I’ve always wished during the character creation process you could create a
mixed race character, I mean with all the different races living next to each other it hard for me to believe that there isn’t any already.

Thoughts?

Not for me. I'm pretty sure I've read it's against the lore, anyway.

Would be cool but Nah, can't think of a nice Mixed Race

I would like it,yes. And we already have a mixed race.

Couldnt you some what do that through character customisation,skills/perks, and rping?

I thought it was against lore too - well, you can be mixed race, but you'll look like your Mum. Because of that I picked the definite "no" option - but not because I think it's horrible or anything.

I would not do it but I don't care if it is in or not.

There ARE mixed races in the Elder Scrolls, but they all look like the mother's race.

They are already in, actually... hybrids look like their mother, just with some features from the father. Don't you remember Agronak, in Oblivion? There were other characters that had names that didn't fit their races, so I assume they were hybrids, too.

The Gray Prince in Oblivion just looked pretty much like a pale Orc to me. :confused:

I would play one simply because it would make for an interesting backstory.

Mixed race characters look just like the mother with a few characteristics from the father.

Now that we can edit muscularity, if you made a buff Dunmer with semi-human characteristics, the father could have easily been a Nord.

So you can make one.

It's certainly possible in TES to have a mixed race charater but it will always be the same race as the mother. From a game design point of view it will never happen due to every body picking a male Breton as the father.

yeah... not true. Bretons are nords breed with elves. So mix breeding is possible but takes a ton of time I don't think 200 years would cut mix races

It's already in the game. To create a mixed race character, you pick the mother's race, and adjust their facial features to match the father's race as close as possible.

It actually won't work from a game design standpoint because it would mean they would need to make 43 extra races. If Argonians and Khajiit couldn't breed with anything other than Argonians and Khajiit, they would still need to make 28 on top of the existent 10.

So if they were to make a race for each, 38-53 races vs. 10 races.

I think they went down the right path for this one.

Well, I can always make my character look mixed, but im not sure it is an official option.

Uhmm guess that's what I'll be doing then.

Which is what makes the lore explanation of mixed races all the more brilliant.

Definitely so. :nod:

There are no real mixed races. You inherit your species(at least in terms of elven and human biology) from the mother with a smattering of genes from the father. For example a child of a Wood Elf woman and a Nord man would be a Wood Elf with broader features and paler hair. Vice versa it would be a Nord with a lither build and love of open spaces. You can RP and create a character that looks mixed certainly since that's the extent of half-breeding, but don't expect abilities and attributes to meld or mix.

That's really all he was. His mother was an orc so he's an orc. He just has some vampire-like characteristics, like pale skin and incredible strength. He's still orc through and through.

The Bretons are a special case. They're not really half-elves, they're still fully human. They just, as a race, have a lot of Merish characteristics in their gene pool (or whatever the TES equivalent is), to both good and ill. They have a lot of magic resistance and naturally deep Magicka reserves and a slightly longer life span than most humans, but they age terribly, always becoming very feeble in their final years. Not sure what the source on that last bit about aging is, but I'm sure I heard it somewhere.