A ecologia da ecologia da noite de 5e não inclui transformação ritual
Do Manual dos Monstros 5e:
Monstrous Motherhood.
Hags propagate by snatching and devouring human infants. After stealing a baby from its cradle or its mother's womb, the hag consumes the poor child. A week later, the hag gives birth to a daughter who looks human until her thirteenth birthday, whereupon the child transforms into the spitting image of her hag mother.
Hags sometimes raise the daughters they spawn, creating covens. A hag might also return the child to its grieving parents, only to watch from the shadows as the child grows up to become a horror.
A ecologia da noite As bruxas nas edições anteriores incluíam o ritual.
Por exemplo, um artigo exposto na Dragon Magazine 324
Night hags reproduce in a manner exceedingly foul to mortal minds...
At the end of this period, the night hag gives birth to a dark-haired female child otherwise indistinguishable from others of her mate's species. Having no concept of maternal instincts, night hags always foster their children...
At any time between the child's first birthday and puberty, a night hag might return to perform a series of despoiling rites that cluminates in the child's transformation into a normal night hag.
The process begins with an initial visition...
After this initial ritual, the night hag must return three times, each visit thirteen days after the last. On these visits, the night hag must suckle the child and feed it the flesh of a living larva, a process that takes an hour.
Aqui está a pergunta específica:
If any of these feedings are interrupted, or if the night hag can't access the child by the end of the proper day, the child cannot be transformed into a night hag.
Uma descrição semelhante ainda abreviada do ciclo reprodutivo está no 3,5 MM.