Lore Question: Interracial Breeding

[Hyen《A》 ♧]

Is this a thing in the game series? Like are there khajiits who marry imperials? Something like the infamous Faendal and Camilla love triangle. And what kind of offspring they produce? Do they follow one of the parent exclusively or do they take traits from both parents lile a half furred khajit with human arms (for example)?

And what of the argonian with khajits and human races? I'm only asking for research purposes.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by cool-dude:

In TES lore, offspring is the race of the mother. So, if a Nord(male) and Breton(female) have sex, then if they produce a child, the child will be 100% Breton, and take on the Traits of a Breton. The only races that are capable of producing children with one another are man and mer. Beast races cannot reproduce with man or mer, but considering "Lusty Argonian Maid" is an actual thing, i'm sure all races do the nasty with one another, though it's probably looked down on in their respective societies.

There are references to Khajiit reproducing with Mer, but they don't say whether said offspring are fertile, or whether the mother was the Mer or the Khajiit (sounds minor, but considering how Khajiit have a morphic reproduction is actually an important consideration). Come to think of it they don't even say what type of Khajiit, since some of them look like Elves.

Other Beastfolk, like Imga have never reproduced with either Elf or Man, or so far as we know each other.

[berrako]

Look for the book "racial philogeny" in game. It explain the tes breeding lore

[Hyen《A》 ♧]

Thanks guys for the answers. This one had bugged me for years when I realized I can marry Ysolda as a khajiit.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Hyen《A》♧:

Thanks guys for the answers. This one had bugged me for years when I realized I can marry Ysolda as a khajiit.

I take it you aren't aware that as Dragonborn you are infertile?

[Shahadem]

Freaking degenerates.

I have some freaky LL mods but even to me the OPer is a degenerate.

[Hyen《A》 ♧]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

I take it you aren't aware that as Dragonborn you are infertile?

I wasn't lol. The availability to indulge in *ahem* beastiality, is what haunted me for years. Got me thinking if this does happen in the series like Oblivion or anything prior to that, hence the seeking for enlightenment here on the forums.

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Freaking degenerates.

I have some freaky LL mods but even to me the OPer is a degenerate.

Where did you get the idea that I was using LL mods for beast races? I was merely curious about inter-species breeding (I'd hit you if you sided with Faendal just to show how ironic you are) and asking about it.

[MysticMalevolence]

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Racial_Phylogeny
The prime source on these matters. It's a bit open-ended because the authors feel it would be unethical to test it, yet have no records of such thing happening. I imaging half orcs are possible because orcs are a mer and half orcs are a staple of this kind of fantasy.
Most likely, beast can't breed with humans, (khajiit might be able to breed with bosmer), but they left enough allowance for edge cases that you could probably roleplay or headcanon in products of such a union. I mean, Alessia did supposedly have a son with a minotaur (Morihaus).
Argonians are the most biologically different of the races, though, because of the hist and stuff. So they might be more of a stretch.

However, I would note that interracial breeding and interracial marriage are two different questions. Can a khajiit marry an imperial? Certainly. Couples can be in love and find union without being fertile couples.

[Shahadem]

The problem with all of this and why it is degeneracy is that you are viewing this through the eyes of a human and viewing all these different SPECIES as if they were just slightly different races of human. But they are all vastly different species. From the perspective of an inhabitant of the ES world, someone breeding out of their species is our equivalent of screwing a different animal. It is degeneracy of the highest order.

The writers creating the lore fail to understand how they must view these relationships so the lore is completely flawed because the writers are flawed in their thinking.

[MysticMalevolence]

^I disagree. We are talking about a series of bipedal humanoid races that live together as relative equals, who have cultural and social understanding of each other, who can speak the same language and thus verbally consent to each other.

They can invite you to tea, as it is physically possible for them to ask you, brew the tea, serve the tea, and drink the tea. They can hold the same jobs and recieve pay for them. They own property and can be recognized as citizens by legal entities. It's very different from your example.

And heck, half of them came from the same place anyways. Only argonians aren't related. Even the khajiit came from Azurah's Cosmic Retcon, supposedly.