Do Night Hags have any connection to other Hags?

[Felon]

Just wondering if any modules, novels, sourcebooks, or other "official" source has ever stated any connection between night hags (which are outsiders) and other varieties of hag (which are monstrous humanoids). Anyone got anything on the topic?

 

[diaglo]

yes. but remembering where is the problem.

maybe it was in one of the Ecologies of series in Dragon Magazine way back when....

 

[Particle_Man]

E-mail.

 

[LoneWolf23]

Dragon #324 has an Ecology article on the Night Hags, but it leaves the Hag/Night Hag connection hazy.

 

[LostSoul]

I believe there was something about this in one of Ravenloft's Van Richtoven Guides. (Or whatever they were actually called.)

 

[shilsen]

I believe there was something about this in one of Ravenloft's Van Richtoven Guides. (Or whatever they were actually called.)

Van Richten. Van Richtoven was this crazy guy who staked Strahd with a biplane

 

[ruleslawyer]

The Ecology of the Greenhag, in Dragon 116 (?), is the source you're looking for. It proposes the theory that night hags mate with mortals to give birth to greenhags, which in turn mate with giants and ogres to turn out the annis. That does, of course, leave out where sea hags and all those other nifty new ones (the bheur, etc.) come from...

 

[Tonguez]

IMC I have The Nighthag (there is only one) be a minor demi-goddess who is the supposed ancestress of all other hags (and called upon by them in certain rituals).

 

[Desdichado]

I thought there were some vague hints in the 3.5 monster manual about this, but maybe I'm remembering it from somewhere else. Wasn't there an article on night hags in the October Dragon? Maybe that's what I'm thinking of...

 

[Yalius]

I seem to remember an article "The Ecology of the Greenhag" that said that... greenhags were the offspring of night hags and mortals... and annis hags were the offspring of greenhags and ogres...