If you are on your way to save Mayrina or feel that you have missed out on getting the power that Auntie Ethel offered you, it is something worth considering.
Auntie Ethel will eventually be defeated by you and your party and should offer you a deal to keep Mayrina and give you power but sometimes this doesn’t happen.
It is possible to ensure that this happens, where you can keep Mayrina safe as well as force Auntie Ethel to give you the hag’s hair.
How To Get Hags Hair from Auntie Ethel?
To get Auntie Ethel’s Hair, you will need to reduce her health to about 15 to 20 or lower to get her to plead for her life.
Make sure that your main character is next to her when her health is low, and pass all turns until a cutscene is triggered.
You can then make a deal to give her Mayrina and take the power (Hag’s Hair) or to take both with an ability check.
Once the dialogue is over and she has given you her hair, you will need to choose which stat boost you want to get, and Auntie Ethel’s Hair will be in your inventory.
Auntie Ethel’s Hair Uses
Auntie Ethel’s Hair will provide the character that consumes it with a permanent stat bonus, which is a great way to improve your character.
This can only be used by one character, which makes it important to choose the stat after the cutscene and the character you will use it on.
Hag’s Hair Effect Gone After Respec
When it comes to asking Withers to respec your character, you think that the permanent stat is gone but this is not true.
What happens when you respec and level up your character is that you are seeing the base stats, and you will be able to see Auntie Ethel’s Boon later.
Even if you respec your character, Auntie Ethel’s Boon will remain, and you will keep the permanent stat increase from it.
Ethel’s Hair Not Working (No Stat Increase)
If you find that you did not get a permanent stat boost after the conversation with Auntie Ethel, this is because it doesn’t become applied after selecting a stat.
Once you choose the stat you want and confirm it, a specific version of Auntie Ethel’s Hair will be added to your inventory.
From here you can decide to set it aside, give it to another character, or use it on your character to increase the selected stat.
Verdict
Taking the opportunity to get Auntie Ethel’s Hair is something you might want to consider since the permanent stat that is added to your character will be useful.
Keep in mind that you will have to choose which star and should check the options carefully to match your character’s build.
It would be a good idea to have a quicksave ready just in case you accidentally kill Auntie Ethel as you may miss the opportunity to get the bonus stat from the hag’s hair.