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A Blood Hag is a type of being somewhere between practitioner and Other, having gained power from the sheer repition of the practices that give them immortality.<ref>“I have not counted, but I can still be utterly confident in saying that I have woken up in the same place for more than nine million of your days. I have gathered, hunted, cooked and eaten the same foods on those same days. I have been born, bled for the first time, and been reborn on more than one thousand occasions. The wheel of life and death turns forward and I am an indelible part of it, especially here. This is a pattern, this is my ritual. Now tell me, what is the truth of this. What does it make me?”
“A hag,” Tiff murmured. “A blood hag.”
- excerpt from Sine Die 14.6 </ref><ref>“Practice,” Tiff said. “Simple actions, made into powerful ones with

tens of thousands of years of repetition.  Train a bird, tune a sound…”

“This is how she operates?” Evan asked.
“No,” Tiff said. Her voice came from another space, as if she were moving. I hadn’t heard the footsteps. “She’s a blood hag. She’ll have

Other powers, and practitioner powers.  This is just what someone can pull off if they just happen to be immortal and very patient.”

- excerpt from Sine Die 14.6 </ref> They sustain their immortality by taking the lives of others.<ref>“Blood Hags survive for as long as they do by taking the lives of others,” Tiff said. “Not to be confused with sanguine

hags, like Bathory.  From what Mara said, she took an immense number of
young lives to live as long as she has.  Stepping into their shoes.  I

don’t know about you guys, um, I’m really not feeling the mercy.” - excerpt from Sine Die 14.8</ref> Most likely they would be considered a type of Heartless.

Notable Blood Hags

Crone Mara

References

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-{{Stub}}A''' Blood Hag '''is a type of being somewhere between [[practitioner]] and [[Other]], having gained power from the sheer repition of the practices that give them immortality.<ref>“I have not
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+A''' Blood Hag '''is a type of being somewhere between [[practitioner]] and [[Other]], having gained power from the sheer repition of the practices that give them immortality.<ref>“I have not
 counted, but I can still be utterly confident in saying that I have
 woken up in the same place for more than nine million of your days.  I
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 more than one thousand occasions.  The wheel of life and death turns
 forward and I am an indelible part of it, especially here.  This is a
-pattern, this is my <em>ritual.  </em>Now tell me, what is the truth of this.  What does it make me?”
+pattern, this is my <em>ritual.  </em>Now tell me, what is the truth of this.  What does it make me?”<br>
+“A hag,” Tiff murmured.  “A blood hag.”<br>
-“A hag,” Tiff murmured.  “A blood hag.”
 - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/sine-die-14-6/ excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.6]]
-</ref><ref>Crone Mara remained where she was.  She reached out and touched a branch.
+</ref><ref>“Practice,” Tiff said.  “Simple actions, made into powerful ones with
+  tens of thousands of years of repetition.  Train a bird, tune a sound…”<br>
-A crack and the branch she’d been tending before our conversation now broke.
+“<em>This</em> is how she operates?” Evan asked.<br>
-The crack seemed to echo through the woods, in the same moment the wind died.
-Like a gunshot, almost, reaching across her territory, the sound
-bouncing off trees that happened to be in the right place, against
-stones, skipping over the surface of water like flat, balanced stones.
-The sound reached its intended audience.  The birds returned. [...] the <em>sky</em> was swallowed by a mass of birds, even that light disappeared.
-[...]
-“Practice,” Tiff said.  “Simple actions, made into powerful ones with
-  tens of thousands of years of repetition.  Train a bird, tune a sound…”
-“<em>This</em> is how she operates?” Evan asked.
 “No,” Tiff said.  Her voice came from another space, as if she were
 moving.  I hadn’t heard the footsteps.  “She’s a blood hag.  She’ll have
-  Other powers, and practitioner powers.  <em>This</em> is just what someone can pull off if they just happen to be immortal and very patient.”
+  Other powers, and practitioner powers.  <em>This</em> is just what someone can pull off if they just happen to be immortal and very patient.”<br>
 - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/sine-die-14-6/ excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.6]]
-</ref> Most likely they would be considered a type of [[Heartless]].
+</ref> They sustain their immortality by taking the lives of others.<ref>“Blood Hags survive for as long as they do by taking the lives of others,” Tiff said.  “Not to be confused with <em>sanguine</em>
+ hags, like Bathory.  From what Mara said, she took an immense number of
+ young lives to live as long as she has.  Stepping into their shoes.  I
+don’t know about you guys, um, I’m really not feeling the mercy.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/sine-die-14-8/ excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.8]]</ref> Most likely they would be considered a type of [[Heartless]].
 == Notable Blood Hags ==