So I’ve write short stories and I have my Highborne DH pregnant with another DH’s kid. I have never seen it written that they can have children or not. Does it sound reasonable that she can become pregnant but health decreases rapidly and they may not survive the pregnancy because all strength goes to keeping the baby alive than keeping the demon at bay?
Adahlis gets very sick about 4-5 months in and is house ridden until the birth. During the birth the baby snags inside her, wings getting stuck and he has to be cut out leaving a scar under her belly button. She was so weak for another 2 months that she had to be placed in special wrist bracers that basically suppress the demon inside until she heals because they were worried she would lose control. Her tattoos even faded and almost looked like green scars and she nearly went into demon form a few times.
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going along with others put ins, i may change the child to have green eyes like the blood elves but no flames. Maybe he would still struggle with a fel power/addiction because he was technically born in a fel powered body. The wings sounded like an interesting idea though lol. A demon like body must somehow develop a demon like child but the severity of the fel power its self is where i was undecided.
Thank you all for the replies! It really helps <3 so i will keep the belf eyes and maybe keep the c-section idea in with troubles of birth naturally but no wings/horns.
I believe that demon hunters can have children, due to the fact that many fel-afflicted races such as orcs and blood elves still procreate. That all sounds pretty reasonable; a pregnancy would not be without risks. How many of those traits are passed on is debatable, and I am not sure that a demon hunter’s baby would have wings since it was not the one to go through the demon hunter ritual to actually take on a demon’s powers and appearance. It is more likely that it would just acquire a hunger for fel magic/demon blood or green eyes or hair. Since there is so little information available though, anything is really possible. I hope this helps! 
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This created some very disturbing images for me lol
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I do not think a demon hunters baby would be born a demon hunter. It would be a normal elf. Demon Hunters have to go through a very intense ritual to become so.
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There is of course no lore to confirm any stance on this, other than the fact that demons are never implied to reproduce sexually while they are said to be birthed in and by the Nether. Its not a stretch to say the fel makes one infertile while it is a stretch to say the fel does not effect one’s reproductive system. Demon Hunters though, are of course, not full demons but are still riddled with just as much Fel corruption.
I would say that no… demon hunters can not have children and if they somehow could have children they would be “normal” elves.
It is very hard to believe that the demon hunter’s physical state is hereditary. However, it is also likely that the child, while a “normal” elf, would have some sort of fel influence affecting their body. This will not be no eyes, horns and wings, but it might be a shade of skin tone or eye color or perhaps maybe even their blood.
My suggestion would be to have the complication of birth be inherent to the act of a demon hunter having a child, rather than the baby being a mini-illidan.
I would say that it might be theorectically possible, but so many things conspire against it to make it highly unlikely. I would say the vast result of such couplings would be stillbirths if they were… lucky. It would be even luckier if the mother survived the process either way.
Becoming a demon hunter means intentionally corrupting your body with fel… even going as far as to incorporate demonic essence into yourself…FOREVER.
Doing things like that doesn’t come without consequences.
You don’t do that with any expectation of ever settling down to an Ozzie and Harrriet lifestyle.
I would be confident in stating that in lore this has probably never happened, nor even come close to hapening.
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Given the ‘I sacrificed everything’ nature of DHs, I’d say probably not. Though to be fair there’s nothing stopping you per say.
As is well established the Forsaken cannot have children. But I’ve seen people work around this by having a now adult child from when they were still living. That’s the backstory for one of my characters at least because dad of the living dead is kind of a fun subplot to play with.
Elves are extremely long lived so, easily could’ve sired a whole family tree long before they went down the DH career path.
And adoptions always an option.
From the viewpoint of an orphanage matron, I’d have to be pretty desperate to consider a demon hunter to be a fit parent.
I don’t think an orphan matron is going to argue with a demon Hunter.
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She will if she’s Sicillian. No one gets anything past an Italian matron.
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Not bashing the idea, but for some reason this was the image flashed through my head.
More seriously I think there was a lore bit a while back that Worgen children would be human and not affected by the curse. If Elune’s power can be turned by such a thing, I’m sure having normal Night Elven children is acceptable for a Demon Hunter; though I would definitely fully vet them mentally to ensure their inner demon doesn’t pull an escape off, ala Medivh / Aegwynn. 
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Fel magic is different than a curse I think, and the use of fel seems to change one’s DNA and pass on to future generations. It is not impossible to assume that there would at least be some influence in physical traits like orc children who inherit green skin and blood elf children, green eyes. 🤷
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yes and no.
it’s tricky but I believe the mother would have to purge her blood of fel corruption to incubate the child or it would lead to a miscarriage.
there’s also a risk of the demon that was consumed to become a demon-hunter possessing the child.
now the purging will ultimately be years before conception. Ensuring that the physically a child can incubate properly.
Even if conception can happen, weekly visits to the doctors office will be required. just to make sure the little bump ain’t growing horns.
That being said here’s where things get hazy.
Currently IRL we have egg freezing programs. unfertilized or fertilized. if the demon-hunter did that before embarking on the demon-hunter ritual there’s a chance they could have a surrogate mother carry there child.
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