Half breed characters

NovaMarx

Crossbreeding: yes please! I have an Orc alt who I play/RP is half Orc and half Bosmer. I made her skin as light as possible and gave her soft features. But she still just looks like an Orc...

It would add to the variety of characters, and would make alts more "unique".

BBSooner

tplink3r1 wrote: »

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BBSooner wrote: »

Half Breeds (Bretons) are treated as a race. Even if they are technically half elven, the same racial rules apply when they mate - if the mother is Breton the offspring will be Breton, if the father is Breton the offspring will be the race of the mother. Other "half-breeds" would likely take on this characteristic as well, considering the precedent is set with Bretons.

If this were the case the Half-Breeds would have propagated their own races by now.

The Nedes of High Rock are now called Bretons for the same reason Nedes from Skyrim and Cyrodiil are now called Nords and Imperials.

Not sure I see the point you're trying to make Sorry.

tplink3r1

BBSooner wrote: »

tplink3r1 wrote: »

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BBSooner wrote: »

Half Breeds (Bretons) are treated as a race. Even if they are technically half elven, the same racial rules apply when they mate - if the mother is Breton the offspring will be Breton, if the father is Breton the offspring will be the race of the mother. Other "half-breeds" would likely take on this characteristic as well, considering the precedent is set with Bretons.

If this were the case the Half-Breeds would have propagated their own races by now.

The Nedes of High Rock are now called Bretons for the same reason Nedes from Skyrim and Cyrodiil are now called Nords and Imperials.

Not sure I see the point you're trying to make Sorry.

They are not treated as a race only because they have both aldmeri and nedic blood.

Korozenn

jkemmery wrote: »

I remember way back in the day, you could roll (literally, rolling dice) a D&D character that was a half breed of 2 races. I would love to see this in ESO. Allow a character to be half way between two races, which would mean they get half of the buffs, i.e. 50% of each buff from each race. This, I think, would allow a much greater degree of character customization to fit the style you want. For instance, I could roll up a DK Magica Tank that was a Nord/Altmer cross to get the health regen benefits from the Nord parent and the magica benefits from the Altmer parent. Plus, for the RP'ers they could make up some really interesting backstories! Just curious what other's thoughts on this concept would be.

You actually do have this in ESO already. In terms of looks, the skin color palette for different Races have two different options for choices regarding your race: pure or mixed. For instance, if you use the Altmer's top skin choices, it is used for pure Altmer skin colors. The lower portion of choices are like an Altmer crossed with either a Bosmer or some kind of Man. A variety of the races in the game are also like this in the Character Creation window.

Other than that, the entirety of Tamriel and the 10 Races that occupy it is all very heavily segregated and this is in the lore of TES games in general. You literally have a province for each race in the game, so it helps in creating an identity for your character. Anyways, it just doesn't make sense for the sake of this game and the way that TES lore has always been. I'm conservative on this and would rather ZeniMax focus on more pressing matters at hand than mixing races together.

I'm a role-player as well, and I even have the option to create characters in other factions of my choice. But I'll never do that because it doesn't make sense within the context of the lore of this game for an Orc to be fighting for the Aldmeri Dominion, for instance. All of that is taken into context when I role-play, and I'm pretty sure many other RP'ers are similar to that notion, so I don't see how any part of this would benefit us, really.

We just need more content updates that complement our style of gameplay than anything else.

CJisInsane

My Bosmer looks pretty Human, the eyes aren't nearly as slanted as I've seen on others.

jkemmery

CJisInsane wrote: »

My Bosmer looks pretty Human, the eyes aren't nearly as slanted as I've seen on others.

I agree there is a wide range of variety in terms of a character's looks. However, I was wanting to mix up the racial passives for game play, not just the way the character looks.

Gidorick

jkemmery wrote: »

CJisInsane wrote: »

My Bosmer looks pretty Human, the eyes aren't nearly as slanted as I've seen on others.

I agree there is a wide range of variety in terms of a character's looks. However, I was wanting to mix up the racial passives for game play, not just the way the character looks.

That's part of what was suggested here @jkemmery : http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/153977/eso-character-offspring-a-phylogenetics-concept/p1