MAEDAR

MAEDAR were natural-born offspring of medusae with other maedar. If mating with a human, a female medusa always produced eggs that hatched into female medusa offspring. If a medusa and a maedar mated, however, she produced a clutch of between two and six eggs that hatched into human offspring in 99% of the cases, in which case the babies were immediately petrified upon seeing their mother. In only 1% of the cases, a maedar was born. The extremely rare occurrence of maedar, along with their reclusive behavior, was the reason even most sages were unaware of their existence.