User blog comment:Longdead97/Ulfric's war effort & gaining support. Smart move or no?/@comment-80.216.216.52-20130328091203/@comment-80.216.216.52-20130331092858

The point is that it's just the mother DNA in play here as far as anyone knows, so there's clearly magic involved.

So it doesn't make the races in Nirn part of the same species, but the basic gist of what you are saying still stands I suppose.

Then it's just a matter of the legitamacy and usability of fantasy racism, which I say is very high.

Since the races involved here, are very much real with differences racial traits etc.

A Nord born from a Nord mother and a Breton father inherits which traits?

Only the traits from the mother, which in this example would be ie 50% resistance to cold and such.

Which is not how it would play out in RL, were it would be half from mom and half from dad.

So there really is no comparison to real life, with or without possibility for viable offspring.