Pliny’s Fertile Sealing

Pliny’s Fertile Sealing

Effect	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-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 catacombs of Mount Vesuvius. It is also its most infamous use: his fertility still sealed during the disaster that followed, Pliny perished not a day after his return.