# Bavlorna Blightstraw ![[bavlorna.jpeg]] Bavlorna Blightstraw is the first hag of [[The Hourglass Coven]]. She lives in [[Downfall]], in [[Hither]]. ## Lost things Bavlorna Blightstraw has stolen the following things from the party: - [[Jamedi Cosko|Jamedi]]'s memory of [[Meriele]], his lost love. - [[Flint]]'s battleaxe, Sheila. ## Description Younger than Skabatha and older than Endelyn, Bavlorna is called Slack-jawed Lorna because her wide mouth is prone to hang agape. Flies flit in and out of it. She is the hag of the present, the here and now, the moment to moment. Those desperate individuals who seek her out do so to find a remedy for a nagging problem or anxiety. Though she despises unannounced visitors, a tragic tale of woe and misery puts her in a bargaining mood. If these visitors enter into an agreement with Bavlorna, she’ll use her powers to resolve their pressing problem in exchange for something of use to her. **Alignment**. Neutral evil. **Personality Trait**. “I detest chores and would rather have other creatures do them for me.” **Ideal**. “I don’t care about the past or the future. I live in the present. What I do now, this very moment, is all that matters.” **Bond**. “I’m safe in my cottage. Why should I leave it when I can make others come to me?" **Flaw**. “Watching someone run widdershins makes me sneeze uncontrollably.” ## Bavlorna’s Appearance Bavlorna has a toad-like face with a mouth that magically widens and elongates, enabling her to swallow creatures whole. Her bulging eyes move independently, constantly scanning her surroundings. Stained and moldering patchwork garments hide much of the leathery, mummified flesh that stretches over Bavlorna’s compact frame and extraordinarily long, spindly limbs. She must submerge herself in a briny concoction for an hour each day, or her body will dry out until it locks up in a kind of living rictus, and she remains that way until submerged. As the hours pass between each immersion, her movements become more ponderous and her skin audibly cracks as she moves. Bavlorna lives like a hermit. She is frazzled, impatient, paranoid, and vindictive, lashing out at anyone she thinks is trying to deprive her of the treasures she has tucked away in her cottage. She trusts no one, so she creates tiny duplicates of herself, called lornlings, to serve as her attendants. When she travels away from her lair, she does so on her bobbing lily pad (see appendix A), accompanied by lornlings, which use the quickling stat block in appendix C. ## Bavlorna’s Weakness Bavlorna is allergic to the sight of creatures running counterclockwise in circles, a motion known as “running widdershins.” Creatures that run widdershins within 10 feet of Bavlorna cause her to lapse into a fit of sneezing. See the stat block for more details. ## Statblock ```statblock image: bavlorna.jpeg name: Bavlorna Blightstraw size: Medium type: fey subtype: hag alignment: neutral evil ac: 18 hp: 120 hit_dice: 13d8+52 speed: 30 ft., swim 30 ft. stats: [22, 11, 18, 16, 16, 15] saves: - Con: 7 - Int: 6 - Wis: 4 - Cha: 5 skillsaves: - Arcana: 9 - Deception: 5 - Perception: 4 - Stealth: 3 senses: Truesight 60 ft., passive Perception 14 languages: Common, Elvish, Sylvan cr: 15 traits: - [Amphibious, Bavlorna can breathe air and water.] - [Boon of Immortality, Bavlorna is immune to any effect that would age her, and she can’t die from old age.] actions: - [Multiattack, Bavlorna makes one Bite attack and one Withering Ray attack.] - [Bite, Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10+6) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16) if it is a Medium or smaller creature. Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained, and Bavlorna can’t use her Bite attack on another target.] - [Withering Ray, Ranged Spell Attack: +8 to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3) necrotic damage.] - [Create Lornlings (Recharge 5–6), Bavlorna creates one or two 1-foot-tall duplicates of herself, called lornlings (use the Quickling stat block in appendix C). Each lornling appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of Bavlorna, obeys her commands, and takes its turn immediately after hers. A lornling lasts for 1 hour, until it or Bavlorna dies, or until Bavlorna dismisses it as an action. Bavlorna can have no more than eight lornlings in existence at a time.] spells: - Bavlorna casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15) - At will: detect magic - 2/day each: create food and water, polymorph, remove curse - 1/day: plane shift (self only) legendary_actions: - [Croaking insight, Bavlorna croaks with increasing speed as she tries to peer into the mind of a creature. DC 15 Wisdom save to resist. On a failure, Bavlorna learns the thing the creature is most searching. She gets advantage on the next attack against that creature.] - [Withering Ray, Bavlorna casts Withering Ray.] reactions: - [Swallow, AS A BONUS ACTION, Bavlorna swallows a Small or smaller creature she is grappling, ending the grapple on it. The swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside Bavlorna, and it takes 10 (3d6) acid damage at the start of each of its turns. If the swallowed creature is one of Bavlorna’s lornlings, Bavlorna gains all the lornling’s memories when the acid damage reduces it to 0 hit points. Bavlorna can have only one creature swallowed at a time. If Bavlorna dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.] ```