So egg-laying kats with a fondness for treesMerlin13KAGL wrote: »I suppose the most unusual I've seen was Khajiit with Argonian.
Does that lead to scaly kittens, furry lizards, or one that loves to swim but is afraid of the water?
In the Racial Phylogeny Lorebook it's said (or believed) that whenever two members of an opposite Race interbreed, the offspring will take after the physical traits of the Mother, while inheriting some secondary traits from the Father, so it would depend on which one the Mother was, Khajiit or Argonian. However it's also said Argonians specifically can't seem to successfully reproduce with others due to them being egg layers and having some kind of connection with the Hist.
Though I've hypothesized that Argonians mate just like everyone else, but just proceed to lay eggs instead of give live births.
Lol why include the "I" option in the poll? I'm married to someone of a different race IRL but I don't think either of my gals would be into beast races ...
No, let the beasts mate with themselves... disgusting!
I, and my characters, are against bestiality. Other man/mer races are completely compatible though.. mostly.
newtinmpls wrote: »I think that any entity that is sentient could potentially have any other sentient entity as a lifemate (and ... physics and limberness and compatibility willing, a lover).
My choice of "other" is because I would consider that any sentient being (and include men, mer and "beasts" - though if Argonians are really descendants of the hist, maybe "plant" is more accurate) could be chooser or choosee.
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Totally agree, but I gotta ask something..
What the !@&%/ would the offspring of an Argonian and by example a Dunmer look like?
What is the point of this poll?
This, of course, amused the Madgod to no end, and so he allowed the marriage of Csaran to Sheen-in-Glade, daughter of an Argonian midwife who believed that the mortal sphere would afford her daughter nothing but hatred and oppression.
Sheen-in-Glade was as excellent a Countess to Csaran as any in the Isles could ask for, wanting nothing but to bring pride and honor to her adopted house and Court. For years her mind was untouched, even living as she did in the heart of Dementia. Alas, none may reside too long in the Isles without the blessing of Lord Sheogorath, and so Sheen-in-Glade was finally pushed to the brink by the infidelity of her Husband, the Count.
Csaran was obsessively nepotistic, and distrustful of anyone with whom he shared no blood relation including his bride. Though Sheen-in-Glade bore a son by the Count (who disappeared from the Isles in his twentieth year), it is known that the two shared their bed with decreasing frequency as Csaran's paranoia grew, and he found himself in the arms of his birth-sister Nweala, who bore of their incestuous affair the heir apparent, Cesrien. There are those of us who remember personally the reign of Cesrien, and his contribution to the fall of Vitharn.
Totally agree, but I gotta ask something..
What the !@&%/ would the offspring of an Argonian and by example a Dunmer look like?
The theory is offspring from an interracial couple will take after the Mother, while only taking minor genetic traits from the Father. For example, a Khajiit Woman mating with a Nord Male will have a Khajiiti child.
Argonians however are an exception. It's believed that Argonians cannot interbreed with the other Races, possibly due to them being Reptilian and not Mammalian, though this is Elder Scrolls, so it may be because they have their special connection to the Hist which affects their reproduction, and the other Races do not.
After much analysis 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.