Hooded One

The Hooded One is an ominous, Grim Reaper-like figure who serves as the primary antagonist in the graphic novel Bone. She is an immensely powerful Veni-Yan-Cari (Dream Shaman) who leads the Rat Creatures and seeks to release the frightful Lord of the Locusts on the world. She is eventually revealed to be Princess Briar Harvestar the sister of Gran'ma Rose, and great-aunt of the female primary protagonist Thorn Harvestar.

Appearance
The Hooded One is a scary figure wearing a dark blue robe whose hood completely conceals her face. She walks crouched, as if hunchbacked, and carries a scythe. Being an undead, she is deathly frail and thin. Given that she was killed being sliced in two, her body consists in two halves held together by a swarm of locusts under her robe.

When she was alive, she was a very beautiful woman, tall and slender, with middle-length auburn hair, blue eyes and regal features, looking almost exactly like her sister Rose. Now her face is ugly, skinny and twisted, with yellow eyes, deathly greyish skin and disheveled hair; in stark contrast with her sister who retained her good looks despite her old age.

Origin
She is the servant of the Lord of the Locusts, as well as Kingdok's superior. It is implied that The Hooded One is a former Veni Yan warrior, as she wears a similar robe and hood.

It is later revealed that the Hooded One is Briar Harvestar, the elder sister of Gran'ma Ben and the grandaunt of Thorn. Briar was made to feel inferior to her sister when she was younger, and when the Rat Creatures invaded in the great war, she betrayed the Royal family by leading them to the Rat Creatures. When the King, Thorn's father, learned of this betrayal, he cut her in half with an abandoned harvesting scythe, which the Hooded One now carries as a weapon that can now cut through steel and rock. Briar was possessed and resurrected by a swarm of locusts.

The Hooded One is often thought of as resembling the Grim Reaper in physical appearance, although there is no real connection between the two. She is killed when her master, the Lord of the Locusts, was destroyed. It is suggested by some of her actions throughout the storyline that being the servant of the Lord of the Locusts drove her insane.