IMG_RE_003 Cinder Hag full-body portrait. Ash-grey cracked skin with embers burning beneath. Smouldering hair. Hands trailing black smoke. Dark background with heat shimmer. Vertical, tall composition.

Playable Hag · D&D 5e

Cinder Hag

The Hag of Flame and Ruin

Destruction / Fire and Ash

Lore

Who she is.

She is not the fire. She is what is left after.

Cinder Hags are born from catastrophe. Where a Green Hag grows from neglect and a Sea Hag from isolation, the Cinder Hag is the direct result of destruction: villages razed, forests burned, lives ended in an hour. Something in the ash decides to get up.

They are not angry creatures, despite what their nature suggests. Anger requires investment in the outcome. A Cinder Hag has no investment. She burns because burning is what she does, the way a river flows downhill. She is not cruel. She is simply the logic of fire made conscious.

In the Daughters of the Black Forest, the Cinder Hag brings something to the coven that the others cannot: she ends things. Green Hags manipulate, Night Hags torment, Sea Hags wait. The Cinder Hag solves the problem that patience cannot.

She stood in the ruins of the town she'd burned. Not gloating. Just watching the ash settle. This is what things become, she thought. Eventually.

IMG_RE_C01 Burning Ash coven spell in action. A cloud of black ash erupting outward from a gesturing hag. Enemies silhouetted inside the cloud, choking and burning. Dramatic orange glow from within the ash.

Playable Abilities

What she can do.

A preview of the core mechanics. Full class chassis, level progression, and coven magic in the book.

Ember Step Passive

Ash and cinders follow wherever you walk. Difficult terrain you create doesn't slow you. Enemies who enter spaces you've occupied this turn take 1d4 fire damage.

Ashen Palm Action

You press your palm against a surface and leave a burning rune of ash. Any creature that touches or passes through the marked surface makes a CON save or takes 2d6 fire damage and is blinded until the start of their next turn.

Smouldering Curse Bonus Action

You mark a creature with smouldering hex. Until the hex ends, any fire damage that creature takes is also dealt to the nearest adjacent creature. The hex lasts until the target takes fire damage or 1 minute passes.

Coven Magic

Burning Ash

The coven's most destructive ritual. Black ash erupts in a 40-foot radius. Every creature in the cloud makes a CON save or takes fire damage and is blinded. At level 4 the cloud lingers. At level 8 hitting the cloud with fire detonates it.

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Cinder Hag

Who she is.

What she can do.

Burning Ash

The Cinder Hag class PDF is coming.