Auntie Dirtha Bonebender

A hag who arrived at Grit's camp to collect her cauldron. Seven feet tall, hunched, and carried on swirling dust, she sniffed the air and glanced knowingly at the party before shrinking her cauldron, muttering "tick tock," and vanishing on the wind.

Grit is bound to her by a dark bargain involving raw magic and potions brewed from cactid remains. When Madam Helena's magic cracked through to glimpse the nature of the arrangement, she sensed that Grit's time is running out - and the connection was violently severed.

For a moment, Helena forgot her companions entirely, seeing only the hag pointing at her from the desert below.

Warning: Auntie Dirtha has taken specific notice of Madam Helena.