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Hag (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the hag is a horrible monstrous humanoid creature whose love of evil is equalled only by their ugliness. All hags are apparently female, at least in form.

Hags are usually chaotic evil and usually gather together in covens of three, with one hag of each of the three most common types (annis, greenhag, and sea hag). Each type of hag is known to possess a fair amount of magic, but as a covey each one possesses much greater magical power.

Many hags worship the dark goddess Cegilune.

Types of Hags

  • Annis - The dreaded annis commonly uses magic to disguise itself as an exceptionally tall human, a fair giant, or an ogre.
  • Bheur - A bheur hag is capable of bringing winter's chill to any place in the land.
  • Dune Hag - Wasteland cousins of the annis, dune hags use their disguise self and enthrall abilities to lure victims to their deaths.
  • Dusk Hag - Accursed offspring of night hags, can see visions of the future in her dreams and can influence the dreams of others.
  • Green Hag - Green hags are found in desolate swamps and dark forests and are able to weaken foes simply by touch.
  • Marzanna - This winter hag is the personification of death and winter.
  • Sea Hag - Sea hags are fully aquatic, with an appearance to horrific that it saps the strength out of living creatures. The sea hag is also able to use her "evil eye" to kill or daze victims.
  • Shrieking Hag - Shrieking hags are horrible, spiteful monsters who haunt desolate wastelands and barren plains.
  • Xtabay - A foul hag from Mayan legend.

Related Creatures

  • Hagspawn - The male children of hags, brutish and ill-tempered creatures.
  • Night Hag - These are actually fiends, outsiders native to the Lower Planes rather than monstrous humanoids.

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  • Baur, Wolfgang, James Jacobs, and George Strayton. Frostburn (Wizards of the Coast, 2004).
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  • Findley, Nigel D. The Ecology of the Greenhag Dragon #125 (TSR, 1987).
  • Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual (TSR, 1977).
  • Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual II ([TSR, 1983).
  • Schneider, F. Wesley. The Ecology of the Annis. Dragon #345 (Paizo Publishing, 2006).
  • Schneider, F. Wesley. The Ecology of the Green Hag. Dragon #331 (Paizo Publishing, 2005).
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