Character from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The eldest of the Winter Queens — blind, crippled, ancient beyond reckoning, and possessed of power that could unmake continents if she ever bothered to stand up from her rocking chair.
Mother Winter is the Crone — the third and eldest aspect of Winter's triple-goddess structure, after the Mother and the Lady. She is to Mab what Mab is to mortals: something so far beyond in power and age that comparison becomes meaningless. She is blind and crippled and sits in a cottage knitting, and she could unmake nations if she bothered to get up. She doesn't, because her role is not action but existence — she is the deep foundation of Winter, the bedrock beneath the glacier. When Harry encountered her, she treated him like an amusing insect, which was generous. She knows things about the universe's architecture that even Mab doesn't fully grasp. Her power is not flashy; it's tectonic. She knits. The knitting may or may not be metaphorical. Nothing about her is safe to assume.
An impossibly ancient crone — hunched, withered, blind, with gnarled hands that knit constantly. Sits in a rocking chair in a cottage that exists outside normal space. Her blindness is not a limitation; she perceives everything. The air around her is heavy with power so vast it feels geological. She looks like every scary grandmother from every fairy tale ever told, and every one of those tales was a warning. Her knitting needles click with a rhythm that sounds like the ticking of a clock counting down something cosmic.
Also known as: Mother Winter, The Mother, The Crone