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Hags may dissolve their covens or seek to maintain or build their numbers by recruiting replacement Hags that impress the existing members with inflicting frightening curses, devastating disasters, and intriguing corruption upon mortal creatures. With the greater power that results from a Coven, Hags can defeat their powerful enemies, gain more influence and knowledge, and overcome threats that jeopardize their livelihoods. Though Hags prefer to either be alone or rule minions, Hags with common goals will band together to form Covens. Hags of lesser status will sometimes apprentice or associate themselves with an Auntie to gain greater respect, and Hag spawn born to Grandmothers are inherently higher ranking than lesser Hags. The most experienced and wisest of Hags are called Grandmothers respectable but lower Hags are referred to as Aunties young and fresh Hags, about mid-forty in age, are Daughters and Hag spawn, indistinguishable from humanoid races, are colloquially referred to as Changelings. The hierarchy of Hags is largely due to age, abilities, influence, alliances, and experience, and each Hag knows her place in the chain. Hags are believed to be immortal, as the oldest hag is greater in age than dragons and elves. Now, the hags continue to avenge their mother moon’s wretched spirit, bringing suffering and corruption to all living creatures.Īt the end of the multiverse, in the pit called the Gray Wastes, Cegilune fosters her remaining powers with hopes to annihilate mortals who scorned her and the counterfeit deities of the night who replaced her. With hearts corrupted by their anger and bloodthirst, the daughters’ divine blessing from the moon goddess malformed into a repugnant curse. Powerful new deities in the land drove the daughters of the moon goddess into the darkest corners of the world, along with Cegilune herself, now a grisly and weakened crone. In her wrath, Cegilune obliterated thousands of her former followers, sending her remaining priestess daughters on a fierce but short-lived bloody crusade. New deities from faraway lands made appearances in Cegilune’s territory, causing the goddess to age and grow wrinkled as her followers dwindled in numbers. Devoted priests and prophets gained favor and power, while adoring followers became neglected and fell from the flock. The beautiful silver queen Cegilune quickly became like a goddess over the new world, though her fickle nature waxed and waned like her moon companion. When the world was first budding, dark monsters haunted the night, and frightened creatures prayed into existence the moon, which brought a ruler over its light.