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- Other Effects. 6. Post birth effects. - Bonding. - Eenlarged Breasts/ Nippels. - Different Moods. - Body Changes. 7. Difficulties for Mother and Child During the Pregnancy
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- Other Effects
Some effects of a pregnancy will include a change of lifestyle, losing and gaining friends, change of self-esteem and the way a woman looks at herself and her enviroment, a change in the decoration of the living area and a change of equipment. Sometimes the pregnancy may have direct effects on the surrounding: pheromones will cause everyone who has contact to the woman, to be very nice or very angry about her; the child might cause magical, psionical or divine effects. For example a child of a fire-elementalist or fire elementar might cause the mother to suffer constantly from fever or the temperature around the woman may be constantly high or things suddenly combust. A mother of a shapechanging species or of a child that is partly a shapechanger may be forced to shape change once in a while or during the hole pregnancy.
6. Post birth effects
After giving birth, most woman experience additional changes of body and mind.
- Bonding
Most children will cause a bonding with one of the people around during the birth and recognize this person as mother (through scent, looks, voice). This bonding may be both ways. A mother or father may be bound to the child. This could mean, that she would not leave it alone or that the scent will cause milk production.
- Eenlarged Breasts/ Nippels
Mammals must suckel their children. The organs to do that are already present long before giving birth (even in males). The hormones or something different during the birth or afterwards may cause the mother to begin the production of milk. The storage of the milk will cause an enlargement of the breasts.
- Different Moods
The changes, that the birthing-process have brought with it, may cause all kinds of different extreme moods, manic and depressive, happy and sad, anger, peacefullness etc. This may come from the new change of hormones, a change of bodyly features or even from the impression to have already shown, that you are a good/ bad mother.
- Body Changes
Human women always learn after giving birth, that their body will not return to the state it was in before the pregnancy. Other races may experience this even more severely. Staying the shape, the woman was in while giving birth, or even becoming a totally different person (physically and mentally). Some races may even consider women, who have given birth, to be a third (fourth? ) gender. They may become infertile or even more fertile.
7. Difficulties for Mother and Child During the Pregnancy
- Arcane Magic/ Psionics
What is magic? depending on the way magic is handled, magic will influence the child differently:
- Magic as an external force, used by the magic user: Magic is something, that surrounds everything. A magic using character manipulates this force through his spells. The force stays outside of the body of the magic user. The only effect on the child could be a directly targeted spell or the strain on the mother when casting a spell.
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- Magic as an external force, channaled by the magic user: as above, but the magic user draws this force inside his body, to form and manipulate it and doing the apparent magic when this force leaves the body. Because an external force intrudes on the body, even if invited, the child may mutate severely, gaining an inherent talent, for magic or even becoming a magical creature on the good side. On the other side, the child may mutate to a monster, be stripped of all mental capacity or even its body. The possibilities are endless and depend on the good naturedness of the magic force (and the game master).
- Magic is an inherent force: Magic runs through the veins of a magic user (or even through the veins of everybody). The magic user has either learned to use it or has a talent for it. The actual use or a backlash may cause strange effects upon the child, because of the increased level of magic in the body. But it could just be natural for the child to withstand these forces. A negative effect may occure when a spell is cast because the level of magic in the body is reduced. The reduction of magic may harm the child.
- Magic is not a force per se, but a use of ones bodyly energies in a special way: When using this kind of magic, the casting of the magic will reduce the energy-level in the body, exhausting or even doing harm to the mother. This may harm the child, if the energy level is reduced to much.
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