Morgantha's own mother: a blue-grey hag twice a man's height out of the deep wood, with iron teeth, iron nails and a basket the size of a cradle. Her claws reach, her hug holds and crushes, and she rakes again whenever you think you've stepped clear.
AC
HP
Speed
CR
XP
17
184 (19d10+80)
40 ft
8
3900
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
21 (+5)
12 (+1)
18 (+4)
13 (+1)
14 (+2)
15 (+2)
Saving throws: CON +7, WIS +5
Skills: Deception +5, Perception +5, Stealth +4
Resistant: cold
Condition immunities: charmed
Senses: darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 15
Languages: Common, Sylvan
Traits
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). When Granny Ash fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead, twice a day.
Iron Teeth. Granny Ash's teeth and nails are iron. A girl she has raised grows the same iron in at the gums before her thirteenth birthday, and Granny can smell it a valley away.
Actions
Multiattack. Granny Ash makes two Iron Claw attacks and one Bite attack.
Iron Claw. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) Slashing damage.
Bite. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) Piercing damage.
Crushing Hug. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) Bludgeoning damage. A Medium or smaller target is Grappled (escape DC 15); until it gets free it is also Restrained and takes 16 (2d10 + 5) Bludgeoning damage at the start of each of its turns. Granny can hug only one creature at a time.
Where you meet it
The Miller's Lane: The Fourth Sister · Granny Ash comes across the lane with her dogs at her heels, and in the hag garden behind her the blights…