Like seriously. You have this giant place, filled with all sorts of races, wouldnt u think that they would start to take a liking to one another? dont give me that "they take after their mother so u never know herp ah derp har har" crap because it also says they retain some traits of the father ... im assuming distinctive ones. why do u think they never threw a few in? too much to implement?

For the same reason we don't see multiple types of Khajiit and whatnot. They simply don't wanna bother to make them all, they only make the most basic ones. Though we do have Bretons but their design is kinda lame. You can't even see an e out of their elven side.

So very true ... theyre like an uglier version of imperials. not one thing about them looks elven.

Yeah, exactly. The only way to tell the difference is by their somewat smaller frame and chubby faces. It's ridiculous. Especially in Skyrim where they share most hairstyles and facial features, exception being Imperial's pronounced around-mouth and chin area. It's a completely different race so I feel like Bethesda totally dropped the ball on designing Bretons.

I had this question answered last month. There's a book that tells you that a child takes on it's mothers race.

And eyes like his/her mother.

Mysticism prevails Sir. There are a number of races in Skyrim that resist all known laws of adaptive evolution.

A suspension of the natural order. The only way that quote/unquote magyk/magic/magik (depending on your breakfast mushroom) can occur.

It'll all end in tears Sir. Sooner than they think.

Well, what do you want to see? Slightly different ear shape? A tad of frost resistance? Eyes of unusual color? Most of it isn't noticable at all and the rest is so minor there's no reason to waste time on implementing it. It would be better spent on unique children, not this copypasta we got.

Difference between a black man or white man and a mulatto is pretty severe. So different tone skins and facial structures present but not usual on person of specific skin colour would be nice to see. I do understand Beth, making all those subraces would be a major pain in the ass for races that wouldn't be present as much as "clean" races, but they could have at least make the Bretons more unique. Human-like with traces of elven facial structure, maybe only a slghtly different ears, slightly more elongated faces etc. Nords are pale and tall, Imperials are short and "normal" to dark coloured, Bretons have nothing. You could say majority of them are small, skinny Imperials. If their magical preferences are still around why wouldn't some body structure of a mer be present as well?

I agree about the children though, that was also pretty silly to look at.

I disagree. That's more or less what Bretons are supposed to look. The problem is that around fifteen years, someone decided that the franchise needed a third race of white men. If anything, Bethesda dropped the ball on designing Imperials.

Forsworrn are basically mixed.

But, their race is set to Breton.

Yes, I also think Bretons should look more elven. AFAIK they are supposed to have elven traits according to lore. Instead they got the roundest faces in all of Skyrim, which is like... the opposite of elven faces

It seems TES races do change with interbreeding, but it takes a long time and a significant amount of interbreeding with one specific race (such as humans + elves -> Bretons). I've been thinking about Imperials and Akaviri. If the Akaviri are supposed to look east Asian, then wouldn't Imperials have some east Asian traits? Especially the noble families. Because it would seem odd if all children with an Akaviri mother left for Akavir. Rather, "Akaviri" would live among the Imperial popualtion for a long time and eventually becoming part of it. If the Akaviri are supposed to look south Asian however, I guess Imperials in Skyrim look ok, because it's possible to make them pretty dark skinned.

The Akaviri that invaded Tamriel were literally snakes, so it's doubtful any in-breeding took place there at all. Early, more human-like invasions were three thousand years ago, and their miniscule genetic imprint would have been diluted.

The "Akaviri skeleton" enemies that you meet in Oblivion (the game) are human. I also recall reading somewhere that some of the noble families in Cyrodiil have Akaviri ancestors, but the person who said it may have been wrong. I'm not an expert on TES lore

Nope, you're right.

The Bretons. I think, should be taller if they are the mixing of Nedes, Nords and Altmer. Two thirds of their genetic heritage is made up of the continent's tallest races!

There are mods for this.

They do have a few, but I guess you mean so visibly so that it's obvious? Conveniency sake. But even in real life, not all mixed blooded individuals looked mix at all. Africans when first mixed with European blood a lot of the times came out still largely looking African.

One of the most obvious mixed npcs I remember is the Orc in the Arena. Gro Malog the Grand Champion.

I don't think he really was half vampire, that's just how he saw it. I don't think you have to put spoiler tags for that out still, that was a long time ago.

That army was wiped out, so wouldn't have had any impact on the gene pool. The one which came later, and was more successful, was made up of ageless Tsaesci snake-men.

You don't read a lot of Potter fanfic, do you, Hagrid? Probably just as well, to be honest. Lots of half-Vampire, half-Veela, half-goodness-knows-what supermodels, there. (Especially odd given Potterverse vampires are... well, I don't think they're meant to be terribly human, from what I remember?)

Potter fanfics? Good god no.

As Bear said, I think that might be just how he sees it. I wonder what his genetic make up actually looked like?

This is TES, and in TES the idea of a half vampire is silly, as it doesn't work that way as far as we've seen so far. But like I said, I doubt that was a literal thing, just ol' Gro Malog overreacting to his father being a vamp.

Don't worry, it's just as silly in, well, pretty much everywhere, really. I mean, it's a central 'plot' point of the last Twilight book, and if that's not evidence that the whole idea is ludicrous, I don't know what is.

As I say, probably for the best. My kid likes to read the odd particularly egregious example to me, generally found on blogs with the word 'facepalm' or 'Sue' in the name...