Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-30400574-20170423133447

Family: Centaur/Satyros

Habitat: Deep Forests

Disposition: Gentle, Lustful, Motherly

Diet: Plants, Wild Game, Spiritual Energy

Dark Young are the undisputed children of Shub-Niggurath and are the main priestesses of the Shub-Niggurath faith, leading her followers in ceremonies and rituals. They are very open towards humans and often do not need to try and trap men to be their husbands, having quite a selection of adoring men who follow their mother’s faith. This breed of Mamono are hard to find to those outside of the Shub-Niggurath faith, making a lot of the knowledge of this breed second-hand from those willing to explain the nature of their faith and those who lead it.

The Dark Young share many common appearances. They all sport dark curly hair, although a few take the pains to straighten it or otherwise keep it short. They also sport horns, but their horns are shaped more like antlers and wrap around the front of their heads like a tiara or circlet. Their skin is dark, almost black, and they sport numerous vine and leaf-like tattoos on their skin. These markings are done in the nature-revering style of the Shub-Niggurath faith and mark their status within it, but also function the same as pleasure runes most succubi have been known to mark themselves with. The more they have, the more responsibilities within the faith they undertake. From the waist down, the Dark Young are covered in thick dark fur with equine legs ending in polished black hooves. However, some of the Dark Young sport Satyros-like legs which may mark their birth from before their mother shifted her main worshippers to the Centaurs. Other examples of Dark Young have Centaur-like bodies, likely marking their birth after the Centaurs became her primary worshippers. One major oddity is that while many examples of Mamonos in the same breed share common breed characteristics, but differ in personal ones, all of the Dark Young share the golden eyes, curly black hair, and femininity of their mother, but also high cheek bones of a common paternal donor. It makes it a strong case to believe that all of the Dark Young, all one thousand of them, have the same father.

The Dark Young are a usually solitary breed, not often appearing in the public eye save for gatherings of their mother’s faith. Often they take the lead in Shub-Niggurath rituals, praising their mother, but also offer blessings of fertility and motherhood on aspiring or expectant mothers. Although they shy from public view, they are actually very open and happy to speak with the members of their mother’s faith. They actually have been proven to be wonderful caregivers, tending to the children of their congregation when their parents are busy. This is not seen often, considering the congregations are usually held in forests, but some villages who are entirely converted to the Shub-Niggurath faith have had Dark Young enter the villages and become something of the village daycare provider.

Aside from their religious or child-sitting duties, the Dark Young have been known to appear in other cases. Dark Young have been said to appear when humans or other Mamono enter the forests and begin going through lewd acts of intercourse or even just masturbation which results in releasing sexual fluids and spiritual energy. When the ‘offering’ is made, the trees will shudder and a Dark Young will come out of the forest. Many of the witnesses will insist she will appear where they were sure only a tree had been before, hinting at illusionary abilities. Just looking at the Dark Young when summoned in such a way will cause strong arousal, but also soothe any fear or discomfort.

They will claim the ‘offering’ first, usually having intercourse with that person as fiercely as any Mamono will. If there are others around, she will then have them join with her. During the event, she will sing and give praise to her mother for leading her to the ‘lost lambs’ and embrace them into the Shub-Niggurath faith in place of their mother. More often than not, the ones who undergo this summoning vanish into the woods with the Dark Young, or return as devoted converts into the Shub-Niggurath faith. The nature of this event leads one to believe that this is how Dark Young find husbands, if none of the men in their congregations are available or to their taste. The Order, as a result, has forbidden this ritual, but adventurous youths or the disenchanted of many different places continue to perform it in secret.

The fact that the Dark Young appear as true siblings to one another confuses some researchers. However, some believe that the answer is simple. They believe that Shub-Niggurath has merely preserved the seed of the father of the Dark Young, perhaps another deity or a man she once fell in love with, and constantly uses it to impregnate herself, thus her constant appearance of pregnancy. As a fertility god, this is not out of the question, although it does beg the question of what kind of man could so thoroughly enchant one such as her.

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