Character from Pale by Wildbow
A Mare — a night hag with filthy hair, pitch-black eyes, and a Scottish accent who tampers with dreams, harvests echoes, and coordinates supernatural meetings through shared nightmares.
Alpeana is the quietest member of Kennet's council and possibly the most pervasive. She tampers with dreams and nightmares, harvests immaterial echoes, and maintains universal balances that most beings aren't aware exist. She can teleport between realms and associates with the Sable Judge, which gives her access to power structures that dwarf Kennet's local politics. As a murder suspect, she's assessed as unlikely — her physical capabilities are limited, making her an accomplice at most rather than a perpetrator. Her real value to the investigation is informational: she monitors the spirit world, coordinates dream meetings for Others, and sees what people think about when they think nobody's watching.
Filthy hair, totally black eyes, ragged clothes. Scottish accent. Shy in person but omnipresent in the dream world. Climbs walls and ceilings. Presents as something between a ghost and a Victorian urchin who got lost in the wrong century.
Also known as: The Mare, Night Hag