Bretons are half human so not sure on them.

However you can suss out the answers here

http://www.imperial-library.info/

@Rioghnan are you referring to the last guy in the arena?
He was half vampire.
Thanks for more insight, too.

When I read "Notes of Racial Phylogeny" and "Racial Phylogeny" (both good reads by the way), I picked up that men and mer can all freely interbreed and produce fertile offspring (as we have Bretons). As for Khajiit, it is mentioned that Khajiit are different in dermal and digestion, so they are notably different than humans, while Argonians are cold-blooded and lay eggs. That being said, it does bring up that there are reported cases of Khajiit and Argonians having children with men or mer, but none are confirmed. To further add to the ambiguity, it mentions that most people would not report having a mixed race child between Betmer and men/mer.

On that subject though, men and mer are likely incredibly closely genetically related (if they are different species, and not different races of the same species), probably upwards of 99.99% in order to be able to breed. Humans and chimpanses are somewhere around the 97-99% range of genetic similarity, and are not compatible in terms of natural child production.

On the topic of children, where are they? Where are the kids in ESO? Unless they're all hidden, there have to be children around somewhere. Maybe Molag Bal took them all. Maybe if ZOS wants to pull a fast one, they can just spawn in friendly Banekin, Scamps, and Wood Elves to act as kids.

Still, I am surprised that there are not many mixed-race people you see (Bretons do not count in this case). There are a few from across the games, but they seems relatively rare. It should seem like there would be a lot more non-Breton mixed people running around. Of course, this then brings up the ever taboo subject of racism and racial boundaries, and before I go on all night on that, I should stop.

To end my rant, saying: I thought that my Altmer character could make a pretty convincing mixed race example. I always ask people what they think my race is, and they always guess Altmer, so maybe it is not as convincing to them as it is to me

Yea I mean if you're going to have kids in there then you have to go all the way and make all kinds of kids, first of all, like in TES V there's only Nord kids, racisssst! And if you can't kill em then that's dumb too. I don't want to kill kids but if somebody's sick like that, hey... maybe make the bounty super high if you do it or something.

And about the hybrids thing, in any believable universe I bet that happens all the time. Even before I read it was possible I was like yea... that totally happens. It happens on earth so you know it happens on Nirn.

Um well I have a slightly smutty story about a Dunmer chick and a certain large Oblivion-dwelling man beast but I don't think that's what you were after...

It sounds like all the males in Tamriel have mostly recessive genes.
A boy born between two different races can still look like a man when he grows up, but things like skin tone, some or most facial/body structure, ear shape/size, etc, aren't as obvious.
Maybe male's "donation" doesn't hold as much weight, other than determining gender, and eggs determine most of the physical traits.

imagine seeing an egg lain by an argonian. it starts to wiggle and you hear something moving inside. as the shell starts to crack you see fur, and out comes a furry argonian that starts purring... let the hate flow in about now..... this is why I doubt inter racial can't be achieved.

Frozstee wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

imagine seeing an egg lain by an argonian. it starts to wiggle and you hear something moving inside. as the shell starts to crack you see fur, and out comes a furry argonian that starts purring... let the hate flow in about now..... this is why I doubt inter racial can't be achieved.

I was thinking more of a tiny Nord breaking through the egg... like breaking a wall during a raid, already with a little beard, axe and viking helmet.
"NORD IS BORN! WHERE IS MEAD!"

would he have the scaly hide of an argonian? cus that'd be funny haha.

I'm pretty sure any child takes after the mother in most cases for simplicity. Bretons came around from generations of Elves doing the nasty with their Manmer servants.

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I would pay money to see a argonian-khajiit breed. Maybe some mad necromancer can do it?

Well then it wouldn't be a breed, it would be a stitched together corpse. Theoretically anyone can become Argonian as long as the Hist deems it. Saxhleel are what you see most.

But from a Khajiit? Pretty hard seeing as how their forms are decided by the moon they are born under. For all we know, that pact with Azura makes it impossible to mix with Khajiit. Because magic.