The fact that the Glenmoril covens seem able to maintain their populations without admitting men into their number is also an object of suspicion for those who live in their vicinities. This does not make them evil, just strict adherents to moral codes that are different from our own. It is true that they are unswervingly committed to a rejection of civilization and civilized ways it is true they admit no male members to their covens it is true they regard themselves as enforcers of certain "laws of nature" which only they recognize. In fact, the Glenmoril Wyrd are all of these things-except, I would argue, evil. This has led to the Glenmoril covens nearly always being described in terms such as uncanny, reclusive, dangerous, inimical, and evil. Their preference for life in the wilderness means their covens are usually located far from the agricultural or pastoral enclaves of "civilized" people, which contributes to the lack of understanding of their true natures. Racially they are almost entirely human, though some covens include human hybrids such as Hagravens and Lamias, who usually rule the covens they live in. The Glenmoril Wyrd are a loose association of female witch covens who revere nature and the natural world, and incline toward Daedra-worship. On the contrary, it is my proven ability to be objective in the context of traditional gender roles, as shown in my celebrated tract, "Saint and Slave-Queen: Alessia and the Lens of Gender," that makes me uniquely qualified to address the subject of a single-sex society like that of the Wyrd Sisters. To be clear, it is not the fact that I am a woman that makes me somehow emotionally better suited to understand the sisterhood of the Glenmoril Wyrd. This is not to say that the groundbreaking work of the Venerable Kigyo of Lilmoth and Professor Barst of Shad Astula are to be entirely discounted, merely that their objectivity has been colored and undermined by their cultural assumptions of male superiority. No folk in Tamriel have been more misunderstood than the witches of the Glenmoril Wyrd-primarily, I believe, because all the scholars who have previously written about them have been men.
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