Riftmarked

Riftmarked (qlippoth-spawn, motherless)

(Creature)

Type

Outsider
(native)

CR

By class level

Environment

Any land

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Blood of Fiends, pg(s). 23 (1E)
Ancestry Guide, pg(s). 62 (2E)

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Riftmarked, also known as qlippoth-spawn or the motherless, are cambions descended from qlippoth.

Appearance

Riftmarked are universally marked by hideous deformities such as writhing tentacles, oozing tumours, or pieces of carapace, or other insectile features. Individual riftmarked are regarded as hideous by their parents, and those who survive their youth know only scorn and rejection.

Ecology

Riftmarked are marked by bizarre mutations. They are known as "the motherless" since it is rare for the mother of a riftmarked to survive giving birth. Riftmarked are amongst the rarest of cambion heritages. Due to the fundamentally alien nature of qlippoth, riftmarked are normally spawned only as the result of qlippoth corruption. Most commonly, these cursed births arrive in clusters of around a half-dozen or so in the same settlement.

Personality

Riftmarked, like their qlippoth sires, despise mortal sin. Rather than driving them to morality, this hatred of mortal sin results in them detesting all mortals. As a result, the motherless exist in a state of bitter cynicism and nihilism. To their reckoning hypocrisy and sin are so fundamental to mortal existence that all mortals deserve nothing more than extinction. Loners by nature, riftmarked see sin and treachery in everything, preferring to betray others before they are themselves betrayed. Riftmarked seem to be almost universally incapable of affection, love, or trust.

On Golarion

Riftmarked are very rare. One of the few places where they can be found with any regularity is in the Sarkoris Scar, formerly known as the Worldwound, and the surrounding area.

Known riftmarked

Notable riftmarked include:

• Magyarsh, a sadistic warpriest who acts as the ruler of the Rovagug-worshipping town of Rikhist in Qadira.