The Trials

"The Trials" was a tradition in the town of Eyjara, where every thirteen years a girl from the surrounding area was burnt at the stake on her thirteenth birthday to prevent her becoming a Hag. Sometimes they executed an innocent girl, but it's said they had caught some Hags through "The Trials". The people of Eyjara feared a coven of Hags had been operating out of the Grindlewood for centuries, and they knew Hags reproduced by snatching babies out of their cradles and replacing them with a Hagspawn. The Hagspawn would be unaware it was anything other than a normal girl, until it turned into a Hag on it's thirteenth birthday, so the people of Eyjara would kill one girl they suspected of being Hagspawn every thirteen years. Amy Frostblink was the last girl executed, in CE 951. However, the tradition wasn't abolished until the Defenders of Eyjara defeated all three members of the Eyjara Coven, with the last being killed on July 30th CE 964 during the Battle of Eyjara. The Defenders of Eyjara narrowly rescued Kelsy Whitleaf from her fate as an accused Hagspawn of "The Trials". The Trials were then abolished by Lord Isaac Littleflood on August 1st CE 964.