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Sometimes I think about things.
Is Gann’s mother supposed to be a hag, or specifically a night hag? Here’s some lore for u non-geeks (what are you doing on my blog): Hags come in a few different varieties, but they’re essentially all the same creature: monstrous humanoids that use magic and have claws and they can fucking sprint, they’re terrifying, that’s all u need to know. Also they eat people and rape human men and if the offspring is female it grows up to be another hag, but if it’s male it's called a hagspawn - a brutish kinda dull creature w/o any of mama’s perks. Supposed to be eye-meltingly ugly but in-game they just kinda look like dorks. i mean orcs. MotB and apparently everything that references it(??) says that Gann is a hagspawn; he’s the son of one of these hawt mamas and a mortal dude, only instead of rape they had consensual sex and for this reason Gann is a babe (?!! logic).
But theeeen there’s another variety of hags called night hags, which are apparently unrelated to the other kind, they're extraplanar outsiders (liek demons & devils… only NE instead of CE or LE). They put their victims to sleep and mindfuck them in their dreams, unraveling their psyche and whittling away their very self from the inside out. SWEET DREAMS. ok does that sound familiar? BUT WAIT there’s moar: the offspring of night hags aren’t automatically hideous and “ill-tempered” like their cousins on the material plane. They look like normal humans but with blue or violet skin. HMMMMM. SO WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU, GANN. You suuuure sound like the son of a night hag rather than just any ol’ hag… but there’s no reason for that many outsiders to be on the on Prime Material, let alone in Coveya Kurg'annis, and WHY ARE THEY CALLED THE SLUMBERING COVEN if they don’t have sleep powers. But then they are also guarded by ogres. Like normal hags. And night hags are apparently solitary… uuunlike other hags which form covens, it’s called the Slumbering Coven, but also Gulk'aush screams at you (during what can only be described as the most terrifying dungeon crawl ever) to “sleeeeppp…SLEEEEEPP!!” (ur welcome) Gann doesn’t seem to think he’s anything but a normal hagspawn (albeit one blessed in the looks department). And yet he does the dreamwalking thing and is not a hideous brute and what the hell does he know about it anyway, he was raised by spirit animals. Is he rly a half-fiend and doesn’t know it? Or is he really just pretty because mommy and daddy loved each other very much? If Gulk'aush really was a night hag, why did the other hags give a crap if she fell in love (apparently this is a common occurance that hags have to actively guard against, they crave it, falling in love is described as “giving into appetites”. Strange words from women who eat people). And if Gulk'aush wasn’t a night hag… WHY WOULD THE DEVELOPERS DO THIS TO ME. why. …
why.
m... dnd.... Not gonna go into detail lest a fellow campaign member follows, but tree guy is named Halcyon and they are my Hexblood, Circle of the Shepherd Druid :3c They are also from the Tepest Domain from the Domains of Dread!