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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8334571" data-attributes="member: 79428">I'm taking "cursed" to mean "transformed from humanoid to monsters" here. Let me try to think of the default lore for several creatures off the top of my head and construct some categories for them:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Willing Cultists: This includes lamias and minotaurs, who are cultists of demon lords (Graz'zt and Baphomet, respectively). As far as I can tell there is no mention of them being able to reproduce.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Willing Cultists and their Descendants: This includes yuan-ti, who are either cultists created by a ritual that involves cannibalism and bathing in a pool of blood and live serpents or the descendants of said cultists. Another example are the merrow, who are descended from a population of merfolk who worshiped Demogorgon and were transported to his layer of the Abyss for generations until they became the creatures they are today.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wicked Creatures Transformed Against Their Will: Medusas start out as humanoids who wanted eternal youth and obtained it by some means, but later transform into medusas (for some reason that isn't made particularly clear).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Creatures Transformed Against Their Will: This includes sea spawn, who are the victims of evil entities of the sea such as krakens. They were transformed through no fault of their own.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Creatures Transformed Against Their Will and Their Descendants: In the world of Critical Role, goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears were created by the god Bane from his worshipers long ago. As the god of tyranny who created the goblinkin to be his army, Bane effectively brainwashes goblinkin from birth unless magic is used to prevent or end his influence (interestingly, other evil gods seemingly don't do this or are unable to do this, as evidenced by a minority of yuan-ti who oppose Zehir and a vast majority of drow who oppose Lolth in the Wildemount setting book).</li> </ul>Of course, this is all just the default lore. Someone could easily have minotaurs who were transformed from humans against their will by Baphomet (there's also the fact that 5E effectively has more than one kind of minotaur; the PC-suited Medium variety that presumably can reproduce and the NPC-suited Large variety that seemingly can't).</blockquote>

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