Cuckoo Hag

A cuckoo hag adds Dominate, Nightmare, Outcast's Curse, and Scrying to their coven's spells. This monster can form a coven with two or more other creatures who also have the coven ability. This involves performing an 8-hour ceremony with all prospective coven members. After the coven is formed, each of its members gains elite adjustments, adjusting their levels accordingly. Coven members can sense other members' locations and conditions by spending a single action, which has the concentrate trait, and can sense what another coven member is sensing as a two-action activity, which has the concentrate trait as well. Covens also grant spells and rituals to their members, but these can be cast only in cooperation between three coven members who are all within 30 feet of one another. A coven member can contribute to a coven spell with a single action that has the concentrate trait. If two coven members have contributed these actions within the last round, a third member can cast a coven spell on her turn by spending the normal spellcasting actions. A coven can cast its coven spells an unlimited number of times but can cast only one coven spell each round. All covens grant the 8th-rank Cursed Metamorphosis spell and all the following spells, which the coven can cast at any rank up to 5th: Augury, Charm, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Dream Message, Illusory Disguise, Illusory Scene, Scouting Eye, and Talking Corpse. Individual creatures with the coven ability also grant additional spells to any coven they join. A coven can also cast the Control Weather ritual, with a DC of 23 instead of the standard DC. If a coven member's departure or death brings the coven below three members, the remaining members keep their elite adjustments for 24 hours, but without enough members to contribute the necessary actions, they can't cast coven spells.

A cuckoo hag who succeeds at a Deception check to Lie can mimic the sound of any feminine voice they have heard (in cases where this may be unclear, the GM is the final arbiter) and have a +4 circumstance bonus to this check.

The cuckoo hag can take on the appearance of any Medium female humanoid. This doesn't change their Speed or their attack and damage bonuses with their Strikes but might change the damage type their Strikes deal (typically to bludgeoning). The monster changes its shape indefinitely. It can use this action again to return to its natural shape or adopt a new shape. Unless otherwise noted, a monster cannot use Change Shape to appear as a specific individual. Using Change Shape counts as creating a disguise for the Impersonate use of Deception. The monster's transformation automatically defeats Perception DCs to determine whether the creature is a member of the ancestry or creature type into which it transformed, and it gains a +4 status bonus to its Deception DC to prevent others from seeing through its disguise. Change Shape abilities specify what shapes the monster can adopt. The monster doesn't gain any special abilities of the new shape, only its physical form. For example, in each shape, it replaces its normal Speeds and Strikes, and might potentially change its senses or size. Any changes are listed in its stat block.

A cuckoo hag is intrinsically connected to a pocket dimension that serves as their home domain. The lair is an extradimensional space that is 40 feet wide, 40 feet deep, and 30 feet tall. It contains whatever mundane food, buildings, landscapes, and objects that the cuckoo hag desires, though anything removed from the cuckoo's lair dissolves into nothingness instantly. In order to enter or leave the plane, the cuckoo hag must create a door in the physical world as a single action, which has the concentrate and manipulate traits. The door is Invisible by default, though the cuckoo hag can choose a target creature that can perceive the door normally. The cuckoo hag can Dismiss this door from reality, but only if they (and no other creature) are inside of their lair and alone.

Requirements The cuckoo hag can cast Seize Soul at will, but only to target a creature who has agreed to stay with them forever. They typically do so as soon as the agreement is made but might hold off to gain leverage over a situation.

The cuckoo hag can cast Seize Soul at will, but only to target a creature who has agreed to stay with them forever. They typically do so as soon as the agreement is made but might hold off to gain leverage over a situation. They typically place the soul into a construct, typically a soulbound doll if they want a companion or a more powerful construct if they want a guardian.