Mixing colours like black/white doesn't always make brown; you're forgetting that some genes are more...what's the word...assertive? No, but you get what I mean.

Anyway, I think Faelings are a bit different than other races. they are the union between a mortal race and a lesser nature spirit. So...It's just all too difficult, go with them being asexual mystical creatures!

Yeah, I was assuming a yes-or-no gene structure, but then that's what I was alluding to about how you can't be half-this-half-that. You can put in your description that you've got dracnari scales, merian webbing, trill wings, crystal skin, and taurian hooves, but if the honors line says "loboshigaru" you're going to be a loboshigaru in at least a few key ways -- like not being able to fly or resist fire. That's the wiggle room and also the limit to the wiggle room.

I don't mean to sound like I'm talking down the roleplay. But there's a meaningful difference between this and, say, an AD&D world where "half-elven" is a real thing with its own stats and rules. None of our races originate from the combination of two other player races (since fae isn't a player race). So if a loboshigaru and an aslaran mate (where's Peter Venkman when you need him?) the child is either going to be a loboshigaru or an aslaran, even if you describe him as being a little like a mix. The rest is roleplay -- so make it up however you like.

Yeah I see what you mean and agree. I just kind of blur over people's races when it comes to their family. We can reincarnate so I can't see that we should put too much stock in what race 1 and race 2 will make.

If you look at the race pictures threads Estarra kept on mentioning that they had human in them or whatever... I don't think non corporeal beings 'breed' however, if you do some wierd ritual they can create a new race for you.

Faeling and Fae would make more Faelings, Faelings and Elven would make a toss between either a faeling or an elf, and fae and fae doesn't happen.

Isn't a Donkey, a cross breed between a Horse and a Pony, or something. Also Ligers and Wolphins can't breed, I think. Well thats what I learnt in 6th form Bio. That although crossbreeds can be created, they are infertile or something...

A mule is a crossbreed from a horse and a donkey. Of specific genders. (I forget which is which.) Hybrids are infertile, but I don't think the Fae and Elfen are sexual crosses, since one is an inch and a half tall and one is ~5'6".

I like whoever it was that said 1 out of 1000 Fae Mushrooms summoned by an Elfen was a Faeling.

Female horse + male donkey = mule
Male horse + female donkey = hinny
Both are almost always infertile. Mules are slightly larger, and hinnies are quite rare.

Your right there, crossbreeds have less than a 1% chance of being fertile, but I think it has been known to happen.

That'd be cool. So, let's breed us a TON of wolphins, then breed the breedable ones.



With my luck, they'd all be males. =\\ Oh well!

In general the child gets more traits from the mother than the father. Soooo, if Aslaran female had a child by a human male.(Just for example.) Their child would be 75% Aslaran and 25% Human. I think.

I belive that a Fae is the child of an Elfen and a Faeling, or whatever those things in Ethereal are called. But I was under the impression that this was a very seldom hapenstance. So unless the Fae are able to reproduce amongest themselves, there are waaaaayyyyy to many of them.

There's some truth to this but greatly overstated. However, that truth is a characteristic of humans (and some other races). There's no reason to expect it would be true for other races (even if we assume some form of genetics), and even less for crossbreeding.

Really I think we err to dig too deeply into genetics as a model for this. Lusternia is a high fantasy world with mythic overtones. The moment someone tries to analyze the physics of dancing down a moonbeam or describes necromancy as an effect of binder RNA in a retrovirus, it takes away from that mythic quality. A well-known sci-fi author, when asked how fast the spaceships went in his world, answered that they "travelled at the speed of plot". I think we should be looking at this from that perspective, bounded by the need for consistency, but driven more by mythic overtones and symbolism layers than by genetics. When those things coincide, great, use them for inspiration. When they don't, toss them.

Okay well bugger having children, I never really wanted one in the first place. But to have MY kid, have most likely 75% of someone alse hah! Thats irl aswell, I really hope Tarquin never has kids because quite frankly I know that they would have a twisted child hood. Also me being a faeling, makes me worry about what my children would be.