10 RPG Video Game Fates Worse Than Death
2. Becoming A Broodmother - Dragon Age
Oh, boy. So, here is yet another human being turned into a monster entry, but it is by far one of the worst that gaming has ever seen. This fate is so vile, horrid, and cruel that it's completely sickening. Whoever said Dragon Age was a lighthearted series?
If you've played any Dragon Age game, you are undoubtedly familiar with the darkspawn. These creatures are a detestable race of tainted humanoids, and they have a nasty habit of converting humans into abominations.
Coming into contact with darkspawn blood will infect you with the taint, which, if you're lucky, will kill you and, if you're unlucky, will turn you into one of them. However, that's only for the men, as women face horrors far, far greater.
The darkspawn have no females to reproduce naturally, so they must forcibly turn human women into insect queen-like creatures known as Broodmothers to bolster their numbers. To do this, they kidnap them and force them to devour darkspawn tissue, eventually turning them into cannibalistic beasts who would (and do) eat their own family.