# Baba Lysaga

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> [!infobox]
> ![baba lysaga](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/baba-lysaga.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** chaotic evil
> **Challenge:** 11 (7200 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 15
> **Hit Points:** 120 (16d8+48)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

An ancient witch: three staff blows, a 16th-level wizard's spells, swarms of insects at her call.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 120 (16d8+48) | 30 ft | 11 | 7200 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 (+4) | 10 (+0) | 16 (+3) | 20 (+5) | 17 (+3) | 13 (+1) |

- **Saving throws:** WIS +7
- **Skills:** Arcana +13, Religion +13
- **Languages:** Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Dwarvish, Giant

### Traits

- **Hidden from Divination.** Divination magic can't find her, as if she were under Nondetection.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Makes three Quarterstaff attacks.
- **Quarterstaff.** Cracks a staff; 8 (1d8 + 4) two-handed.
- **Fire Bolt.** Casts Fire Bolt up to 120 ft.
- **Spellcasting.** A 16th-level spellcaster using Intelligence (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit). Cantrips: Acid Splash, Fire Bolt, Light, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation. 1st level (4 slots): Detect Magic, Magic Missile, Sleep, Witch Bolt. 2nd level (3 slots): Crown of Madness, Enlarge/Reduce, Misty Step. 3rd level (3 slots): Dispel Magic, Fireball, Lightning Bolt. 4th level (3 slots): Blight, Evard's Black Tentacles, Polymorph. 5th level (2 slots): Cloudkill, Geas, Scrying. 6th level (1 slot): Programmed Illusion, True Seeing. 7th level (1 slot): Finger of Death, Mirage Arcane. 8th level (1 slot): Power Word Stun.
- **Shapechange.** Text only for the engine.
- **Summon Swarms of Insects.** They stay until killed or until she dismisses them as an action. Text only for the engine.

## Where you meet it

- [The Ruins of Berez](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-ruins-of-berez.md): *The stump heaves. Roots as thick as a man tear out of the mud, and the hut rises on them, swaying, its door…*
- [The Ruins of Berez](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-ruins-of-berez.md): *A bowl of yellow bone comes skimming over the reeds, low and fast, with a tiny furious woman standing in it.…*
- [The Ruins of Berez](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-ruins-of-berez.md): *She comes up out of the mud with her nails out, shrieking, and the reeds shriek with her.*
- [Baba Lysaga's Hut](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/baba-lysagas-hut.md): *The door of the hut slams itself. The fire in the hearth stands up tall and green, and the jars on the shelf…*