Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9062114-20140323022721/@comment-80.216.220.71-20140323161823

80.216.220.71 wrote: Harold Burned-Mane reply to #69The reason the son of a nord and a redguard woman doesn't get 50 immunity is for gameplay reasons. Like many things in-game are made to be balanced, like the fact Khajiit can only see in the dark for 60 seconds, though that doesn't make any sense. If the child would've gotten the racial traits of both the parents then hybrids would become Op. So as a rule they made it usually gain the abilities of the mother.

Now as for the child being the race of the mother, that isn't true. In-game it is impossible to make a character/NPC a hybrid, so they have to be one race, which is usually the race of the mother. But in-lore they are half one race half another. Look at some of the Septim Emperors, for example Pelagius the Mad. He is Half Imperial, Half Altmer. Though in-game he is considered an Imperial, though his mother was the Altmer and his father the Imperial.

As for the Argonians. How do you know no one tried to have sex with an Argonian before? In Skyrim you can marry an Argonian, meaning that other races marrying argonians is normal. Though there has never been a reference to an Argonian half breed. Because a mammal can't interbreed with a reptile, that is biologically impossible. Argonians lay eggs so if they can interbreed with another race it has to be with one that also lays eggs.

There is an ingame book that says children took on the race of the mother, which makes it lore and not gameplay. I'll look for it, thought it was Racial Phylogeny, but cant find the relevant passage.