Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24241449-20131204014043/@comment-80.216.220.48-20131208142025

202.156.8.10 wrote: Duhh, that cause they have the mother's mitochondrial DNA - which affects people more than they think (yes, it really does affect you). Also, if they keep taking on the mom's race, by your logic, Bretons (the best munchkins out there) will not exist, as they will just be nords (as they were created by elf men and nord chicks having you know what). Neither will imperials (which were created when everybody went free for all)

In fact, I think the child takes on MOSTLY the mother's characteristics, but some trace of the dad remains there.

This is why the elves and humans are called races (its caps sometimes, but that means nothing), not species. I mean, unless you told me there was sperm magic or ova magic in existance (which I doubt, because nobody in the elder scrolls seems to know about the existance of individual cells), cross breeding by using magic (squick, when you think of spell casting towards each other's parts by talented mages, yuck) or magical processes seems like some really far fetched idea... The magic I mean would be innate, or part of Mundus/Nirn itself.

Not a specific spell.

Bretons are a special case, created in vile disgusting experiments on human slaves.

I'll bet Molag Bal was involved somehow, seeing as the slaves were hardly willing.

Like Serena, or vampires in general.

Fantasy Races are called such because...

Who knows, it refers to what is clearly different species in virtually every case.

I'll slightly concede that surely even in the Elder Scroll universe children gain some traites from the father, was wrong in claiming it was all the mother I guess.