Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11345660-20130908095939/@comment-7153552-20130909223619

Madman, I respect your opinion and I have even enjoyed some of your blogs. . . but I just don't think you're being open minded enough for TES Lore to take root in this discussion. We have it in canon that it's possible, we have seen unions in the games of couples from rather awkward sides of the fences. Also I feel like you're belittling the Beast races by standing by them being mere animals. I think if it were expressly and decidedly impossible then it would have been mentioned somewhere in canon. But it isn't, there are several cases where we see it talked about, and nobody says it can't happen, just that it hasn't been documented.

Now, as Banneram stated, the cultural stigma that has been placed upon the Beastmen would say that if - if - a Mer were to mate and procreate with a Beast then we wouldn't know of it. They would most likely hide the offspring away, far in the corners of Tamriel (at least far relatively to themselves). Also, whomever the mother was, would be the deciding factor for race characteristics. So if a male Bosmer coupled with a female Khajiitj (lore/origin irony) then it would appear Khajiit. It would probably be the best assassing in the world if it caught some Bosmer traits and abilities, put would look and be called Khajiit regardless.

The exception - as a whole - to the racial phylogeny rulesets would be the Bretons. They were a special case that required a lot of work and a lot of time to merge the Man and Mer qualities. But now they follow the same set of rules when given to coupling in the natural manner. The rules are the rules and the way things work are how they work, unless otherwise intervened upon. I just don't think that because we call the Argonians and Khajiit Beastmen we can write them off as beasts and call the discussion done.