Pregnancy is a miracle…until the first time someone shows
you Alien. The fact that those unholy creatures can inject—no, impregnate—PCs with a semi-sentient
poison—that horribly scars even on a save(!)—should
be suitably alarming for even the most hardened parties.
Worship of the
goddess of fertility has been subverted by a mad priest who lost his own
wife in childbirth. He has given
hope to dozens of infertile women before secretly turning him over to his
qlippoth mistress, who fills them only with pain.
Chernobues’ ability
to plane shift can place them in
the most unlikely places. The loathsome chernobue that answers to “the
Bountiful Spasm” has dined on or impregnated most of the guests in a djinni’s
palace. Judicious use of its
spell-like abilities allowed the Bountiful Spasm to pick them off one by one
before the victims could take flight.
The layer of the
Abyss known as Life’s Insistence is a place of fecundity gone wrong. The trees hang heavy with rotting
fruit, parasites swim in viscous water, strange animals give birth at random,
and even the smallest insect bites become swollen boils. Small colonies of doomed souls and even
mortals live there, kept alive by the layer’s regenerating aura. The mortals bear the horrific scars of
surviving repeated chernobue poisonings, but the layer will not let them rest
in peace.
—Pathfinder Bestiary 2
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