Editing Hag (section)

==Subspecies==
Hags in D&D come in many different species, as touched upon in their Publication History section above. But, as far as D&D is concerned, there are four species that are particularly iconic; the Annis Hag, the Green Hag, the Sea Hag, and the Night Hag.

====Annis Hags====
Annis hags are the largest and strongest of their species. They tend to associate the most with [[giant]]-kin, such as [[ogre]]s and [[troll]]s. They may not be particularly magically adept, but they're hard to kill and well-suited for rending victims limb from limb. They especially love to corrupt children; they do this by given them tokens formed from bits of the Annis Hag's own body, which they then use to whisper things to the kid, slowly manipulating them into becoming [[That guy|utter sociopaths]].
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Annis hag 1e.jpg
Annis hag dragon 345.png
Annis Hag 5e.jpg|5e saw the Annis take a whole new level in Jesus-Christ-What-the-fuck!?
PF Annis Hag.jpg|Pathfinder's Annis.
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====Green Hags====
Green hags are the most "stereotypical" of the hags, with the general focus on spellcasting and shapeshifting. Their abilities often tend towards either the obvious [[enchanter]] route, or towards evil [[druid]]ism, and they have a particular focus on using their powers of shapechanging and illusions to make lives miserable.
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Green hag 1e.jpg|1e
Green hag 3e.jpg|3e
Green Hag 5e.png|5e went back to its roots for the Green Hag.
green hag B1.png|Pathfinder
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====Sea Hags====
Sea hags are the weakest of their ilk, antisocial fishy loners who live along coastlines. They're generally considered to be the most hideously ugly of their ilk, to the point of being able to scare people to death with their faces in AD&D.
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Seahag 1e.jpg|1e
Sea hag 2e.gif|2e
Sea hag A Hero's Tale.png
sea hag Adam's Wrath.jpg
Sea hag 3e.jpg|3e
Sea Hag 5e.jpeg|The Sea Hag from 5e is... weirdly less a crone and more a fish-woman.
Sea hag DotMM.png
sea hag B1.png|Pathfinder
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====Night Hags====
The [[fiend]]ish Night Hags are an extraplanar branch of the family tree, who specialize in harvesting [[larva]]e, the souls of evil humanoids, and trading them in infernal markets.
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Night hag 1e.png|1e
Night hag MC8.jpg|2e
Night hag 2e.gif|Planescape
Night hag MCR2.jpg|Ravenloft
Night Hag 3e.jpg|3e gave them horns
Night Hag 5e.png|5e
night hag B1.png|Pathfinder
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====Hannya====
The Hannya are a species of hag introduced in [[Oriental Adventures]], and are basically the hideously ugly bastard daughters of a hag and a [[lamia]].
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Hannya MC6.png|2e
Hannya 3e.jpg|3e
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====Bheur Hags====
Bheur Hags are native to the [[Forgotten Realms]] region of Rasheman, and not quite as evil as most hags. They are [[elementalist]]s with an affinity for ice, and considered by the natives to be spirits of winter. At the very least, they often worship [[Auril]]. A similar icy hag, the Marzanna, appears in the Frostburn sourcebook. They appeared in 4e under the name of "Winter Hags".
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Bheur Spellbound 2e.png|The original artwork for the Bheur in AD&D's ''Spellbound'' boxed set.
Bheur MCAV3.jpg|... yeah, apparently, this is the face of voracious winter incarnate.
Winter Hag.jpg|The Winter Hag, a renamed Bheur, appeared in [[Dragon Magazine]] #367 for 4e.
Bhuer Hag 5e.jpg|5e made the Bheur a lot more monstrous-looking.
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====Bog Hags====
Bog Hags are similar in many ways to Green Hags, but can't shapeshift; instead, they murder beautiful women and flay off their skins, which allows them to assume the form of their victims by wearing the hide. These hags are associated with the [[Oriental Adventures]] 3e sourcebook, and arguably are an immigrant from the [[Legend of the Five Rings]] game and its setting of [[Rokugan]].
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Bog_Hag.png|This art originates from the 3e [[Oriental Adventures]] sourcebook, and was later reused for its reappearance in 4e.
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====Pact Hags====
Pact Hags are amongst the most diplomatic of the [[Feywild]] hags, specializing in using bargains and manipulation to corrupt and enslave others. They are often tutors for [[Warlock]]s.

====Dream Hags====
Dream Hags have the power to manipulate and control the dreams of mortals, which they use to goad them into fulfilling schemes and plans of their own without ever being aware of the hag pulling their strings.

==== Dusk Hag ====
From [[Eberron]], Like the Dream hag but also see the future and prophecies. You know Macbeth, then never listen to a hag's prophecy. Unfortunately, most powerful royalty and wizards haven't seen the play or even a greek play, becoming indebted to a hag for the "privilege" of setting a tragedy in motion.
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Dusk Hag.png|5e
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====Mist Hags====
Mist Hags are amongst the most powerful of the [[Feywild]] hags; at a whopping level 27, a Mist Hag is mightier than some [[dragon]]s! They are renowned collectors and hoarders of powerful magical items, with a somewhat tenuous relationship with the [[Archdevil]]s; whilst the dukes and princes of the [[Nine Hells]] often recruit Mist Hags to watch over their more powerful magical items, the hags have a bad tendency to get sticky fingers and steal whatever they were supposed to be guarding.

====Filth Hags====
Filth Hags are amongst the most depraved and vile of all hags. They are always attended to by one or more "sons"; [[golem]]-like abominations made of muck, filth and the hag's excrement, animated by the tormented souls of men seduced by the hag's illusory guise and then devoured. The Filth Hag can drain the life-force from her "Sons" to heal herself in combat.

====Dune Hag/Death Hag====
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====Shrieking Hag====
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