Pain during childbirth is claimed by the Bible to be a literal curse from God in Genesis 3:16, so, yeah, I’d reckon that it’d be hard to top that!
which didn’t catch with me but did suggest I might actually be able to enjoy a card-based system with enough narrative context to keep me interested.
FYI, you can learn bits and pieces about Slay’s lore through the various events that come up. A pretty large chunk of lore comes up upon one particular respawn/new run.
Why, it’s so they can detect fake, AI-generated faces, of course!