Yes, actually, this was my understanding! Completely my own opinion here, and in no way canon, but formed after much studying of Lusternia...

Excluding Humans, Viscanti, and Illithoid, every race is the shard of an Elder God. Now, maybe possibly there might be some argument that a Dracnari could breed with a Dragon (I believe they are both shards of Dracnoris), but there's nothing to say either way on that.

Now, the three exception races. Humans are believed to be shards of Yudhe's Nameless Son, who introduced to Dynara the ultimate and surest way to produce a 'soul' in an Elder God - ie, connecting them to the Immanidivinus. I suppose in some way, that's carried through him and into his shards.

Viscanti, being an amalgam of races mixed and melded together by the Taint, would probably have something to do with the Excoroperditio energies - which, if true, would include Illithoid in it, as well. Though as they mixed with other races, assuming they can, I suppose a case could be made that they would become Viscanti several generations later, after breeding constantly with mortal races.

Again, all of this is purely supposition, and my own opinion, and in no, no way canon.

Problem solved.

Fae = Spirits. Not a race.

... though, still... wait... I forgot my point. Nevermind!

Perhaps allow for a setting of a second race when reincarnating, which would possess the default stats/advantages/disadvantages of the primary race, with a minor chance of stats increasing (with a random stat decreasing for each increase), and one advantage/disadvantage swapped with the secondary race (a disadvantage is added if the race has no disadvantage). You'd show up as half-primary in your HONOURS, but in your SCORE it'd state you secondary race next to your primary (and the effects created by the union of the two.) Maybe a person could only pick one secondary race throughout their lifetime, and each time they reincarnated thereafter, the secondary would would be taken in effect to the new reincarnation (unless they possessed the versatile nature of the changeling, and could thus change secondary races as well.)

Ex.
P: Loboshigaru / S: Furrikin,
Stats: 14STR, 13DEX, 16CON, 10INT, 13CHAR, 10 SIZE (Changes of +2 CHAR, -2 DEX, -3 Size)
GAIN: Racial language Furrikin, No longer resistant to fire.
LOSS: Level 3 Health regeneration, Level 2 Susceptible to magic.

The randomness of it would mean that it wouldn't get excercized much, but it'd provide legit roleplay for people who want to play a half race. Maybe Viscanti and Human can be the exception, in that they keep all of their base stats but inherit the language, and an advantage/disadvantage from the second race.

Faeling?

Half-shard??

I'm not sure that's possible. Even other races, if mixed by human blood, still end up as specifically one race no matter how many superficial traits they've picked up from the others (you are Merian, or Elfen, or whatever, and that's the shard you've got).

I think the Illithoid spawns would be different from the Viscanti. Maybe a race similar but with different characteristics and obviously highly psionic

Are you suggestng asecondary race? So we could blend, say, an Illithoid and a Faeling, to get a Chuck Norris type Ninjakari? (( I kid))

Seriously, this would be interesting to look into.

Rowena is an Elfen.

Laeroc is a Fae.

Together they made Faeling.

This isn't a multi-generational thing.

I demand Myrkr be able to have babies with her pixie, dammit! :: Eyeshift ::

What? It's always been Elfen & Fae == Faeling. Where are you getting multi-generational from? I was just saying that other races, when mixed, don't get "fragments of different shards," they get their one main shard which is their race, and then have superficial traits of other races. As such, if Faelings were to somehow get half a shard, they would be completely unique. Of course, they are unique anyways, but I'm not sure about the half-a-shard theory.

Symbiogenesis.

will you post pics?

Might take a while to draw?

I, personally, wonder what happens if a fae and something other than an elfen have kids. What's a pooka-Igasho baby look like?

A pooka trill might be something like Baphomet? I donno.

Though, the half fae half elfen thing allows for creativity.

What sort of fae blood do you have in you? A mixture of multiple, maybe?

I'm still disturbed by the whole Faeling idea. A Fae Elfen cross breed? How did that line of thought even go. "Hey look, a spirit of the forest. Let's have sex with it!"

It all started with the introduction of beers to the Pooka community in Faethorn

"Hey guys, check this out! Elfen and Pixie porn!"

*starts dominating said Elfen and Pixie*

"Oh, hey, it's natural! I like nature! No, I *love* nature! Let me just set out a honeycake trap... then when they're not expecting it..."

... do I want to know how you found this?

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I'd really like to know what the deal is here. I mean, we can all discuss it, obviously, but I feel like that this is a backstory element in Lusternia that should have some input from more than one admin.