The folk of Swanlynn have recently documented the existence of Muddling Anis, a dread spirit, female in form, who drowned men in the Overbourne Marshes. The spirit itself was real, but its name and theoretical history derives from Eriadoran mythology, for the victims of the legend devised it to explain the creature's existence. The legend suggested that a group of local young girls had been kidnapped by Vengaree and his band, who hijacked the boat, and sought to sell them as slaves, but hunted by Dúnedan authorities and the folk of the girl's villages, they drowned the girls in the river. In fact, no children were slain, but rather their property stolen; for in truth, Vengaree's band of his wife and their henchmen Handir and Urvalt, corsairs of a sort, kidnapped several Dúnadan children, hoping to sell them as slaves in Umbar, but finding on one a cursed talisman, gifted to her by her father, they released their prisoners in fear, dropping them unconscious in the waste, and leaving them for dead. The girls survived, coming by hard ways to Tharbad, where their terror drove them to form the legend to flee from their pasts; but in the hands of Vengaree, the talisman turned to mischief, and he cast it into the river, speeding down the Brandywine and hoping never to return; and there it summoned an evil spirit, a Faedagun. This was the Annis, which manifested at once into a twisted, corrupt maid-child-form, as an insult to its former owner. The Annis still dwells on the Brandywine river-bottom near Swansong Nape, fearing and hating mannish life, for it considers itself a prisoner of men, both the children who once owned it as property and the ruffians who stole it. Three people have gone missing in this area, murdered because they went out into dark, muddy areas at night, and happened to reseble the talisman's thieves. The Annis remembers the name of Vengaree, and has watched and hated him from a distance—inducing in his corrupt mind visions of terror and dark nightmares. However, it has not attacked him, watching and waiting only. Vengaree, Idris, and their two henchmen Handir and Urvalt, are coming back to Swansong Nape sometime this season. The power of the demon's hatred has left him a recurring nervous twitch; of late, it has even caused him to start suddenly in conversation, thinking that someone has whispered his name while thinking of pain and death.