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{{Ability
|image = plinys-fertile-sealing.png
|description = Cloaks the user, at the cost of temporarily sealing their fertility
|origin = Roman ingenuity
|power = 1/10
|rarity = No-one wants to use it
|destructive_power = 0.1/10
}}

'''Pliny’s Fertile Sealing''' is an unrefined Fertility technique devised by Roman statesman [[Pliny the Elder]] to hide one’s fertility. While on the surface similar to [[Anile Cloaking]] in effect—in that it makes the user’s fertility appear like that of a normal person for all intents and purposes—instead of hiding one’s fertility, the practitioner instead seals it away entirely by creating a partial [[Quantum Icing|Quantum-Ice Lock]], though only to the ninth differential. 

The drawbacks of this technique are plenty: the duration of the sealing has to be specified in advance; the practitioner won’t be able to use their fertility at all until the seal is undone; the user’s fertility will often take several weeks to recover from the sealing; the seal cannot be undone by conventional means; and finally, since the practitioner’s fertility is reduced to 1 while the seal is active, anyone dying while sealed will effectively be granted Super Death. As a result, this technique fell out of favour during the early 11th century.

The most famous use of this technique is by its creator himself, Pliny the Elder, who used it to great effect in his exploration of the [[Mount Vesuvius|catacombs of Mount Vesuvius]]. It is also its most infamous use: his fertility still sealed during the [[Eruption of Mount Vesuvius|disaster that followed]], Pliny perished not a day after his return.