Water Hag

Water hags are necrophages that stand nearly two yards tall, with pinkish-green skin, wrinkled, wart-covered bodies, long bony growths on their backs and hair like tangled seaweed. Folk tales call them drowners’ wives, and some stories say they pose as old women to lure travelers into the wetlands. Another tale holds that they are fallen naiads who lost their youth after loving mortal men.

They live in shallow streams, rivers and swamps, swim well and can move through mud surprisingly fast. In a fight they slash with sickle-like claws and hurl balls of mud with nasty accuracy, blinding anyone who gets hit. They are often found with drowners, which makes them much more dangerous. They tend to appear at low levels but hit harder than you’d expect.

In The Witcher 3 you meet them in White Orchard and all over the bogs of Velen. One lurks in the cave below Crow’s Perch during the Bloody Baron quest, and more appear in Ladies of the Wood and The Whispering Hillock. In Skellige, A Bard’s Beloved ends with a talking water hag in a cave, and Contract: Muire D’yaeblen from Kaer Trolde pits you against Abaya, a named hag you lure out with drowner pheromones.