Hags
Hags are witches who broke the rules. Rather than maintaining the balance between the planes, they tried to control them. They used the powers given to them to torment the material plane. They may have even twisted the emotions of spirits to make them angry and spiteful, causing chaos. Abusing the spirits would poison the water supply, mutilate the trees, and alter the witch as well. Removing the soul from the witch, leaving only the addled mind and twisted magics. This could turn valleys into swamps or marshes, forests into twisted deserts, etc. Hags do not eat like other creatures, they seek out living things, and remove the soul, taking that as nourishment. They live eternal, hungering for the thing that was taken from them. Some hags, who still have a sense of self, manipulate those around them, stirring chaos for their amusement. More dangerous still, these hags are often more powerful, having made deals with forces more ancient than themselves.
Once a hag has been killed, her lands must be tended to by a proper witch or powerful druid in order to, over a period of years, restore it to what it once was and make it hospitable for living things, as well as spirits.
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