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Adversary overview
Grave hags feed on human corpses and in particular on the rotten marrow which they slurp from human bones using their long, prehensile tongues.
Cremation, now that’s one thing men could learn from gnomes. Burying bodies out in the fields, why, it’s like laying out a welcome mat for monsters! Best case scenario, some ghouls will sniff them out, eat their fill and be on their ghoulish way. But if, gods forbid, a Grave Hag takes to feeding at your cemetery, you’ll have no end of trouble.
– Jacques de Villepin, Oxenfurt Academy
Few monsters’ names fit as well as the Grave Hags’. As one might guess, these creatures resemble aged, deformed women and loiter near graveyards and battlefields. Grave hags feed on human corpses and in particular on the rotten marrow which they slurp from human bones using their long, prehensile tongues. Once a hag has devoured all corpses within reach, she turns to killing men and burying them in the cemetery as she waits for them to decompose.
Grave hags use their tongues in combat to grab or flog their victims. Claws built for digging up buried bodies serve just as well as weapons to rend flesh. Though clumsy in appearance, grave hags move and attack at great speed – sometimes even a Witcher’s reflexes are too slow to avoid their blows.
Grave Hags are territorial creatures. Their lairs resemble caricatures of human homes and are built near burial sites. They venture out at night to hunt, stalking straggling travelers or mourners too lost in their grief to notice the setting of the sun. On rare occasions hunger-driven Grave Hags will hunt during the day. They are less dangerous at such times, for sunlight weakens them considerably.
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Features
Passives
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Relentless (X)
This adversary can be spotlighted up to X times per GM turn. Spend Fear as usual to spotlight them.
Actions
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Tongue Attackstress 1
After doing an Attack Role on a creature, the Grave Hag can mark a Stress to use its tongue to try to grab the target. If the target fails on an Agility Reaction Roll (14), it becomes Restrained and can free themself when they take the spotlight by succeeding on a Strength Action Roll (14). While the Grave Hag has enveloped a target with its tongue, the Grave Hag can mark a Stress to drag the target with it within Very Close range.
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Burrowfear 1
Spend a Fear: The Hag drags a target that it has restrained with its tongue and starts to bury them either in dirt. The Hag can move within Close range for this action. Place a Token on the Hag to mark that it is burying someone. If the target has freed itself from the Hag's tongue, remove the token. If the Hag is spotlighted again and there is a token on it, this action counts as completed and the target has been buried. The target needs to succeed on a Strength Roll (22) to free itself or needs to be unburied by a player using 3 Hope while standing Very Close to the bury location. While buried, the target marks 1 Stress every time any adversary is spotlighted.
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Momentum
When this adversary makes a successful attack against a PC, you gain a Fear.
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Experiences
Grave Hag
Tier 2 solo
Grave hags feed on human corpses and in particular on the rotten marrow which they slurp from human bones using their long, prehensile tongues.
Motives & Tactics: Tongue Grabber, Corpse Eater, Graveyard Lair
Difficulty: 15 | Thresholds: 14 / 26 | HP: 9 | Stress: 5
ATK: +4 | Claws: Melee | 2d20 Physical
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Features
Relentless (X) – Passive: This adversary can be spotlighted up to X times per GM turn. Spend Fear as usual to spotlight them.
Momentum – Reaction: When this adversary makes a successful attack against a PC, you gain a Fear.
Tongue Attack – Action: After doing an Attack Role on a creature, the Grave Hag can mark a Stress to use its tongue to try to grab the target. If the target fails on an Agility Reaction Roll (14), it becomes Restrained and can free themself when they take the spotlight by succeeding on a Strength Action Roll (14). While the Grave Hag has enveloped a target with its tongue, the Grave Hag can mark a Stress to drag the target with it within Very Close range.
Burrow – Action: Spend a Fear: The Hag drags a target that it has restrained with its tongue and starts to bury them either in dirt. The Hag can move within Close range for this action. Place a Token on the Hag to mark that it is burying someone. If the target has freed itself from the Hag's tongue, remove the token. If the Hag is spotlighted again and there is a token on it, this action counts as completed and the target has been buried. The target needs to succeed on a Strength Roll (22) to free itself or needs to be unburied by a player using 3 Hope while standing Very Close to the bury location. While buried, the target marks 1 Stress every time any adversary is spotlighted.
Grave Hag
Cremation, now that’s one thing men could learn from gnomes. Burying bodies out in the fields, why, it’s like laying out a welcome mat for monsters! Best case scenario, some ghouls will sniff them out, eat their fill and be on their ghoulish way. But if, gods forbid, a Grave Hag takes to feeding at your cemetery, you’ll have no end of trouble.
– Jacques de Villepin, Oxenfurt Academy
Few monsters’ names fit as well as the Grave Hags’. As one might guess, these creatures resemble aged, deformed women and loiter near graveyards and battlefields. Grave hags feed on human corpses and in particular on the rotten marrow which they slurp from human bones using their long, prehensile tongues. Once a hag has devoured all corpses within reach, she turns to killing men and burying them in the cemetery as she waits for them to decompose.
Grave hags use their tongues in combat to grab or flog their victims. Claws built for digging up buried bodies serve just as well as weapons to rend flesh. Though clumsy in appearance, grave hags move and attack at great speed – sometimes even a Witcher’s reflexes are too slow to avoid their blows.
Grave Hags are territorial creatures. Their lairs resemble caricatures of human homes and are built near burial sites. They venture out at night to hunt, stalking straggling travelers or mourners too lost in their grief to notice the setting of the sun. On rare occasions hunger-driven Grave Hags will hunt during the day. They are less dangerous at such times, for sunlight weakens them considerably.
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