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Nope, they are forever frozen in the form that Allmother crafted them in. Technically they can age, it's just that their bodies don't appear to mature no matter how much time passes.

They can live for a very long time too, up to 1,000 years, so long as they are fed and protected. They enchant their "parents" with a spell that compels them to care for the little monster...but once their parents die, no one else is willing to care for it, so the changeling usually dies of neglect at that point.

Each changeling can only enchant 2 people in its lifetime. If those people die, it doesn't get those enchantments back. Anyone who is not enchanted by its magic will see the nasty creature for what it really is.

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Yes! They can raise very small and weak undead (like insects) by toddlerhood. Of course this depends on how much they practice and a bit depends on genetics as well.

If both of their parents are shitty necromancers, chances are that their baby will not be great at it either. But if one or both parents are prodigies, their child may excel and be able to cast stronger necromancy spells at a younger age.

Necromancy is in drau blood, they are compelled to practice it even when they're young. If a drau baby finds a dead fly, lizard, or other small creature, instincts will compel them to raise it as a zombie. How successful they are depends on the factors I mentioned above.

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I would like to redesign Krozlaug and Erasmos themselves (a lot of the divines are due for a design overhaul) but as for their monsters, I'm pretty satisfied with the current look of the cyclopes and demons.

Divines don't like to reveal every single ingredient they used to forge their monsters (they gotta keep some trade secrets!) but it is known that some of the ingredients used to make cyclopes were: minotaur horns, ogre hides, troll ears, granite dust, and satyr bones.

While some ingredients to forge demons were: satyr horns and hearts, maenad wine, bat wings, and aphrodisiacs.

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Good question! I think they are technically the same species and they can have children of either sex, they just require the genetic material of peoples to make it happen. So, an incubus can have a daughter and a succubus can have a son.

This keeps their populations balanced, as succubi tend to be more successful at feeding and surviving than incubi. Incubi are less common overall, not because they are born less, but because they don't survive for as long. Since succubi can have sons, this prevents incubi from going extinct.

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I don't know much about Monster High, but I still think this is an intriguing idea! The thought of Isaac being the one "normal" guy in a school of monsters is pretty damn funny! I can imagine demon cheerleaders, skorpius bullies, spriggan stoners...

Any Monster High fans available to chime in?

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There have been plenty of monsters that existed simply because a divine said, "I think this would be cool" or "I want to make my own custom friends/spouse/pet/whatever".

Most monsters are one-of-a-kind and eventually die out, and not all of them get recorded by the World Athenaeum before they pass. These simply get lost to history. Only a very small number of them go on to build a self-sustaining population (like skorpius, harpies, etc.)

Monster forging is a complicated process, it violates World Law, and it's one of those things that everyone knows is a bad idea, but some divines can't resist the temptation to try anyway. Every monster has some unintended flaw and the potential to wreak massive havoc on the ecosystem or society. Monster forging is considered "playing God".

(Even Disgrace was wary about making the camedile because he knew that thing was going to turn out fucked up no matter what he did. I mean, it tried to attack its own creator right off the bat, so...incidents like that are pretty typical when forging monsters.)

So, divines making random monsters willy-nilly doesn't happen as often as you'd expect. But yes, it does happen.

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Erasmos designed demons to be attractive to him and fulfill all his sexual desires. So if he was into butt-stuff, then yes, I imagine they probably do have anuses, even if they're not functional for digestion.

Let's just be thankful he wasn't into like, vore or inflation or something...I think we'd have much scarier monsters on our hands!

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That's a good question! I think a female divine would probably suffer the same fate as a female mortal, except she would resurrect after she died.

I just realized, divines would be the only ones capable of meeting their skorpius "offspring"...wild to think about!

"Yeah this is my kid. Careful, he's a little bitey!"

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