Esme (Granny) Weatherwax

Granny Weatherwax is the eldest witch in Lancre, and is far and away the most powerful. She is tall and lean, spry for her age, with long gray hair that she keeps tied in a tight bun beneath her witch's hat.

Granny is kind but far from sweet-natured. She is difficult to get along with and has an acerbic manner. She is prudish and skeptical of anything fancy. Uneducated, her speech is littered with bad grammar and her spelling is atrocious. She is brilliant, more than a little wise, and a prototypical lateral thinker.

When she was a young woman, and aspiring witch, Esme investigated the Dancer and ended up meeting the elf Queen. She turned down the elf Queen's offer of power, a test that the other young witch, Diamanda would later fail. Around that same time, Esme was being courted by Mustrum Ridcully, a...