The ‘Children’ of Blacknail the Hag

Posted on January 6, 2026 in Steel-Realms

The Children of Blacknail is a Steel Realms Timeline Tale; recorded knowledge.
THIS IS HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE >

There are several humunculi of Blacknail the Hag still alive. These special creatures can detect a hag by smell, at a distance of over 100 feet, probably even double that or more directly downwind.

The highly useful ‘children of Blacknail’ still have a connection to the Faeywyld, and can sense both its energies and creatures that dwell there by smell. Their small bodies have a human face of the child they replaced when stolen. They speak the faerie tongue of Feyloise in addition to Gladnorian. They can touch & wield a cursed item, sense that it is cursed (though not its details), and remain unaffected by it. All of these were once examined by the Rhylander Green Conjurists & Quizman’s magi, as well as priests of Darupet and Gaia in order to see if their connection to her could be revealed and tracked. Instead of killing them, they were ‘rescued’.

Hidden Knowledge > One of the Children of Blacknail is a helper to the pine tribes of The Wyldes at the Village of Wickern.

Hidden Knowledge > One of the Children of Blacknail is in The Schan-Karr of Haivelaugh.

Hidden Knowledge > One of the Children of Blacknail serves the Rhylander Green Conjurists at Ten Box Chemists in the city of Klyben.