Hagravens are aggressive humanoid creatures with
bird-like features found across Skyrim. Coming in contact with one can cause brain rot, a disease that lowers the victim's magicka. According to legend, they were apparently once witches but exchanged their humanity for the ability to become hagravens.1 They
bear a vitriolic hatred against nature, and hunt down spriggans to capture and sacrifice. The Forsworn revere them greatly,2 and it is noted that the hagravens were in the Reach since "the beginning."34 Hagravens are hideous, avian-like,
female humanoids with scraggly gray hair, pale skin, hooked noses and solid black eyes. Their limbs are
long and bony, and their hands and
feet each have four digits ending in sharp talons. They dress in tattered black garments and have black
raven feathers bound to their shins and forearms.