Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25291590-20130317093523/@comment-7153552-20130610230058

The question was posed IF the races can mate successfully between one another (Man, Beast and Mer). After much debate we came to a few different possibilities, but no real conlcusions. Today I practically tripped over the answer on accident, and posted it. So now we know that they can. One thing that has been mentioned persistently is the bit about the mother carrying the racial decision for the child. Now, all of that is tangental to my point, but it's important to note for context.

I made the point that regardless of whether or not they can, a secondary question would be a matter of WILL they mate. I challenged that the races of Mer, especially the Dunmer, would not mate with the Beast races as they enslaved them. In fact, all of the Mer races view Man and Beast as barely above sentient animals. I was then asked, by you 71.61.178.23, how I could possibly know that. To which I gave my response. I will now, however, attempt to expound upon that.

We know that the races of Mer generally despise Man and Beast, and more or less think of Man as Beast. The Dunmer, specifically, had slaves of the Beast Races, and only didn't use Man because they were to weak and frail for hard labor in the harsh environments of Vvardenfell. The ancient Mer enslaved Man in the First Era and before. You mentioned that you wouldn't put anything past the Thalmor, in response to what I assume to be my comment about there being no potential for slave/slaver. That can be derrived from the fact that Mer are usually so supremist and have such a large superiority complex that there's no way they would ever dilute their gene pool with such trash (in their mindset). Added to even more by the fact they believe themselves to be decended directly from the gods. So using basic sociology we know that their society is one of seclusion when it comes to mating. They do not want "lesser" being in their genetic coding. In turn, as we look at it with behavioral psychology, we can further understand the not just the actions or the reasons for their actions, but we can anticipate their future actions and presume more accurately the unrecorded actions of their past. Using the same ideas we can figure out what all the races have and have not done with any number of facets of life. We happen to be talking about breeding, so that's where I'm applying it.

That is how it applies.