ECOLOGY

Environment temperate marshes or underground
Organization solitary
Treasure none

Some hags create hag eye oozes to serve as scouts and spies, favoring them over humanoid servants due to the ease with which they can be controlled. With hag eye oozes' ability to blend in and climb nearly any surface, they are ideal for patrolling the hag's lair and territory. Hag eye oozes seem to be imbued with a sliver of caution, watching intruders from a distance and avoiding combat unless directed to attack. Once given a command, these creatures mindlessly pursue their goals.

Hag eye oozes can sometimes grow larger than 5 cubic feet, though most are smaller, taking up roughly half that space.

Hag eye oozes have gelatinous, transparent bodies that can sometimes grow larger than 5 cubic feet, though most are smaller, taking up roughly half that space. To date, no specimens have been found weighing more than 500 pounds.

Hag Eye Ooze Creation

Creating a hag eye ooze requires a strange blend of cooking and dark rituals that takes 2 weeks. For each additional member of a coven involved in the process, the creation time is lessened by 2 days, to a minimum of 3 days. During this period, the creator must add various ingredients to a brewing cauldron. The hag must consult strange texts and foul recipes to assure proper creation. If she misses a step or poorly measures a reagent, the necessary arcane energies to create the hag eye ooze do not bind to the creature's nascent form. If successful, the hag then begins a 24-hour ritual, during which she must bombard the brewing cauldron with spells. This spellcasting ritual culminates in the addition of a hag's eye—preferably from the creator herself. If the ritual is successful, the hag eye ooze animates fully formed and able to serve as a minion.

The hag eye ooze is under the control of its creator, but in cases where a coven takes part in creating the ooze, the hag that supplied the eye controls the creature.