Sea Hag: Enemy of Beauty

What a pleasant looking lady! I’d eat her mystery ingredient soup! Five bucks to you if you understood that reference.

Lore: Destroyer of Aesthetics

Living in polluted underwater lairs, sea hags are brought to rage at the very sight of beauty. They’ll attack and deface anything gorgeous. Should it bring hope, the hag will work to cause it despair. All that the beauty inspires, the sea hag seeks to destroy.

And… the last paragraph of her lore is just describing how hideous the sea hag is. Thanks. I had failed to notice.

While I feel that this is the weakest lore of all the hags, I still think it’s pretty strong. You can do some fun stuff with this, when you combine it with the general lore of the hags. Perhaps the party meets a beautiful prince/princess trying to better their land, but a sea hag sabotages their every effort. Stuff like that is classic fantasy down to its core and I love it!

Design: I’m going to go clean my eyeballs now.

I’d say take a bath, but… well, you know.

This is a wonderfully disgusting design. I love how deranged the hag’s eye looks! She must be looking at something truly beautiful, because she looks pissed!

So she must be looking at you guys!

I love how different this one is from the other hags. The others look like sinister, clever witches. But the sea hag looks wild and savage. She truly looks insane!

This is an incredible design. It’s unique, it’s disgusting, and it’s a perfect representation of the monster’s lore. This one is a ton of fun for any descriptive dungeon master!

Stats: SURPRISE ATTACK!!!

This is the weakest of the hags. Its AC is pretty low, although not terrible, and its HP isn’t especially high. When a creature’s strongest defensive option is being able to breath both air and water, you’ve got a problem.

It does have a few dangerous abilities, though. With Horrific Appearance, those who start within the same 30ft of the creature must make a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened. Although they can avert their eyes to avoid this, provided they aren’t taken by surprise by the creature’s appearance.

How can that happen, you ask? That boils down to Illusory Appearance. This does exactly what you’d expect. It’s a nice ability for this hideous wench to hide her true self. When combined with Horrific Appearance, the sea hag has a deadly starter weapon to start the fight.

This is even deadlier thanks to Death Glare. With this, the hag forces a victim to make a Wisdom save. Should they fail, their HP will immediately drop to 0.

Yeah, that seems fair.

Oh yeah, she’s also got claws. They do decent damage. But they’re boring and honestly, who cares?

This can make for an absolutely incredible fight! It starts out with a massive bang, with a seemingly beautiful person changing into a horrifying monster and immediately scattering the party. Then it could pick them off one by one with Death Glare, get a few cheap hits in before everyone recovers, or just get away to continue her evil deeds! The initial boom alone could make this a super memorable encounter!

Placement

While this one is the weakest of the hags, I absolutely this this monster! It’s lore is simple, but could make for some truly incredible stories! On top of that, it has a super fun and gross design and stats that can make for a super entertaining battle! I’ve enjoyed every aspect of this monster very much!

With all that in mind, let’s put the Sea Hag on the Best of the Bestiary!

1. Beholder
2. Death Tyrant
3. Dragon Turtle
4. Green Dragons
5. Red Dragons
6. Blue Dragons
7. Black Dragons
8. White Dragons
9. Silver Dragons
10. Couatl
11. Behir
12. Aboleth
13. Sea Hag <—————
14. Bronze Dragons
15. Brass Dragons
16. Copper Dragons
17. Gold Dragons
18. Chuul
19. Gibbering Mouther
20. Chimera
21. Death Knight
22. Fomorian
23. Bone Devil
24. Dracolich
25. Faerie Dragon
26. Night Hag
27. Green Hag
28. Ankheg
29. Storm Giant
30. Hill Giant
31. Empyrean
32. Efreeti
33. Grimlock
34. Dao
35. Cloud Giant
36. Drow (all four of ’em)
37. Shadow Demon
38. Marilith
39. Drider
40. Aarackockra
41. Azer
42. Demilich
43. Spectator
44. Marid
45. Cambion
46. Fire Giant
47. Animated Armor
48. Banshee
49. Basilisk
50. Yochlol
51. Bulette
52. Cloaker
53. Darkmantle
54. Doppelganger
55. Ghoul and Ghast
56. Ettin
57. Pit Fiend
58. Erinyes
59. Chain Devil
60. Bearded Devil
61. Barbed Devil
62. Spined Devil
63. Ice Devil
64. Djinni
65. Nalfeshnee
66. Glabrezu
67. Chasme
68. Grell
69. Barlgura
70. Horned Devil
71. Balor
72. Shadow Dragon
73. Vrock
74. Dretch
75. Gnolls (all three)
76. Goristro
77. Hezrou
78. Manes
79. Frost Giant
80. Duergar
81. Quasit
82. Dryad
83. Flumph
84. Goblin
85. Githyanki
86. Planetar
87. Imp
88. Clay Golem
89. Flameskull
90. Displacer Beast
91. Carrion Crawler
92. Githzerai
93. Grick
94. Rug of Smothering
95. Bugbear Chief
96. Bugbear
97. Flesh Golem
98. Vine Blight
99. Twig Blight
100. Needle Blight
101. Bullywug
102. Ettercap
103. Gas Spore
104. Cockatrice
105. Lemure
106. Solar
107. Deva
108. Gorgon
109. Griffon
110. Cyclops
111. Centaur
112. Ghost
113. Fire Elemental
114. Water Elemental
115. Air Elemental
116. Stone Giant
117. Deep Gnome
118. Dinosaurs (All six of them)
119. Iron Golem
120. Stone Golem
121. Earth Elemental
122. Galeb Duhr
123. Flying Sword
124. Crawling Claw
125. Violet Fungus
126. Shrieker
127. Gargoyle