I dont see why not. I mean...you cant expect a civilization that has been around for thousands of years to not get curious about the other races.

Yeah half races are perfectly possible! The lore makes it that much easier to make a half-race character, and let's not forget all the tweaks to be made while making our characters. My imperial in Oblivion, for example, didn't have the regular features of an imperial in Cyrodill and I didn't even use any mods.

So don't worry about it, I'm sure that, in Skyrim, the customization possibilities will be even greater. (we already know that the races are more distinct, we can have tattoos, etc)

I've always kind of had a little family backstory to my main character (a Redguard) in that his mother was a Redguard and his father was an Imperial, so that he has lighter coloured skin to look more like me. That probably sounds kind of racist, but I tend to like having my characters look like me.
Would be a nice addition, giving an outrageously awesome variety in the NPCs, but it'd be much harder implementing an Orc/Khajiit NPC or an Argonian combined with a Wood Elf. :blush:

I know bringing science into a RPG is never the right thing to do all the time. But, i dont think we would have to worry about orcs and khajiit's ever makeing babys.

For the same reason a cat cannot have babies with a dog. Their genes are too different. Now i do not know the genome for every race in the Elder Scrolls. But i would expect many of them would not add up. Possibly the elves, the imperials and red guards, etc. But i dont think we are going to ever see half Khajiit, half argonian, and half orcs running around.

As long as it is not insane like an orc and a argonian.

Like the Gray Prince who was half-orc?

Arkhajinordbreimperedbosdunaltorsimer.
Now THAT would be awesome.

That would make a brown orc with scales and fur.
Nice.

Don't care how hard it is I want it. "Make it so" Bethesda.

Where's the poll?

I was wondering the same thing. I know in oblivion there was the grey prince, but other than that it was unheard of to be a mixed race. Do think it will be more common in NPCs now?

One flaw, bretons. However, they were centuries of semi-isolated breeding of nedes and aldmer, none of that 2nd or 3rd generation stuff. It probably required 10th generation at the shortest.

Also, can't really happen. There's already an Oblivion book, that's pretty much the devs saying in character, that hybrids cannot happen with noticeable traits. The child will inherit the mom's race, with extremely subtle traits from the dad, and I stress extremely subtle.

So, if an orc mom and khajiit dad (if possible, currently dubious if the beast races can interbreed with mer and humans) had a baby, it would look and feel like any ol' orc to just about anyone.

If you REALLY want to stand out as a "mixed race" than select a race, and add some features that are not so dominate in that race. No one is stopping you.

Nah, seems highly doubtful. Though not a bad idea, but doubtful.

Could be nice to see some sub-races in Skyrim, but not in the customization character-part. Some citizens may be mixed race, but we should be.

i wouldnt want to meet an argonian(sp) kajitt (sp)

This idea definitely has my support. :thumbsup:

Too bad the book http://www.imperial-library.info/content/oblivion-racial-phylogeny-and-biology says no to hybrids in the sense of it being 50-50 mom and dad. It's close to, at best, 95% mom and 5% dad. Remember guys, it took centuries of aldmer and nedes breeding together to create the bretons.

Again, if you MUST be a hybrid, then use the character creation to add traits that are outside the norm of the race you're working on and pretend it's a nord-khajiit.

Leave it to the modders.

That doesn't mean that an offspring can't inherent a prominent feature from the father though. If an male Altmer and female Bosmer were to have a child (as unlikely as it is considering the tensions between the two races) The child could receive height from the father and just have all Bosmer qualities. Or the child could inherent the Altmer affinity to magic while still looking completely like Bosmer.

95% mother and 5% father only mean that subsequent matings have less chance to pass on genetic material to new offspring. however first generation mixes could still exhibit profound characteristics of the father.

I do know how mixed races work in TES world. That is why my girl would look Nordic except for her eyes. I also know that not all races can have children with each other. BUT humans and elves can and have done it in the TES series. In fact it is more possible for elves to have children with humans than with other elves (also TES lore) since humans are more fertile (probably because of their shorter life-span).

And yes, I'd like to see a few mixed-race NPCs as well.

I played a Khajiit who was part Bosmer, and just tweaked him to have a short muzzle and lighter fur, and stuff. This'd work even better with how the stat system is looking like it's going to work, somewhat similar to Fallout 3. Allocate stat bonuses and choose skills to boost that correspond with the natural affinities of the other parent. My example would be to make a Khajiit with higher speed and agility with preference for bows and alchemy, then find a Command Creature spell to copy the Beast Tongue ability.

There's no human being in their right mind that would have sixual intercourse with a bipedal feline or reptilian being.
It's obscene. There would never be any half kahjaits or half lizardmen. It defies logic and breaks immersion.

I dont think that is true, the factor here is sentience. Its perfectly logical a Dunmer could fall in love with a Khajit.

No.... HELL no.
Not if you look at it realistically. Imagine it's reality. An elf is essentially a slightly more evolved/intellignet homosapien.
No homosapien in their right mind would have intercourse with an animal. You could bring up the furry porm argument but that is cartoons.
If those furry fans saw a real anthropomorphic animal they would puke their guts out. It would be horrifying. Don't you see that ?

Barenziah knew what it was like to get it with a khajiit.

I heard the Nord, Breton, and Imperial women are big into the Redguard men. Just saying....Not sure about mixing Khajiit and Aragonian though, that might be a bit weird. I'm trying to picture a furry lizard that purrs. :sick: