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67.66.95.102 wrote: I figured it was a way of just saying "give birth to" more than anything else. As I said, it at most may imply artificial insemination.

My bick stickler on the ghoul children thing is that they're genetic clines--it's commented that Kiril and Pale both have the exact same eyesight problems as Seth on top of looking like him. While they may require a womb, we have yet to see anyone who Maria's children could be clones of. Meta and Irina buck this trend, though - Seth created them as well, and while Meta resembles Seth a lot, Irina definitely doesn't. Isn't he explicitly said to have started altering their genetic makeup after Pale and Kiril, since three identical people is suspicious as hell?

It's definitely possible that Adam is one of Seth's ghoul children, His dedication towards his mother could be a call forward to Hansel and Gretel's fanatic devotion to their own mother (figures), even.