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Table Of Contents 67 . Hagspawn Hag Options 68 . Hagspawn Brute 2 . Elder Hags 68 . Hagspawn Mage 3 . Hag Magic 69 . Hagspawn Thug 3 . Hag Curses 70 . Jack o' Lantern 4 . Transformations 71 . Jermlaine 4 . Familiars 72 . Kenku Mage 4 . Animal Affinities 73 . Leech Toad 4 . Hag Alchemy 74 . Libation Oozes 7 . Hag Items 74 . Amber Ale 11 . Weird Magic 75 . Golden Champagne 15 . Hag Weaknesses 75 . Ebony Lager 16 . Non-Evil Hags 75 . Ivory Moonshine 17 . Covens 77 . Perfumed Liqueur 17 . Coven Challenge Ratings 77 . Ruby Merlot 18 . Elder Covens 78 . Moor Hound 18 . New Coven Types 79 . Quablyn 19 . Non-Evil Covens 80 . Scarecrow 19 . Coven Items 80 . Effigy Scarecrows 21 . Unique Covens 80 . Guardian Scarecrows 80 . Infernal Scarecrow New Hags 80 . Pestilence Scarecrows 27 . Carey Hag 81 . Shadow Asp 29 . Deemves Hag 82 . Sporeback Toad 31 . Deep Hag 82 . Stirge Swarm 33 . Dusk Hag 83 . Stitched Devil 35 . Fanggen Hag 84 . Styrix 38 . Hocus Hag 85 . Wastrel 40 . Marzanna Hag 42 . Mojan Hag Unique Hags 44 . Powler Hag 86 . Baba Yaga, Mother of All Witches 46 . Sighing Hag 87 . Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut 87 . The Solar Knight Hag Related Creatures 90 . Black Agga, the Voice of Vaprak 49 . Animated Objects 93 . Cegilune, the Moon Crone 49 . Dancing Cauldron 96 . Yaya Zhelamiss 50 . Flying Spoon 98 . Ceithlenn, of the Crooked Teeth 50 . Swarm of Cutlery 101 . Malagard, the Hag Countess 50 . Ash Rat 106 . Kalabon 52 . Assassin Devil (Dogai) 53 . Boglin 54 . Broodswarm 55 . Cait Sith 56 . Canomorph 56 . Haraknin 57 . Shadurakul 58 . Yeshbavhan 59 . Catobleopas Harbinger 60 . Dark Naga 61 . Dreamweaver 62 . Evil Trees 63 . Black Willow 64 . Dark Cypress 64 . Night Twist Sample66 . Umbral Banyan file 1 Hag Options Elder Hags All hags are dangerous and foul, and as they get older they get Elder Hags more wily, cunning, and cruel. A hag is well known in her Elder hags use the statistics of a typical hag of their locale, stories of her being told from generation to variety with a few extra features which adjust their generation. However, some hags have lived so long and Challenge Rating as follows: cultivated such notoriety that they have made names for Elder Annis Hag. CR 12 (8,400 XP) themselves that extend beyond the bounds of their immediate Elder Bheur Hag. CR 13 (10,000 XP) territories. Elder Green Hag. CR 9 (5,000 XP) Elder Night Hag. CR 10 (5,900 XP) Covens. Elder hags are not as likely to form covens with Elder Sea Hag. CR 8 (3,900 XP) other hags, as they are more powerful and, therefore, less inclined to cooperate with weaker hags. However, when The hag gains resistance to bludgeoning, covens of elder hags are formed, they can orchestrate horrific piercing, and slashing damage from non- and subtle tragedies beyond what any mortal can endure. magical weapons that aren't silvered if it didn't already have that resistance or immunity. Sample Elder Hags The hag has the Legendary Resistance and There are not many elder hags in the world. Hags accrue Magic Resistance traits described below. enemies like others accrue hobbies, and many do not survive The hag possesses a suite of legendary actions longer than a handful of centuries before their sins catch up (described below). Some of the legendary with them. However, those that do manage to outwit their actions described below are specific to particular hag types, while others are common foes to live for a millenia or more are legendary for their throughout all types of elder hags. cunning, cruelty, and horrific magic. Brackish Beverly. This especially hideous sea hag spent Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the hag fails a her early years killing beautiful coral reefs, twisting bountiful saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead sanctuaries of life into dead stretches of barren rock and Magic Resistance. The hag has advantage on sand. Now that she has gained greater power, she has set her saving throws against spells and magical effects. goals even higher. Abandoning the desolate waters of her home, she sas traveled up a river to pollute its headwaters Legendary Actions with her brackish poisons. Now the rivers of the entire region The hag can take 3 legendary actions, choosing slowly fill with undrinkable sludge, and fish and beasts alike from the options below. Only one legendary action wither away and die, replaced by twisted, malshaped horrors option can be used at a time and only at the end of usually reserved for only the deepest depths of the ocean. another creature's turn. The hag regains spent Cailleach Blacktoe. Cailleach Blacktoe, or Callie as she legendary actions at the start of her turn. likes to be called, is an elder bheur hag who loves peace and Attack. The hag makes one claw or slam attack. quiet, and she will go to great lengths to ensure her solitude, Curse (Costs 2 Actions). The hag casts bestow including burying entire towns under mountains of snow. curse. However, heroes always seek her out with the intention of Earthshaker (Costs 2 Actions, Annis Hag Only). The making her pay for her murders, interrupting her precious hag causes the ground within 30 feet of her to privacy. So she has set herself on a quest to find the ring of shake violently. Any creature other than the hag winter, with the intention of using its power to freeze the standing on the ground in the area must succeed entire world. This quest has taken her to many locales she on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be knocked finds loathsome, and her current destination is the most prone. Snowflurry (Costs 2 Actions, Bheur Hag Only). If hated destination of all: the hot, chittering, noisy jungles of the hag is wielding her graystaff, she creates a 30- Chult. foot radius sphere of whirling snow centered on herself, heavily obscuring the area, which lasts until the end of her next turn. Invisible Escape (Costs 2 Actions, Green Hag Only). The hag uses her Invisible Passage action. Ghost Step (Costs 2 Actions, Night Hag Only). The hag uses her Etherealness action. Foul Stench (Costs 2 Actions, Sea Hag Only). The hag produces a burst of horrific odor. All creatures within 20 feet of her must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned Sampleuntil the end of their next tufilern. 2 Granny Garbagecan. With a nasty sense of humor and a cunning that has allowed her to snub her nose at even Hag Magic archdevils, this elder green hag is a legend in her own right. Hag magic is the magic of spite, of weakness turned to She has played a small but significant role in innumerable strength and beauty turned to horror. Hag magic is unlike any tragedies throughout the ages. They say that she even played other form of magic. It is arcane power shaped by malice and a role in the fall of Netheril. But perhaps she is merely her fueled by spite. It is strange and treacherous power cobbled own best publicist. After all, there is a story for how she together out of what meager supplies can be found in the played a role in almost every tragedy across the Sword Coast, world. It has humble origins and sinister applications, and even today. They say she provided the murderers of Neri, only hags can truly understand the rationale behind its queen of the storm giants, with weapons mighty enough to cankerous design. This makes hag magic incredibly slay the giant queen. Rumors say that she played a hand in dangerous, as even an experienced wizard cannot truly sabotaging the ritual that lead to the demon lords escaping understand the full, twisted scope of a hag made trinket. the Abyss as a favor to Lolth. No one knows what Granny Hag magic centers around being unpredictable and Garbagecan is planning now, but it can be assured that it will strange, and they are capable of laying bizarre curses on have far-reaching consequences. creatures. These curses may be built into a location like a Styrix Riftspanner. Once, this elder night hag was just one trap, contained within a jar or bag for the hag to throw at a of the many night hags that roamed the Grey Wastes of creature, or built into a potion or item that the hag possesses. Hades. However, the darklord Azalin, prisoner of the Even something given willingly by a hag usually comes with a Domains of Dread, pulled her into his fell land through dark curse, as they cannot help but spread misery. magic, trapping her there with him. Through long study, she was able to devise a contraption that allowed her to escape, making her one of the only beings to escape a domain of Hag Curses dread, leaving Azalin cursing her name in impotent fury. An average hag curse typically lasts for as long as a creature Since that day, she has made a name for herself and has set wields an item or is attuned to an item, or in the case of a up shop in Sigil, where she raises the styrix owls (see pg 84) potion or spell it persists for as long as the creature is under after which she is named and sells escape plans and other the effects of the potion or spell. However, more powerful cunning devices to planar travelers. It's believed that she hags are capable of creating hag curses that last for an consorts with the ghost echoes of another elder night hag, extended period of time, or are even permanent.