Mixed Races

Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:51 am

Sup folks, I was just thinking about the Grey Prince from Oblivion and then I tripped over the thought of being able to play as a mixed breed yourself. I realise that some fans that have been around since like Arena will probably be like 'Oh no no no my GOSH it would DESTROY the elder scrolls' but I think it would be cool and I would at least like to see a mod where the races can be mixed. I mean in Oblivion alone it was frequent to encounter couples of different races but when your creating your character you could only be fullblood of one race. I think the game would become more realistic and diverse if there were more mixed npcs around and if you could make your own it would be awesome, think of how different and unique your character would be in terms of looks and abilities. Just a thought that hit me so I thought Id bring it up. What do you guys think.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:29 am

Sup folks, I was just thinking about the Grey Prince from Oblivion and then I tripped over the thought of being able to play as a mixed breed yourself. I realise that some fans that have been around since like Arena will probably be like 'Oh no no no my GOSH it would DESTROY the elder scrolls' but I think it would be cool and I would at least like to see a mod where the races can be mixed. I mean in Oblivion alone it was frequent to encounter couples of different races but when your creating your character you could only be fullblood of one race. I think the game would become more realistic and diverse if there were more mixed npcs around and if you could make your own it would be awesome, think of how different and unique your character would be in terms of looks and abilities. Just a thought that hit me so I thought Id bring it up. What do you guys think.


WEll I'm a long time player, and I've been wanting this, however because of how IV and V have been set up with racial abilites being important I'm leaning toward not likely.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:05 am

I think mixed races like human/orc just turn out looking like the non-human race. And for human mixed races you can just make an imperial that looks kinda black or something.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:41 am

IMO ten races is enough and more than just about any other game I can think of. Besides I have mods on my OB that add about a dozen races, many of which are described as half-races.

So what I'm saying is I really don't think they need to be added at all to Skyrim. If you have to do it for a role-play, there will be a mod for it soon enough.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:23 am

According to Elder Scrolls lore children of mixed parentage generally resemble their mother, so there is nothing wrong with using the basic racial templates: if your character's mother was a bosmer and their father was a breton then create the character as a bosmer and let their backstory influence how you play (maybe they're magically inclined).
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:54 pm

Nope...

What does the gray prince have to do with anything, btw? He was a Vampire, nothing else. (or part vampire, or something, but nevertheless...)

Bretons are already half human/half elf though. I don't think
bethesda should use their precious time and space on mixed races. Why should mixed raced suddenly pop up anyways? The gods just suddenly decided that if a dark-elf and a khajiit had... A good time, the result would be a Cat-elf?

Khamer?
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:18 am

Sup folks, I was just thinking about the Grey Prince from Oblivion and then I tripped over the thought of being able to play as a mixed breed yourself. I realise that some fans that have been around since like Arena will probably be like 'Oh no no no my GOSH it would DESTROY the elder scrolls' but I think it would be cool and I would at least like to see a mod where the races can be mixed. I mean in Oblivion alone it was frequent to encounter couples of different races but when your creating your character you could only be fullblood of one race. I think the game would become more realistic and diverse if there were more mixed npcs around and if you could make your own it would be awesome, think of how different and unique your character would be in terms of looks and abilities. Just a thought that hit me so I thought Id bring it up. What do you guys think.

I mean, technically the grey prince was just an orc with a weird skin tone. You can give yourself a weird skin tone when you make your character at the beginning, most people just don't realize it. I've seen people make jet-black khajiits (like a panther), completely white orcs, and even red & black (sort of darth maul looking) Argonians.

Also (SPOILER), to clear things up, the Grey Prince wasn't actually half-orc half-dunmer (or whatever they said he was), you find out if you choose to do his quest that he's actually just the son of a vampire.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:38 am

According to Elder Scrolls lore children of mixed parentage generally resemble their mother, so there is nothing wrong with using the basic racial templates: if your character's mother was a bosmer and their father was a breton then create the character as a bosmer and let their backstory influence how you play (maybe they're magically inclined).

This. Thats why even though the Grey Prince was mix raced, he still just looked like a pale Orc (the paleness was probably just because his father was a vampire anyway).
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:38 am

I mean, technically the grey prince was just an orc with a weird skin tone. You can give yourself a weird skin tone when you make your character at the beginning, most people just don't realize it. I've seen people make jet-black khajiits (like a panther), completely white orcs, and even red & black (sort of darth maul looking) Argonians.


Indeed. Couple that with the idea that characters resemble their mothers mostly, you could make a character of a certain race that just looks different than most other members of that race. If you want to make a high elf/dark elf hybrid whose mother was a high elf, just make a high elf with a grayer skin tone. The Gray Prince had a mother who was an orc, and his father was an imperial vampire, so he was just an orc with a very light skin tone (probably just because of the imperial parentage. I don't think vampirism is something that can be inherited by children through DNA.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:04 am

Yeah it would be cool Mixed Races Especially the Human Races like Imperial mixed with a Breton or Nord Mixed with Breton or Redguard Mixed with Nord But it's a Good Idea for a Mod

But 10 Races is enough
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:16 am

According to Elder Scrolls lore children of mixed parentage generally resemble their mother, so there is nothing wrong with using the basic racial templates: if your character's mother was a bosmer and their father was a breton then create the character as a bosmer and let their backstory influence how you play (maybe they're magically inclined).


How this ingame book was called? I remember reading it in TES3, but I forgot the name?
Anyway while creating race there should be possibility to choose mother/father
Your character inherits 2/3 of mother race traits and 1/3 of father traits.

Oh and one more thing, for anyone who thinks about mixing khajiit and argonian with mer/men races (or one with another), I simply must disappoint you.
Beast races can't breed with other races under normal circumstances.
Maybe (just maybe), it could be achieved with assistance of some sophisticated magic (that could have effect similar to modern gene splicing)
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:00 pm

Argonian + Khajit = http://fishingforbeginners.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Catfish.jpg
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:58 am

hmm... that would be awesome in terms of roleplaying, but think about the developers for once. It'd be almost impossible to code a multi-race character system, plus almost everyone would play as Argonian-Dunmer cross-breeds (thus showing that the devs that it was a huge waste of time).

I would'nt deny wanting such a huge chance in roleplaying, of course.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:36 am

Beast races can't produce offsprings after having intercourse with men or mer. That's why they are kept as six slaves by certain nobility, read the in-game books for once, they are only several pages each.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:17 am

Beast races can't produce offsprings after having intercourse with men or mer. That's why they are kept as six slaves by certain nobility, read the in-game books for once, they are only several pages each.


As they are a different species, would that not be bestiality?

:shakehead:
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:05 am

As they are a different species, would that not be bestiality?

:shakehead:


Something like that. Kiddies no like that kind of stuff, sadly. :sadvaultboy:
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:03 am

After much anolysis of living specimens, the Council long ago determined that all "races" of elves and humans may mate with each other and bear fertile offspring. Generally the offspring bear the racial traits of the mother, though some traces of the father's race may also be present. It is less clear whether the Argonians and Khajiit are interfertile with both humans and elves. Though there have been many reports throughout the Eras of children from these unions, as well as stories of unions with daedra, there have been no well documented offspring. Khajiit differ from humans and elves not only their skeletal and dermal physiology -- the “fur” that covers their bodies -- but their metabolism and digestion as well. Argonians, like the dreugh, appear to be a semi-aquatic troglophile form of humans, though it is by no means clear whether the Argonians should be classified with dreugh, men, mer, or (in this author's opinion), certain tree-dwelling lizards in Black Marsh.

The reproductive biology of orcs is at present not well understood, and the same is true of goblins, trolls, harpies, dreugh, tsaesci, imga, various daedra and many others. Certainly, there have been cases of intercourse between these "races," generally in the nature of [censored] or magickal seduction, but there have been no documented cases of pregnancy. Still the interfertility of these creatures and the civilized hominids has yet to be empirically established or refuted, likely due to the deep cultural differences. Surely any normal Bosmer or Breton impregnated by an orc would keep that shame to herself, and there's no reason to suppose that an orc maiden impregnated by a human would not be likewise ostracized by her society. Regrettably, our oaths as healers keep us from forcing a coupling to satisfy our scientific knowledge. We do know, however, that the sload of Thras are hermaphrodites in their youth and later reabsorb their reproductive organs once they are old enough to move about on land. It can be safely assumed that they are not interfertile with men or mer.

One might further wonder whether the proper classification of these same “races,” to use the imprecise but useful term, should be made from the assumption of a common heritage and the differences between them have arisen from magickal experimentation, the manipulations of the so-called "Earth Bones," or from gradual changes from one generation to the next.

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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:14 am

This. Thats why even though the Grey Prince was mix raced, he still just looked like a pale Orc (the paleness was probably just because his father was a vampire anyway).


I've been wondering how can a vampire "mate" they're supposed to be dead?
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:03 am

With humanoid cats, lizards, and a race of http://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-first-edition-high-rock, I'd like to think half-breed fans have been satisfied. I guess I should know better.
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:15 am

As they are a different species, would that not be bestiality?

:shakehead:

They are sentient, so that would technically be xenophilia. And since, for instance, caucasian/asian couples are not called xenophiliac, that's totally o'kay on the good old Mundus. They also don't produce offsprings so that's double o'kay since there is apparently no concept of contraception in the TES universe, nobility doesn't want bastards claiming the right for the throne or whatever and the man has his needs :hubbahubba:
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:58 pm

Lmfao Imagine things like:
Orc + Khajiit
Khajiit + Argonian
[img]http://www.brilliant-creations.com/images/Lizard_cat_01.jpg[/img]
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Post » Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:32 pm

Lmfao Imagine things like:
Orc + Khajiit
Khajiit + Argonian
[img]http://www.brilliant-creations.com/images/Lizard_cat_01.jpg[/img]


EWWW!!!!! (Shopkeeper Flees)
What?! All i did was ask for Armor.
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