Pontianak

Name	Pontianak
Race	Undead
Type	Physical
Faction	Independent
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	None Applicable

In Indonesian and Malaysian folklore, the pontianak (Dutch-Indonesian spelling: "puntianak"; Jawi: ڤونتيانق) is a malicious and carnivorous flesh-eating female vampire ghost. Other common names include "matianak" and "kuntilanak". The figure resembles that of the spirit of a woman who died during pregnancy. This is despite the fact that the earliest recordings of pontianaks in Malay lore describe the ghost as originating from a stillborn child. In reality, they are indeed women that died during pregnancy due to the direct result of their murder. These murders must be committed by a family member or the father of the child. The woman will rise as a ghoulish creature that haunts dark places and graveyards and eats the flesh of the living. They can cause other women to become pontianaks as well if they birth the undead child in their wombs and that child then enters the womb of their victim. The mortal woman will be drained of blood and lifeforce and then roam about. When a pontianak does give birth to their small zombie babies, a new one will gestate quickly that will be a clone of the last. Absinthe Van Gothen fought a pontianak in Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery when she tried saving Arion and Ayana Bishop from Heloise Laveau. The pontianak’s soul was one of the spirits required by Baron Samedi to aid him in opening the way forward.