The Child-Giving Spirit
The child-giving spirit first started appearing in the late 12,000s. It is the spirit of a double-winged harpy man that appears in the dreams of infertile women and offers to give them a child. The spirit only asks for two things in return; that the mother will raise the child with love, and that he may take the mother’s favourite piece of jewellery.
If the mother accepts the spirit’s offer she is instructed to wear her offered jewellery to bed the following night, and then to have sex with the spirit in her dreams. The women wake up without their jewellery and soon discover they have become pregnant.
When the child is born, they are born wearing the given piece of jewellery; this confusing occurrence is often proof enough to convince disbelieving partners that the child is born by magical means. And just as well as the child is always, without exception, a half-harpy daughter.
This spirit most commonly gives children to those living in the Rendi, but he has appeared as far as New Fallen Cloud.