In the anime, the Shadow Lord revives Thaegan through her ring after a rat brings the item to him. Fully restored following the events at the Shifting Sands, Thaegan locates her remaining children to seek revenge, recruiting Hot, Tot, Fie, and Fly to bring Lief's group to her. However, after being aged by the lapis lazuli and accidentally killing her four children, Thaegan is killed by Lief, who cuts off her ring finger; the group takes the ring to ensure she is not revived again. Nevertheless, the Shadow Lord revives Thaegan once more, motivating the sorceress with the fear that her beauty will be ravaged if she fails him again. Using the Mirror of Fear she received, and capturing them after their hardship in the Maze of the Beast, Thaegan attempts to torture Lief's group before murdering them once and for all. However, the plan fails as the Shadow Lord's curse takes effect, with Thaegan losing her magic while the spell that kept her youthful is broken, reducing her to an old corpse hag. She refuses to live on in this state and decides to kill herself with what little magic she has remaining, unexpectedly taking most of her remaining offspring with her as she spends her final moments expressing motherly love to them and the spirits of her deceased children.
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