Cost: 12 Magic points, 1D8 Sanity Points
Casting Time: 6 hours.
This spell magically enhances the fertility of a man or woman, allowing them to conceive a child. This spell curse infertility due to age, illness, or injury in both genders, producing a child arriving full term from a smooth delivery to the mother. However, the child will be sickly and dies with 1D4 days, unless the second half of the ritual is performed. The placenta, or afterbirth, of this pregnancy must be planted of the earth, in a spot that receives both natural light and rain. If performed the child’s health improves with no lasting effects. However, as the child grows a strange tree begins to grow from the placenta, a sprout, growing into a sapling, becoming a warped and grotesque tree by the time the child reaches puberty. At this time their “twin” becomes a Dark Young of Shub-Nigguruath, forever bound to the child they once tethered to their mother and nourished with its own blood. These creatures follow their twin about, protecting them, punishing those who harm their human sibling. The now grown child somehow knows that this strange tree-like creature means them no harm and only wishes to protect them. Lastly, these children also feel a strong connection to the earth, nature, and Shub-Nigguruath, often becoming worshippers of the Outer Goddess who reaches out the them via dreams.
