Night Hag

**Night hags** are native fiends who are considered the ambassadors and mediators of the Children of Khyber.

## History

Night hags are one of the first children of Khyber. Born from the Progenitor Dragon Khyber's blood, the night hags and their brethren the rakshasa ruled Eberron in a time known as the Age of Demons, but were eventually defeated by the dragons and the couatls.

The night hags escaped the fall of the Overlords during the Age of Demons relatively unharmed, and were not as fully aligned with them as the rakshasa, preferring to pursue their own plans.

Today, most of the few remaining night hags call the Demon Wastes and Droaam home. Nine night hags are known to remain in the Demon Wastes.

## Appearance & Personality

Night hags look like hideously ugly human women. Their flesh range from blue to violet, and is covered with warts, blisters, and open sores. Night hags' hair is wiry and black, and their teeth are jagged and yellow. Their eyes burn red with the heat of hatred.

The night hags of the Demon Wastes have their own cult: the Moon Reavers. This tribe of the Carrion Tribes is made up of mostly barbarians who revel in spreading fear by the night of the moon. They specialize in terror tactics and guerrilla warfare.

Most night hags respond with hostility when approached, but they may be appeased with proper manners and tribute.

Much of their attention is focused on traveling the planes of existence.

## Abilities

Night hags hunger for human flesh, and feed on their prey with abandon. Their razor-sharp claws can rip through armor as easily as it does flesh. They carry a disease called "demon fever," which infects their prey with their bite.

Many night hags have a periapt called a *hearthstone, w*hich it can use to enter the dreams of others. The *hearthstone* can also cure someone of demon fever.

Night hags have a large amount of *spell-like abilities*. They can detect a creature's alignment, can change their shapes, can cause their targets to become weakened or to go to sleep, can cast *plane shift* multiple times per day, and can become ethereal.

Sometimes, for reasons unknown to mortals, a night hag will give birth to an oracular dusk hag.

Primal night hags are immortal and have existed since the dawn of time. If slain, they will reform in the demiplane known as the First Night. Ghazra’s brood can be killed, at which point they infect their killers with their nightmare curse.

## Notable Personalities

There are nine known night hags residing in the Demon Wastes. Several night hags are notable.

* **Kyrale:** The night hag Kyrale is known to serve as an ambassador between the various fiendish powers of the Demon Wastes.
* **Sora Azhara:** Sora Azhara is a primal night hag with a particular love of Fernia. She crafted the first nightmares by fusing literal nightmares with the ashes of the Demon Wastes and mortal souls. A few of her sisters admired her creations, delighting in their ability to carry mortals into dangerous places, and created nightmares of their own.
* **Sora Ghazra:** Sora Ghazra is a primal night hag that was slain by the Dhakaani dirge singer Uula Korkala in the Age of Monsters. Upon her death, she laid a curse upon her killers that transformed them into night hags themselves. When any one of them dies, their killers will soon be consumed by the same nightmares: creating a cursed line of hags that corrupts the very heroes who try to end their threat.
* **Sora Kell, the Queen of the Night:** Sora Kell is a powerful night hag arcanist whose three hag daughters have established dominion over Droaam. She has not been seen in over 100 years.
* **Vraria, the Queen of Rotting Blade:** Vraria claims dominion over the thorp of Rotting Blade in the Demon Wastes. She rules over its 40 residents as a queen. She is regarded as a bogeyman by those in the nearby western regions of Khorvaire and she send her minions out to search for her next victims.
* **Santyriana:** Santyriana is the leader of the shrouded sages of Taer Lian Doresh, the Fortress of Fading Dreams.
* **Auntie Jabra:** Jabra is a night hag arcanist who runs a potion shop in the Bloodstone district of Graywall in Droaam where she sells bottled dreams and nightmares. She is considered a cousin to the Daughters of Sora Kell. Jabra sells goods in both Droaam and the Immeasurable Market of Syrania. Her goods won’t necessarily bring misfortune to the buyer; among other things, she sells dreams she’s collected over the centuries. But SOME of her goods are certainly bound to bring tragedy to someone, if not necessarily the person who purchases them. And more than anything, her work as a merchant is a way to while away the immortal hours while she waits for someone interesting to cross her path: a story she can delight in following to its end.
* **Sora Tenya.** Sora Tenya is a descendant of Sora Ghazra. There is a tale of Sola the Smith who outwrestled Sora Tenya.

## Notes

Keith Baker has suggested on his website that the night hags may have had a hand in the conflict between the previous incarnations of the quori of Dal Quor and the ancient giants of Xen'drik.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 ***Eberron Campaign Setting***.
Keith Baker, Bill Slavicsek, and James Wyatt (2004). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3274-0.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 ***Monster Manual***.
Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook (July 2003). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
3. ↑ Keith Baker (02/03/2017). Eberron Flashback: The Lords of Dust. “Despite technically being children of Khyber, [night hags] were never aligned with the Overlords. They’re neutral and independent; each one pursues their own agenda. Some served as envoys in the ancient conflict; others had no interest in it.”
4. ↑ ***Player's Guide to Eberron***.
James Wyatt, Keith Baker, Luke Johnson, Steven Brown (2006). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3912-5.
5. ↑ ***Dragonshards: Masters of Magic***. Keith Baker (July 25th, 2005). Wizards of the Coast.
6. ↑ ***Dragonshards: Masters of Magic***. Keith Baker (July 25th, 2005). Wizards of the Coast.
7. ↑ ***Eberron Campaign Guide***.
James Wyatt and Keith Baker (2009). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-5099-4.
8. ↑ "**Backdrop Graywall**" (October 2008) by Keith Baker. *Dragon Magazine* issue 368.
9. ↑ Keith Baker (5/10/2016). Dragonmarks 5/10/16 : Planes, Druids, and Fiends. “However, I’d personally say that the Night Hags are known in Dal Quor – I think they’d extend their role as fiendish ambassador to include their interaction with Dal Quor. I think they’d HAVE to know more about the previous incarnations of Dal Quor than the Quori do, which would be an immediate basis for a relationship. It could be that they have helped shape the Quori reaction to the turn of the age in this and previous ages… they might have even set the Quori-Giant war in motion.”