[Another Cherokee creature. I figured they were, like the ame-onna, sufficiently hag-like to make a type of hag.]
U’tlun’ta This
monstrous old woman has skin like stone. From her right hand grows a single
long claw.
The u’tlun’ta, also known as
the stone hag or the spearfinger hag, is a loathsome predator that lurks at the
edges of civilization in order to prey on travelers and innocents. Like most
hags, their favorite prey are children, and they delight in masquerading as
helpless old ladies in order to come close. Their weapon of choice is a single
awl-like finger, capable of making deep and deadly puncture wounds. If they
have time to savor a kill, they will devour the unfortunates’ liver and leave
the rest of the corpse behind as a warning.
Although an u’tlun’ta may use
hill giants in her schemes, they despise stone giants and war with them
frequently. An u’tlun’ta is more cunning and magically gifted, but the stone giants
have the advantage of numbers and ranged capacity. A disguised u’tlun’ta may
entice adventurers into wiping out a tribe of stone giants for her, and then
turn on the adventurers when they are weakened and weary. U’tlun’ta are
misanthropic and anti-social even by the standards of hags. They rarely form
covens, but may be persuaded to come down from their rocky retreats by the
promise of mass murder. A coven containing one or more u’tlun’ta adds stone to flesh and flesh to stone to the spell-like
abilities they can use through coven magic.
Stone hags are nearly extinct in modern Gladia due to the Kingdom of Kown-Dam, who similarly favored mountain terrain, fighting harshly against their wicked ways. They still inhabit the most remote peaks, and are said to be common in the Sredis mountains of Munab, where they form covens to fight the Jet-Spear Clan of stone giants. In Munab, they sometimes roam further afield to prey in the city-states.
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