Hag, Mute

Family: Hags

Medium fey (hag), chaotic evil

Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 136 (16d8+64)
Speed 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
23 (+6)	17 (+3)	18 (+4)	17 (+3)	16 (+3)	16 (+3)

Skills Arcana +6, Insight +6, Intimidation +6, Perception +9, Stealth +6
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons
Damage Immunities cold
Damage Immunities fire
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, frightened
Senses blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 19
Languages Common, Draconic, Giant, Goblin, Sylvan (cannot speak)
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)

• Blind and Mute. Mute hags tear out their eyes and tongues. A mute hag is immune to effects that require them to see and cannot use magic items that require a spoken command.
• Innate Spellcasting: The hag‘s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). The hag can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
  • At will: detect magic, detect thoughts
  • 3/day each: bestow curse, blindness/deafness, cone of cold (12d8, as a 9th-level spell), contagion, cure wounds, inflict wounds (11d10, as a 9th level spell), silence
  • 1/day each: blight, control weather
• Magic Resistance. The hag has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

ACTIONS

• Multiattack. The hag makes two attacks: a bite and claws.
• Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d6 + 6) piercing damage.
• Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d8 + 6) slashing damage.
• Change Shape. The hag magically polymorphs into a Small or Medium female humanoid, or back into her true form. Her statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies.
• Invisibility. The hag magically turns invisible until she attacks or casts a spell, or until her concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the hag wears or carries is invisible with her.

ABOUT

When bitterness consumes a woman already steeped in arcane power, that energy may sour, driving her to rip out her own eyes and tongue and burning the light from her soul.

This ritual births a strange and horrible creature: a mute hag. These hateful abominations dedicate their wretched lives to spreading misery and strangling joy wherever they go. Mute hags resemble mortal women, but with blotchy, bruised-looking skin. Some conceal their empty eye sockets and ragged teeth with veils or their own hair, but most relish their hideous countenances. Mute hags stand 6 to 7 feet tall and weigh 150 to 250 pounds.

Harvester of Sorrow. Mute hags exist to unmake happy things. Tales claim the natural order despises the crones so much that plants wither at their touch, storms churn at their passing, and wounds they inflict never heal. Though physically capable of ripping a man in two, the crones prefer to corrupt instead. They move silently through peaceful settlements, granting the inhabitants’ darkest desires and sowing the seeds of discord. Nothing pleases a mute hag more than watching friends, neighbors, and lovers murder one another in paranoia and rage. Many strike unholy bargains with mortal outcasts, granting vigor, beauty, or revenge in exchange for vile and unforgivable crimes.