Children's Tale: The Great Owl

Without a murmur, without a sound she will come for you and take you away.
Far to the west, where there's always night, where the land of her brethren is.
She'll steal what you have, what you are, leaving just a wooden shell.

— One of the versions of the tale of the Great Owl.

There is a tale told to almost every child on the Urnketh whenever they start to misbehave.
Depending on the place, it was passed on orally, in writing, both in prose and poetry, sung and played at the stage.
According to it, when the night sets, the child who has been naughty will be spirited away by the Great Owl, a being that lives far away in the western forest, far beyond lands warped by Colors.
Most of the stories describe her as a 2 meters tall being, with two giant blue eyes that glow in the night. She can fly without a sound and her plumage blends into the night sky. Whenever she captures someone in her claws, she can start to drain them of all of the knowledge they possess and with it, their life essence. They get drier and drier until their skin turns to wood and they become dolls she poses near her kingdom to ward off any intruders.
Those who still decide to enter her forest are never seen again, increasing the army of the dolls, or filling the stomachs of her brethren.

Not many know this, but the Great Owl is more than a children's cautionary tale.
The path to her forest really is littered with wooden dolls, that may or may not be of her doing.
The oldest things written about her have been created over 200 years ago.
The one thing one needs to know is that over the years, some tales and rumors become more and more exaggerated.