The Glomdoring has some serious issues with elfen and fae getting together, then. Which is odd, since we have so very few elfen.

Maybe they are just a lot more... rambunctious?

Wait a minute, what about hte Viscanti?



That, along with the fact that we don't realy hear anything against typical breeding means that perhaps the races can generaly breed together (with exceptions: I do NOT want to thank about any attempts at Krokani-Furrikin mating). Humans, however, have the best luck at it. Mix breeds in Lusternian culture can exist but aren't recognized: Instead, the dominating characteristics you have mark your race (i.e. one-eyed and large = Krokani, and nevermind the green leathery orclachish skin).

As for faelings: I could've sworn I heard that a ritual is involved in making one. Otherwise, it makes sense that they are recognised: Fae and Elfen are nothing alike (one's a lesser spirit and another is a splinter of a Goddess).

Interbreeding means they bred among themselves. The people mutated by the taint bred with other mutants until they were eventually all grouped together as Viscanti. They -could- breed with non-Viscanti, I suppose, but I imagine it wouldn't be too fun.

Man, I'm discussing the sex lives of make-believe creatures over the internet.

Somebody kill me.

That's not so bad.

Now when you start wishing there were pictures..

If any of you read the ingame book about the divine shards it explains it all there fairly well.

As for faelings, Rowena had two children. Those two children were said by Viravain to be breeding like rabbits, making many many more faelings. Faelings are not mules.

Each person can only have one shard of the divine within them, and those shards get sent from partent to child like genes, but you only get one of them, so you are either of Race X or your not.

If the Glomdoring ever has problems on getting more children, Ash will uhhh....patriotically give up his freedom and start as a 'breeder'.




















That was even twisted for me.

"You want to put that WHERE?"

Nokraenom's scroll is quite wonderfully authored, but it does overlook this fact. It considers Human, Viscanti and Changelings as the only exceptions to the shard concept, when clearly Faelings must also be included in this set.

As for Shadowfaelings, they are wholly different to regular Faelings. Shadowfaelings are apparently descended from those two children (somehow, even though the help file speaks of 'transformation' ), but the text on regular Faelings does seem to indicate otherwise.

I sware I need to make a scholar alt just to I can learn about these things myself. As it stands, Jacquin's the type to read something like that if it's presented but wouldn't bother running around the world to find it.

Me, on the other hand, would LOVE to get my hands on that scroll.

Elryn just put it back in the Serenwilde library, if you want to read it.

I'm always impressed talking to Nokraenom, he has some wonderful ideas and theories.

Too lazy to read through the entire thread in order to see if this has been pointed out yet or not (needed to post on it because of some people saying they consider children not of the same race as their parents adopted, not the parents' by birth):



It's therefore quite possible that when going through the Portal of Fate, your genes get altered due to either the physical alterations or reality shifting. Thus, any child of any race can be the offspring of any racial combination of parents, in the case of people "claiming" to have parents not of their race and the like.

Other than that, Faeling probably are originally born to Faeling or Fae/Elfen parents. Probably why so many Faeling in the Glomdoring are so weird.

For the record, it's either a mule or a hinny, depending on which of the parents was the male, but both are sterile.

I imagine a Faeling shard is just an altered Elfen one, but still Elfen, considering the Fae are not the shards of a god.

Humans and Viscanti do have a divine shard within them, though. Humans have the shards of the son of Yudhe (Cosmogenesis) within them, and I'd imagine Viscanti, being Tainted beings, have the equivalent of a divine shard of Kethuru within them. (The Taint, in this case, replacing whatever they might have had if the Taint had never existed.)

We faelings apparently do not have shards, considering various things we've picked up while discussing matters at the Ravenwood.

(Does this mean faelings can't become demigods?)

psh we all known faelings are roark's little knuckle children that got mixed in with one of those lady divine accidnetly!

I remember hearing that ALL mortal races have shards, except humans who were created of the essence of the Unnamed Son..so not sure if that is technically a shard, or just some funkified essence thing. Viscanti probably have the shard of whatever race their ancestors were that got tainted, while faelings most assuredly have the Elfen shard. I remember a conversation where someone was talking about changelings or something, and someone (I believe it was a God--Not sure whether it was in game or an old forum thread) answered that shards can't be shared/have more then one (IE changelings changing from race to race to race) So this leads me to believe faelings have an elfen shard but they have like..consider it a fae covering. Like chocolate covered peanuts. Elfen Shard covered in Fae. They mix. Faeling. Ta da! And I'm pretty sure that Viscanti don't have some funky Kethuru shard (He didn't splinter himself, how would that make sense? Otherwise Shadow Faelings would have Kethuru shards because you could argue that Rowena was wholly changed from the taint, shard and all. And if that ever became fact, I think I would go Seren and start preaching the return of Ackleberry, and Forest Love-Ins.) Let's not forget..Kethuru doesn't have a soul. Therefore no soul to splinter into shards...but if Soulless COULD splinter, wouldn't that be kick ass? Imagine Magnagora full of Soulless-Splintered mortals. That'd take Crap-My-Pants hysteria to a whole new level.

Except that... Viravain, I believe it was, when telling Shikari about the mortal races, stated that we Faelings lacked a shard.

It made me feel so empty inside.