Half Breeds?

[Frondson]

What the deal with there not being any half-orcs, or half-elves? Or half-argonian for that matter.
Is this point ever explained in lore? Does the biology not match up? What happens when an Imperial and a Breton have a child? What racial trait does it have? What would a half-orc, half-argonian look like? Half-kahjit, half-dark-elf? C'mon Bethesda have some realism in your fantasy land. pfft.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Frondson:

What the deal with there not being any half-orcs, or half-elves?

Orcs aren't compatible.
There are half-breeds, they are just very similiar to others. i.e. Altmer + Bosmer would have a kid that would look like a short, more round Almer I believe

Forsworn, my friend. Mix of Breton and Nords

[gnewna]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 我不会说中国话:

Orcs aren't compatible. (snip)

Forsworn, my friend. Mix of Breton and Nords

Orcs can definitely produce babies with humans (and probably other mer), there's an example in Oblivion of an Orc with a human ish father. And the Forsworn are, at least in game terms, Bretons. Lore-wise, it's a bit more complex, they're a religous/political group within the ethnic group known as Reachmen, who are still basically seen as Bretons, but have apparently got a little bit of pretty much every 'compatible' race in the mix, as I understand it. Probably a bit more Nord than others, given they live in Skyrim, although possibly not, given they aren't super fond of the Nords, on the whole.

The Bretons, on the other hand, are the result of many generations (I think) of mixing of Nedes (humans) and.... I forget which group of Mer, but one of them. All this was a very long time ago, Merethic Era, I think, so a few thousand years, I guess? But, assuming Racial Phylogeny is correct, it would have taken a long time for there to be a new, distinct group, because for the most part a child of mixed parentage takes most racial traits from the mother.

So, for example, an Altmer and a Bosmer, if the Bosmer was the father, would produce a child who was, to all intents and purposes, Altmer, although they might have one or two echoes of their father's racial traits (it's a bit vague on this, but I'd guess it's things like maybe being slightly better in Archery, and having slightly smaller magicka pool than other Altmer). The child would very likely look completely Altmer, too (perhaps a shade shorter than their peers, and maybe a slightly different skintone - my main playthrough is an Altmer with just a touch of Nord blood a few generations back, who has unusually grey (but still Elf-like) eyes and her skin tone is a little less golden than is strictly "proper" for an Altmer. In my 'headcanon', so to speak, other Altmer can easily see she isn't 'pure' (definitely a racist concept, but, well, she comes from Alinor and mixes in Thalmor circles before she arrives in Skyrim), but any human, and probably most Dunmer and maybe Bosmer would just think she was pure Altmer.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh gnewna:

giant snip on a mobile device is a painful snip

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, gnewna. You're a better modder, you know more about lore, youre more polite in your responds, AND you have more hours than me? Cmon....

[gnewna]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 我不会说中国话:

Diposting pertama kali oleh gnewna:

giant snip on a mobile device is a painful snip

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, gnewna. You're a better modder, you know more about lore, youre more polite in your responds, AND you have more hours than me? Cmon....

Hehe! If it helps, I also have a HORRIBLE headache and there are people DRILLING in my building, so it's not all roses ;)

[SpeedFreak1972]

Yea real life can be a pain sometimes lol

[PixelTraveller]

Diposting pertama kali oleh darkknight4321234:

Sorry, but to me PC has become censorship. Not politeness. It's all well and good to be careful in one's phrasing, when trying to be kind and respectful. But when you can't say the word Christmas in a public school because you MIGHT offend someone, it moves well beyond politness into outright censorship. Besides, if someone wants to be rude, that's their business. People need thicker skins.

I agree with gnewna's response to this. But I also think, as you have pointed out, that it's important to recognize the practices of being PC as being misused as a form of censorship. I disagree with you about Christmas - personally I say "Happy Holidays" because I like to be inclusive to everyone, plus Christmas itself is a big ball of controversy (given its commercialization and the fact that it was originally a Pagan event anyway) but NOT because I think I will offend anyone. I'm just being nice.

Where I do agree with you - one example, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn almost got banned recently because of the excessive use of the N word. The whole freaking book is anti-racist! That is the point! And here is where being PC completely misses the whole mark and just turns into harmful censorship. So I think it's very important to always be conscientious about how it is practiced.

[Rüdiger J Simpson]

nice necro mang, but you are right.

all that PC bs has become ridiculous and partly reached a dangerous spot. in my country they have started to censor and rewrite old books because of some words, which used to be ok for the last 500years and just became politically incorrect, because everyone is now offended by everything.

and they were not even slightly racist books, its authors like astrid lindgren and erich kästner (fun fact: the last time his books were censored and burned was during the nazi regime)

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Uncle64Swe:

Argonians lay eggs. And have some nests.

Half----- is not one good word. I am from Sweden and we dont use that term here.
If you say that to one normal swede you get your head whacked. It is one insult and as Grimus say.

You're not allowed to say anything in Sweden these days, so that does not say much. Not everyone is as PC as Swedistan. I also do not understand how you'd call a normal Swede a halfbreed in the first place, but k...

[DrSuperEvil]

Just use the term hybrid since that is the correct biological term.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh DrSuperEvil:

Just use the term hybrid since that is the correct biological term.

What about Cyborg?

[Uncle64]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ♰ Arthedain ♰ (Abroad till 19th):

Diposting pertama kali oleh Uncle64Swe:

Argonians lay eggs. And have some nests.

Half----- is not one good word. I am from Sweden and we dont use that term here.
If you say that to one normal swede you get your head whacked. It is one insult and as Grimus say.

You're not allowed to say anything in Sweden these days, so that does not say much. Not everyone is as PC as Swedistan. I also do not understand how you'd call a normal Swede a halfbreed in the first place, but k...

I think you have pressed the wrong buttons on your keyboard.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Uncle64Swe:

Diposting pertama kali oleh ♰ Arthedain ♰ (Abroad till 19th):

You're not allowed to say anything in Sweden these days, so that does not say much. Not everyone is as PC as Swedistan. I also do not understand how you'd call a normal Swede a halfbreed in the first place, but k...

I think you have pressed the wrong buttons on your keyboard.

Nope.

[BlkBaron]

Swedes these days are cucks. Why don't you go ♥♥♥♥ a Muslim ♥♥♥♥ you Swedish dog?

[Uncle64]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cesarema:

Swedes these days are cucks. Why don't you go ♥♥♥♥ a Muslim ♥♥♥♥ you Swedish dog?

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Uncle64Swe:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cesarema:

Swedes these days are cucks. Why don't you go ♥♥♥♥ a Muslim ♥♥♥♥ you Swedish dog?

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Very swedish of you, silencing those that disagree with your leftist agenda. You proved his point greatly.