as their name denoted , they were the fruit of spoiled surfacing rites , born without a mate and also without substance , and afflicted with horrendous flaws ; their makers , forbidden from mating again , were forced to inhabit inferior homes , shunned by other makers , and they usually reached submergence age not long after the birth of their defective offpsring , performing the rite alone , beyond the ritual grounds and out of sight of the everbridge .