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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2364054" data-attributes="member: 8944">Mostly, the NPC didn't want the PC to have it, as it *may have been* a child important to prophecy (prophecies being notably nonspecific like that).  So, if the child had died, that would have been - but it was ultimately more demoralizing to know that the child would live, it's essential nature changed, as a ward of evil, twisted in both mind and body.  Secondarily, in order to sufficiently alter the child's nature, it would have to be borne by the specific NPC (she was a reptilian custom race in the campaign). Any old serving wench would have left the child *human*, which means it would have been far less devastating: and there's the added psychological bonus that makes it *that much harder* for the PCs to want to kill her, knowing that she bears the child of one of their own.... Let's face it - it would suck if you lost a child you wanted.  How much worse is it to have that same child stolen, altered, and raised by your worst enemy to hate and revile its "real" parents?  It is just as lost to you - but instead of merely being dead, it has become a potential enemy. Heartrending.</blockquote>