Pesta

Pesta is one of the antagonists in Bramble: The Mountain King. She serves as the sixth boss. 
== Biography ==
Pesta is a demon hag and responsible for the zombifying plague witnessed in the village which was partially destroyed during the hunt for Skogsrå. Based on the historical Bubonic Plague, the plague unleashed by Pesta causes the dead to rise up and cannibalize each other and any living human who encounters the village. Upon Olle's escape from the village, he finds a rowboat, and begins rowing across the water to reach the mountain where Lillemor is being held. Pesta appears behind Olle in the row boat and attempts to trap Olle via nightmarish hallucinations. Ultimately, Olle defeats and banishes Pesta from his mind, but it is unknown whether or not the demon hag continues to walk the earth, spreading plague and disease in its wake. 
==Characteristics==
===Appearance===
Pesta has the appearance of an old woman, with wrinkly skin and liver spots. She wears a black cloak that covers her head, and holds a rake in her hands.
===Personality===
She has a near-constant serious look on her face. She only ever smiles when she traps Olle in a hallucination. 
===Abilities===
Pesta can cause people to become fatally sick, but since Olle does not get sick from being next to her, she needs to intentionally cause illness by coughing or breathing at her targets. During the fight with her, she invades Olle's mind, and makes him hallucinate, which allows her to use other abilities:
* Summoning a horde of rats to attack
* Stabbing and slamming her rake
* Making copies of herself
* Spewing a cloud of disease from her mouth
* Growing larger to swallow the player
==Trivia==
*Pesta literally means "plague" in Norwegian.
*In the original story of Pesta, she would travel from village to village, spreading disease wherever she went. If she entered a town holding a rake, some people would survive the epidemic. If she entered the town holding a broom, everyone in town would die.
**In the stories that mention her, Pesta is not malicious, but simply is the personification of a plague, taking life indiscriminately.
==Gallery==
File:Pestawatchesolle.png|Pesta watches Olle in the distance
File:Pestabehindolle.png|Pesta appears behind Olle in the boat
File:Pestabreathingplague.png|Pesta about to spew the plague onto Olle
File:Pestarake.png|Trying to crush Olle with the rake
File:Pestaandrats.png|Summoning rats
File:Giantpestabright.png|About to swallow Olle
File:Pestaweakened.png|Pesta weakened
Category:Antagonists