There are more witches here than just Flemeth, of course, but Flemeth...she's the worst of them all. Most female magic users keep themselves in the Mages Tower but not Flemeth. She was before the Tower was founded in Ferelden. [She shrugs.] Or so the legends say.

As the bards tell it, many centuries ago before Ferelden was governed under one king there was a beautiful young woman. Her hair was black as a moonless sky and her eyes were as mysterious as the seas. Her name was Flemeth and she was the wife of a bard. After a jealous lord made and broke a deal with the husband and wife so that he could marry Flemeth instead, Flemeth was furious. Not because she loved her former husband but because the lord had broke a deal. Eventually she made a dark pact with a demon from the Fade. She took vengeance on the lord and ran to the Wilds to brood.

The demon made her powerful and, so the legends say, she lured many Wilder men to her bed so she could have as many daughters as possible. Some of the legends tell of a falling out between her and these daughters; Flemeth, of course, grew jealous of their beauty and chased each one of them down and devoured their still beating hearts.

Just a legend, of course. To scare children. [Though, of course, Morrigan wouldn't put it past her mother to do such a thing.]