Blessing of Mother Night. Baba Lysaga is shielded against divination magic, as though protected by a Nondetection spell.
Boon of Immortality. As long as she has performed her ritual, Baba Lysaga is immune to any effect that would age her, and she can't die from old age.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Baba Lysaga fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Plague of Locusts. Each creature that starts its turn within a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on Baba Lysaga of her choice, must make a DC 17 Consitution saving throw or take 11 (2d10) poison damage and be poisoned until the start of that creature's next turn. This aura also gives Baba Lysaga half cover against ranged weapon attacks.
Special Equipment. Baba Lysaga wears a Medallion of Thoughts, and has a Wand of Web. She also carries two scrolls, a scroll of Dimension Door, and a scroll of Summon Greater Demon.
Multiattack. Baba Lysaga makes two Life Extinguishing Bolt attacks, and uses Scourge Swarm or Spellcasting. If she uses Spellcasting in this way, she can't cast spells of 5th level or higher except for Bestow Curse.
Life Extinguishing Bolt. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 120 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature other than a Construct or Undead, it must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0. If a humanoid dies from Baba Lysaga’s Life Extinguishing Bolt, it rises as a ghoul under Baba Lysaga’s control.
Scourge Swarm. Baba Lysaga summons a swarm of insects (flies) at one space she can see within 60 feet of her. If a creature is in the space where the swarm of insects is summoned, the creature must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or take 19 (3d12) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. The swarm of insects is under Baba Lysaga's control and lasts for 1 minute, or until it or Baba Lysaga is slain. Baba Lysaga can have up to four swarm of insects (flies) under her control at a time.
Spellcasting. Baba Lysaga casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: Detect Magic, Disguise Self, Enlarge/Reduce, Identify (as an action), Light, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation, Sleep
2/day each: Bestow Curse (as a 5th level spell), Blight, Crown of Madness, Dispel Magic, Evard's Black Tentacles, Insect Plague, Invisibility, Lightning Bolt, Polymorph
1/day each: Finger of Death, Geas (as an action), Mirage Arcane (as an action), Power Word Stun, Programmed Illusion, Scrying (as an action), True Seeing
Shapechange. Baba Lysaga, along with anything she is wearing, magically transforms into a swarm of insects (flies), while retaining her game statistics (other than her size and movement). While in swarm form, she has a walking speed of 5 feet and a flying speed of 30 feet. This transformation ends if Baba Lysaga is reduced to 0 hit points or if she uses a bonus action to end it.
Swarming Escape. When Baba Lysaga is hit by an attack, she can disperse into a swarm of insects, avoiding the attack and teleporting, along with any equipment she is wearing or carrying, to an unoccupied space she can see within 30 feet of her, she then reforms into her true form.
Description
Baba Lysaga.
Two women gave life to Strahd von Zarovich. The first was Queen Ravenovia van Roeyen, Strahd's biological mother. The second was the queen's midwife, a devout follower of Mother Night named Baba Lysaga. Although it was the former who raised Strahd and enabled him to follow in his father's footsteps, it was the latter who sensed a potential for greatness and darkness in Strahd surpassing that of any other mortal. Lysaga believed then, as she believes now, that she is Strahd's true mother.
Other Mother.
When Strahd was still a baby in his crib, Baba Lysaga cast protective spells on him and crept into his nursery on stormy nights to sing magical rhymes to him. She also placed the "spark of magic" in him, ensuring that he would become a spellcaster.
Baba Lysaga's unhealthy attachment to the baby Strahd did not go unnoticed. After she received several disturbing reports, Queen Ravenovia was forced to banish the midwife from the kingdom. Lysaga never saw Strahd again, but she has succeeded in staying alive to witness the triumphs of her beloved boy, who, in her mind, is eternally blessed. Despite the horrors Strahd has wrought, Lysaga still envisions him as the perfect child she delivered into the world. Strahd is the only thing in her life that matters to her.
Mother Nearest.
During her exile, Baba Lysaga made countless sacrifices to Mother Night, pleading with the goddess to afflict Queen Ravenovia with ill health and visit death upon her. Lysaga eventually got her wish, and after Strahd settled in the valley of Barovia, Lysaga moved as close to him as she dared to. In the filth-ridden depths of her heart, Lysaga knows that Strahd would never accept her as his true mother, nor could she bear his rejection. As a result, she has never confronted him. She would rather exist in perpetual denial, whiling away the days, months, and years practicing fell magic and looking for ways to help her "son."
Raven Bane.
Baba Lysaga has allies in Castle Ravenloft - a coven of witches. Through the aid of these witches, Lysaga recently uncovered a potential threat to Strahd: a secret society of wereravens called the Keepers of the Feather, a group that uses ordinary ravens as their spies.
Strahd doesn't consider the wereravens a serious threat, but Lysaga has chosen to make them the bane of her existence. After much searching and scrying, she discovered a wereraven refuge at the Wizard of Wines winery (chapter 12), and she has begun to wage war against it. In addition, she has forged an alliance with the mad druids that haunt Yester Hill (chapter 14), convincing them that she gave birth to Strahd, whom the druids consider a god. With the druids on her side, she expects to rid Barovia of its wereraven menace.
Gifts of Mother Night.
The goddess Mother Night has bestowed magical gifts on Baba Lysaga as rewards for her ceaseless devotion to Strahd. Her skin has the resilience of stone, she is resistant to harmful magic, and she is shielded against divination magic. Mother Night has also imparted to Lysaga the secret of longevity, which requires her to bathe in the blood of beasts on nights of the new moon. Failure to do so causes Lysaga to age rapidly, becoming mere dust and bones in a matter of seconds.
Baba Lysaga's Traits.
Ideal. "No love is greater than a mother's love for her son."
Bond. "I am the mother of Strahd. Anyone who disputes this fact can rot."
Flaw. "I will not rest until the last of my son's enemies are destroyed."
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