Asiaq’s Curse

As it turns out, there are many things passed down through blood other than genetics. If one’s family was the disrespectful sort (especially when it came to spurned deities) one might incur wrath of some long forgotten god and have a blood curse placed upon one’s entire bloodline. When Richard Mann accidentally desecrated an ancient Inuit burial ground, for example, he doomed every second son in his bloodline to a curse from the rain goddess Asiaq. Since it was manly pride that led to Mann’s callous disregard for the dead, it was manhood that Asiaq would take from him: whenever rain touched the cursed one’s skin, he would become a woman until rain touched it once again.