Auntie Ethel

Overview

Combat

Auntie Ethel
Role	Trader
Voiced by	Rena Valeh
Information
Full name	Ethel
Title	Trader of Quirks and Sundries Sister of the Seeing Pearl
Race	Hag
Hometown	Riverside Teahouse, Sunlit Wetlands

Auntie Ethel is a fussy trader of potions, lotions, quirks, and sundries who can be first encountered in The Hollow of the Emerald Grove. Later, she will return to her home at the Riverside Teahouse in the Sunlit Wetlands.

Overview

Quests

• Find a Cure
  • Get Help from Auntie Ethel
• Save Mayrina
• Help the Hag Survivors
• Avenge the Hag Survivors
• Save Vanra

Involvement

Act One

In the Druid Grove

Auntie Ethel can be found in the The Hollow in the Emerald Grove, peddling "Potions and Lotions" to the Tiefling refugees. She's able to spot that something is off with the party and invites them to visit her at her home, the Riverside Teahouse.

• While in the Emerald Grove she is also a trader. If the party reaches the Sunlit Wetlands, Auntie Ethel moves from the Emerald and will appear in the Wetlands, and then eventually at the Teahouse.
• If you interact with Pandirna in the storage house next to the Emerald Grove jail, she will tell you Auntie Ethel gave her a potion to make her "strong and brave as a bugbear," but it left her paralyzed instead. Following this interaction, Auntie Ethel will no longer be at her hut in the Emerald Grove.
• If successfully pickpocketed while in the Emerald Grove she will exclaim "Blast it all! I'm going home." and leave the area. This will also happen if she is attacked. She then heads home to the Riverside Teahouse.

In the Riverside Teahouse

When the party arrives at this location, Auntie Ethel can be found forcing Mayrina to eat. If the party takes Ethel up on her offer for help, she will attempt to remove the Tadpole before stopping and declaring the Tadpole modified by ancient Netherese magic. The price for her help is to give up an eye to her, which she refuses to reverse despite failing to cure you.

Allowing Auntie Ethel to take your eye changes the appearance of one eye of your choice and gives you  Paid the Price. You cannot take this deal if Volo has already replaced one of your eyes or if you are playing as Wyll.

If the party takes her up on her offer, initiates combat, or attempts to infiltrate down into her lair, the Overgrown Tunnel, Auntie Ethel will reveal her true form: that of a Hag.

Act Three

In the Blushing Mermaid

Even if killed in Act One, Auntie Ethel will reappear in her Hag form during the Help the Hag Survivors, Avenge the Hag Survivors, and Save Vanra questlines. She can be found posing as Captain Grisly in The Blushing Mermaid in Lower City. Her lair is located under this tavern and can be infiltrated through the basement.

It is revealed that she is functionally unkillable while her life force is invested in her magic mushrooms, which is how she survived being killed during Act One. If killed previously, she's more hostile with the party, preventing the party from demanding a counter-offer to leave her alone. This does not prevent her from being acquired as an Ally for Gather Your Allies if Lora is killed and Auntie Ethel is left alone, however.

It is recommended that you begin the Save Vanra quest by speaking with Lora prior to completing the Hag Survivors questlines and defeating the Hag. Failure to get this quest from Lora directly, even if Vanra is saved, will lock you out of its quest rewards.

Shop

Notable Items Sold

• Corellon's Grace

The following items are restocked after a long rest:

• Elixir of Hill Giant Strength
• Potion of Invisibility
• Potion of Healing
• Elixir of Fire Resistance

Auntie Ethel's shop contains the following items:

Standard stock

Auntie Ethel always has these items to sell, sweetcheeks.

Item		Quantity	Chance
Potion of Invisibility		1	Always
Potion of Healing		4	Always
Potion of Greater Healing		1	Always
Water		5	Always
Elixir of Hill Giant Strength		3	Always
Corellon's Grace		1	Always
Gold		200 - 1350	Always

Alchemy table

Auntie Ethel will roll five or six times on this table.

Item		Quantity	Chance
Autumncrocus		1	1/8
Balsam		1	1/8
Belladonna		1	1/8
Daggerroot		1	1/8
Mergrass		1	1/8
Mugwort		1	1/8
Weavemoss		1	1/8
Wispweed		1	1/8

Mushroom table

Rolls 2-5 times on the Rare Mushroom Table. The average roll on the Rare Mushroom Supply Table is 3.4 mushrooms.

Quantity	2	3	4	5
Chance	1/5	2/5	1/5	1/5

Item		Quantity	Chance
Level 1 - 5
Acorn Truffle		1	Always
Level 6+
Acorn Truffle		1	1/4
Nightlight Frond		1	1/4
Swarming Toadstool		1	1/4
Tongue of Madness		1	1/4

Supplies table

Rolls one or two times on the Tiny Trader Table. Worth 5.0 Camp Supplies on average.

Quantity	1	2
Chance	3/5	2/5

Item		Quantity	Chance
Food Supply Table 2		1	1/5
Food Supply Table 3		1	2/5
Food Supply Table 4		1	2/5

Combat

For Auntie Ethel's combat details, see her combat page.

Notable loot (Act 1)

• Tarnished Charm
• Auntie Ethel's Charm

Notable loot (Act 3)

• Ring of Feywild Sparks

Speak with Dead

If killed, Ethel's body can be spoken to using Speak with Dead. Ethel is quite unique in that her Speak with Dead dialogue changes depending on whether she still has the Tarnished Charm on her corpse when talking to her. Unlike most corpses, she will be willing (if angry) to speak to her killer.

With Tarnished Charm

*A charm on the hag's body flashes a faint glow.*

• Auntie Ethel: ARGH. You knuckle-dragging gobshite.

Auntie Ethel: You will bleed - you will choke on your own guts for this. (if the caster is Ethel's killer)

• Auntie Ethel: ARGH. Where is the knuckle-dragging gobshite that killed me? (if the caster is not Ethel's killer)

• Player: You're quite lively for a corpse.

• Auntie Ethel: I'm a hag, you little snot - you think I didn't plan for this? Death and I are old friends.

Auntie Ethel: But I won't be a corpse forever - that I can bloody promise you.

• Player: Tell me the truth - what did you want with Mayrina?

• Auntie Ethel: I didn't want the girl, sweetie. I wanted her babe.

Auntie Ethel: I would have gobbled it up and given birth to my very own hag daughter.

Auntie Ethel: From my guts she would've come - my blood, my bile. It would have been glorious.

• Player: Does being dead bother you? (if the caster is not Ethel's killer)

• Auntie Ethel: You think this is the first time? I've found my way back before, and I will again.

Auntie Ethel: And then I will make the cretin beg, plead, weep for what will always be denied...

Auntie Ethel: ...The sweet release of death.

• Player: You're dead and I'm not. Deal with it. (if the caster is Ethel's killer)

• Auntie Ethel: For now.

• Player: Why are you so cruel?

• Auntie Ethel: Please. It's you lot who come to me. All you do is want - to be prettier, to be richer, to be loved.

Auntie Ethel: People are their own worst enemies, petal. I just let them see it.

• Player: What deal did you make with Mayrina? (note:

• Auntie Ethel: The brat's husband is dead. So sad.

Auntie Ethel: She wanted me to bring him back to life. Little fool thought it would fix everything.

• Player: Do you have any regrets? (if the caster is not Ethel's killer)

• Auntie Ethel: Only one.

Auntie Ethel: And you'll never know.

• Player: Do you have any regrets? (if the caster is Ethel's killer)

• Auntie Ethel: Only that I don't get to see the flesh melt from your bones, your guts dissolve, and your brain liquefy as you turn into a mind flayer.

Auntie Ethel: You'll weep, you'll beg, you'll plead - anything to make it stop. And once you stand tall, proud and tentacled?

Auntie Ethel: You'll butcher your friends and your loved ones LIKE THE ILLITHID SCUM YOU ARE.

Without Tarnished Charm

Auntie Ethel: Bleed... choke on... your guts... (if the caster is Ethel's killer)

Auntie Ethel: Kill them... kill them... all... (if the caster is not Ethel's killer)

• Player: Why did you want Mayrina?

• Auntie Ethel: Didn't want... the girl... wanted her... babe.

Auntie Ethel: ... was going to... eat it... and make a... hag daughter...

• Player: Are you the only hag around here?

• Auntie Ethel: Where there's people... there's... hags.

• Player: Where do you keep your valuables?

• Auntie Ethel: In my... workroom...

• Player: Why are you so cruel?

• Auntie Ethel: Not me... that's cruel. It's... people.

Auntie Ethel: They want... and want... and want. I merely... give.

Gallery

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  Auntie Ethel's true form.

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  Ethel's human model.

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  Ethel's hag model.

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  Ethel with child.