Well in preparation of running Curse of the Crimson Throne I have been boning up on my Rakshasa, and this is where I got confused.
I was reading the Rakshasa entry in the Bestiary 3, where it says they do not reproduce the normal way, they can only do so by either reincarnation or with a mortal. So:
* 2 Rakshasas = no baby
* 1 Rakshasa and 1 humanoid = Rakshasa baby
* 2 humanoids = possible Rakshasa baby, if one of the parents does something horrible and there's a Rakshasa spirit hanging around waiting for reincarnation
Now, if the 2nd point is true, how could there be this Rakshasa-spawn even exist? Am I missing something, was there an errata I didn't see?
Like I had said, I'm a little confused.
Thank you for your help!
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I'm not positive without the source material handy, but I believe tieflings and other planar-born races state that not every member of said races is a result of ancestral blood-line, but can also come about from magical or spiritual 'tainting'. So say a servant in a certain korvosan noble house becomes pregnant (from a normal mortal), but spends all of most days in the presence (unknowingly of course) of several rakshasa, and then, infant is born with animal-like features or such what. Or perhaps the mortal vessel was almost used by a rakshasa soul awaiting reincarnation, but was cast out by some benevolent outsider or divine force, or perhaps at the last moment found a more suitable body, and the abandoned infant's soul retains just a bare touch of its almost-rider. Or some other similar scenario.
Ok, that makes sense, thank you.