Annis Hag

Family: Hags

Large fey, neutral evil

Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 136 (16d10+48)
Speed 30 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
20 (+5) 14 (+2) 16 (+3) 14 (+2) 18 (+4) 18 (+4)

Skills Deception +4, Perception +7, Stealth +4
Damage Resistances piercing or slashing from nonmagical attacks
Senses darkvision 60 ft., fog sense, passive Perception 17
Languages Common, Giant, Sylvan
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)

SPECIAL TRAITS

ACTIONS

  • Multiattack. The annis hag can make two claw attacks as an action.
  • Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one grappled target. Hit: 10 (1d8 + 5) piercing damage.
  • Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) slashing damage. If the creature is Medium or smaller, than they are grappled (DC 15 to escape) and restrained until the grapple ends. The annis hag has two claws and can grapple a single Medium or smaller creature with each claw.
  • Change Shape. The annis hag can transform into a Medium female humanoid and back again. However, when in such a form she loses her bite and claw attacks. Any clothing she carries on her resizes, but otherwise does not change in appearance.

ABOUT

Dwelling in dark caves, tangled hollows, and cursed ruins deep within frozen swamps or icy moors, annis hags stalk forth by night to sow fear and hunt the unwary. Although possessed of cunning minds, they often cannot resist indulging in their taste for living flesh and the music of pleading screams of victims they approach in the guise of friendly travelers or folk in need. The typical annis hag stands just over 8 feet tall and weighs upward of 300 pounds.

Trophy Hunters. Annis hags find the flesh of children, young animals, and the pure of heart particularly pleasing, both for the tenderness of such meals and for the sorrow such murders spread. After gorging themselves, these hags delight in stripping the skin from their victims, often garbing themselves in the grisly trophies. They may keep collect heads and faces to return to the victims’ families as horrific anonymous gifts, sometimes implicating friends or family in the murder. They may keep collect heads and faces to return to the victims’ families as horrific anonymous gifts, sometimes implicating friends or family in the murder.

Coven Leaders. Annis hags dislike forming covens with other hags, always dominating their smaller cousins when they do.

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