ECOLOGY

Environment Nine Hells
Organization solitary or covey (1 pit hag plus 2-4 erinyeses)
Treasure standard

One of the cruelest members of the hag race, pit hags bear great pitchforks with which they comb through the embers and bone piles of the deepest pits of Hell looking for the most forlorn souls to torment. They are known to gather armies of lesser souls into brigades with which to carve out their own fiefdoms in the lower planes.

A few powerful pit hags serve as concubines and wives of pit fiends (even in Hell there is torment for its devilish masters), ruling their palaces in their stead during the pit fiend's lengthy campaigns.

A pit hag appears as a 6-foot tall female humanoid with crimson red skin, small upward pointing horns of golden-red and eyes the color of the fires of Hell itself. Its hands and feet end in wickedly sharp curved claws and its mouth is filled with razor-sharp fangs that they constantly lick with their forked black tongues. A pit hag has a small barbed tail (useless in combat).

Pit hags attack with their spells before closing in with pitchforks and claws. Their melee abilities are prodigious. They prefer to attack a single foe at a time, choosing clerics and paladins over other enemies. Given the chance, a pit hag uses her aura of affliction ability to disease as many of her opponents as she can at once before unleashing a barrage of spells on her hapless opponents.