Aiger-na

Aiger-na is the common name of an apocryphal demon in peasant folk varietials of the One True Faith.

The common tale says that, hundreds of years ago, the man Aiger became obsessed with the idea of living forever and, pursuing that heretical idea, strayed into witchcraft; eventually, his mind became so twisted by evil magics that he began to believe that children had a source of immortality within them that he could use to turn back the passage of time within himself.

He killed dozens of children before his actions twisted him irrevocably; damned by the One God -- who despises such murders -- each child killed in cold blood brings him closer and closer to the immortality he so desires, and he haunts the land to this day in bloody search of his dream.

Or so it is said. The story is primarily apocryphal, and "high-church" members of the One Faith put little stock in it.

Peasant parents of the Faith in Myrken Wood, however, often use Aiger-na as an admonishment (i.e., "eat your peas, or Aiger-na will take you."). At St. Iona's, his story is often used as a cautionary tale to encourage initiates and adults to keep to orthodox beliefs.