Hermione, if you can believe it, they actually bred with these things. Marsh is descended from that. There was a cult surrounding the creatures, and the residents lost all interest in anything except this cult. It had ritual blood sacrifice, sexual rituals, anything dark you can imagine. It’s revolting. These people actually were all right turning into half-amphibian things in order to gain the immortality that these creatures promised. It was wholly unnecessary. Hermione, I mean this very seriously. Do try to stop me if I express interest in... taking something unnecessarily farther... something that I strongly suspect would destroy my good looks. Won’t you?