Night Hag

The creatures known as the **Night Hags** are said to be the most hideous of the known Hag variant species. They are capable of using Ether-based magic and turning intangible temporarily.

## Lifecycle

1. **Hag Child**: Night Hag children are practically impossible to tell from a human child until their 13th birthday if their hag mother has the child participate in a dark ritual once every week until their 13th birthday otherwise they remain human for the rest of their lives.
2. **Hag**: From the moment of the completion of their ritual on their 13th birthday, a Night Hag comes into existence. This new Hag is not too strong nor too powerful yet. It is at this point the Hag will join the coven of their mother they will stay in this coven unless forced out until they reach Grandmother status.
3. **Auntie**: An elder hag between the adulthood of a Hag and the power of a Grandma usually serves as the subordinate to a Grandmother.
4. **Grandmother**: Ancient and the most powerful a hag will be is if she lives to be a Grandma. Grandmas are usually coven leaders or they'll leave a coven to start one so that they can be the leader.

## Abilities

### Physical

* **Claw Retraction**: **Night Hags** possess sharp claws for carving up their prey.
* **Darkvision**: **Night Hags** can see in the dark within a specific radius. They can see in dim light within the radius as if it were bright light, and in total darkness as if it were dim light. Though they can’t discern color in the darkness, only shades of gray.
* **Fang Retraction**: **Night Hags** possess razor-sharp yellowed fangs.

### Magical

* **Intangibility**: **Night Hags** can short amounts of time move through solid objects and ignore most physical effects in their way; by slipping partially into another dimension. During this time a **Night Hag** can ignore most attacks, physical dangers, and gravity.
* **Mystic Object Creation**: See Item Creation below.
* **Oneirokinesis**: **Night Hags** possess the ability to psychically manipulate dreams and related phenomena.
* **Soul Absorption**: **Night Hags** can absorb souls, removing them from the source into their own body and using it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage though at this time it is unknown what exactly.
* **Spell Casting**: Night Hags possess inherent knowledge and skill to cast the following Etheric spells.
	+ Ether Magic
		- Novice Level Spells
			* **Afan's Mirror**:
			* **Blemish**:
			* **Glamour**: Though they are not fond of using it, **Night Hags** can cast the Glamour spell allowing them to disguise themself as a stunning young human woman.
			* **Hold Tongue**:
			* **Magic Screen**:
		- Journeyman Level Spells
			* **Cloak**:
			* **Hammerspace**:
			* **Illusion**:
			* **Trap Portal**: Night Hags are capable of redirecting a portal via the Trap Portal spell.
		- Master Level Spells
			* **Standing Portal**: Though only tuned to the Etheric Plane, Night Hags can create standing portals using their magic.

## Behaviors

### Lairing

**Night hags** make their dwellings in strategically chosen locales; small caves and hollows, abandoned mines, forested ruins, lone crags, and other grim, isolated spots nearby secluded towns. Either by the traps surrounding the area around a lair, their Foglet minions posted around them, or by coming across them on their own, night hags are typically alerted about the presence of intruders and do not take to them kindly.

### Predation

**Night Hags** eat human flesh but can feed off of nightmares as well, they actually prefer the taste of nightmares. They view children as both a delicacy and a resource to be used.

### Reproduction

Should the hag need a few more subordinates, they'll kidnap a newborn baby eat it, and produce an identical hag child to return to human parents to raise for a while then ruin their lives to have the child exiled making the child an easy target to take in and expand their covens. Hag children if they live past their 13th birthday without a weekly dark ritual from their mother never become hags instead they stay as normal humans. Many hag children actually live past their 13th birthdays without being transformed. They will live their lives with no knowledge of their lineage, ignored by their hag parent who didn't feel the need to follow through on the rituals.

### Weaknesses

#### Silver

Like most magical or unnatural monsters **Night Hags** have an aversion to silver.

#### Necrophage Oil

**Night Hags** take more damage when struck with a silver witcher's sword covered in Necrophage Oil.

#### Fey Oil

**Night Hags** take more damage when struck with a silver witcher's sword covered in Fey Oil.

## Harvestable Parts

### Hag Teeth

The teeth of a hag are an alchemical ingredient of the Rebis family as such can be used for potions and processing into the alchemical substance known as Pure Rebis.

### Necrophage Blood

The blood of a necrophage is a alchemical ingredient of the Rebis family as such can be used for potions and processing into the alchemical substance known as Pure Rebis.

## Trivia

* **Night Hags** are free to use in stories and articles, all I ask is that you honor the lore present and if you make one add their name and a link to this page.

## Notes

* The necrophage species known as the **Night Hag** is a purely fanon creation as such there is no official proof of their existence in the Witcher works outside the fanon community.