Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25291590-20130317093523/@comment-68.70.45.238-20130703022053

If I could throw in my own two cents on the origional topic: Every mer race in Tamriel seems to be decendents of the Aldmer. These are the Orcs, Dwarves, and the Snow, Wood, Dark, High, Sea, and Heartland High Elves. Then there are the races decended from the Atmorans: Nords and Imperials. The Bretons being hybrids of Atmoran and Aldmer decendents (which ones is a tad bit fuzzy). The Redguards are decended from something else it seems, but it would be a very small leap to see them as being compatible with the Atmorans. The Atmoran decendents can bread with eachother, the Aldmer decendents can bread with eachother, and there are many confirmed instances of the two groups interbreading. Now... as for the beast races... my own conjecture is the Argonians have to be thrown out. Reptile and Mamallian reproductive systems are so different that you don't even need to begin to consider their geans. The Khajiit however are interesting... they range from all-but indistinguishable from Bosmer to being cats and tigers. My intrest is in the former. The Wood Elves are known for their "wild hunt" where they exhibit lycanthropic tendencies. With that and the drastic changes from Aldmer (the High Elves consider themselves their direct decendents and so many believe that the two look very similar) to the Orcs to put things into perspective, my following theory doesn't seem too... insane. Consider the following: A group of Bosmer with religious connections to the moons live in the forrests of southern Elswyre. They make a pact with their gods simmilar to the ones made by the Orcs and the Dark Elves. This pact like the others brings about a great physical change causing a new race to be born from the exchange. If this were true then surely the Khajiit would be able to breed with their cousins, the other Aldmer decendents and by extension the decendents of the Atmorans and the Redguards. But this is conjecture and not fact.