Cause
Descendants
Descendants noun - All of the offspring of a given progenitor.
Cause is an antonym for descendants in person in line of ancestry topic.
Both words in one sentence
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Wynonna Earp eventually reveals that this trope is the cause of the Earp Curse: because Wyatt Earp killed the Stone Witch's sons, her demon husband laid the curse on Wyatt and all his descendants.
Source: Even Evil Has Loved Ones - Timey-Wimey Ball: Xxxx's spacetime is so convoluted that, for example, it's implied that the modern Ecksian wizards may be the descendants of the stranded UU faculty, but the UU wizards being brought to the present does not cause them to cease to exist.
Source: Discworld / The Last Continent - This, plus an apparent curse she actually put on the Emblem to try directing the war's course, would cause quite the calamities to the descendants of Artemis' Star Crossed Lover Anri, for they could never really find love if the Emblem was involved.
Source: Dying Curse
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