The Children of the Dead Seed were the result of a Pannion Domin rite conducted by female members of the Tenescowri on their male victims. It was conducted amidst mass murder of unbelievers. Lady Envy: "Holy Ones, please forgive my ignorance. A Child of the Dead Seed--what precisely is that?" Pannion priest: "The moment of reward among the male unbelievers, mistress, is often marked by an involuntary spilling of life-seed... and continues after life is fled. At this moment, with a corpse beneath her, a woman may ride and so take within her a dead man's seed. The children that are thus born are the holiest of the Seer's kin." Lady Envy (paling): "That is extraordinary..." ―Lady Envy and a Pannion priest