NPC - The Night Hag's Daughter

NPC - The Night Hag's Daughter

When the Temple of Elemental Evil was overthrown many powerful entities were released. One of them was a Night Hag named, on this Oerth, Solonia and her daughter, a strange combination of Night Hag and Demi-Urge, Valera.

The race of Night Hags is born from the essence of the Plane called Hades and a strict number of them exist at one time. When one is slain there is a black viscid pool that releases the larval form of another Night Hag. On the fetid banks of this pool they squirm about and consume the bodies of evil creatures who are captured by Night Hags brought to Hades and transformed into parodies of the Night Hag larva.

Somehow a being, a user of magic no longer human, captured the Night Hag Solonia and conceived the mad but immensely powerful Valera. Solonia would have vengeance upon this Demi-Urge but his power is too great, so great that he has put a compulsion upon the Hag to watch over her daughter and remain bound to the Oerth.

The Demi-Urge conferred upon both Solonia and Valera the ability to mask their true nature and unless powerful magic is used to pierce this illusion they appear as a comely matron of middle years and a strikingly beautiful young woman just past the first blush of youth.

Since being released from the strange prison within the Temple of Elemental Evil Solonia first approached the lands of the Horned Society but the power of the Hierarchs proved to great for any direct confrontation so she settled among the Bandit Kingdoms in the city of Freehold where she runs a prosperous inn called The Black Kettle.

Valera requires a steady diet of creatures changed to larvae by her mother and the inn has proven to be the perfect solution. People of malign and evil nature pass through Freehold on a continuous basis and many are never missed. Solonia is careful about who she transforms and Valera lacks the true hags ability to transform them herself.-*