Hags: 'eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times

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Particularly powerful hags began polluting the environment where they lived, their fell magic and foul nature twisting it just as their own malevolence shaped their powers.

In response to these prayers, the moon came into existence, and with it a queen to command the light, Cegilune. They were egotistical brutes who saw strength as virtue and appealed to simple-minded beings like children or primitives. Smith doesn’t ask and I’d have liked to see a more rigorous analysis of the distinction between misogynistic ageism and ageism per se. This sisterly bond meant they might also reconcile, perhaps if a source of mutual hatred presented itself, [8] and while these relationships were largely lacking in emotion, they were often the closest hags had to "friends".Their long, skinny fingers were tipped by talon-like nails as tough as steel and as sharp as blades, and their mouths were filled with sharp, blackened teeth and noxious breath.

The true lifespan of hags was unknown, and if not fully immortal, they were nevertheless long-lived for many races. These wicked parodies were given powers befitting the hag's nature or that the hag thought would be useful, like limitless stamina, resistance to a certain element, transformations, or teleportation. Titles might refer to a negative personality trait, bad feeling, physical deformity, or matronly position, while last names often combined different body parts, animals, plants, or gross substances. The female child produced at the end of this period appeared like a normal member of the father's kind.This also meant that hags were aware when one of their kind was attacked or killed, to which they could have all manner of responses.

Because all hags kept at least some contact with one another, trading secrets, gossip, and warnings through a vast network of magic, personal visits, and messengers, even an utter hermit of a hag had some awareness of surrounding events, [2] [13] and most hags could be said to have at least some vague, secondhand information about any other hag. Though they behaved with some semblance of civility, coven hags still wanted to increase their personal power, and so the third coven mate served to deal with disputes when the other two inevitably started arguing.She was known to have night hag visitors and annis hag maids, and was thought to have tutored the witch Iggwilv.