Blood hag
Blood hags, also called soucouyants or blood crones, are blood-thirsty hags whose true form is a ball of fire.12✝
Appearance
A blood hag averages around six feet in height and weigh 120 pounds. During the day they masquerade as the last victim they consumed by wearing the victim's skin in as a convincing disguise.2 At night they reveal their true form and ambush their neighbors to experiment with, feast upon, and bathe in their blood.1
Blood hag skin
The skin from a slain blood hag can be used as a material component in certain demonic rituals. While potentially worth up to 120 gold pieces, most who encounter a dead blood hag destroy the flesh to prevent its use toward evil ends.2
Abilities
A blood hag can wear skin harvested from any humanoid they have killed.12 To deter a blood hag from wearing a victim's skin, it can be lined with coarse salt. Blood hags can also sense blood nearby, and in their true form can fly swiftly and squeeze through spaces as small as a keyhole.2✝
A blood hag reverting to her true form can choose to either preserve her flesh disguise by removing it slowly, or can explode through the flesh suit, which destroys it in the process.2
Blood hags have sharp fangs that they use to drain a victim's blood, which restores its health and sustains its life.2
Changelings
Changelings born to blood hags are known as blood-born changelings or veil mays, and are known for their incredible facility of disguising themselves3 and being accepted by their parent ancestry.4
Veil mays can shed their outer layer of skin, allowing them to more easily impersonate another person. Veil mays are also distinguished from other changeling heritages by having one blood-red eye.3✝
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 . “Threats of the Shackles” in Isles of the Shackles, 61. Paizo Inc., 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 . “Monsters A-Z” in Bestiary 3, 130. Paizo Inc., 2021
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 . “Changeling” in Ancestry Guide, 22. Paizo Inc., 2021
- ↑ . “Changeling Heritages” in Blood of the Coven, 6. Paizo Inc., 2017
External links
- Soucouyant (real-world myth) on Wikipedia
