Do Faelings really grow from underneath toadstools? Are they born to faeling parents? Why are they raised in elfen communes? How did the first cross between elfen and fae occur?

1. What?
2. Sure.
3. Because they're friends.
4. They had hot Pooka-on-Narsrim action.

1. Elryn made that up.
2. Yeah, but parents seem to produce different races here anyway.
3. Half elfen, half Fae. Communes are Fae related.
4. No idea.

It's not made up! It's true! Honest!

I like to think of it this way. Occasionally, a Fae spirit will select a mortal lover for a brief union, and if that lover is Elfen their natural affinity for the forest allows a child to be conceived from their union. I don't think Fae pregnancies make a lot of sense, so I made u... er... reasoned that one day a little Faeling child would just appear under a toadstool or inside a blossoming flower.

They are raised in the Elfen communes because the Fae are revered, and the children of the Spirits are given special significance (or supposedly, anyway). It is probably possible for Faeling/Faeling or Elfen/Faeling unions to result in offspring, but I'd imagine it would be rare - dilution of the spirit and such.

Anyway, that's all supposition, but it's what I work from.

Edit: Oh, and the first Faeling would have to have been after the time of Ellindel and the forming of the communes, since before that the Fae didn't have physical form. Unless they didn't need the physical aspect to consummate their love, I suppose... but that's getting all kinds of metaphysical.

I basically just nod and patronize anyone wacko enough to try to tell me they're blood relatives of someone of a different race.

I'm even largely in denial about reincarnation.

But, but... my reincarnation has RP purpose! *brandish*

I'd like to (all-furrikin family) but the majority of evidence (and people) are against me.

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Oh, there's crossbreeding, believe me. The child is likely just the race that has the dominant genes, or in the case of it being a fantasy world I'd say they have a 50/50 chance of coming out as either parent race, with their appearance showing minor signs of their other parent.

Or the momma aslaran's great-grandfather was faeling, and daddy krokani's mother was an elfen who liked big men, so the aslaran and the krokani have a baby faeling delivered via stork.

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The other races (except Viscanti, apparently) are only supposed to be able to interbreed with humans... so I suppose you *can* mix multiple races if you throw lots of humans in the ancestor pool, but you can't go pure aslaran + pure igasho = faeling. Well, at least not in RP.

So wait, pure merian + shadowcaster != children?

Biological children... probably not. There's always adoption, though, and those kids can be every bit as much a part of the family (which does allow for children of other races). I just see most kids as being "adopted" due to racial differences, no matter what they/their parents say.

Some races like Merian and Dracnari dont recognize half-breeds. Though, there are some that are half-breeds. Any child of Diamondais and Narid will be part Dracnari and part Elfen. Thats just the way things are, so far we dont have any that have taken after him. But its possible that we might. Who knows.

Really, you can have qualities of ither races, and not be it. Slight changes to skin colour, changes in actual skin, traits, etc. you get the point.

Faelings are a half-breed, but they, because of the way they are, are their own race. They are different from the Fae, but they arent Elfen. They have wings, batlike for a Shadowlord and Shadowcaster, or butterfly for when they arent within Glomdoring or under the influence of Sister Night and Brother Crow. Theyre generally small, bigger I guess than Fae, but definitely smaller than an Elfen.

Probably, in modern times, all but the two Shadowcaster twins are born of Faeling and Faeling parents or Faeling and Elfen parents. Or some mix with a Faeling.

Though, crawling out of a flower or from underneath a circle of mushrooms is a cute story to tell the young, like what we do with the stork and the cabbage patch

I disagree. The help file seems to imply that Faelings are more like mules - special children born to a union of two different species, rather than a true race in their own right. Otherwise they would not need to be 'raised' in an Elfen commune.

(It's a mule, right? The offspring of a donkey and a horse? Hmm, maybe I mean an ass. I don't know my equines. )

Edit: And I know they are mechanically a race of their own, but I don't think they work the same as most of the other races, just like Viscanti is somewhat differently defined to the other races.

It's a mule...but they're sterile.

Right, halfbreed between human/dracnari or human/merian. Before the humans, as far as I know, there was *no* way for the races to intermingle, except for the elfen/fae thing. It just didn't work, the genes were not compatible. It took a race from outside the Basin to break that.

Thus, complete purebloods still can't procreate. They need a fair bit of human for that to work, and even still... the purer they are, the harder it is.

I'm going to go digging through the papers and such now, trying to relocate where I found that.

Yeah, that's why I said Faeling/Faeling or Faeling/Elfen offspring would probably be rare.

Edit: Of course, this might all be different for shadowcasters. They're just freaky.

Id like to know how that quote says theyre their own race...probably better with another part of what I said. That part just said that they were most likely born of a Faeling/Faeling or Faeling/something union. Not what originally started the whole Faeling thing. In modern times, I dont think youll see too many Elfen getting pregnant off a Fae..Rowena was a fluke and that was a planned event. Rowena toyed around with stuff and then kidnapped Laeroc to get herself pregnant.

The way I see it, just abouy any race can breed with any other, with varying levels of success. Humans, however, are the most suited for it, and their offspring are more of a combination of human + other race, rather than just the other race. A human with scales, for example, or a dracnari with no tail, rather than a dracnari with faint gill lines on his neck or tufts of cat fur atop his head.

Yeah, that's what I was disagreeing with. I'm saying I think all Faelings are born of Elfen/Fae unions.

Rowena used some sort of magic to make herself able to bear children, didn't she? And I'm not going to give my theories about how Shadowfaelings work, because I'm still all bitter and twisted inside about it.