Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25291590-20130317093523/@comment-7153552-20130614220001

According to lore, taken from the best lore site I've found on the net (linked above) all the humanoid races can breed with each other. It boils down to a matter of will they.

Now as for the wiki contributor who seems to think the Mer will molest the Beast races. . . NO!! Why is it so hard to understand that these are not the races of Earth, Nirn has different rules. As shown very simply by the fact that there are walking lizards! There are exceptions, and it's great that you have a role play worked out to justify your thoughts and ideas, but it's not lore. . . it's not cannon. It's basically fan-fic. The Mer have a superiority complex like nothing you've ever seen before, and they aren't going to bring themselves down to the level of sleeping with animals, however sentient they might be. The Mannish races are closing in on not being considered animals by most of the Mer, but they Altmer and the Dunmer are such strong-willed (hell, stubborn) groups that it will take another era before Man is seen anywhere near to being equal. And everytime the young races of Man do something stupid and outlandishly racist it only solidifies the Mer's beliefs.

I understand that there are exceptions to every rule, and TES is no different. Anytime I begin to speak about the races I always mention that I'm generalizing. So there may have been one Altmer that screwed things up for your character's mother and it caused a natural predispostion for her to hate the Altmer (which is believable since all Mannish races are quick to judge the many based on the few) and so she taught you to do the same in your upbringing. That, however, does make your character's ideas fact. It also does not make your fan-fic, personally created backstory hard cannon. This discussion in the Lore Section, I ask--nay, I plead, can we please keep it to the lore not to our personal hatreds that stem from a fake environment?