick walk to the top), and most of her interactions with the outside consist in either her attempts to steal Scrooge's #1 Dime or people visiting her cottage for supernatural aide... Except the latter is a frequent occasion, as she has a very successful business selling potions and charms to the people of Naples, and she will regularly come down from the volcano for groceries. One of her two origin stories even has her imply she had her house built there partly for business purposes, as it would add to her image of sorceress and get her more customers. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_69fa7496 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_69fa7496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_69fa7496 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_74f7210c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_74f7210c | comment |
In many of The Legend of Zelda games, Link can buy potions from a witch (usually named Syrup) who lives by herself in the woods. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_74f7210c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_74f7210c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_74f7210c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_78146d21 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_78146d21 | comment |
Tia Dalma from the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies is a voodoo lady living in a hut on a remote island. She provides information via divination, specifically reading crab bones, and can bring people Back from the Dead. In the third movie she is revealed to be the sea goddess Calypso, trapped in a human body. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_78146d21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_78146d21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_78146d21 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7d271ad1 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7d271ad1 | comment |
The Sword in the Stone. Madam Mim is a powerful witch with Voluntary Shapeshifter powers who lives in a hut in the wilderness. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7d271ad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7d271ad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Sword in the Stone | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_7d271ad1 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7e9d1a6c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7e9d1a6c | comment |
Frozen: After accidentally exposing her powers to the world, Elsa flees to the mountains and plans on living her life like this. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7e9d1a6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_7e9d1a6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Frozen (2013) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_7e9d1a6c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_8459204b | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_8459204b | comment |
Legend of the Seeker: When he's first introduced Zedd is living by himself outside the village, considered a crazy old man who's possibly a wizard. The witch woman Shota lives alone in the woods, giving out advice to the heroes that's based on her visions of the future (whether they want it or not) and influencing events when she thinks they're doing things wrong. |
|
| Solitary Sorceress / int_8459204b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_8459204b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Legend of the Seeker | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_8459204b | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86312631 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86312631 | comment |
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: Wizards live solitary lives in Towers, Citadels or Cities where they also study. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86312631 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86312631 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Tough Guide to Fantasyland | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_86312631 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86814cd2 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86814cd2 | comment |
Final Fantasy IX has one as well, though this one is different from all the others in that she's much younger. Eiko, roughly six years old, plays this role. She's encountered in Madain Sari, and is the last summoner (aside from Garnet), living alone except with the moogles, which can be counted as her Familiar. She helps the group get into the Iifa Tree and is one of the few examples on this page who abandons solitude and joins the party. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86814cd2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_86814cd2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy IX (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_86814cd2 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_914ba844 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_914ba844 | comment |
The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz has a castle all to herself, with a platoon of guards patrolling the approach, and a battalion of flying monkeys nearby. Only one monkey is ever seen in the same room as the Witch; otherwise, her servants seem to steer clear unless summoned. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_914ba844 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_914ba844 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Wizard of Oz | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_914ba844 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9443aa1f | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9443aa1f | comment |
The Warlord: Travis Morgan's daughter Jennifer eventually becomes the most powerful sorceress in the Lost World of Skartaris. She dwells by herself in a tower at the edge of Skartaris' portal region. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9443aa1f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9443aa1f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Warlord (DC Comics) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_9443aa1f | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_954ee18d | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_954ee18d | comment |
In "The Death of Koschei the Deathless", the legendary witch Baba Yaga lives alone in a remote wood, beyond a river of fire. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_954ee18d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_954ee18d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Death of Koschei the Deathless | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_954ee18d | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_977c980a | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_977c980a | comment |
In Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, women with power above the level of an ordinary hedge-witch live outside the town. For Godmothers, whose role includes judging cases and meting out punishments, this is to help them stay neutral. For Sorceresses, especially the evil kind, there are various Traditional reasons. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_977c980a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_977c980a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_977c980a | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_98744614 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_98744614 | comment |
The Witch in Brave is an elderly woman living alone (apart from her sapient crow familiar) in a cottage in the woods. Merida finds her cottage following a trail of Will O The Wisps, and asks her help to fix her relationship with her mother. The Witch initially refuses, saying she's out of that whole business after "too many dissatisfied customers." | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_98744614 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_98744614 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Brave | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_98744614 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_992cb6e1 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_992cb6e1 | comment |
Throne of Blood, a loose adaptation of Macbeth with a feudal Japanese setting, swaps out The Weird Sisters for a single onibaba. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_992cb6e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_992cb6e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Throne of Blood | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_992cb6e1 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a4eac6d | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a4eac6d | comment |
"Jorinde and Joringel": The evil witch lives all alone in the middle of a huge forest. She reinforces her seclusion by paralyzing intruders or turning them into animals. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a4eac6d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a4eac6d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jorinde and Joringel | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_9a4eac6d | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a527531 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a527531 | comment |
Erika Redmark is the most powerful mage in Avernum. Because of her anti-social personality and all-consuming desire for revenge on The Empire, she lives by herself in a Mage Tower far to the west, rather than some more centralized location. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a527531 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9a527531 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Avernum (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_9a527531 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d34190a | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d34190a | comment |
The Elder Scrolls: A Morrowind Mages Guild quest has you seek out a Dunmeri Sorceress who hasn't been paying her guild dues. She lives in a cave far from civilization. In Skyrim, Anise is a kindly old lady who lives in a cabin on the outskirts of Falkreath until you find a letter of her conspiring with her Hagraven sister in her basement, where she becomes hostile. |
|
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d34190a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d34190a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Elder Scrolls (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_9d34190a | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d47a2a2 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d47a2a2 | comment |
A Song of Ice and Fire. The Ghost of High Heart is a woods witch in the Riverlands that the Brotherhood Without Banners consult for her knowledge of the future. She always gets paid for her prophecies with a song from the groups bard, though would be quite happy to get a kiss instead. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d47a2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9d47a2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Song of Ice and Fire | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_9d47a2a2 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e226520 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e226520 | comment |
Xan of The Girl Who Drank the Moon is literally called the Witch in the forest. She lives only with Glerk the swamp monster, Fyrian the pet dragon, and later Luna the moon-child. Xan does make occasional trips to the Free Cities to provide medical care and deliver children, but no one comes to see her at home due to the hazards of the forest. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e226520 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e226520 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Girl Who Drank the Moon | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_9e226520 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e876c22 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e876c22 | comment |
Good Omens: Agnes Nutter apparently lived alone on the outskirts of her village. Her last scion, Anathema Device, also lives alone, in a cottage she rented outside Tadfield, and acts as a source of information and assistance to Adam and Newt. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e876c22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_9e876c22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Good Omens | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_9e876c22 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a0b4e99c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a0b4e99c | comment |
In The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Sybel is a young sorceress, descended from a line of wizards, who lives alone in a white stone house surrounded by a large garden stocked with legendary magical animals. People do not come to her for help, there's a witch farther down the mountain for that, until a young lord knocks at her gates with a baby he wants her to shelter and raise. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a0b4e99c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a0b4e99c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Forgotten Beasts of Eld | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_a0b4e99c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a55608da | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a55608da | comment |
The Marvellous Land of Snergs: Mother Meldrum is a Wicked Witch who, among others things, sells curses. She lives alone in a spooky shack built in the heart of a gloomy, dark forest. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a55608da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a55608da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Marvellous Land of Snergs | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_a55608da | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a81325d3 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a81325d3 | comment |
Final Fantasy has a few examples. It is first done with Matoya of Final Fantasy, a witch who lives in a cave and is attended by a bevy of enchanted brooms. Final Fantasy IX has one as well, though this one is different from all the others in that she's much younger. Eiko, roughly six years old, plays this role. She's encountered in Madain Sari, and is the last summoner (aside from Garnet), living alone except with the moogles, which can be counted as her Familiar. She helps the group get into the Iifa Tree and is one of the few examples on this page who abandons solitude and joins the party. A subverted version is Belgemine from Final Fantasy X, in that you encounter her often in different places in your travels. However, by the end of the game, it's revealed that Remiem Temple is her home and if you go there, she reveals she's Unsent. She is a summoner, like Yuna, and she often offers Yuna friendly duels throughout the game to train her. In Final Fantasy XIV, Y'shtola brings Alphinaud and the Warrior of Light to see her former master, Matoya, who lives in a cave complete with a remix of the first one's theme as its background music. This Matoya helps them get to Azys Lla, the forbidden land, and she also holds the secrets to the Antitower.. |
|
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a81325d3 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_a81325d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_a81325d3 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ad55ec2d | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ad55ec2d | comment |
The Reluctant King: One sorceress lives off on her own, as she won't join the guild (required for practicing magic legally) as its licensing rates are pricey, operating in isolation to avoid arrest. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ad55ec2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ad55ec2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Reluctant King | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_ad55ec2d | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_afdde82a | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_afdde82a | comment |
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level: Eno the witch lives in a hidden, inaccessible cave because she thinks it's traditional. When Azusa points out that she's making herself incredibly lonely for no practical reason, Eno moves into town, but continues to call herself the Witch of the Grotto. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_afdde82a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_afdde82a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_afdde82a | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b30ae4db | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b30ae4db | comment |
Flashback-only character Maggy the Frog in Game of Thrones is a forest witch that practices Blood Magic and lives alone in a small cabin in the woods. Her book counterpart, on the other hand, is an urban fortune teller. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b30ae4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b30ae4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_b30ae4db | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b40d4111 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b40d4111 | comment |
In the film adaptation of Stardust Lamia is one of three witches who live in a crumbling manor within a wasteland and seek a fallen star to restore their youth. Each of the three assaults the protagonists in her own way. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b40d4111 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b40d4111 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stardust | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_b40d4111 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b50b1fdb | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b50b1fdb | comment |
Thundarr the Barbarian: In the episode "Island of the Body Snatchers" the witch Circe (no relation to the Circe from Classical Mythology) lives alone on an island except for some mooks she keeps as soldiers and servants. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b50b1fdb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b50b1fdb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thundarr the Barbarian | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_b50b1fdb | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b5a2b326 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b5a2b326 | comment |
A Morrowind Mages Guild quest has you seek out a Dunmeri Sorceress who hasn't been paying her guild dues. She lives in a cave far from civilization. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b5a2b326 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b5a2b326 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_b5a2b326 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b60f87d1 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b60f87d1 | comment |
In the Arcia Chronicles, this becomes Gerika's modus operandi after she learns to control her powers. Before returning to Tarra, she lived on the outskirts of a kingdom in another world, counseling many generations of kings as the a Wise Witch. Afterwards, she uses the same guise to explain herself to Alexander (that she lived in a forest hut that his horse just happened to bring his wounded and unconscious body to), in order to avoid revealing that she was basically summoned to save his life by the self-sacrifice of one of his most loyal friends. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b60f87d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_b60f87d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Arcia Chronicles | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_b60f87d1 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c025b66c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c025b66c | comment |
Ophelia: Mechtild's said to be a witch and lives alone in a hovel in the woods, although technically she's a healer with a great knowledge of plants, rather than possessing actual powers. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c025b66c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c025b66c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ophelia | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c025b66c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c22f50d5 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c22f50d5 | comment |
Goblins in the Castle: The witch Granny Pinchbottom is a sort of boogeyman figure the main character William was taught to fear, but when he encounters her, she turns out to be well-intentioned, though somewhat duplicitous and scary, and gives him a few items he needs. She helps Fauna out too in the sequel. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c22f50d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c22f50d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Goblins in the Castle | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c22f50d5 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c46 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c46 | comment |
It is first done with Matoya of Final Fantasy, a witch who lives in a cave and is attended by a bevy of enchanted brooms. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c46 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c55 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c55 | comment |
A subverted version is Belgemine from Final Fantasy X, in that you encounter her often in different places in your travels. However, by the end of the game, it's revealed that Remiem Temple is her home and if you go there, she reveals she's Unsent. She is a summoner, like Yuna, and she often offers Yuna friendly duels throughout the game to train her. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c55 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy X (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c2463c55 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2ebd9ed | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2ebd9ed | comment |
In "The Swan Maiden" variant "The Drummer", the old witch who has cursed the king's daughters lives alone on top of a towering glass mountain. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2ebd9ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c2ebd9ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Swan Maiden | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c2ebd9ed | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c4282b71 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c4282b71 | comment |
Zecora of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic lives by herself in the Everfree Forest. Everypony thinks she's an evil enchantress because of her odd appearance (she's a zebra) and mannerisms (in her first appearance she paws at the ground, a case of Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle as real zebras do it to find water but ponies and horses do it as a threat gesture) as well as her strange way of speaking (which sounds vaguely threatening), not to mention she lives in the Everfree Forest, which has a large share of strange and dangerous plants and animals while also having its own phenomena (since in Equestria, natural events like animals hibernating and leaves changing color are actively managed by the pony denizens). It turns out she is actually quite friendly. However, she can't cast spells like a unicorn, but as a zebra, she can concoct a wide variety of potions and has an extensive knowledge about plenty of things that the ponies may not know. The solitary becomes Downplayed over time as while she remains living in the Everfree, she is much more welcomed in town while visiting more frequently and even participating in events such as chaperoning fillies and colts for Nightmare Night. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c4282b71 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c5d0768d | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c5d0768d | comment |
Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch has the residents of Finch learn of such a person who lived in the area centuries earlier when they go on a treasure hunt for the pages of a firsthand account of her. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c5d0768d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c5d0768d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Aunt Dimity | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c5d0768d | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c62995ba | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c62995ba | comment |
Child of the Storm: Doctor Vivian Lake in Unfinished Business is a textbook example of this, being a somewhat dotty seeming botanist and witch living in the bayou outside New Orleans, who the heroes go to for advice about Project Pegasus, which she worked at before it went sideways. Unfortunately, she's actually Nimue, the Arc Villain and the reason it went sideways in the first place. She promptly drugs the lot of them and heads into Pegasus, only sparing them to act as decoys and distractions — and because a Roaring Rampage of Revenge is a dangerous thing to incite. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c62995ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c62995ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Child of the Storm (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c62995ba | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c74f2d3c | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c74f2d3c | comment |
In Diablo, Adria the witch lives just outside of Tristram and sells magical items and mana potions. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c74f2d3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c74f2d3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Diablo (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c74f2d3c | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c9531bb8 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c9531bb8 | comment |
Metallia, the titular witch of The Witch and the Hundred Knight lives in a swamp somewhat isolated from civilization, only having her butler and the Hundred Knight for immediate company. She's not exactly the wise hermit archetype though, and she does have a few friends outside the swamp although all but one of them betrayed her. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c9531bb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_c9531bb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Witch and the Hundred Knight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_c9531bb8 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ca4949d1 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ca4949d1 | comment |
Villains by Necessity: Kaylana, a druid, was living alone in the woods for years before meeting Sam and Arcie. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ca4949d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_ca4949d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Villains by Necessity | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_ca4949d1 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cbe67cb4 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cbe67cb4 | comment |
"The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples": In order to get a horse who can outrun the dragon's steed, the prince must meet an old witch who lives alone in a mountain. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cbe67cb4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cbe67cb4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nine Peahens And The Golden Apples | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_cbe67cb4 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cc1bf35b | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cc1bf35b | comment |
The Voodoo Lady fits the bill in three of the Monkey Island games: in LeChuck's Revenge, Curse and Tales, she lives in a place remote enough that Guybrush will find her somewhere around the end of the first act, around when he gains the freedom to move around the game world. However, in the original Secret and Escape, she lives right in the middle of Mêlée town and is accessible right away. In all games, she gives Guybrush boundless advice and helps to construct some voodoo spell to help him on his quest. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cc1bf35b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_cc1bf35b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Monkey Island (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_cc1bf35b | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d115b0a5 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d115b0a5 | comment |
As Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is loosely based on the fairy tale, the isolated witch in her candy house in the forest makes an appearance in their backstory; the intro newspaper-clipping animation that shows their exploits and growth into professional witch-hunters shows evidence of several more, such as "The Swamp Witch" and "Meadow Witch", and the witch they find that sets off the plot is a woman living off in the forest. And so are the main antagonists. And a good side character. The witches' isolation seems to be justified in this universe by the fact that dark witches are inherently corrupt and evil, and they start to visibly decay, which makes them too obvious to stay around people. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d115b0a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d115b0a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_d115b0a5 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d616724d | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d616724d | comment |
From League of Legends: A traditional take on this is Morgana the Fallen, who serves as one to Demacia. Once upon a time, she and her twin sister Kayle were the half-angelic arbiters of justice who founded what would become the kingdom, but following a nasty falling-out, Kayle disappeared into the heavens while Morgana chose to lay low among mortals. Nowadays, she hangs out in Demacia's outlying woods, with rural villagers not aware of who she actually is other than a powerful sorceress, and occasionally, she's sought out to help deal with their interpersonal disputes. Veigar, the Tiny Master of Evil is a male and vastly more comedic example. Having commandeered a Mage Tower from a previous warlord he shunted out, he fancies himself as the oppressive evil wizard of a local farm community, plotting his conquest to Take Over the World. However, the villagers only see him as a light nuisance, and have actually come to agree that he's a net benefit since he's taking care of the actual dangers for them, so they mostly just leave him alone and feign terror to humor him. |
|
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d616724d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d616724d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| League of Legends (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_d616724d | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d6b7adcf | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d6b7adcf | comment |
The Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid lives by herself in a dangerous part of the ocean. Unlike in the Disney adaptation, here, she's a True Neutral character who tells the mermaid about every negative consequence her spell has. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d6b7adcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d6b7adcf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Little Mermaid | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_d6b7adcf | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d7dc4ddd | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d7dc4ddd | comment |
In The Witch of the Everfree, Sunset spends her first few years in the Everfree as this, and actively cultivates it as her public image. She becomes more social as time goes on, though, starting to visit Ponyville increasingly often as time passes. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d7dc4ddd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_d7dc4ddd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Witch of the Everfree (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_d7dc4ddd | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_da96a476 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_da96a476 | comment |
The second season of Mia and Me introduces Tessandra, who lives deep in the Blackwood Forest alone with her son, Simo, and who the heroes end up seeking out to figure out how to reverse the effects of the green fluid Rixel uses to control his animals. Tessandra initially tries to keep outsiders away, but when Simo threatens to leave her to go with Mia and the others, she decides to hear them out and help figure out how to make the antidote to the green fluid. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_da96a476 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_da96a476 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mia and Me | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_da96a476 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_db96ded4 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_db96ded4 | comment |
The Legend of Korra: Toph Beifong has become this by the time Korra finds her, living alone in a vast swamp, meditating and terrorizing the local swamp tribe. She says the roots of the tree allow her to sense what's going on the world over, including when her daughters are in trouble. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_db96ded4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_db96ded4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_db96ded4 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_e1c2dccd | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_e1c2dccd | comment |
Baba Yaga is generally depicted as an old witch who lives in the deep woods, and sojourns out to capture and eat children. Modern versions of the character are more ambiguous and in line with The Trickster. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_e1c2dccd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_e1c2dccd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Baba Yaga | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_e1c2dccd | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f0591158 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f0591158 | comment |
The Misenchanted Sword: The wizard is a hermit who retired to work on his magic living in a hut within a great forest. Valder notes this has left him with poor interpersonal skills after so long alone. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f0591158 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f0591158 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Misenchanted Sword | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_f0591158 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f7ed2fd7 | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f7ed2fd7 | comment |
Ursula, the Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid is a villainous example. She was banished from the Kingdom of Atlantica, but still gives magical help to "poor unfortunate souls"... with a hook in it. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f7ed2fd7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_f7ed2fd7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Little Mermaid (1989) | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_f7ed2fd7 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_fb83eb7b | type |
Solitary Sorceress | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_fb83eb7b | comment |
There are two in The Sword of Truth series: Adie, a sorceress who helps early on and eventually becomes one of Zedd's traveling companions, and Shota, a witch who is more antisocial, telling and giving things to Richard that he doesn't like but she deems to be for his own good. | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_fb83eb7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Solitary Sorceress / int_fb83eb7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheSwordOfTruth | hasFeature |
Solitary Sorceress / int_fb83eb7b |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.