DND Witch Lore Drop – Statblocks, Backstories, and More!
This compilation of famous witches in DND includes statblocks, lore, and official art!
The game is filled with spells, familiars, and other timeless witchy elements, so, of course there are witches in D&D. Many players have already modified the core rules to create D&D witch classes for their characters. But what about the non-player characters? It turns out that there are plenty of witch D&D stats in the official materials, not to mention the rich Dungeons & Dragons witch lore to go along with them! We picked 5 of the coolest witches from the many worlds of D&D and dug through their stats and lore to give you the highlight reel of famous witches in D&D.
Start With The Classic Witch D&D Lore
These Dungeons & Dragons witches have all the standard elements: brooms, cats, and pointy hats!
When most people think of a witch, they imagine a hag-like green-skinned woman with a pointy hat, a broom, and a cat. That’s the Barovian witch to a T. These exist in D&D’s Ravenloft setting, where they serve the great vampire Strahd (but outside of that, they have no loyalty and are willing to work with anyone who will give them more power)!
If you picture a stereotypical witch’s hug, that’s almost exactly what a Barovian witch’s home looks like. They gather all sorts of bits and bobs for making potions, casting spells, and preparing rituals; the official D&D witch stats list “a piece of broken bone, a dead rodent, a handful of dust, or some other worthless item or substance.” Among these items wander their familiar, a creature they summon to their aid. While some Barovian witches have creatures like snakes or toads, most of them go for the classic witch fare: a black cat. To top it all off, Barovian witches can turn themselves invisible, put people to sleep, and cast a ray of sickness! It doesn’t get much witchier than that.
These D&D Witches Get Extra Spooky
You can tell these DND witches are evil just by looking at them. Blood-witch powers are similarly spooky with names like “Blood Witch Dance” and “Devil’s Sight.”
The blood witches are about as evil as they come. These are from Magic: The Gathering’s Ravnica setting; there, they serve Rakdos (a.k.a. His Viciousness), the demon ruler of the unhumbly-named Cult of Rakdos. While they do wield swords, most blood witches choose to attack with magic. Their offensive spells let them shoot fire in response to attacks, cast a scorching ray at you, or blast you with eldritch energy! They can also levitate, shapeshift, and grant themselves magical armor, making them last longer in battle. If you’re attacking a blood witch in a party, that may be your downfall. Blood witches have a powerful area-of-effect spell called Circle of Death that deals massive necrotic damage. They can also control their enemies like puppets, making them do their bidding!
Hansel and Gretel Inspired This D&D Witch Monster
Bet you didn’t know there was a DND witch monster with mirror-shattering magic!
This next witch is also from a Magic: The Gathering world. This one’s the Eldraine setting, which features medieval elements like knights and castles alongside magic like wizards and dragons. Eldraine contains many areas, including The Wilds, a woodland realm of fey. One particular section of The Wilds is called Dunbarrow, a marshy area with a lake full of mermaids and a castle of ice. Dunbarrow is known for hosting giant spiders and witches – most notably, Agatha, a creepy witch inspired by the tale of Hansel and Gretel.
The Dunbarrow witch Dungeons & Dragons statblock is a doozy. They can attack twice with poisoned daggers, which deal 6d6 poison damage with each strike. They also have some solid spells: classic witch fare like mage armor, prestidigitation, and Tasha’s hideous laughter (we’ll get to her later) alongside heavy hitters that can remove magical effects and curse their enemies. But their most powerful abilities don’t come from the typical spell list. Dunbarrow witches carry polymorph potions, which turn their enemies into bats, frogs, and rats, and can summon (and subsequently shatter) a mirror plane, hitting everyone in range with enchanted glass shards!
The Coolest Witch From The D&D Witchlight Campaign
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight DND campaign brings players to the realm of the witch Iggwilv.
The witchiest of the official D&D adventures has got to be The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. This takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting and brings the party to a Feywild dimension known as Prismeer. That’s the home of the legendary Iggwilv: author of the Demonomicon, archmage of Oerth, and a powerful Witch Queen adopted by Baba Yaga herself. This witch D&D statblock reflects her incredible power. She wears an amulet that lets her teleport to another plane, a robe granting powerful armor and magic resistance, and, while in the Abyss, a Staff of Power.
Her arcane power is a force to be reckoned with; she is immortal and can teleport, negate spells, fly, turn invisible, move objects with her mind, transform into most creatures, and send people to a labyrinthine demiplane – or, if that’s not enough, possess them with a fey spirit, causing them to obey her every command! But she also has directly offensive magic for damage dealing. Her Bewitching Bolt deals lightning damage and charms enemies. Her Dark Speech deals psychic damage and terrifies enemies. And her Abyssal Rift creates a sphere of powerful necrotic energy and summons demons as her allies!
The D&D Witch Queen’s Vampire Daughter
While not a witch in DND, DreIna is still pretty spooky – and awesome!
Iggwilv’s sisters Bavlorna Blightstraw, Skabatha Nightshade, and Endelyn Moongrave are all powerful in their own right. But they’re not the only powerful family Iggwilvs has; one of her most trusted allies is her daughter, DreIna. While not a witch herself, she’s still plenty spooky. She’s an immortal vampire who once commanded a demon battalion as a general of her mother’s armies. After Iggwilv’s sisters froze Iggwilv in time, DreIna took on the task of protecting her mother’s hoard. To this end, she wields Heretic, a judgemental sentient sword who hates all goodness and bursts into violent spurts against good-aligned people. DreIna’s vampire ancestry gives her sensitivity to sunlight, but also lets her magically charm allies, climb up walls like a spider, and strike with a vampiric bite. Her bite attack not only deals damage but reduces the victim’s hit point maximum, giving the hit points to DreInza instead! If she slays the target with her bite, they become her vampire spawn – not a great way to go.
The Most Famous Witch in D&D
Who are the famous witches in DND? Tasha’s top of the list.
This brings us to arguably the most well-known with in Dungeons & Dragons: Tasha. She’s the very same one from Tasha’s Hideous Laughter and Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. In a fun little bit of D&D meta-lore, Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk retconned Iggwilv as one of Tasha’s many aliases. To quote the witch herself, “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve burned everything to the ground and started over.” Tasha has lived in Niflmheim, the Abyss, and her own fey realm called the Domain of Delight (or Prismeer, in the D&D Witchlight campaign). She’s taken on the monikers of Tasha, Iggwilv, Zybilna, Hura of Ket, and Natasha the Dark.
The best official D&D witch monster statblock we could track down was from the Vecna: Eve of Ruin adventure. In it, she sends a past version of herself to fight Vecna. It is just her younger self, but this statblock is nothing to sneeze at. She can use magical attacks to deal acid or psychic damage, sometimes even stunning her opponents. If you somehow manage to get a hit in on her, beware; her Arcana Rebuff will activate, blasting out lightning bolts in an area of effect and teleporting her away. She can also activate her Abyssal Visage, which lets her fly and gives her total immunity to poison and advantage on any creature who’s lost so much as a single hit point!
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