Back At it Like a Hag Addict (Patreon)

We can't stop with hags half done, so here's the rest of the core coven-crew, brewed up and ready to go.

Bheur hags are the kind of story people only tell when they live somewhere awful; they're winter and want embodied as an active force of malicious torment; they don't hate you, they're just curious what you'll do when everything goes horribly wrong in your life, and they're gonna make sure you get the opportunity to show them. Somewhat uniquely among hags, they'll back off eventually in a conflict if you show enough mettle; at some point in the ordeal of their interest, they'll call time, leaving any survivors to pick up the pieces. They always return in time, but not out of any grudge or ill will; it's just that they've got a reputation of inevitability to maintain, you see.

I think the natural place to use a Bheur is as a sort of epilogue to a harrowing survival adventure, letting players confront and interrogate a physical manifestation of the primal force they've been battling against.

For sea hags, the angle I took is that they're some of the pettiest and most whimsical hags; they've got beef all up and down the coast with people of every class and stature, and any dealing with them is going to involve screwing over someone who was in your shoes last week, and later getting screwed over by the next person to knock on her door. They'll brew up something foul to transform your body however you like, but you'll give up a piece of yourself in the process, and their services are always more ephemeral than their fees.

Bheur Hags

Sea Hags