Hag

The Wizened Hag/Hag/Hag Witch is a human boss that appears in the Weald.

History
According to the Ancestor, the Hag started out as a young woman who persistently approached the manor offering him mastery of alchemy and medicine. The Ancestor was initially intrigued by her science, gave her lodgings and performed many experiments with her. The relationship soured due to the woman's increasingly compulsive self-experimentation, which twisted her both mentally and physically, apparently driven by the evil underneath the manor. Disgusted, the Ancestor turned her loose into the Weald. There she continued her research, further developing a taste for human flesh.

Behaviour
The Hag always appears taking up rank 3 and 4, with her pot taking up the front two ranks. Neither she nor her pot can be moved from those positions.

During the first turn of the battle, she will use In the Pot! on one of your heroes. This places them in the pot, where they cannot do anything and take heavy HP damage every time the Hag makes a move. The Hag has multiple moves per turn.

The pot can be attacked down to 0 HP to tip it over, which releases the trapped hero. The pot immediately respawns however, and the Hag will duly put another hero in (it can be the same one). The pot automatically tips over when the hero inside reaches death's door.

Whilst a hero is inside the pot, the Hag uses Seasoned to Perfection, Meat Tenderizer and Taste the Stew on the rest of the party, concentrating mostly on building stress. None of them do much damage, but because the Hag gets multiple turns and because Tenderizer hits the whole party, they are extremely dangerous to heroes at death's door.

Strategy
There is no strategy universally agreed upon, but the most reccomended is to stack bleeds on the Hag and tip over the cauldron if a character is inside. Ranged characters are heavily reccomended, as some melee characters may not be able to hit the Hag herself. Arbalest and Man-at-arms are higly recommended classes due to far range of their attacks.