Hags

- | Hags,
The Mysterious Echoes & Voices One Can Hear In The Streets And Alleys Of The City Of Madness Often Lead To a Hag's Nest. 
Their Art Is Something That Borders The Mystical, One Cannot Call It "Magic" But In a Way It's More Powerful Than Magic Could Ever Be. Hags Are Proficient In Many Sorts Of Rituals, Having Specialized Skills And Knowledge Often Useful To Clear The Maluocchio From One's Soul & Mind.
The Very First Ritual, Indeed, Belongs To Them. To Be a Hag Is Not an Easy Life, And The Very First Ritual Every Hag Has to Endure Is The Tearing Of The Eye.
Hags Have To Willingly Abandon Their Light, And With It Their Eyes And Vision. It Is a Cruel Ritual In The Manner, But Pure in Intent. It Is Often Performed By The Hag Mother Herself On The Newest Initiates, And It's Not a Pleasant Experience. At All. 
By Renouncing Their Vision And Their Own Light, Hags Gain The Ability To See Everything Else In a Much More Clearer Way. It Is Whispered That They Can "See" The Maluocchio's Influences Physically, Almost in an Ether-Like Way, And Can Peek Through a Citizen's Own Soul Just By Looking At Them. 
Hags are often required in the most important Rituals, Often Called By The Different Casts Of The City Of Madness, And Are Held In Very High Regard By The Majority Of Citizens. Some Of Them, It Is Said, Can Speak Directly To Ego And The Marchingi, Even Though They Rarely Receive some form of Response. 
Their Faith Is Obscure And It Is Not Spoken At All. Although It is Common to See Initiate Hags In The Masses Of The Greater Good, With Time It Becomes a Rare Occurrance. Their Rituals Are More Powerful Than They'll Ever Speak With Clear Intent. 
Hagging Is The Practice Of Mimicking Every Kind Of Ritual That Belongs To a Specific Hag. With Time And Experience, Most Hags Develop Their Own Personal Way Of Dealing With The Forces Of The Beyond, And Have a Personal Way Of Dealing With The Maluocchio, The Greater Good Itself And The Forces Of Ego. 
By Becoming a Hag, One Can Never Reach The Endless Chasm. So It Was Spoken Millennia Ago, And So It Shall Be Forevermore. Their Place In The Afterlife Is Known Only To Them, And By Blade And Sacrifice They Are Free To Choose Whatever They Please.
In Some Way, They Are Linked To The Gold Dust Woman, Although With The Passing Of Millennia, Much Of Their Origins Has Become Shrouded In Mystery. They Retain Beauty Until The Moment Of Their Death. Almost Every Hag is Born or Has Become Female In The Essence, But Male Hags Did exist At Some Point in The History Of The City, For a Very Brief Moment In Time.
In The Times Of Halflaugh, Hags Have Become Somewhat Of a Rarity. The Most Trusted And Powerful Of Them Is Hag Harenne, Wich Is Said To Be Several Centuries Old. Not My Business, Anyway. {You're Always Beautiful, Harenne.}
P.